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CommentGov medical advisors should resign or speak out over England’s failing covid strategy
Regulatory policies need appointment processes and employment contracts which make the freedom to speak out, a genuine independence for medics. By David Oliver
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HSJ Partners
Gene Therapy – will the NHS lead or follow?
In a four-part series, Bluebirdbio is exploring how the NHS can embrace the power of gene therapy as a treatment for rare diseases in the UK, including some of the systemic changes that will be needed. In this fourth and last column, Ross Selby, MRPharmS, Bluebirdbio UK’s Access, Value and ...
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Comment
How CVDprevent will close the gap on poor primary care performance
The national audit for cardiovascular disease will include six high risk conditions with extracts of routinely recorded general practice data being monitored and managed for reducing impact on patients. By Dr Matt Kearney and Lorraine Oldridge.
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News
Arm’s length bodies show ‘very little improvement’ on diversity
Arm’s length bodies in the NHS made virtually no improvement in the numbers of BAME staff at the highest levels in 2019, according to new official data.
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News
HSJ80 full list: The most influential people in health
The HSJ80 lists the figures who will exercise the most power and/or influence in the English NHS and health policy over the next 12 months
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News
HSJ100: Exclusions
Based on the results of the last 15 years, we have drawn up an exclusion list of leaders who were certain to be part of our list, allowing a deeper dive beyond them
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HSJ Partners
Valuing young lives
In a four-part series, Bluebirdbio is exploring how the NHS can embrace the power of gene therapy as a treatment for rare diseases in the UK, including some of the systemic changes that will be needed. In this third column, David Taylor, emeritus professor of Pharmaceutical and Public Health Policy ...
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HSJ Partners
Improving mental health with digital CBT: bridging the treatment gap for insomnia
In its efforts to address insomnia and improve mental health, the NHS is grappling with long-standing challenges that leave millions every year without access to therapy. Sleepio’s digital CBT for insomnia offers an intervention that is safe, effective, and scalable – and now proven to offer multimillion pound cost reductions ...
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News
Blanket isolation rule for tests and ops scrapped
A blanket requirement for adults to self-isolate for 14 days before planned tests and treatment has been scrapped under updated coronavirus guidelines.
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Revealed: New restrictions on tests as long waits mount
A new tranche of commissioning restrictions have been proposed to ease pressure on diagnostic teams and move more treatments to primary care settings.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Time to unmute the patient voice
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by integration senior correspondent, Sharon Brennan
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News
‘Insufficient’ national response to deaths review programme, report finds
The latest annual report into the deaths of people with learning disabilities has criticised the “insufficient” national response to past recommendations and called for “urgent” policy changes.
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HSJ Local
Coroner orders closer working between five trusts after prisoner’s death
Five NHS trusts in the South West have been ordered to make immediate improvements after the death of a 20-year-old prisoner who needed healthcare.
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Comment
A national urgent care planning service could be covid’s silver lining
Professor Julia Riley proposes a patient-focused strategy for care homes that would help implement a national digital advance care planning policy where advance care plans of patients are shared across all urgent care services.
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HSJ Partners
Digital solution to help expectant mothers manage diabetes
GDm-Health remote monitoring system helps ensure the highest standards of care for pregnant women in the times of the covid-19 pandemic
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News
Some maternity inspections suspended to ‘minimise impact on trusts’
Routine investigations into maternity incidents involving babies treated for oxygen deprivation at birth, but with no apparent brain injuries, have been suspended.
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News
Learning disabilities patients told they may be ‘too frail’ for mechanical ventilation if they get covid-19
People with learning disabilities have been told by GP surgeries they are unlikely to be prioritised for hospital care if they contract covid-19, because they could be too “frail”.
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News
Urgent covid-19 treatment guidance to be published imminently
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is to publish rapid guidance on the diagnosis and treatment of covid-19.
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HSJ Knowledge
Treating epileptic children with a ketogenic diet
An HSJ and Nutricia immersive feature explores the potential of ketogenic diets in reducing seizures in epileptic children
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News
Data ‘not sophisticated enough’ to identify all those at high risk from covid-19
Trusts and GPs are being asked to help identify patients at high risk from coronavirus because the NHS’ central data sets are “not sophisticated enough” to track all vulnerable groups, NHS England has said.
