All Patient experience articles – Page 6
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: The unsexy topic on Barclay’s radar (you’ve been warned)
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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HSJ Partners
Enhancing perioperative care through virtual wards
Virtual ward for patients undergoing total hip or knee arthroplasty can turn the tables around for postoperative capacity and help downsize the waiting backlog
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Expert Briefing
ImPatient: ‘Patient voice is filtered to make it palatable to the powerful’
Patient (or lived experience) leadership involves those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability becoming equal partners in NHS decision-making. In this new monthly ‘expert briefing’, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the NHS.
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News
Huge budget cut imperils flagship GP data scheme
The budget of the flagship national programme to collect GP data for analysis has been cut by 75 per cent in-year, meaning it will no longer ‘meet… ministerial commitments’ on the programme, papers reveal.
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Comment
Investors must play their part in building healthier societies
Jo Bibby on the launch of a new global alliance of investors, the role finance plays in improving people’s quality of life and how investing can build healthier societies
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Comment
NHSE’s ‘unlawful’ waiting list guidance should be withdrawn
It may be unlawful, undermines National Statistics, puts managers at risk of prosecution, and erodes public trust in the NHS
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News
1.5m fewer people on waiting list than thought
NHS England has revealed it estimates there are 5.5 million people on elective referral to treatment waiting lists, rather than the 7 million which is often reported.
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News
NHSE ‘forgot the people’ when it ‘rushed’ controversial appointment rules, Mackey admits
NHS England “forgot the people” when it published controversial guidelines last month which said patients faced being removed from the waiting list if they declined two appointment dates, a senior director has admitted.
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Comment
NHS leaders must be curious about poverty
A new report from King’s Fund and the Centre for Progressive Policy highlights the stark truth of patients facing health inequalities and deprivation due to poverty. Toby Lewis urges ICP leaders to respond effectively
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Comment
A new award to honour NHS nurse Amin Abdullah
With the guiding principle of bringing Gandhian values to healthcare, Narinder Kapur describes three recent healthcare award schemes he set up to enhance staff wellbeing and patient care.
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Comment
Underfunded sexual health services are no longer sustainable
This year marks the five-year anniversary of when the HIV prevention drug, PrEP was made available for free. Danny Beales lists down actions the governmet must take to address the barriers in accessing PrEP for all communities
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Comment
Failing to invest in rehabilitation will bring grave consequences for all
Based on her recent experience of visiting an enormous hospital, Karen Middleton stresses on how staff felt demoralised and patients in long waiting suffered from poor care
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HSJ Partners
Collaborate for change: Improve IBD patient care in a post covid-19 era
The scale of the covid-19 pandemic demanded greater collaboration between the pharmaceutical industry and the NHS. Both rose to the call and now must work together to address the ongoing impact on wider NHS services.
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2022: NHS Safeguarding Award
WINNER One Gloucestershire: Homeless Specialist Nurse
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2022: Learning Disabilities Initiative of the Year
WINNER Manchester Local Care Organisation: Collaborative Working to Develop and Promote Effective Self-Care Strategies for Patients with Learning Disabilities and Lower Limb Chronic Oedema.
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2022: Service User Engagement and Co-Production Award
WINNER Cheshire and Wirral Partnership FT: Too Much Harm, Not Enough Care - Better Care For Service Users Through Better Care and Education with Staff
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Comment
What people with lived experience can teach us
People with lived experience report feeling dismissed and diminished by attempts to include them, despite best efforts through legislation, policy, and a pioneering patient leadership movement, writes Rachel Matthews and Keymn Whervin
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News
New national incident reporting system delayed amid fears of patient safety ‘disaster’
The deadline for the NHS to move to a new system for safety incident reporting has been delayed after widespread concerns the rollout could be a ‘disaster’.
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Comment
Why the cost of living crisis is a catastrophe for people with MS
People with multiple sclerosis are at breaking point, and unless urgent action is taken we will soon be faced with a catastrophic health crisis, writes Nick Moberly
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Comment
The NHS needs to rethink how it communicates
The failure to consider the needs of diverse groups of people badly impacts experience of care. Sarah Sweeney, Head of Policy at National Voices points out how the NHS needs to change the way it communicates with people regarding care