All Research articles – Page 2
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HSJ Partners
Driving cancer screening with data innovations
Creating a truly integrated platform across the health ecosystem is essential to improve data quality and access to screening information, helping to maximise participation in lifesaving cancer screening programmes, writes Professor Dorota Gertig
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HSJ Interactive
Could the NHS make greater use of remote testing?
A recent HSJ webinar, supported by Medichecks, considered whether it’s viable for more patients to collect more samples remotely for subsequent analysis in laboratories – and what impact such a move might have on patients and services. Claire Read reports
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News
Government announces ‘ambitious’ dementia strategy
The government has announced a 10-year strategy for dementia.
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News
Senior manager pay shows ‘complicated’ ethnicity gap, says government
The government will work with NHS England on commissioning new research into ethnicity pay gaps in the health service, it has said.
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: ‘Angry’ NHSE pressures prestigious trust to make ‘public apology’
NHS England is trying to force a prestigious cancer trust to publicly apologise to a group of whistleblowers, after being ‘shocked’ by the way it responded to a review into their concerns.
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Comment
The secret weapon that could help win the PM’s war on cancer
Andrew M Wardley says there is one intervention that can both help catch cancer earlier and reduce health inequalities in cancer care: expanding outreach cancer services
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Comment
NHS managers can have a profound impact on performance
Responding to a recent LSE study on the association between NHS managers and several outcomes, Ian Kirkpatrick, Gianluca Veronesi and Ali Altanler write that great caution is needed when interpreting the study’s findings, especially given the lack of statistical power
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HSJ Local
Outstanding trust accused of ‘dismissive’ attitude to whistleblowers
The leadership of a prominent cancer trust acted in a ‘defensive and dismissive’ manner when serious concerns were raised about bullying behaviours and multiple failings in the handling of a major research contract, an external review has found.
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News
Increasing management spend does not improve hospital performance, research concludes
There is no significant relationship between the number of managers or the amount spent on management and the quality of NHS hospital services, research has concluded.
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HSJ Partners
Locally controlled data, national impact: Building a world-class health research environment for the UK
The UK needs a national data sharing infrastructure that enables the NHS and researchers to work in partnership, with clear mechanisms to protect patient privacy and data security
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Comment
The NHS' system for paying nurses needs an overhaul
Research shows that the seven-year public-sector pay cap over the last decade saw nurses’ earnings fall significantly, by 5 per cent after we factor in consumer price inflation, writes Nihar Shembavnekar
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News
Routine NHS care may have ‘adverse effect’ on Black and Asian babies
NHS equality experts have ordered a review of neonatal care over concerns that babies from Black and Asian backgrounds are ‘adversely affected’ by routine methods.
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Comment
Staff redeployed to combat covid must be able to 'find closure'
A key component of the NHS response to the pandemic has been to reinforce acute and critical care capacity. This led in many cases to an unprecedented re-deployment of personnel from different care pathways into covid wards. A research project is now gathering evidence of the impact of working in ...
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Comment
Up the game on diagnostics for greater cancer survival
Community diagnostic hubs would prove critical in advancing rapid diagnostic pathways for people with suspected cancer, bringing key diagnostic services together into community settings and closer to patients. By Michelle Mitchell
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Comment
Service specialisation and digital technologies can offer real patient improvements
Carl Shoben and John Underwood write about a new poll on the NHS which points out the public’s top two priorities are tackling the waiting lists that have built up during covid and greater investment in the health service
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News
Minister-backed trial struggling to recruit trusts due to lack of vital test
A government-promoted clinical trial aimed at preventing ‘life-threatening infections in newborn babies’ is struggling to recruit trusts, as many do not offer the £11 laboratory test required to participate.
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News
Talk to patients about end of life care and save £500m, NHS told
The NHS could save more than £500m a year if patients and clinicians had better quality conversations about care plans, a major review has found.
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Comment
NHS knowledge specialists have never been more vital
The vital role NHS Knowledge and Library Services play in informing key decision making was brought into a sharper focus than ever during the pandemic, writes Sue Lacey Bryant
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Comment
‘University’ hospitals should be expected to raise their game on clinical trials
Matthew Swindells and Dr Harpreet Sood highlight four interventions that together could contribute in creating an innovative and progressive economic landscape for life sciences
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Comment
NHS Digital boss: Why our delayed patient data sharing plan must go on
Simon Bolton, interim chief executive of NHS Digital, explains why its controversial new GP data sharing scheme is the right thing to do, and why it has now been delayed by two months.