Visit http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com for more rss feeds. http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/CoreCode/rss/rssdisplay.aspx en-gb Copyright http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com, 2020 Fri, 11 Sep 2020 13:50:42 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ 15 Reason to celebrate as NHS says watching rugby can be good for your mental health and wellbeing. As the best rugby players in the world represent their nations in Japan, you no longer have to feel bad about sitting on the couch, glued to the TV, watching the rugby world cup for hours on end. In fact, England’s top dementia... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/nhs-england-dementia-director-prescribes-rugby-for-mental-health-and-dementia-patients 426,414,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/nhs-england-dementia-director-prescribes-rugby-for-mental-health-and-dementia-patients Mon, 23 Sep 2019 10:00:00 GMT Taking time to say thank you is one of the hidden pillars of a society. Being on the receiving end of some “thanks” can make communities feel respected, needed, and empowered. And of course, happy! But do we say it often enough? Politeness is one of the qualities often listed as under-pinning culture in this country but... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/peter-kyle-public-service-day 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/peter-kyle-public-service-day Fri, 21 Jun 2019 11:15:00 GMT Nurses have been named as the most under-appreciated public sector professionals as new research reveals how shockingly under-vauled our NHS, education, policing and civil service servants are. Almost 5.4 million people are employed in the public sector and civil service across the UK but research by public sector membership club... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/nurses-named-as-least-appreciated-public-sector-workers 426,412,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/nurses-named-as-least-appreciated-public-sector-workers Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:45:00 GMT Peter Skitt, county director and commissioner for Ceredigion Hywel Dda University Health Board, looks ahead to the new integrated care centre being built for the district. This September we will open the doors to our first ever Integrated Care Centre in Cardigan – the second largest town in the county of Ceredigion – and in... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/creating-the-cardigan-integrated-care-centre 426,412,415,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/creating-the-cardigan-integrated-care-centre Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:30:00 GMT Kay Fawcett OBE, clinical advisor and education lead at Helpforce, and Lynn Twinn, talent development consultant, outline the new national training programmes for NHS volunteers and volunteer leaders. Helpforce, a charity set up by Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett in 2017, is committed to creating a better future in health and care through... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/helpforce-launches-training-programmes-for-nhs-volunteers 426,418,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/helpforce-launches-training-programmes-for-nhs-volunteers Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:30:00 GMT Ben Gershlick, senior economics analyst at the Health Foundation, examines the new pay deal for NHS staff.  More than £50bn is spent on the pay bill for the NHS’s 1.2 million staff, more than is spent in many government departments, and more than twice the revenue of Starbucks. But because it is the biggest single... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/pay-and-reward-in-the-nhs-needs-to-be-taken-seriously 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/pay-and-reward-in-the-nhs-needs-to-be-taken-seriously Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:30:00 GMT Professor Jamie Waterall, deputy chief nurse and national lead for cardiovascular disease prevention at Public Health England (PHE), introduces us to the ‘All Our Health’ prevention framework. All health and care professionals share a common commitment to do their best for the public we serve. Increasingly, practising... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/supporting-healthcare-professionals-to-boost-prevention-impact 426,413,411,418,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/supporting-healthcare-professionals-to-boost-prevention-impact Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:15:00 GMT Policy officer at NHS Providers, Leanora Volpe, outlines how the new NHS Assembly will inform the NHS Long-Term Plan. In October 2018 we welcomed the announcement of the new NHS Assembly and identified the four core features essential to securing its success in providing the breadth and depth of engagement needed to deliver the Long-Term... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-nhs-assembly-ensuring-diverse-views-are-heard 426,405,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-nhs-assembly-ensuring-diverse-views-are-heard Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:15:00 GMT Claudia Martínez, research manager at Reform, recently co-authored a report on personal budgets in public services. Here, she outlines the things commissioners must consider when implementing Personal Health Budgets (PHBs). The NHS expects that by 2024 the number of patients benefiting from PHBs will increase fivefold to 200,000.... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/getting-it-right-for-personal-health-budgets 426,413,411,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/getting-it-right-for-personal-health-budgets Tue, 04 Jun 2019 12:15:00 GMT Professor Derek Alderson, president of the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS), outlines how and why the independent sector must meet the same standards of care as the National Health Service. Like so many of my colleagues, I was deeply shocked by the behaviour of breast surgeon Ian Paterson. He was a rogue surgeon who misled and abused the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/independent-sector-and-nhs-must-meet-the-same-standards-of-care 426,412,418,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/independent-sector-and-nhs-must-meet-the-same-standards-of-care Tue, 04 Jun 2019 12:15:00 GMT Professor Lisa Bayliss-Pratt, chief nurse at Health Education England (HEE) and lead on HEE’s mental health programme of work, believes HEE’s new framework will help to raise awareness of stress and resilience in the workplace and encourage employers to adopt a new approach to supporting staff. One of the biggest challenges... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/watching-over-workforce-wellbeing-in-the-nhs 426,418,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/watching-over-workforce-wellbeing-in-the-nhs Tue, 04 Jun 2019 12:15:00 GMT Niall Dickson, chief executive of NHS Confederation, shares a preview of what to expect at this year’s Confed19 conference, which will be taking place in Manchester on 19-20 June. The NHS is always at a cross roads, is it not? There is always something major and significant about to affect its future. But this is different. In... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/confed19-preview-the-challenge-we-face 426,413,407,417,418,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/confed19-preview-the-challenge-we-face Mon, 03 Jun 2019 17:15:00 GMT We do, writes Nikki Crook, technical lead of the NHS Counter Fraud Authority’s (NHSCFA) Forensic Computing Unit (FCU). I work for the NHSCFA, which is leading the fight against NHS fraud at the national level. Our dedicated FCU supports our National Investigation Service with all their investigations. These are typically sensitive... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/nhs-counter-fraud-who-cares-about-iso-170252005 426,412,419,416,417,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/nhs-counter-fraud-who-cares-about-iso-170252005 Mon, 03 Jun 2019 17:00:00 GMT How will the NHS conduct accurate trials of cannabis-based medicinal products when everyone has already tried cannabis? Dr David Horn, medical director at the Centre for Medicinal Cannabis, reports. Until November 2018, cannabis was a Schedule 1 drug under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001. This schedule defines its contents as... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/cannabis-on-trial 426,412,414,407,408,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/cannabis-on-trial Thu, 30 May 2019 12:00:00 GMT Dr Phil de Warren-Penny, deputy co-chair for negotiations on the BMA consultant committee, discusses the perfect storm brewing in light of changes made to healthcare professionals’ pension rules. Separate changes to the current system of pension taxation and significant change of the NHS pensions scheme have converged, leading to a... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/perfect-storm-brewing-over-nhs-pensions-and-tax-rules 426,412,419,418,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/perfect-storm-brewing-over-nhs-pensions-and-tax-rules Tue, 28 May 2019 15:30:00 GMT Chief executive of the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Martin Barkley, writes for NHE to guide us through his trust’s improvement journey. It’s arguably a hackneyed phrase in the NHS, but Mid Yorkshire really has been on a significant journey in the last few years. Dogged by a previously problematic reputation, I believe... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/mid-yorks-hospitals-nhs-trust-our-improvement-journey 426,412,408,416,418,421,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/mid-yorks-hospitals-nhs-trust-our-improvement-journey Tue, 28 May 2019 15:15:00 GMT Dr Andy Haynes, clinical director for the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care System (ICS) and deputy chief executive at Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust, explains why building trust is fundamental in creating a truly integrated health and care system. Background We were chosen as one of the first areas in the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/creating-a-truly-integrated-system 426,413,411,418,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/creating-a-truly-integrated-system Tue, 28 May 2019 15:00:00 GMT Dr Carolyn Wilkins OBE, accountable officer of NHS Oldham CCG and chief executive of Oldham Council, provides an overview of the health and social care integration work taking place in the borough. Under the Oldham Cares banner our alliance of partners has a shared goal: “To see the greatest and fastest possible improvement in the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-oldham-model 409,426,413,411,418,421,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-oldham-model Tue, 28 May 2019 14:45:00 GMT Professor Gillian Leng, deputy chief executive at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), provides her view on the newly published NICE impact report on stroke. Stroke is one of the greatest health challenges of our time. There are a reported 38,000 deaths occurring every year in the UK from more than 100,000 strokes... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/how-are-we-improving-outcomes-for-those-affected-by-stroke 426,405,412,419,408,417,418,421 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/how-are-we-improving-outcomes-for-those-affected-by-stroke Tue, 28 May 2019 14:30:00 GMT Polly Billington, director of UK100, a cities network that campaigns on environmental issues, argues that the NHS needs a national strategy for air pollution. Toxic air pollution isn’t just an environmental catastrophe, it’s a public health crisis. Research that UK100 published in February showed that across England, 18... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/turning-blue-lights-green 426,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/turning-blue-lights-green Thu, 11 Apr 2019 11:45:00 GMT Steve Hams, director of quality and chief nurse at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GHFT), demonstrates how cultural change has improved care for patients. Staff have gone back to school as part of a ‘social movement’ at GHFT which is delivering better care for patients. The trust, which runs... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/going-back-to-school-at-gloucestershire-hospitals-nhs-foundation-trust- 409,426,412,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/going-back-to-school-at-gloucestershire-hospitals-nhs-foundation-trust- Wed, 10 Apr 2019 09:00:00 GMT Danny Mortimer, chief executive of NHS Employers, introduces us to the new nursing associate role, and how it’s set to complement the NHS Long-Term Plan’s workforce strategy. January was an interesting month for the NHS, with a long-term plan for the future and a new role entering our teams. The nursing associate role is... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/how-the-new-nursing-associate-role-will-break-new-ground 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/how-the-new-nursing-associate-role-will-break-new-ground Wed, 10 Apr 2019 09:00:00 GMT Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is estimated to cause 700,000 deaths each year globally. This could rise to 10 million by 2050 if we do nothing. Better stewardship, new diagnostics, and effective health education is crucial to tackling this growing threat, writes Professor Jonathan Ross, sexual health lead at the National Institute for Health... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-smarter-approach-to-tackling-amr 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-smarter-approach-to-tackling-amr Wed, 10 Apr 2019 08:45:00 GMT Emma Easton, head of voluntary partnerships at NHS England, highlights the importance of volunteers in the health service and outlines the brilliant work being carried out with Helpforce.  Mary knew she was in the final days of her life and was extremely anxious and afraid of being alone. Her daughter, Lily, was the only family... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/working-together-to-improve-volunteer-impacts 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/working-together-to-improve-volunteer-impacts Wed, 10 Apr 2019 08:45:00 GMT Gareth Thomas, clinical co-chair of the Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) blueprinting steering group, consultant in intensive care medicine and anaesthesia, and chief clinical information officer, discusses the publication of the first wave of GDE blueprints and how CCIOs, CIOs and other implementation and frontline teams can benefit from their... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/gdes-harnessing-technologys-potential- 426,419,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/gdes-harnessing-technologys-potential- Wed, 03 Apr 2019 08:45:00 GMT Dr Chris Whittle, NHS doctor and one of the leaders of technology designed to make healthcare more accessible for patients, tells more on Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust’s work on becoming the first NHS trust in the country to offer video consultations for cardiology patients. The NHS Long-Term Plan sets out how technology will be... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/lewisham-and-greenwich-nhs-trust-shows-the-way-forward-for-accessible-healthcare 409,426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/lewisham-and-greenwich-nhs-trust-shows-the-way-forward-for-accessible-healthcare Wed, 03 Apr 2019 08:45:00 GMT Is the NHS financially sustainable? Robert White, director of health value for money studies at the National Audit Office, finds out more. On 25 February, this question was posed by the Public Accounts Committee to a witness panel of senior health officials, and was met by a simple ‘yes’.  The committee was not so... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/national-audit-office-is-the-nhs-financially-sustainable- 426,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/national-audit-office-is-the-nhs-financially-sustainable- Wed, 03 Apr 2019 08:45:00 GMT Anna Moore and Dr Daniel Hayes, researchers at the Evidence Based Practice Unit (UCL and Anna Freud Centre), discuss their leading research into mental health and wellbeing in schools. As recently announced by the education secretary Damian Hinds, thousands of children and young people are taking part in our randomised control trials... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/rolling-out-mental-health-trials-in-schools- 426,414,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/rolling-out-mental-health-trials-in-schools- Wed, 03 Apr 2019 08:45:00 GMT Dr Sudip Sikdar, consultant old-age psychiatrist, and Pauline Parker, head of research at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; alongside Dr Carl Chalmers, senior lecturer in computer science, and Dr Paul Fergus, reader in machine learning at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), outline the innovative work being carried out by the Mersey Care... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/utilising-smart-meters-in-assisted-living- 409,426,413,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/utilising-smart-meters-in-assisted-living- Wed, 27 Mar 2019 09:30:00 GMT Mike Hutton, author of the recently-published Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) national report on spinal services and consultant spine surgeon at The Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, looks at how reducing unwarranted variation in NHS procurement could make a multimillion-pound difference. If you went online looking to buy a... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/getting-it-right-first-time-and-reducing-variation-in-the-nhs 426,415,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/getting-it-right-first-time-and-reducing-variation-in-the-nhs Wed, 27 Mar 2019 09:15:00 GMT Claudia Martinez, research manager at Reform, talks about maximising the value of the NHS estate. In his review of NHS property and estates, Sir Robert Naylor argued that an adequate healthcare infrastructure was crucial to achieving the goals set out in the NHS Five Year Forward View. The transformation would come at a price tag of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-nhs-estate-is-more-than-just-bricks-and-mortar- 426,415,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-nhs-estate-is-more-than-just-bricks-and-mortar- Wed, 27 Mar 2019 09:15:00 GMT Professor Simon Gregory, Health Education England’s (HEE) primary care lead, discusses the NHS Staff and Learners’ Mental Wellbeing Commission final report. There are 1.4 million people in the NHS taking care of the health needs of patients up and down the country, and their physical and mental health is key to patient welfare... