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HSJ PartnersPreventable deaths, preventable delays: structural heart disease care needs to be a priority in its own right
Every year, patients in England die from structural heart diseases when earlier intervention could have saved them. Treatments exist and are effective, and outcomes when patients are treated in time are good, yet the system is failing to reach people before it is too late. This is not acceptable, and ...
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NewsICB’s £600m spend lacks ‘detailed analysis’
An ICB team responsible for an annual spend of nearly £600m is signing off “high cost” care packages without “detailed analysis” while also undergoing a review into its working culture, the commissioner has revealed.
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CommentWill the NHS be held accountable for delivering its new CVD strategy?
The Modern Service Framework for CVD offers welcome ambition for stroke care, but its success depends on implementation, rehabilitation, workforce, and accountability to deliver consistent outcomes
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CommentA new approach to pain management is necessary and affordable
Chronic pain, trauma, and harmful substance use are often interconnected, highlighting the need for more integrated, person-centred community support
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NewsSix ‘neighbourhoods’ seek investors to ‘derisk’ expansion
Six “neighbourhood health” projects are being pump-primed by government to secure millions of pounds of private investment.
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CommentThe NHS is not ready for the revolution in dementia care
Dementia care could follow cancer’s path of transformation, but only if the NHS addresses longstanding weaknesses in diagnosis, workforce capacity, data and local delivery
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CommentThe NHS is dismantling AHP leadership
As ICBs slash senior allied health professional roles to save costs, the NHS risks losing the very leadership needed to deliver its shift toward community care and long-term prevention
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NewsExclusive: Trust admits to harming 200 patients
Almost 200 patients suffered harm after a major teaching trust failed to manage its neurological waiting lists effectively, HSJ has discovered.
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CommentICBs are about to expose difficult truths
James Sanderson, chief executive of palliative care and bereavement charity Sue Ryder, weighs up the challenges for integrated care boards being asked to prioritise palliative and end-of-life care and how hospices need to respond
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CommentSocial care reforms must improve people's health too
Social care reform must go beyond funding, workforce investment, and prevention to reduce NHS pressure and improve population health.
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CommentRespiratory care is the litmus test for neighbourhood health
Neighbourhood health offers a chance to transform respiratory care, but success will depend on sustained investment, community diagnostics and making lung health a national priority
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CommentPaying people to walk is not the simple solution the government thinks it is
A reward scheme for walking is welcome. But such programmes are far easier to launch than to make work
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HSJ InteractiveFrom analogue to digital: Can digital care improve outcomes for long-term conditions?
Welcome to the latest in HSJ’s series of videos, created in collaboration with AstraZeneca
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CommentInvolving patients and charities is the key to making neighbourhood health work
Voluntary sector partnerships and patient involvement are essential to delivering preventive and effective neighbourhood care
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HSJ InteractiveFrom hospital to community: Supporting people with multiple long-term conditions
Welcome to the latest in HSJ’s series of videos, created in collaboration with AstraZeneca
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CommentThe invisible constraint on patient flow
As pressures on health and social care grow, community equipment services offer a powerful opportunity to improve outcomes, efficiency and patient experience
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NewsCharity commits £250m to ‘neighbourhood health’
A charity will invest £250m over the next three to five years in a government-backed scheme testing a new funding model for neighbourhood health.
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CommentData-driven modelling can take the guess work out of planning
As the UK population ages and demand on hospitals grows, new research shows how predictive and prescriptive analytics could help the NHS better forecast demand, allocate resources and improve care for frail and elderly patients
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CommentThe NHS is getting better thanks to its leaders
NHS improvement depends less on restructuring and more on courageous leadership tackling inequality, workforce pressures, and service performance
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NewsFirst ‘neighbourhood contract’ links GP income to A&E attendances
Some £1.7m of primary care revenue will be tied to A&E attendances from next year, under a first-of-its-kind “neighbourhood” contract deal.