All Opinion and blogs articles – Page 69
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Comment'It's time to remove the barriers to telehealth'
The results of the latest and biggest telehealth trial suggest that it should undoubtedly now be taken seriously in today’s medicine. Yet there is real resistance to it in the system, and the barriers need to be removed to ensure telehealth success, say Matthew Rutter and Joe Stringer.
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Blogs
Disarray on waiting times targets
By keeping the old, distorting waiting times targets in the new NHS Contract, the government has undermined its stated intention to tackle excessive waits.
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Blogs
New English waiting list data: view the interactive maps
Where are the longest waits? What are waiting times like in your local NHS? How difficult is the new waiting time target? Here are some maps to help you find the answers.
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Blogs
'Safe and secure housing is critical to the wellbeing of mental health patients'
Housing needs for patients with mental health need to be properly addressed in order to improve mental health services and individuals’ health.
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Latest waiting time stats: one year waits halved in October
One-year waiters halved in October; a spectacular success for the NHS. Otherwise, it’s steady as she goes as we head into winter.
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CommentMichael White: can Lansley's localism really escape postcode lottery-itis?
Confusing, isn’t it? One week an international report gives England’s still-centralised NHS a pat on the back for rapid improvements. The next week another survey concludes that the NHS is more popular than it has ever been.
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CommentCan the NHS Pay Review Body still be regarded as independent?
A “perfect storm” of issues surrounding staff terms and conditions could see all sides vying to influence the NHS Pay Review Body in the next 12 months. In such troubled times, can it realistically hope to retain its independence, asks Mike Jackson.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: economic peace and goodwill, or Armageddon?
Perhaps it is just seasonal religiosity, but it is starting to look as though 2012 will see some significant battles between the NHS’s competing spiritual forces.
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CommentMedia Watch: 'postcode lottery' bingo follows Atlas of Variation launch
The formal publication of the second NHS Atlas of Variation led inevitably to a chorus of “postcode lottery” headlines this week.
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Blogs
Learning from a model medical leader
The swift changing of the seasons in Boston accompanied an equally swift change in administrator for the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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CommentMichael White: the eternal tension of national vs regional policy
David Cameron’s new plan to open up NHS medical records to high-tech life science researchers is a bit like chancellor George Osborne’s proposal in last week’s autumn statement to boost the regional economies in those parts of Britain that are suffering most in the downturn.
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Blogs
New target, new perversity
The new RTT waiting times target is very welcome, but it brings new dangers of its own: distortion of clinical priorities, and hidden waiting lists.
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Blogs
Pointing the finger
Pointing the finger of blame at one individual is often convenient for a lot or people, but
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CommentHSJ100: 'The NHS can never recover if Whitehall is deciding the cure'
Nick Seddon, deputy director at think tank Reform, writes an opinion piece in today’s Times on what this year’s HSJ100 list means for the health of the NHS.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: this holiday's must-have NHS reads
For the fast approaching season of peace and goodwill, it’s customary for columnists to offer their reading recommendations for the holiday period.
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CommentHSJ100: judging panel and process
The judging panel and process involved in this year’s HSJ100.
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CommentHSJ100: shadow commissioning board is already pulling the strings
The sixth consecutive year of the HSJ100 has again revealed a significant reordering of the individuals deemed to be at the leading edge of driving innovation and influence across the NHS and broader healthcare sector, says Frank McKenna from Harvey Nash plc.
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CommentResults business? The view from the HSJ Payments by Results conference 2011
Derek Miller reports on the HSJ Payment By Results conference 2011, where a conflict emerged between the official message on PbR and what is actually happening on the ground between cash strapped PCTs and providers.
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Blogs
Is community care, as we know it, dead?
Reports of the death of community care have not been exaggerated.
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Blogs
When is whistleblowing not whistleblowing?
I was recently surprised to hear an NHS board member described as a whistleblower, given their position and power.