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/no-one-gets-left-behind-nhs-staff-and-learners-mental-wellbeing-commission 426,414,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/no-one-gets-left-behind-nhs-staff-and-learners-mental-wellbeing-commission Wed, 27 Mar 2019 09:00:00 GMT Professor Gillian Leng, Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Health and Social Care at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence - NICE - provides her view of the newly published NICE impact report on mental health. Mental health conditions are the largest single cause of disability in the UK, with one in 4 adults... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/what-progress-are-we-making-to-transform-our-populations-mental-health 426,414,421 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/what-progress-are-we-making-to-transform-our-populations-mental-health Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:15:00 GMT Kirstie Stott, director of The Inspiring Leaders Network, discusses organisational and system curiosity alongside the work of the Shadow Board Programme. As an executive coach, I always stay curious. When I’m facilitating teams I always ask them to stay curious, but what I don’t do as often is ask organisations to stay curious... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/staying-curious-with-the-shadow-board-programme 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/staying-curious-with-the-shadow-board-programme Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:30:00 GMT Aahsan Rahman, department head of town planning at NHS Property Services (NHSPS), looks at an alternative and perhaps underutilised funding source for the NHS: the town planning system. Developer contributions and the healthcare system At a time when expectations of healthcare systems are rising, we face the central question: how should... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/capturing-funds-for-the-nhs- 426,415,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/capturing-funds-for-the-nhs- Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:15:00 GMT Elaine Bousfield of ZunTold Publishing – a press specialising in fiction for children and young people – discusses ‘Fiction as Therapy’, and how it can be used as a therapeutic tool for young people. Helping children and young people to understand themselves and their experiences is something that has long been... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/fiction-as-therapy 426,414 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/fiction-as-therapy Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:15:00 GMT Richard Corbridge, chief digital & information officer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, focuses on the practices his trust has put in place as part of its digital revolution. After celebrating its 70th year, the NHS is faced with so many problems that are defined as ‘wicked.’ Digital is, only in the last couple of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-digital-revolution-for-healthcare-is-now- 426,419,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-digital-revolution-for-healthcare-is-now- Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:15:00 GMT As part of our guest blog series, chief executive of NHS Employers, Danny Mortimer, reflects on a recently published Health Foundation report on staffing trends of the NHS - and what he believes should be done at this critical crossroads in the lifespan of the healthcare workforce. The title of the latest research paper... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-critical-moment-for-the-nhs 426,421,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-critical-moment-for-the-nhs Thu, 07 Mar 2019 12:00:00 GMT With around 1,500 alcohol-related hospital stays for both adults and under 18s at the Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust every year, it is clear that alcohol-related ill health is both a concern and a significant demand on the NHS. With increased hospital admissions year on year, there’s a real worry that people do not... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/do-you-know-if-youre-an-alcoholic 426,411,421 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/do-you-know-if-youre-an-alcoholic Wed, 06 Mar 2019 17:00:00 GMT Sam Ward, director of commissioned services at the Royal Voluntary Service, argues that the right training can help harness the power of volunteering in the NHS. Royal Voluntary Service has been supporting the NHS since it was created, offering comfort to patients and helping keep hospitals moving. We have over 6,000 volunteers supporting... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/maximising-volunteer-potential-in-hospitals- 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/maximising-volunteer-potential-in-hospitals- Thu, 14 Feb 2019 10:15:00 GMT Peter Brown, acting head of technology policy at the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), explains the importance of good practice in data protection and cyber security for the NHS, almost two years on from the WannaCry cyber-attack. If you asked the average person on the street what they thought the worst consequences of a cyber... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/ico-cyber-security-and-the-nhs 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/ico-cyber-security-and-the-nhs Thu, 14 Feb 2019 10:00:00 GMT A coaching conversation is likely to yield the best results. Managing experts in the health industry can be a challenging and varying responsibility. Dr Darren Leech, director and coach at NHS Elect, tells more on how to unlock your team’s potential. In healthcare management, we are surrounded by experts. Lots of highly-qualified... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/leading-and-managing-experts 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/leading-and-managing-experts Thu, 14 Feb 2019 10:00:00 GMT The health impacts of asbestos in the UK can cast a much wider net than those in the construction and building sector. Liz Darlison, head of services at Mesothelioma UK, tells more on the growing fight against the disease. The UK has the highest incidence of mesothelioma in the world, with more than 2,700 people diagnosed each year, and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/mesothelioma-in-the-uk-a-growing-fight 426,412 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/mesothelioma-in-the-uk-a-growing-fight Thu, 14 Feb 2019 10:00:00 GMT With toilets falling apart, poor soundproofing, and uncomfortably hard flooring, mental health facilities can often feel more like prisons than actual hospitals. Andy Bell, deputy chief executive at the Centre for Mental Health, outlines the three steps that must be taken to renew the currently unfit-for-purpose mental health estate. In... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/mental-health-and-the-nhs-estate-putting-it-right 426,414 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/mental-health-and-the-nhs-estate-putting-it-right Wed, 06 Feb 2019 09:45:00 GMT Danny Mortimer, chief executive of NHS Employers, navigates the “maze of bureaucracy” that is apprenticeships in the NHS. Apprenticeships are a growing option for people to earn while they learn – an attractive prospect for many – and, as the NHS Long-Term Plan recognises, a vital entry route to a career in... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/mastering-the-maze-of-apprenticeships-in-the-nhs 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/mastering-the-maze-of-apprenticeships-in-the-nhs Wed, 06 Feb 2019 09:30:00 GMT Mr Richard Kerr, chair of the Royal College of Surgeons' (RCS) Commission on the Future of Surgery, argues that transformative changes in surgery will dramatically improve patient care. Last year, the UK’s most prized public service, the NHS, celebrated 70 years of enabling patients from all over the UK to access treatment free at... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/riding-the-wave-of-transformative-change-in-surgery- 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/riding-the-wave-of-transformative-change-in-surgery- Wed, 06 Feb 2019 09:30:00 GMT Sara Bainbridge, head of policy and delivery at NHS Clinical Commissioners, discusses some of her organisation’s work on integration and the long-term plan, and shares some practical examples. The NHS Long-Term Plan has confirmed that integrated care systems (ICSs) will be central to the future of healthcare in England by being the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/procurement-can-be-a-catalyst-for-system-working 426,405,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/procurement-can-be-a-catalyst-for-system-working Wed, 06 Feb 2019 09:15:00 GMT NHS Open Space is an innovative new bookable NHS scheme centred on flexibility and getting the most value out of the NHS’s estates. With the project due to open in Spring 2019, Christopher King, NHS Property Services' (NHSPS) senior strategic asset manager who leads the Open Space programme, tells more. The future of the NHS has... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/maximising-opportunity-with-nhs-open-space 426,405,407 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/maximising-opportunity-with-nhs-open-space Wed, 30 Jan 2019 09:45:00 GMT Dr Brian Fisher MBE, chair of the New NHS Alliance, looks back at the New NHS Partnership Summit and reflects on how its learnings can help plug gaps within the NHS Long-Term Plan. In November 2018, the New NHS Alliance held its third annual summit in Manchester. This revolutionary event was attended and supported by over 200... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/wellness-and-the-power-of-community-assets- 426,405,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/wellness-and-the-power-of-community-assets- Wed, 30 Jan 2019 09:30:00 GMT Deborah Kobewka, managing director of Healthcare UK, lifesciences and bioeconomy in the Department for International Trade, talks us through the innovation brought about by the Life Sciences Sector Deal, and the vital role the NHS is playing in it. In 2017, the Life Sciences Sector Deal set out how the government would implement the first... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-nhs-is-central-to-life-sciences-innovation- 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-nhs-is-central-to-life-sciences-innovation- Wed, 30 Jan 2019 09:30:00 GMT Niall Dickson, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, reflects on the NHS Long-Term Plan, and outlines the vital role the voluntary and independent sectors will play in the future of the health service. The government’s long-term plan for the NHS in England will set out how the health service should spend the extra £20.5bn... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/long-term-plan-moving-on-up 426,405,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/long-term-plan-moving-on-up Wed, 30 Jan 2019 09:15:00 GMT The Institute of Risk Management (IRM) asked its members what working in risk is really like and what hints and tips they’d share with people looking to move into the industry. Here, we hear from Fiona Davidge, enterprise risk manager at the Wellcome Trust. I came into the risk world as a second career after studying for a law... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/sneak-a-peek-into-the-world-of-risk 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/sneak-a-peek-into-the-world-of-risk Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:15:00 GMT Professor John Geddes, director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre, introduces the new Translational Research Collaboration for Mental Health (TRC-MH): a group of investigators, based in leading universities and hospitals across the country, working with industry and charity partners... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/leading-the-way-the-translational-research-collaboration-for-mental-health 426,414,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/leading-the-way-the-translational-research-collaboration-for-mental-health Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:00:00 GMT Jin Sahota spent two years at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) establishing the future operating model for the new NHS Supply Chain. Now, as the organisation’s CEO, he talks about what’s changed. Over the next five years we have set ourselves an ambitious goal of delivering £2.4bn of savings for the NHS by... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/nhs-supply-chain-driving-the-way-forward 426,410 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/nhs-supply-chain-driving-the-way-forward Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:00:00 GMT The development of the NHS long-term plan offers a reset moment: a chance to develop a credible, sector-owned blueprint designed to improve care for patients and the public, argues Leanora Volpe, policy officer at NHS Providers. At a time when the NHS is undergoing a period of rapid transformation and services are facing ever-increasing... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-nhs-assembly-a-moment-to-reset 426,405 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-nhs-assembly-a-moment-to-reset Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:00:00 GMT A number of GP practices across Darlington have begun offering online consultations to patients as part of a national £45m investment by the NHS. Dr Saleem Hassan of NHS Darlington CCG reports. Online consultations come as part of a two-year pilot by NHS Darlington CCG. Our patients are being encouraged to avoid waiting times and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/bringing-gps-online-in-darlington- 426,419,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/bringing-gps-online-in-darlington- Wed, 19 Dec 2018 08:45:00 GMT James Rimmer, chief finance officer and deputy CEO of NHS Southampton City CCG and co-chair of the NHS Clinical Commissioners (NHSCC) Finance Forum, analyses the reality of the health funding settlement. In the Budget, the chancellor confirmed that the NHS will receive a real-terms funding increase of £20.5bn over the next five... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/under-the-surface-of-the-funding-settlement 426,410,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/under-the-surface-of-the-funding-settlement Wed, 19 Dec 2018 08:45:00 GMT Anne Marie Morris, member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and MP for Newton Abbott, outlines the committee’s recent report on the barriers to integration. The PAC’s recent report into the interface between health and social care found that financial pressures on the NHS and local government make it difficult for... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/breaking-down-barriers-to-integration- 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/breaking-down-barriers-to-integration- Wed, 12 Dec 2018 09:15:00 GMT By utilising the health service’s volunteers, we can deliver better care for everyone, argues Kay Fawcett OBE, clinical project lead at HelpForce. Volunteers take on a range of vital roles in the NHS to improve the lives of staff, patients, and our communities. By harnessing the power of dedicated and caring volunteers, we can... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/creating-a-volunteer-passport- 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/creating-a-volunteer-passport- Wed, 12 Dec 2018 09:15:00 GMT Sean Duggan, chief executive of the Mental Health Network, raises concerns around the mental health workforce and shares some best practice from Cornwall. A broad approach will be necessary to tackle the workforce crisis engulfing the mental health sector, and the upcoming NHS long-term plan is a great place to start. It's great news... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/right-people-right-place-right-now 426,414,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/right-people-right-place-right-now Wed, 12 Dec 2018 09:15:00 GMT Chris Bryant MP discusses the new law he championed that came into effect in September, which doubles jail time for anyone who assaults emergency workers. Every job has its ‘moments,’ doesn’t it? Those things that ruin an otherwise fulfilling career, or even just make an otherwise tolerable Tuesday nearly unbearable... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/an-attack-on-them-is-an-attack-on-us-all 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/an-attack-on-them-is-an-attack-on-us-all Wed, 12 Dec 2018 09:00:00 GMT Dr Selwyn Hodge, co-chair of the Self Care Forum, makes the case for the further reach of self-care, and for it to be embedded into our everyday lives. Having worked for many years to get self-care accepted as a legitimate and valuable part of the national healthcare scene, it should have made me very happy to see the term being bandied... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/are-we-doing-enough-to-accelerate-self-care- 409,426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/are-we-doing-enough-to-accelerate-self-care- Wed, 05 Dec 2018 09:00:00 GMT Care minister Caroline Dinenage MP urges health and care organisations to achieve closer collaboration to improve the quality of care and support. Our population is growing, ageing and diversifying which, naturally, is something to be celebrated. However, it’s also putting pressure on our health and care services. Our upcoming green... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/caroline-dinenage-quality-matters 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/caroline-dinenage-quality-matters Wed, 05 Dec 2018 09:00:00 GMT With the latest policy document from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) heralding a new ‘technology-first’ ethos for the NHS, Lee Edwards, IT director at NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS), discusses why this must include investment in intuitive technologies for NHS employees. An IT overhaul of the NHS is long... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/technology-first 426,419,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/technology-first Wed, 05 Dec 2018 09:00:00 GMT Julie Wood, chief executive of NHS Clinical Commissioners, reacts to Matt Hancock’s recent comments regarding commissioning. “Commissioning is very, very important, and the split between commissioners and providers is important because you need to keep a financial grip on the system.The question is, at what level do you... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-future-of-commissioning- 426,410 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-future-of-commissioning- Wed, 05 Dec 2018 09:00:00 GMT In September, the NHS Leadership Academy launched its new Rosalind Franklin programme for ‘mid-level’ leaders in health and care. Steven Hart, director of leadership development at Health Education England and the academy’s leader, reports. There are 46,500 staff in our NHS that operate at ‘mid-level’ –... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/essential-support-for-mid-level-leaders 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/essential-support-for-mid-level-leaders Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:15:00 GMT The CQC’s chief inspector of hospitals, Professor Ted Baker, discusses the findings of this year’s State of Care report and the need for local systems to work together to prevent growing ‘care injustice.’ This year’s State of Care report tells a story of contrasts. It highlights both the resilience and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/prof-ted-baker-the-state-of-care 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/prof-ted-baker-the-state-of-care Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:15:00 GMT As digital health and artificial intelligence (AI) clinical lead at NHS England, Dr Indra Joshi is involved in several national initiatives designed to realise the full potential of digital health and technology in the NHS. Here, she explains the projects she is co-leading with national partners to ensure the health service takes full... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-digital-health-revolution- 426,419,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-digital-health-revolution- Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:15:00 GMT Sir Michael Marmot and Dr Jessica Allen, director and deputy director of the Institute of Health Equity, assesses the government’s commitment to prevention and what this means for health inequality, eight years on from the Marmot Review. The government recently set out its vision for a new approach to health, ‘Prevention is... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/prevention-is-better-than-cure 426,407 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/prevention-is-better-than-cure Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:00:00 GMT Adam Steventon, director of data analytics at the Health Foundation, reviews the government’s digital and data vision for the NHS. Digital technologies could transform healthcare over the next decade. Already this year we have seen the rapid rise of health and care delivered by mobile phone using videoconferences and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/data-the-oil-of-the-digital-age 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/data-the-oil-of-the-digital-age Wed, 07 Nov 2018 15:30:00 GMT The ease and round-the-clock nature of making cashless payments has transformed the way we pay for goods and services – and, from now on, the NHS should be no different. Stephen Sutcliffe, director of finance and accounting at NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS), discusses an innovative new payment system that is enabling trusts to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/recoup-and-recover 426,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/recoup-and-recover Wed, 10 Oct 2018 09:00:00 GMT Jo Gander, director of the Clinical and Product Assurance (CaPA) team, talks about their role as part of the new NHS Supply Chain. NHS Supply Chain’s objective is to ensure that patients and Allied Health and Care Professionals (AHCPs) across the health and care system have access to fit-for-purpose, safe, clinically effective... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-clinical-voice-at-the-heart-of-procurement- 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-clinical-voice-at-the-heart-of-procurement- Wed, 10 Oct 2018 09:00:00 GMT Sean Duggan, chief executive of NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network, argues that mental health services could hugely benefit from digitisation. Matt Hancock has made no secret of his enthusiasm for new technology. This could represent a big opportunity for mental health providers to embrace the transformative power digital... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-push-for-digital-in-mental-health- 426,414,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-push-for-digital-in-mental-health- Wed, 10 Oct 2018 08:45:00 GMT Dr Andrew Dearden, BMA treasurer and Brexit lead, takes a look at what different Brexit scenarios could means for both patients and healthcare professionals alike. Since the EU Referendum, the BMA has extensively explored the impact of Brexit on health services across the UK and Europe. We have produced a series of briefing papers which... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/deal-or-no-deal- 426,407 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/deal-or-no-deal- Wed, 10 Oct 2018 08:45:00 GMT Professor Jennie Wilson, a member of the Infection Prevention Society, discusses the importance of hydration, especially in older patients, in infection prevention and control. Hydration needs to be a priority for carers and clinicians, especially for those looking after more vulnerable groups such as the elderly. Hydration is important... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/prevention-through-hydration- 426,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/prevention-through-hydration- Wed, 03 Oct 2018 09:15:00 GMT Dr Abraham George, consultant in public health at Kent County Council, tell us about the Kent Integrated Dataset, undertaken as part of national integration programmes. A successful population health system depends on system leadership underpinning a shared vision, strategy, and governance to pool analytical, data management... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-kent-integrated-data-set 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-kent-integrated-data-set Wed, 03 Oct 2018 09:15:00 GMT The world of work is rapidly changing, and the NHS needs a radical rethink on its approach, argues Dean Royles, strategic workforce advisor at Skills for Health. The recent NHS funding pledge came with the usual comments about the need to change services, use technology more effectively, and become more efficient. The fact that the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-radical-rethink-on-flexible-working 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-radical-rethink-on-flexible-working Wed, 03 Oct 2018 09:00:00 GMT Professional lead for infection prevention and control at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Rose Gallagher, discusses her work in raising awareness on the correct use of gloves by healthcare professionals to prevent the spread of infection. Cleaning and protecting our hands is the most important thing any of us can do to prevent the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/glove-awareness-a-new-approach- 426,408,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/glove-awareness-a-new-approach- Wed, 03 Oct 2018 09:00:00 GMT Precision medicine is hailed as the next big thing in healthcare, and Greater Manchester is set to lead the way with a new £60m global genomics centre, explains Rowena Burns, chair of Health Innovation Manchester. Put simply, precision medicine is a move away from a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to one which targets... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/greater-manchester-forefront-of-precision-medicine- 426,2900,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/greater-manchester-forefront-of-precision-medicine- Wed, 26 Sep 2018 09:15:00 GMT The NHS is not just embracing the power of technology to improve patient care, it is actively driving innovation through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). Dr Matthew Hallsworth, head of external relations at the NIHR Office for Clinical Research Infrastructure, reveals how. Digital technologies, including artificial... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/nihr-driving-innovation- 426,2900,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/nihr-driving-innovation- Wed, 26 Sep 2018 09:00:00 GMT Stewart Fishman, product manager for Personal Health Records (PHRs) at NHS Digital, discusses the empowering impact PHRs can have for patients. Imagine a future where people can easily choose from a range of secure, usable, online tools to access their care records. They can add information to these tools and share it with anyone involved... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/personal-health-records-empowering-people- 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/personal-health-records-empowering-people- Wed, 26 Sep 2018 09:00:00 GMT As Brexit looms, radical change is needed to deliver on immigration policy, writes Danny Mortimer, chief executive of NHS Employers. As Brexit preparations are moving into their final stages, we have looked at what social care and health needs from a future migration system to deliver both workers and certainty. The clock is ticking and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/brexit-proofing-the-workforce- 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/brexit-proofing-the-workforce- Wed, 26 Sep 2018 08:45:00 GMT The Hospital Energy Project is an ambitious engineering scheme to replace outdated systems at Oxford University NHS FT’s hospitals and reduce the provider’s reliance on the national grid. Claire Hennessy, its head of operational estates and facilities services, summarises what steps were taken to save money and, better yet, cut... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-hospital-energy-project 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-hospital-energy-project Wed, 19 Sep 2018 09:15:00 GMT Social media has a massive role to play in health – infection prevention and control in particular, write Brett Mitchell, professor of nursing, and Hannah Rosebrock, research officer, both of Australia’s Avondale College. How many times have you checked your Facebook today? Since the dawn of the internet some 40 years ago... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/social-medias-role-in-health 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/social-medias-role-in-health Wed, 19 Sep 2018 09:00:00 GMT Niall Dickson, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, takes a look at Matt Hancock's priorities and agenda around workforce, technology and prevention. A tech transformation is coming, according to the new health secretary. Matt Hancock was secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport for just six short months before being... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/dickson-hancock-finds-an-nhs-in-need-of-digital-rebirth- 426,419,417,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/dickson-hancock-finds-an-nhs-in-need-of-digital-rebirth- Wed, 19 Sep 2018 08:45:00 GMT Paul Charnley, director of IT and information at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS FT, discusses what his organisation has learnt from being a Global Digital Exemplar (GDE). In some ways, as an exemplar, we are supposed to be in a position to show others how they should do things. Being on ‘a pedestal’ as a GDE can also... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/gdes-never-stop-learning- 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/gdes-never-stop-learning- Wed, 19 Sep 2018 08:45:00 GMT Dr Liz Mear, chief executive of the Innovation Agency, explains how her organisation has been enabling innovation across the NHS and what we need to do to ensure this continues.  Sometimes an offer seems too good to be true; that may seem to be the case for a set of innovations being provided for free to health providers across... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/age-of-innovation 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/age-of-innovation Wed, 22 Aug 2018 08:45:00 GMT Professor Wendy Reid, executive director of education & quality and national medical director at Health Education England (HEE), shares insight into the work of her organisation and explores the ways in which we must prepare the NHS for its next 70 years. Workforce retention and rota gaps are two of the most significant issues... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/listening-to-the-frontline 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/listening-to-the-frontline Wed, 15 Aug 2018 09:45:00 GMT The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Third Global Patient Safety Challenge, ‘Medication without harm,’ is ambitious, but it must not detract from the ongoing work of healthcare professionals, writes consultant pharmacist Gillian Cavell. On 29 March 2017, the WHO launched its Third Global Patient Safety Challenge... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/medication-without-harm 409,426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/medication-without-harm Wed, 15 Aug 2018 09:45:00 GMT NHS Partners Network (NHSPN) chief executive David Hare discusses the themes covered at his organisation’s Confed18 panel debate on population health management and integrated care.  Population health management and integrated care was the key theme at this year’s Confed18 in Manchester, with no fewer than nine events... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/population-health-for-the-21st-century 426,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/population-health-for-the-21st-century Wed, 15 Aug 2018 09:45:00 GMT Professor Mark Baker, director of the Centre for Guidelines at NICE, explains what the organisation is doing to support the fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the challenges that lie ahead. The global risk of AMR is clear. It is already estimated that around 50,000 deaths per year in the EU and US alone can be attributed to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/stepping-up-the-fight-against-amr 409,426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/stepping-up-the-fight-against-amr Wed, 15 Aug 2018 09:45:00 GMT Helen Vernon, chief executive at NHS Resolution, talks about a recent court case which firmly demonstrates that there is no space for contempt, dishonesty and fraud in the NHS. As with all NHS organisations, the risk of fraud is a significant concern for NHS Resolution. The nature of our work inevitably focuses attention on the risk of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-nhs-is-not-an-easy-target 426,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-nhs-is-not-an-easy-target Wed, 15 Aug 2018 09:30:00 GMT David Bradley, chief executive of South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG), discusses the improvements and collaboration his trust has been involved with.  Effective partnership working – including trusts joining up to improve care and value – is a major goal across the NHS. The CQC praised... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/driving-improvement-in-south-west-london-mental-health 426,414 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/driving-improvement-in-south-west-london-mental-health Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:15:00 GMT Dr Graham Jackson, co-chair of NHS Clinical Commissioners (NHSCC) and clinical lead for the Buckinghamshire integrated care system, makes the case for integrated commissioning.  There is a lot of talk at the moment about different types of commissioning: strategic, tactical, clinical, specialised, joint, local authority, and more.... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/integrated-commissioning-making-a-difference 426,410 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/integrated-commissioning-making-a-difference Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:15:00 GMT Dean Royles, director and strategic workforce advisor at Skills for Health and co-author of ‘An Introduction to Human Resources Management,’ argues that, as the NHS turns 70, we must recognise the hard work and achievements of support staff. The NHS is 70 and, despite the current challenges and pressures faced by many parts of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/its-time-to-invest-in-our-support-staff 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/its-time-to-invest-in-our-support-staff Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:15:00 GMT Martin Steele, chief operating officer at NHS Property Services (NHSPS), discusses what his organisation has been doing to improve the efficiency of estates in the NHS, and explains why it is more than just a commercial landlord. Given the scale of the financial challenges facing the NHS, optimising the use of its estate has never been... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/nhs-estates-running-the-show 426,416,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/nhs-estates-running-the-show Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:15:00 GMT Don Redding, director of policy at National Voices, and its communications & engagement officer Laura Bell, look at the voluntary sector’s role in helping to deliver personal health budgets (PHBs). “As hard as it is to watch my [adult] child deteriorate…  I wouldn’t change a single thing. Having a PHB has... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/we-need-to-take-personal-health-budgets-seriously 409,426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/we-need-to-take-personal-health-budgets-seriously Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:15:00 GMT Professor Mike Hannay, chair of the Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) and managing director of the East Midlands AHSN, talks about innovation in the NHS and the role of his organisation. This year is a major milestone for our nation with the 70th anniversary of the NHS. As we look ahead to the next 70 years, it’s also a... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/ahsns-innovating-the-nhs- 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/ahsns-innovating-the-nhs- Wed, 01 Aug 2018 12:00:00 GMT The NHS needs to regenerate its rapidly deteriorating estate – and fast. With time of the essence and budgets stretched, conventional capital building projects are out of reach for many trusts. Phil Davies, director of procurement at NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS), explains why modular building must be part of the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/flat-pack-buildings-could-save-our-nhs 426,407,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/flat-pack-buildings-could-save-our-nhs Wed, 01 Aug 2018 12:00:00 GMT NHS Improvement (NHSI) will focus on a collaborative approach when spending extra money in the future, revealed Baroness Dido Harding, the regulator’s chair. NHE’s Jack Donnelly reports. Organisational team-ups, a shift in culture, and using the ‘people lever’ in NHS care across the country – these aims are... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/baroness-dido-harding-levers-leadership-and-light-shining- 426,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/baroness-dido-harding-levers-leadership-and-light-shining- Wed, 01 Aug 2018 11:45:00 GMT Gillian Felton, head of people development, engagement and wellbeing at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network, on the process of appointing Wellbeing Warriors in order to boost workplace health. I’d like to take you back to 1836 to a Quaker family in York. In particular, Joseph Rowntree. Joseph... