All Opinion and blogs articles – Page 2
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CommentPeace, reconciliation and system leadership in health and social care in England
Glenn Harvey shares simple lessons that he thinks health and social care can learn from peacebuilding with church leaders in Northern Ireland
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CommentWe threw the kitchen sink at DTOCs and it worked
Faced with high delayed transfers of care, Medway Clinical Commissioning Group identified four discharge pathways a year ago and things started turning around, explain Stuart Jeffery, James Lowell, John Britt, and Helen Martin
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CommentRevealed: The cost of restoring 18 week waits
With some guesses about the costs per case, I calculate recovering 18 weeks sustainably might cost £2.1bn next year and £350m the year after, if other pressures and enough mainstream capacity are funded. Or £4.2bn next year and £1bn the year after, if austerity continues.
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CommentDTOCs dispute could jeopardise care reform
Richard Humphries on the storm clouds gathering over the NHS and local authorities this winter
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CommentChris Hopson: The NHS is caught in an impossible trap
As everyone waits with bated breath for the upcoming autumn budget, Chris Hopson outlines three key priorities for NHS leaders to help bring the hobbled health service back to its feet
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CommentDarzi: The NHS must learn from its digital failures
Successful modernisation of the NHS depends largely on its ability to digitise its operations. It can be done, but training and education will be key. By Ara Darzi
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CommentThe clock is ticking on prevention and integration
Lip service has been paid to the need for prevention and integration in the NHS and social care system. Now more must be done to implement change on the ground, writes Mike Adamson, chief executive of the British Red Cross
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CommentNHS England and NHS Improvement should be brought closer together
Is it possible to tighten up NHS organisation and efficiency without major upheaval?
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CommentNew care systems must be truly accountable
STPs and ACSs are doomed to fail if the NHS doesn’t engage others in its plans, says Leicestershire County Council chief John Sinnott
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Jeremy Hunt’s futile gesture
What will the resignation of two chief executives last week actually achieve, asks Andy Cowper
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CommentWhat your commute can teach you about performance targets
Rob Findlay and Mike Davidge on how your journey to work demonstrates the difference between ‘common cause’ and ‘special cause’
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CommentCowper’s Cut: On winning and losing the economic narrative
Andy Cowper draws a parallel between the decade long global financial crisis and the NHS’s own struggles
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CommentAnalysis: Waiting list tops 4 million as admission rates slump
The waiting list has been threatening to exceed 4 million patients for a while now, and in June it finally popped over. A slump in the admission rate didn’t help, says Rob Findlay
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CommentThe NHS's relationships with unions will be tested to the limit
Reaching new agreements with trade unions is a distraction from the important discussions the NHS needs to have with staff about service change, recrutiment and efficiency, writes Dean Royles
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CommentAnalysis: Patching the NHS's IT holes after ransomware attack
Ben Heather examines the impact of the WannaCry cyberattack and what is required to plug the security gaps.
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CommentWhy Getting it Right First Time is easier said than done
GIRFT has the potential to improve clinical performance but it must overcome a couple of stumbling blocks first, writes Nick Timmins
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CommentThe money follows the patient... and other lessons from Alzira
Nishma Manek and Alex Till on three secrets to the success of a publicly funded health system delivered in Spain by a private provider
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CommentBrexit is only partly to blame for the nursing shortfall
The fears about Brexit reducing the flow of nurses from the EU are justified but the other half of the picture is that we have been reliant for too long on overseas staff, write Anita Charlesworth and Professor Jim Buchan
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CommentFive lessons in communications from the cyber attack
Daniel Reynolds identifies ways in which vital messages from the NHS can better be delievered in the midst of emergencies
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CommentYour Humble Servant: NHS Retro
‘Simon Stevens wants to take us back to 1991 before the purchaser provider split. Jim Mackey wants to go back two years to when he was a trust CEO.’