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NewsOver-40s health checks dubbed 'waste of time'
Health checks offered to millions of people over 40 are a waste of time and could lead to people taking medicines unnecessarily, the head of the Royal College of GPs has said. Dr Clare Gerada said the government was promoting its NHS Health Check programme “against good evidence”. Her intervention ...
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News
Telehealth awareness drive is failing survey reveals
An annual survey to establish the level of public awareness of telehealth has revealed nine out of 10 adults have never heard of it.
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HSJ Knowledge
A service designed for patients, by patients
Why those who use healthcare should play a part designing it
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HSJ Knowledge
Face up to the cost of post-cancer treatment
Prepare the NHS for a rising number of patients needing care
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News
Push for payment by results reform gathers pace
NHS England wants to investigate the scope for scrapping payment by results for some services as early as 2015-16, its director of strategic finance has told HSJ .
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HSJ Knowledge
A modern health service needs the third sector
Charities are well equipped to drive change in the NHS
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Comment
Will named clinicians for older people work?
Mr Hunt’s policy should be welcomed with some caution
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Blogs
We're missing the signs of alcohol abuse among older people
The over 65 population is drinking in ever greater numbers, posing a new set of healthcare problems
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HSJ Knowledge
Integrating care for people with comorbidities
Making personalised and coordinated care a reality
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HSJ Knowledge
How Liverpool is integrating health and social care
Changing the way health and adult services work together
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Comment
The NHS must get serious about mental health
Ignore those who won’t change the service because it’s “too difficult”
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Comment
The NHS at 65: not ready to retire
‘The NHS is one of the noblest social institutions any country has ever created’
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News
Audit reveals life-threatening neglect of diabetics in hospital
A charity has warned some hospitals are doing “more harm than good” to people with diabetes, after an audit suggested thousands of patients each year could be developing a life-threatening but preventable complication due to poor care.
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HSJ Knowledge
Improving outcomes for people with diabetes
Looking at new ways of commissioning diabetes pathways
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HSJ Knowledge
The effect of age on hospice care
How will the ageing population affect palliative care?
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Supplements
Making the shift in frail elderly care − an HSJ roundtable
What will enable more frail elderly people to be cared for out of hospital
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Blogs
Reforming the funding of long term care in the US
The US is not that different from Europe in the funding of long term care but urgent reform is needed.
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HSJ Local
North Hampshire reports improvements for COPD patients
PERFORMANCE: North Hampshire clinical commissioning group has reported a fall in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients going to hospital after it changed its working methods.
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Supplements
Why we are still dying at hospital, not home
40 per cent of patients still die in hospital, with no medical need to be there