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/workforce-wellbeing-not-just-another-tickbox- 426,414,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/workforce-wellbeing-not-just-another-tickbox- Wed, 01 Aug 2018 11:45:00 GMT According to Mind, approximately one in four people experience a mental health problem in the UK each year. After attending a selection of mental health events at Confed18, NHE’s Daniel Broadley asks: why don’t we give mental health as much attention as physical health? During his talk at Confed18, Paul Jenkins OBE, chief... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/mental-health-a-quiet-revolution- 426,414 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/mental-health-a-quiet-revolution- Wed, 25 Jul 2018 11:15:00 GMT We still need to strive for greater workforce wellbeing within the NHS, which will consequently have a positive impact on patient care, argues Danny Mortimer, chief executive of NHS Employers. The NHS Constitution rightly states that patients are at the heart of everything the NHS does, and our understanding of how we better care for our... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-healthy-workforce 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-healthy-workforce Wed, 25 Jul 2018 10:45:00 GMT Cumbria’s healthcare system has come a long way since being recognised as one of the most challenged health economies in England, writes Stephen Eames, leader of the North Cumbria Health and Care System and chief executive of North Cumbria University NHS Hospitals Trust and Cumbria Partnership NHS FT. When you think of Cumbria and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/ics-wave-2-cumbria- 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/ics-wave-2-cumbria- Wed, 25 Jul 2018 10:45:00 GMT Andrew Davies, professional lead for hospital pharmacy at NHS Improvement (NHSI), runs through the significant developments that have taken place across the health service since trusts produced local pharma plans as part of Carter Review recommendations. In February 2016, Lord Carter of Coles published his report on unwarranted variation... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/transforming-hospital-pharmacy-one-year-on- 426,412,407 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/transforming-hospital-pharmacy-one-year-on- Wed, 25 Jul 2018 10:30:00 GMT Stewart Fishman, product manager for Personal Health Records (PHRs) at NHS Digital, writes for NHE to discuss the empowering impact PHRs can have for patients. Imagine a future where people can easily choose from a range of secure, usable, online tools to access their care records. They can add information to these tools and share it... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/personal-health-records-empowering-people 426,419,421 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/personal-health-records-empowering-people Wed, 18 Jul 2018 16:00:00 GMT Common-sense changes – such as Vital Signs, an improvement practice for the NHS – have the potential to drive improvements across the health service, writes Alan Martyn, national director of lean transformation at NHS Improvement (NHSI). What would the NHS look like if we implemented a daily improvement practice? More than 1.5... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/nhsi-lean-programme-making-common-sense-common-practice 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/nhsi-lean-programme-making-common-sense-common-practice Wed, 18 Jul 2018 12:30:00 GMT Matthew Macnair-Smith, membership and policy manager at NHS Confederation, takes a look back at the last 70 years of the NHS and argues that it’s now time we get serious about transformation. Famously, Lord Lawson described the NHS as “the closest thing the English have to a religion.” And in its 70th year, all the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/as-the-nhs-turns-70-its-time-to-get-serious-about-transformation 426,407,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/as-the-nhs-turns-70-its-time-to-get-serious-about-transformation Wed, 18 Jul 2018 12:15:00 GMT Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, welcomes the long-term funding settlement of £20.5bn for the NHS by 2023. But diving below its surface, we must ask: can the settlement really deliver? Theresa May has delivered a 70th birthday present for the NHS. But how generous is it? How nervous should we be about the strings that... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/nhs-funding-below-the-surface 426,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/nhs-funding-below-the-surface Wed, 18 Jul 2018 12:15:00 GMT Paul Farmer, chief executive of Mind, was the independent chair of the NHS Mental Health Taskforce that produced the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health (FYFVMH) and is currently chair of the Oversight and Advisory Group which oversees the NHS recommendations. Here, he considers the future of the sector. The recent NHS funding... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/paul-farmer-what-next-for-mental-health 426,414 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/paul-farmer-what-next-for-mental-health Wed, 18 Jul 2018 12:15:00 GMT Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, discusses the importance of board governance and accountability as we move towards local systems to deliver integrated patient care. Carillion, Enron, Arthur Anderson, Lehman Brothers… organisational failures that demonstrate the importance of board governance. Though not always a... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/we-need-to-talk-about-governance 426,413,421 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/we-need-to-talk-about-governance Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:45:00 GMT Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett, chair and founder of HelpForce, argues the case for NHS volunteers and the vital role they can play in the next 70 years of the NHS. It is exhausting keeping track of the challenges faced by the NHS. Imagine what it must be like when you are in the middle of it all as a frontline worker. The 70th... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-nhs-needs-vital-volunteer-support-to-see-it-through-the-next-70-years 426,421,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-nhs-needs-vital-volunteer-support-to-see-it-through-the-next-70-years Fri, 06 Jul 2018 09:00:00 GMT Dean Royles, director and strategic workforce advisor at Skills for Health and co-author of ‘An Introduction to Human Resources Management,’ argues that, as the NHS turns 70, we must recognise the hard work and achievements of support staff. The NHS is 70 today and, despite the current challenges and pressures faced by many... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/nhs-at-70-its-time-to-invest-in-our-support-staff 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/nhs-at-70-its-time-to-invest-in-our-support-staff Thu, 05 Jul 2018 10:15:00 GMT Gerard McGeary, director of strategy & corporate communications at Supply Chain Coordination Ltd, a body set up by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), talks about the incoming changes in the new NHS Supply Chain operating model. The new NHS Supply Chain operating model (formerly known as the Future Operating Model) is the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/transforming-the-nhs-procurement-landscape- 426,405 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/transforming-the-nhs-procurement-landscape- Wed, 04 Jul 2018 10:45:00 GMT Dr Darren Leech, director at NHS Elect, discusses the key differences between being a coach and a mentor, and explains how leaders can make use of both tools to provide the ideal leadership style. Mentoring and coaching are two quite different things. Misunderstanding and misuse can lead to conflict and confusion, despite the best... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/coaching-and-mentoring-avoiding-confusion 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/coaching-and-mentoring-avoiding-confusion Wed, 04 Jul 2018 10:30:00 GMT Professor Niels Peek, director of Greater Manchester Connected Health City, tells us about the perks of using patient data and digital technologies to rapidly improve our health service. In a society where information is the currency of choice, patient data gives us the capability to redesign health services and better tailor them to the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/connected-health-cities- 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/connected-health-cities- Wed, 04 Jul 2018 10:30:00 GMT Julie Das-Thompson, head of policy and delivery at NHS Clinical Commissioners (NHSCC), talks us through the key ingredients for place-based integrated commissioning and its implications for working at scale. Following the prime minister’s commitment to a long-term funding plan for the NHS, Jeremy Hunt recently expressed his desire... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/thinking-place-integrated-commissioning- 426,410 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/thinking-place-integrated-commissioning- Wed, 04 Jul 2018 10:30:00 GMT Lorna Collingwood-Burke, chair of the Nurses’ Forum, NHS Clinical Commissioners and chief nursing officer for Northern, Eastern and Western Devon and South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Groups, discusses making use of executive commissioning nurses. As the chair of NHSCC’s Nurses’ Forum, I hear from our members... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/executive-commissioning-nurses-are-a-missed-opportunity 426,410,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/executive-commissioning-nurses-are-a-missed-opportunity Thu, 28 Jun 2018 09:15:00 GMT Paul Chrisp, programme director of medicines and technologies at NICE, describes how the organisation is re-purposing drugs in order to improve patient care quickly and cost-effectively. Developing new medicines and then ensuring they are used appropriately is a costly and drawn-out process. The NHS needs to make sure that alongside the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/getting-more-out-of-our-medicines- 426,405,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/getting-more-out-of-our-medicines- Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:15:00 GMT Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, a member of the Public Accounts Committee, warns that the UK Government must take seriously the threat of a more sophisticated cyber-attack in light of last year’s WannaCry fiasco. On Friday 12 May 2017, the WannaCry cyber-attack was a serious wake-up call for the NHS. The attack resulted in enormous... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/lessons-from-wannacry- 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/lessons-from-wannacry- Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:00:00 GMT One attack against an NHS worker is one too many. But unfortunately, the trend in recent years has been alarmingly upwards, with no part of the NHS seemingly immune, writes Sara Gorton, UNISON head of health. UNISON – the biggest health union – has been so concerned about the growing levels of violence that it recently... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/under-attack- 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/under-attack- Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:00:00 GMT Dr Terry John, chair of the BMA’s international committee, gives his thoughts on the government’s visa and immigration policy and its effect on the recruitment of foreign healthcare professionals. Aspects of the government’s immigration policy are encouraging a culture of hostility towards much needed overseas health... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-hostile-environment- 426,405 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-hostile-environment- Wed, 20 Jun 2018 11:45:00 GMT The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Home Office and NHS Digital meant that patient data and confidentiality was being put at risk and undermined the principles of the NHS, writes Dr Sarah Wollaston, chair of the Health and Social Care Committee. It was back in 2017 when we first heard from the National Aids Trust and Doctors... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-memorandum-of-understanding- 426,405 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-memorandum-of-understanding- Wed, 20 Jun 2018 11:45:00 GMT Anita Charlesworth, director of research and economics at the Health Foundation, discusses Theresa May’s recent announcements on long-term NHS funding and considers the options available. The prime minister’s appearance in front  of the Liaison Committee of the House of Commons last month has caused quite a stir in the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/nhs-long-term-funding-whats-in-store- 426,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/nhs-long-term-funding-whats-in-store- Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:30:00 GMT Lord Philip Hunt, Labour’s shadow spokesperson for health and social care, discusses the damage that wholly-owned subsidiary (WOS) companies are inflicting on the NHS, and how they’re undermining the Agenda for Change pay scales. Growing moves by NHS foundation trusts to create WOS companies to run a large range of services is... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/undermining-the-agenda-for-change- 426,415,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/undermining-the-agenda-for-change- Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:15:00 GMT Niall Dickson, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, makes the case for an integrated health and social care funding settlement. For too long the NHS has been funded by what amounts to annual bailouts. It has had to rely on short-term, inadequate injections with no strategic underpinning, which have left the service significantly... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/waiting-on-white-smoke 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/waiting-on-white-smoke Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:00:00 GMT Simon Denegri, national director for patients, carers and the public at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), advocates closer public involvement in NHS research and innovation. The British people have high hopes for their healthcare. They believe that the NHS will throw ‘everything’ at it if they or a loved one... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-great-untold-story-of-research- 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-great-untold-story-of-research- Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:00:00 GMT It is astonishing that so little attention has been given to the publication of the gender pay gap in the NHS – especially when figures suggest that if we don’t address low pay imbalances, the issue will become incredibly hard to shift, argue Kirstie Stott, director at The Inspiring Leaders Network, and Dean Royles, director of HR... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/is-the-glass-ceiling-much-lower-than-we-realised 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/is-the-glass-ceiling-much-lower-than-we-realised Fri, 08 Jun 2018 08:45:00 GMT As patients get stronger legal rights to access and challenge the contents of their medical records, Dr Carol Chu, Medical Defence Union (MDU) medico-legal adviser, looks at the implications for clinicians and healthcare managers. Requests from patients to see their records are likely to become more frequent amid growing public interest... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/gdpr-record-rights-and-wrongs 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/gdpr-record-rights-and-wrongs Wed, 06 Jun 2018 11:30:00 GMT Last year's major cyber-attack highlighted the importance of being prepared for digital threats. But what progress has really been made since then, and what else needs to change to ensure the NHS isn't vulnerable? Adam Wright, policy officer for finances at NHS Providers, investigates. It is widely perceived that the NHS has had... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/wannacry-has-enough-progress-been-made-in-the-nhs 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/wannacry-has-enough-progress-been-made-in-the-nhs Wed, 06 Jun 2018 11:30:00 GMT Danny Mortimer, chief executive of NHS Employers, asks for three key changes that will significantly help the health service deliver the government’s apprenticeship vision as well as the upcoming NHS workforce strategy. Employers in the NHS would agree that apprenticeships are good for the health service and the long-term care of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/more-flexibility-is-needed 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/more-flexibility-is-needed Wed, 06 Jun 2018 11:15:00 GMT Michael Macdonnell, national director of health system transformation at NHS England, reflects on the achievements of vanguards so far, and outlines the three key lessons they offer to ensure new care models become a bottom-up blueprint for future integration. When the New Care Models programme was launched in 2015, NHS England chief... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/new-care-models-lighting-a-fire 426,407,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/new-care-models-lighting-a-fire Wed, 06 Jun 2018 11:15:00 GMT Niall Dickson CBE, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, gives NHE readers an exclusive preview of what to expect at this year’s edition of Confed18 – where high-profile speakers and deep-dive workshops and seminars will ensure delegates leave the conference brimming with inspiration and new ideas. It is hard to think of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-nhs-is-at-a-crossroads-on-a-precarious-path-to-a-future-yet-unknown 426,407,418,421 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-nhs-is-at-a-crossroads-on-a-precarious-path-to-a-future-yet-unknown Fri, 11 May 2018 09:15:00 GMT Could literature improve the quality of life of those with mental health conditions? According to Jane Davis, founder and director of The Reader, the evidence for this is clear – and the NHS stands to benefit the most. Medicine wasn’t at the forefront of my mind in The Reader’s formative days back in 2001; if anything... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-different-kind-of-medicine- 409,426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-different-kind-of-medicine- Wed, 02 May 2018 11:45:00 GMT NHE’s Seamus McDonnell on the plans put in place to protect trusts and other NHS organisations from potential future cyber-attacks. In May 2017, the NHS’s cyber protection plans were thrust into the limelight after a ransomware programme called WannaCry exposed the weaknesses in current systems – but, nearly a year later... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/is-the-nhs-ready-for-another-wannacry 426,419,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/is-the-nhs-ready-for-another-wannacry Wed, 02 May 2018 11:45:00 GMT Janet Davies, chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), says ministers must accelerate progress to make nursing an attractive and robust career before it’s too late. Last year was a challenging one for my profession. In the same year that the Nursing and Midwifery Council revealed that 27% more... