All Service redesign articles – Page 6
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CommentThe NHS needs a dedicated agency to drive the use of new technology
A serious strategy to innovate is needed to save the health service. Barbara Harpham gives an insight on how this can be achieved
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CommentMobilising the goalposts for a better NHS
The NHS Blithering ICB is learning to live with complexity, ambiguity and an unconscious top team as it goes on a journey to meaningful change. By Julian Patterson
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HSJ PartnersGuidance on bladder cancer needs to be more specific still
Efforts to reduce variation in treatment for bladder cancer are welcome, but panellists at a recent roundtable event spoke of the need to develop more specific approaches to target patients at the highest risk of poor outcomes
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News‘Fewer managers’ calls are ‘nonsense’, says NHS England review author
The health service has failed to invest enough in primary care and prevention, according to a new report for NHS England, whose author said the service had been ‘fixated’ on acute care for the past two decades.
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CommentSocial investment funding: a lifeline for the NHS
The potential for social investment has been demonstrated on an individual service level and now is the time for it to fuel ICS-wide innovation funding to support transformation and improve patient care, writes Katy Nex
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HSJ PartnersThe role of electronic bed management technology in driving capacity improvements
Nick Sinclair, chief operating officer at Medway Foundation Trust, on why the NHS needs to think differently about operations and bed management to drive sustainable healthcare delivery
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CommentHopson: covid proved charities are 'key strategic partners' for the NHS
NHS England chief strategy officer Chris Hopson urges new approach to partnership working with charities.
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CommentThe five steps needed to make NHS Impact successful
Penny Pereira and Malte Gerhold discuss the five guiding principles that will aid providers, ICSs, and national officials in implementing NHS Impact to ensure that it does not fall short like earlier national reform programmes
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HSJ LocalICBs employ consultancy for ‘rapid assessment’ of cost-saving opportunities
Two integrated care boards are exploring closer joint working to help them make nationally required running cost reductions.
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NewsSafety reporting overhaul faces fresh delay, despite Barclay’s ‘personal interest’
Fresh concerns have been raised about the launch of the national incident reporting system, despite Steve Barclay taking a ‘personal interest’ in hitting the tight timetable, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCEO of double-merger trust targets ‘powerful’ shift to out-of-hospital care
England’s largest integrated trust is aiming to transform its acute services on a scale comparable to the move away from mental health institutions to community-based care, its CEO has told HSJ.
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CommentHow an ICS learned to listen to children and young people
Rukshana Kapasi writes about Barnardo’s Health Equity Collaborative that will help devise solutions on health issues faced by children and young people while taking in their honest views to inform their work
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CommentFreedom for the compliant
More recommendations, more key takeaways, more pages. The Longstay Report is bigger and even more explosive than the Fuller Stocktake and the Hewitt Review. The report’s author Sir Trevor Longstay shares its hard-hitting conclusions with Julian Patterson
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CommentTrusts forced to take radical steps to support GP services
Joshua Edwards elaborates on trusts’ experiences of integrating primary and secondary care through vertical integration whereby the trust owns and manages general practices, its challenges and benefits
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CommentPerformance management is making a comeback, here's how to stop it
If local teams can reshape demand with a risk-based approach the work to improve flow becomes quickly effective. By Dr Andy Haynes, Malcolm Lowe-Lauri and Sir John Tooke
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NewsBattle for cancer centre turns in favour of challenger
A controversial transfer of children’s cancer services has moved a step closer after an NHS England assessment process supported the move.
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HSJ PartnersFrom curious barbers to pioneering clinicians - how does responsible AI improve patient care?
Dr Umang Patel emphasises that with AI, we stand at the start-line of a new professional era for clinicians
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CommentSystem working thrives in a culture that empowers staff to improve care
Len Richards explains how system working grows from the right culture, clinical leadership and systemwide joined up, real-time data
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News‘Overheating’ incidents nearly double across NHS estates
The number of overheating incidents in clinical areas reported by NHS trusts has almost doubled over the last five years, with directors saying ageing estates make them vulnerable to extreme weather events.
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CommentThe ‘dire state’ of children’s mental health
Saffron Cordery explains how the current plans for children and young people’s mental health must go further if we are to meet rising demand for children’s services