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CommentWe need a national end-of-life delivery plan
As leaders of the UK’s largest palliative care charities, the chief executives of Marie Curie and Sue Ryder set out how the hospice sector must evolve
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HSJ PartnersManaging wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD): Aiming to optimise the patient journey
Optimising wet AMD care is not just clinically sound – it empowers patients, improves outcomes, and delivers savings for the NHS
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Digital Awards 2025: Improving Out of Hospital Care Through Digital
WINNER Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust: Frailty Virtual Ward
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NewsPatients with long-term conditions have worse experience
Patients with long-term conditions and those from a minority ethnic background have a significantly worse experience of NHS care, according to polling shared exclusively with HSJ.
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CommentI’ve seen the future: It’s Bognor Regis
Paul Farmer highlights the critical role of the voluntary, community, and social enterprise sector in improving health, preventing hospital admissions, and saving costs, urging increased investment to address current and future challenges
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NewsICB cuts income of pioneering provider by up to 10%
A leading large-scale GP provider has seen its annual income cut by up to 10 per cent.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE’s defunding of older people’s programme ‘a source of national shame’
NHS England cut £390m (70 per cent) from its planned budget for improving community care for older people in the past two years, according to information obtained by HSJ.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2024: Best Use of Integrated Care and Partnership Working in Patient Safety Award
WINNER Northern Care Alliance and the Four Localities Partnership: Improving Care for People With Dementia Across an Acute Hospital Discharge Pathway
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2024: Patient Safety Pilot Project of the Year
Partnered by WINNER University Hospital of North Midlands Trust: Older Adults Diversional Therapist Pilot
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The chronic covid hangover
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsHospital violence ‘going through the roof’, says CEO
A London acute trust is planning to provide staff working in frailty units with body cameras and those in antenatal clinics with additional security, as violence and aggression against them goes ‘through the roof’.
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HSJ PartnersLeeds launches innovative remote monitoring trial for elderly care
A remote monitoring trial in Leeds will help gain insights on how best to support older people living at home with long-term conditions
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NewsSocial care staff doing NHS work ‘unfunded’
Social care staff are undertaking activities that would have previously been done by the NHS on an unfunded basis, report 70 per cent of adult social services directors.
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NewsSurge in hip fractures could be sign of ‘post-covid deconditioning’
A rise in hip fractures last year could be a symptom of a wider increase in general physical deconditioning in older and vulnerable people following the pandemic, senior clinicians have warned.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2023: Patient Safety Pilot Project of the Year
Sponsored by WINNER: Mid and South Essex Foundation Trust: Pilot of a Novel Combined Anaesthetic and Geriatrician Pre-assessment Clinic for Older People with Colorectal Cancer
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2023: Improving Care for Older People Initiative of the Year
WINNER: NHS Elect: The Acute Frailty Network - Supporting Older People Living with Frailty to get Home Sooner and Healthier
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CommentThe point of economic growth is to meet increasing healthcare demand
As the demand for healthcare continues to grow amidst an ageing population, new research from the Health Foundation and the University of Liverpool sheds light on the scale of the challenges ahead. While living longer is a cause for celebration, it will require significant adjustments to meet the rising demand ...
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NewsVaccination programme proposed for illness with ‘considerable NHS impact’
The government has been advised to introduce a vaccination programme for respiratory syncytial virus for infants and older adults.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Digital Awards 2023: Improving Out of Hospital Care through Digital
WINNER: Northamptonshire Health Foundation Trust and North and West Northamptonshire Council: Remote Monitoring Northamptonshire
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NewsMore hospital beds ‘squeezing out rehab and keeping people out of work’
Extra beds squeezed into hospitals as part of winter planning are crowding out space for rehab, pushing up length of stay and knock-on costs, and increasing the chance of readmission, NHS leaders have been warned.