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/our-future-workforce- 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/our-future-workforce- Wed, 02 May 2018 11:45:00 GMT Danielle Doyle of THIS Institute, co-created by the University of Cambridge and the Health Foundation, says the new organisation will dare to try radical new approaches to solving complex health problems – and invites everyone to join them. Every year, hundreds of babies are born with brain injury because of preventable incidents... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/building-a-solid-evidence-base 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/building-a-solid-evidence-base Wed, 18 Apr 2018 10:15:00 GMT Gareth Ballance, technical lead of the Forensic Computing Unit (FCU), gives a snapshot of a day in the life working for the NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA). The NHSCFA is still in its infancy, having launched in November 2017. As you are probably aware from our high-profile launch, we face a huge problem: in 2016-17 it was estimated... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/forensics-v-fraud 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/forensics-v-fraud Wed, 18 Apr 2018 10:15:00 GMT Dr Patricia Wilkie, president of the National Association for Patient Participation (N.A.P.P.), outlines her personal ambitions for the coming year as the organisation celebrates its 40th birthday. N.A.P.P. was founded by visionary GP Dr Tim Paine in February 1978. The aim was to promote patient participation in general practice, to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-personal-view-of-napps-future-strategy 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-personal-view-of-napps-future-strategy Wed, 18 Apr 2018 10:00:00 GMT Steve Graham, eProcurement/Scan4Safety lead at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), and Gillian Fox, head of the eProcurement Programme at NHS Supply Chain, discuss the ways through which NHS providers and suppliers can simplify data management. Thousands of suppliers support the NHS by providing the equipment it needs to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/its-all-about-quality-data 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/its-all-about-quality-data Wed, 18 Apr 2018 10:00:00 GMT In 2017, the National Audit Office (NAO) said the government needs to take a stronger and more integrated approach to rein in the cost of clinical negligence claims. The MDU’s professional services director, Dr Matthew Lee, looks at what progress has been made since. There is a glimmer of hope at the start of 2018 that the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/setting-the-reform-agenda 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/setting-the-reform-agenda Wed, 18 Apr 2018 10:00:00 GMT To support the ongoing national focus on driving up procurement standards in healthcare, NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) is set to launch a new flexible services approach that can be tailored to the individual needs of trusts, explains its director of procurement, Peter Akid. At the beginning of 2018 we set out our ambition as an... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-modular-approach-to-procurement 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-modular-approach-to-procurement Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:00:00 GMT Danny Mortimer, chief executive of NHS Employers, asks for national action on the dwindling investment levels going into continuing professional development in the name of workforce transformation. As anyone who’s seen the news or been near a hospital, GP practice or community or mental health teams can verify the NHS is facing huge... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/an-urgent-need-to-reverse-disinvestment 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/an-urgent-need-to-reverse-disinvestment Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:00:00 GMT Alison Marshall, professor of health technology and innovation at the University of Cumbria, considers whether the NHS is stuck in a digital health chasm when it comes to innovation uptake. For some time now I have been studying the adoption and diffusion of new ideas involving the use of digital technology in health and social care, to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/crossing-the-digital-health-chasm 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/crossing-the-digital-health-chasm Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:00:00 GMT Chief information officers need to act as carers for innovation in order to help build a digitally literate workforce, writes James Freed, CIO at Health Education England (HEE). As CIO for HEE, I recognise the pressure of being seen as an expert in all things digital. There’s sometimes an assumption that you know your organisation... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/innovation-means-putting-people-first 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/innovation-means-putting-people-first Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:00:00 GMT Susan Hamer, director of nursing, learning and organisational development at the National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network (NIHR CRN), outlines the activities that are helping her team keep up to speed with the quick pace of change in today’s workplace. When thinking about the NIHR, the research we fund or the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/modern-learning-for-new-discoveries 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/modern-learning-for-new-discoveries Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:00:00 GMT Paul Sherriff, director of organisational development and partnerships at NHS Birmingham and Solihull CCG, discusses some of the challenges with creating the largest clinical commissioning group in England. Between May and September 2017, the three CCGs in Birmingham and Solihull secured approval to merge and create the largest clinical... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-challenges-of-creating-the-largest-ccg-in-england 426,410,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-challenges-of-creating-the-largest-ccg-in-england Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:00:00 GMT Dr Darren Leech, director at NHS Elect, and Dr Rob Worrall, principal lecturer in external engagement at the University of Sunderland, analyse what it means to develop place-based leadership. The often-baffling lexicon of NHS jargon has a new entry: ‘place-based leadership.’ What’s the background to this new thinking and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/place-based-leadership-both-opportunity-and-challenge 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/place-based-leadership-both-opportunity-and-challenge Wed, 28 Mar 2018 09:45:00 GMT How can healthcare leaders create cultures in which innovative solutions can scale up? Sarah Dew, a project lead at Innovation Unit, a social enterprise that grows new solutions to complex challenges, explores what needs to change. Clinicians, entrepreneurs and managers across the country are developing innovative new ways to tackle the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/scaling-innovation-a-collective-endeavour 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/scaling-innovation-a-collective-endeavour Wed, 28 Mar 2018 09:45:00 GMT Professor Gillian Leng, deputy chief executive and director of health & social care at NICE, describes the efficiency work taking place as part of the organisation’s new cancer impact report. Over the years, NICE has been involved in producing a range of resources to support professionals to make the best decision for people... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-difference-nice-is-making-for-cancer-patients 409,426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-difference-nice-is-making-for-cancer-patients Wed, 28 Mar 2018 09:45:00 GMT Nigel Houlden, head of technology policy at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), explains what NHS organisations need to do to prepare for incoming data regulation changes and ensure they are safe by design. There are people out there who do not trust you with their data. Only 61% say they have trust and confidence in... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/safe-by-design 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/safe-by-design Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:30:00 GMT Mike Chitty, a faculty member at the NHS Leadership Academy, shares his view on how we block our own leadership success, often without realising. The NHS constitution sets out to “value every person – whether patients, their families or carers, or staff.” Culturally, that’s a wonderful place to be, but it’s... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-three-barriers-to-leadership-identity 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-three-barriers-to-leadership-identity Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:30:00 GMT Dean Royles, director of human resources and organisational development at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, argues that there are three things we can do now to boost workforce productivity through digital innovation. It’s strategic planning time in the NHS. New operational guidance has been published. We know we will see an... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-digital-future-must-be-a-human-future 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-digital-future-must-be-a-human-future Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:45:00 GMT Amanda Sullivan, SRO of the Mid-Nottinghamshire Better Together vanguard, tells NHE’s Josh Mines about their work to create an innovative integrated care system in the area. Vanguards in 50 areas across England have been leading the way towards new, innovative models of care since the pilot areas were selected back in 2015.... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/galvanising-local-care-systems 409,426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/galvanising-local-care-systems Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:45:00 GMT Phillippa Hentsch, head of analysis at NHS Providers, and Simon Keen, the organisation’s media officer, speak to a series of trust leaders in order to paint a comprehensive picture of how the NHS dealt with the winter crisis – and what needs to change to ensure 2018 is different. Here’s hoping the worst of winter weather... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/winter-from-the-nhs-frontline 426,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/winter-from-the-nhs-frontline Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:45:00 GMT Julian Amey, chief executive of the Institute of Healthcare Engineering & Estate Management (IHEEM), outlines what the coming year holds for the organisation. Coinciding with the 70th anniversary of the NHS, IHEEM – founded in 1943 – will be celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2018. Drawing on the expertise of its... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/celebrating-75-years-of-healthcare 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/celebrating-75-years-of-healthcare Wed, 14 Feb 2018 08:30:00 GMT Kuldeep Sohal, programme manager at Connected Yorkshire, part of Connected Health Cities, discusses how data sharing across the north is improving care for patients by linking services together more effectively. Imagine a health service that is able to offer a bespoke treatment plan, personalised to every patient. One that is so advanced... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/data-saves-lives 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/data-saves-lives Wed, 14 Feb 2018 08:30:00 GMT Jane Rintoul, director of strategy and policy and programme director for maternity investigations at the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB), explains more about the organisation’s independent approach to improving maternity safety. In November 2017, the secretary of state for health announced a new maternity safety... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-hsib-approach-to-maternity-investigations 426,412 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-hsib-approach-to-maternity-investigations Wed, 14 Feb 2018 08:30:00 GMT Last year, NICE guidelines recommended that the NHS should provide more advanced paramedic practitioners (APPs) to relieve pressure on emergency departments by helping reduce admissions. Tim Edwards, a consultant paramedic at London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, provides his expertise as a member of the guideline committee. My role is... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/our-work-can-help-ease-ae-pressures 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/our-work-can-help-ease-ae-pressures Fri, 09 Feb 2018 08:30:00 GMT Joni Jabbal, researcher at The King’s Fund, asks why quality improvements and innovations are failing to be adopted by the NHS. There is now good evidence that embedding a quality improvement approach – where you systematically empower frontline staff to continually test iterative change – has considerable benefits for... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/beyond-scented-candles-and-quick-fixes 409,426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/beyond-scented-candles-and-quick-fixes Wed, 07 Feb 2018 08:30:00 GMT Biosimilars have the exciting potential to accelerate treatment access and drive huge cost savings across the NHS, explains Divya Chadha Manek, head of business development (commercial) at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). ‘Cost-saving’ or ‘cost-effective’ are terms that heighten the sense of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/buzzing-about-biosimilars 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/buzzing-about-biosimilars Wed, 07 Feb 2018 08:30:00 GMT Healthwatch chair Jane Mordue talks about how services in Dudley have been made more accessible for patients with sensory impairments.  Going to hospital or to your GP for an appointment can be stressful at the best of times, so it’s important to make the process as straightforward as possible. However, for those with a sensory... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/opening-up-care-for-everybody 409,426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/opening-up-care-for-everybody Wed, 07 Feb 2018 08:30:00 GMT Professor Wendy Reid, national medical director and executive director of education and quality at Health Education England (HEE), outlines the work that her organisation will be carrying out in 2018 to support training programmes all across the NHS workforce. Although the new year often symbolises a new start, new ambitions or goals to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/training-the-next-generation 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/training-the-next-generation Wed, 07 Feb 2018 08:30:00 GMT Mario Varela, managing director of NHS London Procurement Partnership (LPP), describes the work his organisation has been undertaking in recent months to help manage NHS procurement, all whilst continuing to carry out business as usual. It is not exactly ‘news’ that the NHS is experiencing huge financial pressures. For anyone... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/nhs-procurement-a-towering-future 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/nhs-procurement-a-towering-future Fri, 02 Feb 2018 08:30:00 GMT Danny Mortimer, chief executive of NHS Employers, outlines the major changes that NHS organisations must prepare for ahead of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The most important change to data privacy for 20 years is being introduced this year, and every NHS organisation must make sure they’re fully... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/are-you-ready-for-gdpr 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/are-you-ready-for-gdpr Wed, 31 Jan 2018 08:30:00 GMT Dr Stephen Shortt, GP and clinical lead for developing an accountable care system in Greater Nottingham, talks about the collective work to join up health and social care in the region. Any work to transform the NHS must begin with an honest conversation; an open dialogue between patients, staff and system leaders that acknowledges a... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/greater-nottingham-acs-taking-care-of-something-precious 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/greater-nottingham-acs-taking-care-of-something-precious Wed, 31 Jan 2018 08:30:00 GMT Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, shares the views of several NHS professionals who have succeeded in becoming well-rounded and talented leaders after participating in the Aspiring CEOs programme. Despite planning more meticulously than ever before, winter pressures within the NHS are taking their toll. An increased demand... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/hopson-how-can-we-best-support-and-nurture-nhs-leaders 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/hopson-how-can-we-best-support-and-nurture-nhs-leaders Wed, 31 Jan 2018 08:30:00 GMT Ruth Thorlby, assistant director of policy at the Health Foundation, argues that a lack of data across social, primary and community care compared to the hospital sector means planning for winter will always be incomplete. Not even halfway gone, this winter has already whipped up a vicious political storm over the NHS. Official figures... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/winter-in-the-dark-the-value-of-robust-data 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/winter-in-the-dark-the-value-of-robust-data Wed, 31 Jan 2018 08:30:00 GMT With many clinicians describing this as the most pressured winter they have ever known due to heavy demand on frontline services, the savings potential for hospitals from outsourced and managed services in the NHS back office cannot be dismissed, argues David Morris, managing director at NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS). When NHS... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-major-shift-in-shared-services 426,415,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-major-shift-in-shared-services Fri, 26 Jan 2018 08:30:00 GMT In an interview with NHS Supply Chain, Emma Nuttall, the organisation’s clinical nurse advisor (CNA), speaks about the role she has in helping trusts meet Lord Carter’s efficiency challenge and why it needs to be done. It’s at this time of the year when most of us take a look at our budgets and think about ways we can... