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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar discussed how to best manage the increasing number of patients seeking obesity treatment
In association with An on-demand version of this webinar is available. The arrival of highly effective new drugs to help patients with obesity lose weight has led to enormous media interest and many patients seeking help. But they may be disappointed: while NICE estimates that nearly 10 ...
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar discussed how federating health and social care data could lead to improved population health
In association with An on-demand version of this webinar is available. Improving population health will be key to helping the NHS moderate and meet demand over the next few years. Yet, it is often a challenge for NHS organisations to have much impact in this ...
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar discussed how can the NHS harness the benefits of generative AI to support the workforce and improve patient care
In association with An on-demand version of this webinar is available. Generative AI offers huge potential for the NHS to work more efficiently but it is often difficult for organisations to take the first step. While much has been said about some of the clinical applications of ...
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar discussed how NHS organisations can optimise value from their IT investments
In association with An on-demand version of this webinar is available. NHS organisations spend millions on IT projects in a bid to improve services and boost productivity. This is likely to increase in the coming years as more patients are cared for in out-of-hospital environments ...
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar discussed how ICSs could best build economic and social value among their populations
In association with An on-demand version of this webinar is available. As part of their fundamental goal of improving health among their populations, integrated care systems also have opportunities to explore the benefits of their wider positions as local employers and influencers. By developing this “anchor institution” ...
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar discussed providing mental health support to NHS staff
In association with An on-demand version of this webinar is available. The covid pandemic has left many NHS staff with long-lasting psychological scars. These, along with the pressures of working in a healthcare system under strain, has created increased demand for mental health support. Until ...
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar discussed how ICSs can navigate the EPR landscape for improved information flow, and what part convergence plays in this
In association with An on-demand version of this webinar is available. NHS England has called on integrated care systems to support the “convergence” of electronic patient records in order to allow better flow of information between organisations. But what does this look like in a landscape ...
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ Webinar discussed using data to tackle health inequalities
In association with An on-demand version of this webinar is available. Reducing health inequalities is one of the key tasks of integrated care boards with a statutory duty to “have regard” to reducing health inequalities. Many will be focused on the Core20PLUS5 approach adopted ...
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar discussed a data strategy to enable clinical and operational transformation through data science and automation
In association with Integrated data is a vital component of the future NHS data architecture, offering the potential of more efficient operational processes and improved patient care. However, from even before vendor selection to after implementation and through attempted transformation efforts there are opportunities to ...
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar discussed realising the NHS workforce plan and what role technology and digitisation might play?
In association with An on-demand version of this webinar is available. Technological innovation is mentioned frequently in the NHS long-term workforce plan. Indeed, the long-awaited document, which was published in June, positions technology and digitisation as key to realising the plan’s three aims: to train, ...
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar discussed how the NHS might better support flexible working
In association with An on-demand version of this webinar is available. That flexible working can improve employee satisfaction, wellbeing and – in turn – staff retention is increasingly acknowledged. This sort of flexibility has not traditionally been something the NHS has been well equipped to ...
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar discussed how health inequalities can best be identified – and then addressed
In association with An on-demand version of this webinar is available. Reducing health inequalities is one of the main stated aims of integrated care systems, but it is a complicated mission. Challenges include the wide range of social determinants of health, their complex interactions, and ...
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar discussed how electronic bed management can improve patient flow and capacity management in hospitals
In association with An on-demand version of this webinar is available. Trusts are under tremendous pressure to move patients through accident and emergency into a hospital bed and eventually out into community care or their own homes. With growing staff shortages and capacity constraints, the NHS is ...
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar discussed how trusts can find extra capacity to tackle the backlog in elective care
In association with An on-demand version of this webinar is available. The NHS is facing a massive backlog of patients who need treatment. As it emerges from the worst winter crisis many can recall, when many trusts struggled to maintain elective work at all, it has more ...
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar discussed how organisations can make the most of their IT teams
In association with An on-demand version of this webinar is available. In discussing the relentless pressure that has been faced by NHS staff in recent years, IT staff are sometimes forgotten – yet they too have encountered novel challenges. When the pandemic first hit, they were charged ...
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar discussed about medicines optimisation and how its value should be measured
In association with An on-demand version of this webinar is available. That medicine use should deliver value is beyond debate but there is much less agreement about just how that value should be defined and measured. It is accepted that assessing value means more than simply ...
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar discussed the role of better data in overcoming patient safety challenges
In association with An on-demand version of this webinar is available. It is now clear that hormone pregnancy test Primodos, the epilepsy drug sodium valproate, and that pelvic mesh causes avoidable harm to many thousands of women and children. Yet recognising these potential harms took many years, ...
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar addressed the usability conundrum of electronic patient records
An on-demand version of this webinar is available. In association with The consensus is that electronic patient records are essential to delivering more joined up and integrated care. NHS England’s stated aim is therefore for all hospitals to have an EPR in place by 2025. ...
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar on understanding staff absence in the NHS
In association with An on demand version of this webinar is available. Even before covid, staff absence levels in the NHS were higher than those in the rest of the economy. With a pandemic of a highly contagious virus, and the ...