Comment archive – Page 5
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CommentThe NHS must be more willing to accept financial gifts
The network of NHS charities donates £1.5m every day to healthcare, but could raise billions more annually if trusts changed their approach, argues NHS Charities Together CEO Ellie Orton
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: It’s the management, stupid
A timely report draws attention to the importance of strong, well-supported management
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: The floor falls away
HSJ’s briefing covering safety, quality, performance, and finances in the mental health sector, by deputy bureau chief Annabelle Collins — contact me in confidence.
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Expert BriefingOn Call: Will ICB and NHSE staff resist redundancy?
Essential insights into the latest workforce challenges facing NHS staff. Analysis on the key questions around recruitment and retention, staff wellbeing, and equality, diversity and inclusion. By HSJ workforce correspondent Nick Kituno.
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CommentI’m no longer an NHSE director but I’ve not finished trying to improve care
Thrombectomy transforms stroke recovery, yet limited access and regional gaps mean many UK patients still miss this vital, disability-preventing treatment, writes Professor Sir Steve Powis
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CommentEffective neighbourhood care relies on connecting community IT
Technology should make work easier for frontline clinicians and care staff, enabling better coordination between GPs, community nurses, social care workers and voluntary sector partners in neighbourhood settings, argues Dr Harpreet Sood
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CommentChildren’s services are the stress test for the government’s plans
Children’s services reveal whether the 10-Year Health Plan is real, exposing the gaps in funding, coordination and data that families face
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Beholden to Big Tech
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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CommentA clinically trained health secretary would end industrial unrest in the NHS
Amid escalating NHS strikes, a clinician-led health department could reshape negotiations, restore trust, and shift government understanding of frontline realities
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CommentDigital services can tackle the quiet crisis stalking the NHS
Professor Robert Thomson explores how universities can help tackle the neurodevelopmental and mental health crisis
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LeaderWho should be the next chief executive of the NHS?
Sir Jim Mackey formally signed on as the “transition chief executive” of NHS England earlier this year. His job was three-fold: to stabilise the service’s finances, to speed up the elective recovery and to help ease operational control of the NHS back into the Department of Health after its 13-year ...
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: What Wales can teach us about value
A new book on value-based healthcare offers worthwhile lessons on measuring outcomes that matter to patients, engaging frontline teams, and making difficult trade-offs
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Jeremy Hunt: I was told we had moved on from ‘normal birth’ ideology – I was misinformed
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
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CommentBoards must take their responsibility for cyber security more seriously
Cyberattacks keep crippling NHS services not due to missing technology, but predictable board-level governance failures that leave known vulnerabilities unaddressed
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CommentThe neighbourhood care model that is already making a difference
With 27 centres offering drop-in cancer support without appointments or waiting lists, Maggie’s believes it has already built the neighbourhood health model the NHS is trying to design
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CommentWill Streeting remain a ‘faithful’ on reforming children’s services?
With the Kingdon review of failures in children’s hearing services offering a blueprint for transformation, Kevin Munro urges the health secretary to implement the review’s recommendations
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Expert BriefingThe Download: When the App gets there first
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Ben Clover and Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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CommentWhy behaviour change holds the key to scaling NHS innovation
At NCL Health Alliance, part of UCLPartners, behavioural science is helping staff adopt new systems that make care simpler and more sustainable
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CommentHow the NHS Assembly used its soft power to effect change
Created in 2019, the NHS Assembly united diverse perspectives from across health and care to support NHS England’s leadership and long-term vision
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CommentSorry – but we need to restructure the NHS again
The NHS is fast approaching a fork in the road which many in the service, knee-deep in change, may not yet have considered – whether to embrace devolution or explain exceptionalism. This choice will help determine our future role in public service delivery and the potential end state of the ...