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/bridging-the-gap-between-procurement-and-clinicians 426,415,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/bridging-the-gap-between-procurement-and-clinicians Fri, 26 Jan 2018 08:30:00 GMT The strategy to join up mental, physical and social care has been bearing fruit beyond just the sustainability and transformation of the health service, says Rob Webster, chief executive of South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS FT, and leader of the West Yorkshire & Harrogate (WY&H) Health and Care Partnership. The National Health... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/hidden-in-plain-sight-rob-webster-on-his-stp 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/hidden-in-plain-sight-rob-webster-on-his-stp Fri, 26 Jan 2018 08:30:00 GMT Professor Ian Cumming OBE, chief executive of Health Education England (HEE), invites every health professional, patient and service user across the NHS to get involved in the country’s much-anticipated draft workforce strategy. This year the NHS celebrates its 70th birthday, and as we look back on its long history of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/workforce-strategy-shaping-the-nhs-of-tomorrow 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/workforce-strategy-shaping-the-nhs-of-tomorrow Wed, 24 Jan 2018 10:15:00 GMT Unstable homes cost the NHS billions, whilst good housing schemes can relieve pressure from health services. It’s time health and housing started talking, says David Orr, chief executive of the National Housing Federation. Housing-related costs to the NHS are staggering. Cold homes, poor-quality housing and insecure tenure cost the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/digging-the-foundations-for-better-population-health 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/digging-the-foundations-for-better-population-health Wed, 24 Jan 2018 10:00:00 GMT Richard Kerr, Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) council member & chair of the Commission on the Future of Surgery, looks into how technological advancements could transform the surgical profession in the years to come. Surgeons have always been at the forefront of medical advances. As a result of this, and by  working with... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/robots-ai-and-3d-printing-the-future-of-surgery 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/robots-ai-and-3d-printing-the-future-of-surgery Wed, 24 Jan 2018 10:00:00 GMT Professor Gillian Leng, deputy chief executive and director for health and social care at NICE, explains how the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme is helping people come forward to receive help for their mental health condition. According to NHS Digital research published last year, one in six people in England... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/mobilising-digital-therapy-technologies 426,414 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/mobilising-digital-therapy-technologies Fri, 22 Dec 2017 09:45:00 GMT Andrew McCracken of National Voices, the coalition of health and care charities, takes a closer look at the state of person-centred care in present times. “Step by step over the next 10 years the NHS must be redesigned to be patient-centred – to offer a personalised service... by 2010 it will be... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/person-centred-care-rhetoric-or-reality 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/person-centred-care-rhetoric-or-reality Fri, 22 Dec 2017 09:30:00 GMT NHE’s Seamus McDonnell looks into the purpose of the health service’s newest investigator. The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) is the newest addition to hospital safety investigations, the equivalent to the rail and air accident investigation branches. The new body is specifically charged with investigations... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/what-is-the-hsib- 426,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/what-is-the-hsib- Wed, 20 Dec 2017 09:15:00 GMT Sean Duggan, chief executive of NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network, discusses how the mental health workforce needs to adapt to prepare itself for the tough times ahead. On the steps of Number 10 Downing Street, during her first speech as prime minister, Theresa May stated that there was not enough help at hand for people who... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-mental-health-workforce-fit-for-the-future 426,414 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-mental-health-workforce-fit-for-the-future Wed, 20 Dec 2017 09:00:00 GMT Negligent care and poor training compliance can have a devastating effect on both patients and staff, writes Helen Vernon, chief executive of NHS Resolution. When things go wrong in hospital it is important that lessons are learnt to prevent future harm. One area of focus for us is learning from harm in maternity cases. Clinical... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/learning-from-when-things-go-wrong 426,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/learning-from-when-things-go-wrong Wed, 20 Dec 2017 09:00:00 GMT Ella Jackson, policy advisor at NHS Providers, shares the top 10 tips that providers and commissioners can learn from vanguards when it comes to adopting digital technology effectively and efficiently. The health and care sector is abuzz with activity to move to new models of care and develop new ways of working through sustainability and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/what-can-we-learn-from-how-the-vanguards-have-harnessed-technology- 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/what-can-we-learn-from-how-the-vanguards-have-harnessed-technology- Wed, 20 Dec 2017 09:00:00 GMT Both the NHS and the government need to take action to ensure effective care integration does not fall by the wayside, argues Paul Carey-Kent, policy manager of health, social care & welfare reform at CIPFA. Despite lingering budget questions, what we can predict, with some certainty, is that the integration agenda will continue to be... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/health-integration-a-tall-order 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/health-integration-a-tall-order Wed, 20 Dec 2017 08:45:00 GMT Programme director Dr Amanda Begley introduces the high-impact innovations selected to join the 2017 NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA), addressing key challenges in primary care, urgent & emergency care and mental health. In June of this year, the NIA launched its third international call, seeking world-best innovations to address... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/world-best-innovations-supported-to-scale 426,416,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/world-best-innovations-supported-to-scale Wed, 20 Dec 2017 08:45:00 GMT Paul Turton, head of solutions development at NHS Supply Chain, looks at how trusts can unlock investment in medical equipment to alleviate financial pressures. Having access to the right medical equipment at the right time is widely recognised by the NHS as of fundamental importance for the delivery of safe and effective patient care.... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/strategic-investment-planning 426,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/strategic-investment-planning Wed, 13 Dec 2017 09:15:00 GMT Professor Wendy Burn, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych), laments the current lack of public understanding about severe mental illness and argues we must do more to spread awareness of treatment. We have come a long way in how we talk about mental illness. The work done in recent years to tackle stigma has been... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-fight-worth-fighting 426,414 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-fight-worth-fighting Wed, 13 Dec 2017 09:00:00 GMT The entire health and care sector needs to come together to prepare for a shift towards health creation, writes Merron Simpson, chief executive of the New NHS Alliance. The health workforce is under extreme pressure, the causes of which are several. Some immediate political decisions are required to stabilise the situation as Britain... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/developing-a-wellness-workforce 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/developing-a-wellness-workforce Wed, 13 Dec 2017 08:45:00 GMT Julie Wood, chief executive of NHS Clinical Commissioners, looks at how the clinical commissioning landscape will change in the future after having come a remarkably long way in a short space of time. There is no doubt that we are in a time of change when it comes to how health and care is commissioned. Since their inception in 2013... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/strategic-commissioning-what-the-future-holds 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/strategic-commissioning-what-the-future-holds Wed, 13 Dec 2017 08:45:00 GMT The NHS Transformation Unit (TU) is continuing in its quest to attract the best and the brightest to a career in the public service, writes Jon Caswell. Last month saw the second group of graduate trainees join the TU team to support the long-term development of the organisation. It’s a reflection of the TU’s ambition to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-best-and-the-brightest 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-best-and-the-brightest Wed, 13 Dec 2017 08:45:00 GMT Janet Davies, chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), argues that the evidence of the importance of prioritising safe staffing numbers in the UK is both compelling and urgent. When I speak to RCN members, nurses and healthcare assistants, they are worried. Worried that there aren’t enough nurses... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-future-of-the-nursing-workforce-what-next- 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-future-of-the-nursing-workforce-what-next- Wed, 13 Dec 2017 08:45:00 GMT Richard Webber, lead paramedic at NHS England on secondment from the College of Paramedics, describes how the new Ambulance Response Programme (ARP) will ensure the most appropriate resources are provided to each patient quickly and efficiently. The ARP aims to improve clinical outcomes for patients, particularly those with... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-best-response-first-time 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-best-response-first-time Wed, 13 Dec 2017 08:30:00 GMT Ruth Robertson, policy fellow at the King’s Fund, considers how CCG responsibilities and relationships will change and evolve as the NHS moves towards integrated structures of care. Adapting to change is part of business as usual for the NHS, as policymakers have repeatedly restructured the health commissioning sector over the last... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-balancing-act-commissioning-in-the-new-world-of-accountable-care 426,410 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-balancing-act-commissioning-in-the-new-world-of-accountable-care Wed, 29 Nov 2017 09:00:00 GMT Professor Ted Baker, chief inspector of hospitals at the CQC, discusses the mixed findings of this year’s major State of Care report. This year’s State of Care report presents an analysis of the quality of health and social care across the country based on the findings from our first full round of inspections with ratings.... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/beyond-traditional-boundaries 409,426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/beyond-traditional-boundaries Wed, 29 Nov 2017 09:00:00 GMT There’s a theory that innovation springs from embracing and valuing our differences, so why do we sometimes behave as though diversity of thought and experience is an unwelcome visitor? The NHS Leadership Academy’s Tracie Jolliff explores the challenging equation between leadership and inclusion, and what we all need to do to get... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-equality-equation-that-doesnt-add-up 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-equality-equation-that-doesnt-add-up Wed, 29 Nov 2017 09:00:00 GMT With the NHS facing worker shortages, tight budgets and major recruitment issues, Danny Mortimer, chief executive of NHS Employers, explains how organisations can go about retaining talented staff. Workforce shortages within the NHS have long dominated the headlines, as concerns over pay and conditions, increasing service requirements and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/waterproofing-the-nhs-workforce 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/waterproofing-the-nhs-workforce Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:00:00 GMT Nick Hirst, chief information officer at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network, outlines how his organisation is adapting and developing to reach the ambitious goal of saving lives through data. As the digital revolution sweeps through organisations and the health sector seeks to find ways to benefit... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/realising-the-power-of-data 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/realising-the-power-of-data Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:00:00 GMT Kay Currie, professor of Nursing & Applied Healthcare Research, ‘Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention’ (SHIP) research group, at Glasgow Caledonian University, outlines approaches to overcoming the challenges of engaging hospital staff in screening for antimicrobial-resistant and healthcare-associated infections... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/make-doing-the-right-thing-easy 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/make-doing-the-right-thing-easy Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:15:00 GMT Dr Stuart Cunningham, a senior lecturer in Human Communication Sciences at the University of Sheffield, on a new app set to support speech and language professionals to deliver articulation therapy. The use of speech technology is growing rapidly. More and more products are being developed that make use of speech recognition or speech... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/star-an-innovative-app-for-speech-therapy 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/star-an-innovative-app-for-speech-therapy Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:15:00 GMT Dr Brian Fisher, vice chair of the New NHS Alliance, outlines the many benefits of investing in health creation. We live in one of the richest nations in the world. Yet, those living in poorer areas die earlier and suffer more years of ill health than those living in wealthier areas.   The New NHS Alliance’s Manifesto... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-value-of-health-creation 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-value-of-health-creation Wed, 11 Oct 2017 09:30:00 GMT James Roach of the National Collaborative Group explains how the new and unique think tank is moving from rhetoric to action in order to help deliver a more sustainable NHS. As an experienced healthcare director and someone who is well-versed in facing and managing the challenges that the NHS and the public sector generally throws at me... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/developing-a-new-type-of-think-tank 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/developing-a-new-type-of-think-tank Wed, 11 Oct 2017 07:00:00 GMT In response to the ever-increasing opportunities to use innovative digital technology to carry out essential admin tasks, NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) first developed a ‘Digital Dictation, Speech Recognition & Outsourced Transcription Framework’ in 2010. With the latest framework available to NHS organisations until... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-digital-framework-that-works-for-the-nhs 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-digital-framework-that-works-for-the-nhs Mon, 09 Oct 2017 07:00:00 GMT Maryanne Mariyaselvam, NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) Fellow at NHS England and clinical research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, and Peter Young, consultant in critical care at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn, on a new device designed by frontline staff to prevent costly and serious Never Events. The Royal College... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/preventing-a-never 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/preventing-a-never Mon, 09 Oct 2017 06:30:00 GMT As the NHS focuses on achieving ever-greater savings, Vinny Butler, service delivery manager at NHS Prescription Services, describes how the organisation has highlighted its document scanning operation as a massive efficiency opportunity. The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) is a special health authority operating as an... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/focusing-on-document-scanning 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/focusing-on-document-scanning Mon, 09 Oct 2017 05:30:00 GMT Karen Evans, writing on behalf of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS FT (UHMBT), explains the work being undertaken at the trust to roll out clinically-led electronic patient records (EPR). Over the past eight months the Bay Health and Care Partners (BHCP) and UHMBT in particular have attracted the attention of national and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/innovative-technology-and-better-patient-care 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/innovative-technology-and-better-patient-care Mon, 09 Oct 2017 00:30:00 GMT Hilary Newiss, chair of National Voices, on the latest significant developments of the Accelerated Access Review (AAR) from her perspective as patient champion. There is some cause for optimism when it comes to implementation of the AAR.  This autumn we can expect the government’s plan to take forward the recommendations... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/accelerating-access-to-treatment-and-markets 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/accelerating-access-to-treatment-and-markets Wed, 04 Oct 2017 09:00:00 GMT Graham Spence, commercial director at Community Health Partnerships (CHP), examines how public-private partnerships (PPPs) could allow areas to rethink and redesign their estate. We face an important and urgent question: how will the NHS and local authorities ensure services can be provided locally in the best facilities, which are... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-next-generation-of-estate-partnerships 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-next-generation-of-estate-partnerships Wed, 04 Oct 2017 06:30:00 GMT Richard Price, Scan4Safety programme manager at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust (PHNT), runs through the many efficiency and safety benefits of using barcode scanning in the healthcare sector. Following the successful award of £2m by the Department of Health in January 2016, PHNT has been working to implement global identification... