All Opinion and blogs articles – Page 3
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CommentElective waits improve in January
The English waiting list and waiting times fell in January in better-than-expected figures. However the NHS remains in serious breach of the 18 week standard, and on recent trends things are still expected to get worse.
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CommentAnalysis: Emergency care reforms delayed pending answers on social care
Details of an overhaul of emergency care targets have been delayed, as senior figures in the health and care system await a potential government intervention to support social care services, HSJ understands.
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CommentStraight talk is the only way to win the public's trust on STPs
We must sweep away jargon and speak our message loudly and clearly if the public are to embrace sustainability and transformation plans
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CommentNow it’s 20 weeks - elective waiting times at pre-target levels
English waiting times rose sharply in December, driven by the growing waiting list and winter pressures. And there was a sharp drop in the proportion of local hospital services achieving the 18 week target. By Rob Findlay
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CommentTen ways to speed up the forward view improvements
It’s taking too long to deliver the necessary improvements – here are some thoughts on what we should prioritise
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CommentAnalysis: Keogh’s A&E overhaul has not materialised
NHS England set out plans for major reform in its milestone urgent and emergency care review in 2013. But now over three years since its publication, the flurry of A&E reclassifications has simply not materialised.
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CommentTrade deals with Trump could give the NHS a heart attack
Labour must come to terms with the gains of the Blair years, while the Tories must be wary of the dangers of Uncle Sam
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CommentElective waiting times tread water in November
Waiting times were steady in November, and other indicators followed the usual post-2012 pattern. Which means things are still getting steadily worse, writes Rob Findlay
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CommentKarin Smyth: Getting behind the NHS headlines
Karin Smyth MP reflects on the way ahead following the Commons public accounts committee’s inquiry into the financial sustainability of the NHS
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CommentI survived heart attack but the NHS's arteries can't take any more
A new year’s eve emergency brought home to Nick Samuels the huge gap between NHS staff’s compassion and the resources available to them
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CommentAnalysis: Is there really £900m extra cash for social care?
The government say its reforms will increase social care spending by £900m; critics have been underwhelmed by the announcements. Here, Sarah Calkin looks at who is right
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CommentWhat's holding clinicians back from leadership roles?
The Nuffield Trust’s new survey shows that much is still to be done to encourage clinicians to pursue strategic positions
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CommentCapital financing options are plentiful, STPs need to think differently
One common STP priority where the gap between ambition and reality seems particularly exposed is that of capital finance
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CommentHere are your referral to treatment trajectories for the next two years
The waiting time guru runs the published RTT data through a planning model and produces detailed trajectories for trusts and specialties across England
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CommentNaylor: The three skills needed to be an NHS chief executive
Sir Robert Naylor’s retirement speech opens up on lessons he learned while serving as UCLH foundation trust chief executive for the past 16 years
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CommentDo the right thing on social care, Mr Hammond
Saffron Cordery on why the chancellor must pledge serious investment in social and primary care in his Autumn Statement
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CommentAnalysis: The NHS's financial plan is dead in the water
HSJ’s latest analysis of trusts’ financial performance shows any chance of hitting the target agreed with the Treasury is disappearing quickly, writes Lawrence Dunhill
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CommentAnalysis: Commissioners have questions to answer over failed contract
The “phased withdrawal” of Coperforma from providing Sussex’s patient transport service has been greeted with a sigh of relief from unions and many patients. But it leaves many questions unanswered.
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CommentLocal democracy should be a counterweight to NHS grip
The NHS has always had an uneasy relationship with local democracy. Caught between the competing demands of the system’s centre and their communities, STP leaders need to learn how to work with their locally elected representatives to maintain the equilibrium, writes Michael Wood
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CommentFear of public engagement is holding the NHS back
With the first of the 44 local sustainability and transformation plans set to be published this week, Jane Mordue, interim chair of Healthwatch England, looks at the importance of involving patients and the public in the big decisions ahead