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/at-a-pivotal-point 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/at-a-pivotal-point Wed, 04 Oct 2017 06:00:00 GMT Yinka Makinde, programme director at DigitalHealth.London, takes a look at the areas of digital best practice that have emerged in the NHS over the past 18 months – as well as those where providers need to catch up. A lot has happened in the digital health ecosystem in the UK over the last 18 months.  There has been a... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/18-months-in-uk-digital-health 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/18-months-in-uk-digital-health Mon, 02 Oct 2017 07:30:00 GMT The time has come for the NHS to fix the unethical situation of consultants taking up part-time work in competing private hospitals, argues Angus Wallace, emeritus professor of orthopaedic & accident surgery at the University of Nottingham and consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. It has become... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/no-one-can-serve-two-masters 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/no-one-can-serve-two-masters Mon, 02 Oct 2017 07:30:00 GMT Nicola Bent, programme director of system engagement at NICE, on how her organisation is helping health and care bodies develop sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs) at a local level. Our evidence-based guidance plays an important role in improving the health and wellbeing of people accessing frontline services. We work... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-nice-way-of-supporting-stps 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-nice-way-of-supporting-stps Mon, 02 Oct 2017 06:30:00 GMT Monique Duffy-Brogan, chief pricing officer at NHS Improvement (NHSI), on the details of a new handbook designed to support accountable care organisations (ACOs) in creating new payment models. At the moment, most patients face a fragmented system. Traditional divisions between primary, community, acute and social care can lead to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/nhs-pricing-driving-new-care-models 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/nhs-pricing-driving-new-care-models Mon, 02 Oct 2017 05:30:00 GMT John Rogers, chief executive of Skills for Health, on a new framework that seeks to change behaviours and offer new ways of working towards personalised care. The NHS Five Year Forward View (FYFV), published in October 2014 by NHS England, sets out a positive vision for the future based around seven new models of care.  The FYFV... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/moving-towards-person-centred-care 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/moving-towards-person-centred-care Thu, 28 Sep 2017 10:15:00 GMT Ashley McDougall, director of Local Service Delivery value for money studies at the National Audit Office, on what healthcare organisations can learn from the NHS Shared Business Service (SBS) backlog of unprocessed clinical correspondence fiasco. From 2008, NHS SBS, a joint venture between the Department of Health (DH) and Sopra Steria... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/learning-from-clinical-correspondence-failures 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/learning-from-clinical-correspondence-failures Wed, 27 Sep 2017 08:00:00 GMT A flawed civil litigation system threatens to undermine the ability of the NHS to fund patient care. The Medical Defence Union’s (MDU’s) professional services director, Dr Matthew Lee, assesses the situation and prescribes urgent reform. When a patient receives a multimillion-pound compensation payment in a negligence... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/nhs-under-pressure-from-rising-compensation-claims 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/nhs-under-pressure-from-rising-compensation-claims Wed, 27 Sep 2017 06:30:00 GMT Glen Hodgson, head of healthcare at GS1 UK, looks at the role GS1 standards have to play in the future NHS. Just over two years ago, Lord Carter released his interim report looking at the operational productivity of NHS trusts. In the time since then, trusts and government have worked hard to implement his suggested changes, and GS1... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/how-standards-help-trusts-fulfil-the-carter-vision 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/how-standards-help-trusts-fulfil-the-carter-vision Wed, 27 Sep 2017 06:00:00 GMT Dr Amanda Begley, director of innovation and implementation at UCLPartners, reveals the findings of an independent evaluation assessing the impact of the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA). As the first initiative of its kind, the NIA can be viewed as a real-world national experiment – one which has facilitated uptake of innovation... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/nhs-innovation-accelerator-a-real-world-experiment 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/nhs-innovation-accelerator-a-real-world-experiment Wed, 27 Sep 2017 06:00:00 GMT Vivek Kotecha, research officer at the Centre for Health and the Public Interest (CHPI), dissects recent analysis of NHS Private Finance Initiative (PFI) schemes to ensure the health service doesn’t repeat the same mistakes. It’s been 18 years since the first NHS PFI hospital became operational, and now there are 127... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/lessons-learnt-from-pfi-in-the-nhs 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/lessons-learnt-from-pfi-in-the-nhs Mon, 25 Sep 2017 08:30:00 GMT Sir Andrew Dillon, chief executive of NICE, outlines how his organisation is changing to help position the UK as a world leader in life sciences. As demand grows and the pace and scale of medical innovation matches it, the health and care system needs to work in a way which continues to deliver effective care, supports innovation and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/aligning-innovation-with-ambition-capacity-and-access 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/aligning-innovation-with-ambition-capacity-and-access Mon, 25 Sep 2017 06:00:00 GMT John Craig, chief executive of Care City, highlights the many impressive developments taking place as part of the NHS England test bed. One of the surprises of the new Apple watch is a dramatically better heart monitor. However, Care City is already helping the NHS to go one better – to use similar technology from AliveCor, which... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/how-the-nhs-is-ahead-of-apple 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/how-the-nhs-is-ahead-of-apple Mon, 25 Sep 2017 06:00:00 GMT Alex Heritage, deputy chief executive at the NHS Transformation Unit, argues we must face up to some essential self-reflection if we are to foster a culture that encourages newcomers into the healthcare sector. I do not recall the NHS manager visiting careers week at my school, and if that happened, I was so set on joining the British... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-future-of-nhs-leadership 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-future-of-nhs-leadership Mon, 25 Sep 2017 05:30:00 GMT Niall Dickson, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, considers what else must be done to ensure all sustainability and transformation plans across the country are supported and up to scratch. The NHS cannot continue to provide current levels of service without further national and local intervention. Without concerted action, we will... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/we-must-ensure-every-stp-succeeds 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/we-must-ensure-every-stp-succeeds Wed, 30 Aug 2017 12:00:00 GMT Joanna Smith, chief information officer at Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS FT (RBHT), says that as the NHS becomes more digital it has to get better at supporting and funding the consequential impacts on IT infrastructure. Like all of my colleagues in the NHS we are striving to upgrade our IT infrastructure, reduce paper and help... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/changing-our-digital-culture-and-safeguarding-patient-data 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/changing-our-digital-culture-and-safeguarding-patient-data Tue, 08 Aug 2017 08:30:00 GMT Dr Yogini Jani, a consultant pharmacist at University College London Hospitals NHS FT (UCLH), discusses a collaboration with UCL School of Pharmacy that aims to transform patient care by making medicines safer and easier to take. Left to right: Professor David Lomas, UCL’s vice-provost (health); Professor Ian Wong, CMORE’s... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-centre-for-medicines-optimisation-research-and-education 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-centre-for-medicines-optimisation-research-and-education Fri, 04 Aug 2017 07:30:00 GMT Louise Watson, NHS England director of the New Care Models programme, discusses the emerging success stories from the vanguard areas across the country. Primary and community care play a vital role in a robust and effective health service, which is why the New Care Models programme has focused on transforming the way care is delivered in... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-community-service- 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-community-service- Fri, 04 Aug 2017 07:00:00 GMT Stefanie Buckner, Calum Mattocks and Louise Lafortune from the Cambridge Institute of Public Health, alongside Melanie Rimmer from the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield, and Daniel Pope and Nigel Bruce from the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Psychology Health and Society, discuss the role of the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/unlocking-the-benefits-of-age-friendly-cities 409,426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/unlocking-the-benefits-of-age-friendly-cities Fri, 04 Aug 2017 07:00:00 GMT An outstanding line-up of practitioners and thought leaders will share their expertise and knowledge with healthcare professionals from across the diabetes arena when Diabetes Professional Care (DPC) returns to Olympia, London, on 15 and 16 November. Now in its third year, DPC has become an annual highlight for healthcare professionals... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/diabetes-professional-care-launches-2017-conference-programme 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/diabetes-professional-care-launches-2017-conference-programme Thu, 03 Aug 2017 14:30:00 GMT Peter Lees, chief executive and medical director at the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM), Dr Alex Till, national medical director’s clinical fellow at FMLM, and Tim Swanwick, senior clinical adviser and postgraduate Dean at Health Education England (HEE), discuss how to embed leadership and management within medical... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/tomorrows-leaders-today 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/tomorrows-leaders-today Tue, 01 Aug 2017 15:00:00 GMT Dr Janet Valentine, director of the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), and Dr Jennifer Quint, clinical senior lecturer in Respiratory Epidemiology, Occupational Medicine and Public Health at Imperial College London’s National Heart & Lung Institute, talk to NHE about the huge potential for clinical research within primary... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/using-ehrs-to-build-an-exciting-research-infrastructure 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/using-ehrs-to-build-an-exciting-research-infrastructure Tue, 01 Aug 2017 07:00:00 GMT Leila Williams (pictured), chief executive officer of the NHS Transformation Unit, on the importance of patient involvement. The National Health Service has just turned 69. It still does today what it was created for on 5 July 1948, providing medical, dental and nursing care for everyone. It’s an anniversary though that will have... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-importance-of-patients-in-nhs-change 426,407 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-importance-of-patients-in-nhs-change Tue, 01 Aug 2017 06:30:00 GMT Better for patients. Better for the NHS. Better for other healthcare providers. Sue Sharpe, chief executive of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC), which represents all community pharmacy owners providing NHS services in England, on the priorities for community pharmacy contract reform. Community pharmacy is a sector... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/realising-the-potential-of-pharmacy-will-need-change-at-scale 426,405 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/realising-the-potential-of-pharmacy-will-need-change-at-scale Fri, 28 Jul 2017 08:00:00 GMT Ian Harbinson, marketing manager at Lec Medical, discusses the importance of effective vaccine storage. Vaccines cost the NHS approximately £200m a year. If each practice lost just one dose of Pediacel a month, that would equate to over £4m a year*. It is therefore highly important that these vaccines are safeguarded against... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/vaccine-storage-must-be-priority 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/vaccine-storage-must-be-priority Fri, 28 Jul 2017 08:00:00 GMT Andrew Belcher, clinical resource planning manager at Northampton General Hospital, explains how healthcare providers in his county have come together collectively to address the skills crisis. The shortage of nurses and doctors is a national issue. The Royal College of Nursing’s chief executive and general secretary, Janet Davies... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-joined-up-approach-to-recruitment 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-joined-up-approach-to-recruitment Fri, 28 Jul 2017 07:30:00 GMT Norman Lamb MP, the health spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats, warns that it would be a huge mistake to waste the opportunity sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) present to fix struggling mental health services and encourage parity of esteem. Twelve months ago in NHE, I wrote that I was sceptical as to whether STPs would... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/are-stp-mental-health-plans-destined-to-fail 426,414 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/are-stp-mental-health-plans-destined-to-fail Fri, 28 Jul 2017 07:30:00 GMT Mark Orchard, president of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and director of finance at Poole Hospital NHS FT, discusses the future of NHS finance. Marking the midpoint of a newsworthy and eventful year, we recently released our latest NHS financial temperature check – a biannual survey which provides... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/hoping-for-cross-organisational-change 426,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/hoping-for-cross-organisational-change Fri, 21 Jul 2017 08:00:00 GMT James Roach discusses his work with the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) to develop a new community pharmacy service offering for sustainability and transformation partnership (STP) areas. Pharmacies are a local lifeline and are vital to the health of the nation. Often the first port of call for advice and treatment, local pharmacies... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/making-community-pharmacy-integral-to-stp-solutions 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/making-community-pharmacy-integral-to-stp-solutions Fri, 21 Jul 2017 08:00:00 GMT As we head into the peak of summer most people will be thinking sunbeds rather than hospital beds. But as a new report by NHS Providers indicates, trusts need to start planning and investing now or risk serious pressures when winter bites, writes the organisation’s head of analysis, Phillippa Hentsch. The challenge of creating... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/time-to-heed-the-winter-warning-from-the-frontline 409,426,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/time-to-heed-the-winter-warning-from-the-frontline Wed, 19 Jul 2017 09:00:00 GMT Terry Young, professor of healthcare systems at Brunel University London and a founder of the Cumberland Initiative, argues that we should drop service improvement and just design services properly. With a new government, the political discussion about how much commitment each party will demonstrate through its NHS spending has reached a... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/designing-services-properly- 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/designing-services-properly- Wed, 19 Jul 2017 08:45:00 GMT Clive Shore, acting executive director (partnering) of Community Health Partnerships (CHP), explains how the organisation’s expert facilitation can transform estate for local health economies, without laying a single brick.  Last autumn, England’s oldest hospital – St Bartholomew’s in Rochester – closed.... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/making-the-most-of-nhs-estate 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/making-the-most-of-nhs-estate Tue, 27 Jun 2017 09:45:00 GMT Gill Husband, lead for service improvement and innovation at the Institute for Learning, Research and Innovation at South Tees Hospital NHS FT, explains how taking a pathway approach is helping to unlock innovation and allowing people the space to sometimes ‘fail fast’. Being an ‘Innovation Scout’ felt new and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-pathway-approach-to-developing-and-managing-innovation 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-pathway-approach-to-developing-and-managing-innovation Tue, 27 Jun 2017 07:30:00 GMT Mark Robinson, New NHS Alliance pharmacy lead, discusses why pharmacy is at the heart of healthy living in communities – and explains how pharmacists can play a wider role in supporting the objectives of the new Health Creation Manifesto. The NHS Alliance has consistently said that community pharmacy is an underutilised asset within... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-hub-for-healthy-communities 409,426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-hub-for-healthy-communities Fri, 23 Jun 2017 07:30:00 GMT Jill DeBene, chief executive of Institute of Healthcare Management (IHM), considers what workforce optimisation really means and the importance of doing things differently. We know that effective, values-driven management, with a strong culture of learning, is what delivers high-quality care. But do we fully understand optimisation? A... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/do-something-different 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/do-something-different Fri, 23 Jun 2017 06:00:00 GMT Marco-Felipe King, an infection control postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Public Health and Environmental Engineering at the University of Leeds, explains why the future of infection prevention is in smart buildings and real-time contamination prediction. Current practice centres on antimicrobial stewardship and hand hygiene as... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-now-and-the-future-of-infection-prediction 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-now-and-the-future-of-infection-prediction Fri, 23 Jun 2017 06:00:00 GMT The sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs) programme should harness and drive digital innovation as a positive force to help overcome barriers to the integration of health and social care and improve standards of delivery, writes Professor Lord Patel of Bradford OBE. In previous years, the promise of digital technology and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/prime-for-transformation 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/prime-for-transformation Tue, 20 Jun 2017 08:00:00 GMT Professor Sir Muir Gray, director of Better Value Healthcare, considers the meaning of value in NHS commissioning for both the system and patients. Hermeneutics is the name given to the academic study of documents with a view to understanding the use of language in them, sometimes resulting in the production of a concordance, a list of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-meanings-of-value- 426,410 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-meanings-of-value- Tue, 20 Jun 2017 07:00:00 GMT Lord Patel, chairman of the House of Lords Select Committee on the Long-Term Sustainability of the NHS (until the dissolution of Parliament), discusses the action that must be taken to develop an NHS fit for the future. Barely a day goes by without a news story emerging about one crisis or another in the NHS and adult social care. With... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-starting-point-to-long-term-sustainability 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-starting-point-to-long-term-sustainability Fri, 16 Jun 2017 06:30:00 GMT Professor Mike Trenell, chief scientific officer at Changing Health and director of the National Institute for Health Research Innovation Observatory, explains how technology can help cut the growing economic burden that diabetes poses on the health service. Estimates vary as to its total impact on health budgets, but research from... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/how-technology-can-help-cut-the-growing-diabetes-bill 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/how-technology-can-help-cut-the-growing-diabetes-bill Fri, 16 Jun 2017 06:00:00 GMT Suzanne Bates has almost 20 years’ operational experience in the NHS and now works for NHS Improvement. She considers whether focusing on the profession of administrative care might improve access to healthcare while optimising the use of resources. NHS headlines normally revolve around doctors, nurses, beds, performance against... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/what-really-determines-how-quickly-we-access-healthcare 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/what-really-determines-how-quickly-we-access-healthcare Tue, 13 Jun 2017 08:30:00 GMT Vivek Kotecha, research officer at the Centre for Health and the Public Interest (CHPI), argues that there needs to be greater investment in NHS administration. All large organisations need a well-resourced administration to deliver a good service. In the British Army, the Royal Logistic Corps represents 16% of the entire army, making it... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/do-we-need-to-invest-more-in-nhs-administration 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/do-we-need-to-invest-more-in-nhs-administration Tue, 13 Jun 2017 08:00:00 GMT Anita Charlesworth, director of research and economics at the Health Foundation, explains why the NHS will not be able to fulfil its efficiency goals without a serious examination of its approach to pay and the way it plans and uses its nursing workforce across the system. Health and social care are both people businesses: the NHS employs... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/piecemeal-workforce-policymaking-is-failing-the-nhs 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/piecemeal-workforce-policymaking-is-failing-the-nhs Tue, 13 Jun 2017 07:30:00 GMT Professor Jane Dacre, president of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), argues that if sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) are to be successful then clinical input must be at their core. The need for wide-scale system change in the health and social care system is obvious and supported by the RCP. Physicians are committed to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/stps-present-novel-case-for-change-but-pace-and-scale-are-challenging 426,407 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/stps-present-novel-case-for-change-but-pace-and-scale-are-challenging Fri, 09 Jun 2017 08:00:00 GMT Jon Rouse, chief officer of the Greater Manchester Health & Social Care Partnership, explains how the city region aims to tackle parity of esteem between physical and mental. In January, we published our Population Health Plan for Greater Manchester. We are a city region that has grappled with public health challenges for centuries... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/putting-parity-of-esteem-at-the-heart-of-gm-plans 426,414 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/putting-parity-of-esteem-at-the-heart-of-gm-plans Fri, 09 Jun 2017 07:30:00 GMT Lee Peddle, national chairman of the Association of Healthcare Cleaning Professionals and facilities manager – Soft FM at Central and North West London NHS FT, explains why estates changes must also factor in cleanliness and its associated infection prevention and control (IPC) risks. When we are making estates changes, what are our... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-importance-of-designing-out-ipc-risks 426,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-importance-of-designing-out-ipc-risks Fri, 09 Jun 2017 07:00:00 GMT Andy Leary, finance director of specialised commissioning (National) at NHS England, discusses the new system for buying and supplying high-cost tariff-excluded devices (HCTED) in specialised services. Each year, the NHS makes a considerable investment in HCTED. To support the sustainability of specialised services and improve efficiency... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-single-approach-for-purchasing-hcteds 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-single-approach-for-purchasing-hcteds Tue, 11 Apr 2017 09:30:00 GMT Jayne King, chair of the National Association for Healthcare Security (NAHS) and head of security, portering and reception services at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS FT, discusses the need for greater education and standardisation around security in the NHS. NAHS was formed in 1994, as a non-profit professional organisation, with... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/filling-the-void-and-standardising-security 426,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/filling-the-void-and-standardising-security Fri, 07 Apr 2017 08:30:00 GMT Amanda Sandford, information manager at Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), discusses the need to strengthen local relationships in tackling smoking. Few will dispute the fact that the NHS and social care services are in crisis mode. Whilst there is no single solution, what is clear is that with an ageing population the pressures on the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/considerable-scope-for-improving-how-local-areas-tackle-smoking 426,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/considerable-scope-for-improving-how-local-areas-tackle-smoking Fri, 07 Apr 2017 08:00:00 GMT Jon Paxman, 2020health senior researcher, explains why reducing fear barriers may be essential to promoting timely help-seeking, improving health outcomes and supporting greater equity of healthcare within the NHS. Those who work in the health service know well that not everyone agrees with the aphorism ‘knowledge is power’.... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/fear-barriers-to-help-seeking-in-the-uk 426,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/fear-barriers-to-help-seeking-in-the-uk Fri, 07 Apr 2017 08:00:00 GMT Dr Masood Nazir, national clinical lead – digital transformation of general practice at NHS England and information lead & senior information risk owner at NHS Birmingham CrossCity CCG, discusses the opportunities for sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) to adopt shared approaches across regions. Following the Five... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/ldrs-a-critical-part-of-stps-and-sharing-cross-border-learning 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/ldrs-a-critical-part-of-stps-and-sharing-cross-border-learning Tue, 04 Apr 2017 08:30:00 GMT Paul Briddock, director of policy at the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), discusses the benefits of training and development in NHS finance for health professionals. The news agenda has been awash with headlines about the current state of NHS finances. The sector is facing severe pressure and the most recent results... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/why-training-and-development-has-an-important-role-to-play-in-nhs-finance- 426,415,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/why-training-and-development-has-an-important-role-to-play-in-nhs-finance- Tue, 04 Apr 2017 08:00:00 GMT Anne Cooper, deputy clinical director and chief nurse at NHS Digital, discusses the importance of clinical involvement in health digitisation. When Professor Robert Wachter published his review in 2016, there was a lot of focus on areas such as the global digital exemplars, but one of the key themes running through the review was more... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/people-power-in-technology 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/people-power-in-technology Fri, 31 Mar 2017 08:00:00 GMT Karen Steadman, research and policy manager at the Work Foundation, part of Lancaster University, explains why work should play a more central role in social prescribing services. Health is influenced by a wide range of factors. We know smoking, diet or genetics play a considerable role, we also know that other things exert a major... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/social-prescribing-can-it-be-better-used-as-a-pathway-to-work 409,426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/social-prescribing-can-it-be-better-used-as-a-pathway-to-work Fri, 31 Mar 2017 05:00:00 GMT Following the National Audit Office’s (NAO’s) recent report into NHS ambulance services, Gerry Egan, chief executive of the College of Paramedics, says careful attention is needed to assess the reasons why so many paramedics have left, and continue to leave, the ambulance services. The College of Paramedics welcomes the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/time-to-address-paramedic-retention-rates- 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/time-to-address-paramedic-retention-rates- Tue, 28 Mar 2017 08:30:00 GMT Caroline Chipperfield, associate director of partnerships at the NHS Leadership Academy, explores the conditions, culture and climate leaders will need to be able to flourish in the changing commissioning landscape. As healthcare moves towards a focus on wellbeing for citizens, clinical commissioning is becoming increasingly critical.... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/empowering-leaders-for-the-future-of-commissioning 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/empowering-leaders-for-the-future-of-commissioning Tue, 28 Mar 2017 07:30:00 GMT Understanding the current and future NHS procurement landscape for supplies and medical equipment is critical. Paul Clarke, head of supplier management at NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA), tells us about what was covered at their latest series of stakeholder events with NHS and Department of Health (DH) colleagues working in the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/understanding-the-changing-nhs-procurement-landscape 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/understanding-the-changing-nhs-procurement-landscape Fri, 24 Mar 2017 09:00:00 GMT Andrew MacPherson, former managing director of the now closed Strategic Projects Team (SPT), reflects on his time in the NHS that followed a career in trains, boats and planes. In 2006, I had completed the customer service design for the roll-out of a newly merged first of the “super TOCs (train operating company)” in the east... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/reflections-on-the-strategic-projects-team 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/reflections-on-the-strategic-projects-team Fri, 24 Mar 2017 08:30:00 GMT Many organisations in the public sector will be publishing their annual progress reports on the public sector equality duty. Are the needs of employers and employees becoming closer aligned? NHE asked an employer and an advocate for flexible working for their views. Employers’ perspective  Dean Royles, director of human... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-flexible-future 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-flexible-future Fri, 24 Mar 2017 08:00:00 GMT Julia Manning, founding director of 2020health, analyses the opportunities and challenges facing mobile & wireless tech development and adoption in the NHS. How many articles have you read over the past year, decade or even more that painted a picture of the seamless delivery and experience of data-driven, IT-enabled healthcare?... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/connectivity-and-behaviour-key-to-unlocking-wireless-adoption 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/connectivity-and-behaviour-key-to-unlocking-wireless-adoption Fri, 24 Mar 2017 08:00:00 GMT James Robertson, media relations lead at NHS Protect, takes a look back over the past year of investigations by the body leading the national fight against NHS fraud.  “Not much surprises me anymore” is something I often find myself saying to journalists, after a number of years working in NHS Protect’s press office... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-year-in-the-life-of-nhs-protect 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-year-in-the-life-of-nhs-protect Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:45:00 GMT Donna Ockenden, senior midwifery advisor to the chief executive of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), discusses the changing representation of midwives at the regulator.  As midwifery advisor to the NMC and also a registered midwife, I understand that this may feel like an uncertain time for some midwives. The midwifery... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/midwives-will-always-have-a-voice-at-the-nmc 426,412 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/midwives-will-always-have-a-voice-at-the-nmc Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:30:00 GMT Glen Hodgson, head of healthcare at GS1 UK, looks at the progress made in the Scan4Safety project so far and what’s coming next for acute trusts in England.  The beginning of this year saw the one year anniversary of the Scan4Safety project – the implementation of GS1 standards to identify every person, product and place... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/scan4safety-whats-next-for-acute-trusts 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/scan4safety-whats-next-for-acute-trusts Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:30:00 GMT Chris Gregory, head of clinical systems for LGSS Local Health and Care Shared Service — a public sector organisation providing back-office services including IM&T to local government and health organisations across Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, Buckinghamshire and Norfolk — explains how mobile solutions are transforming the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/transforming-community-care 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/transforming-community-care Thu, 23 Feb 2017 09:00:00 GMT Jane Mordue, the newly appointed permanent chair of Healthwatch England, explains why listening to feedback from the public is much more likely to help NHS and social care leaders make the right decisions the first time. At Healthwatch we base our understanding of how the NHS and social care services are doing, and how they should look to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/maximising-the-value-of-public-engagement 426,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/maximising-the-value-of-public-engagement Mon, 20 Feb 2017 11:30:00 GMT Alan Lofthouse, Unison's national ambulance officer, discusses the need for policymakers to address the rising rate of ambulance staff leaving the NHS and show them they really are valued as part of the health team. No one wants to be in a position to have to call out an ambulance. But when they do, it’s because they have a real... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/time-to-value-ambulance-staff 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/time-to-value-ambulance-staff Mon, 20 Feb 2017 09:45:00 GMT Aaron Powell, chief digital officer at NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), explains why the organisation sees mobile very much as the future. At NHSBT mobile technology is making a major difference to the way we work – whether that is in the office, out on blood donor sessions, or at the bedside with patients. NHSBT is responsible for... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/technology-at-the-bedside-the-benefits-of-mobile 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/technology-at-the-bedside-the-benefits-of-mobile Mon, 20 Feb 2017 08:00:00 GMT Katherine Murphy, chief executive at the Patients Association, calls on the government and the healthcare community to work together to combat the growing economic and human costs of inadequate infection control and the crisis of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Established in 2015 to address key areas of healthcare policy impact on... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/time-to-act-in-the-fight-against-amr 426,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/time-to-act-in-the-fight-against-amr Mon, 20 Feb 2017 07:30:00 GMT Sarah Hutchinson, policy advisor at National Voices, on the need for sustainability and transformation plan (STP) leads to ramp up engagement as they develop their plans. It has been just over a year since STPs were announced, and they have gone from being a deeply technical process only understood by policy wonks, to becoming a... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/strengthening-stps-through-better-engagement 426,407 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/strengthening-stps-through-better-engagement Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:30:00 GMT Analysis has revealed that some areas of care are being sustained or even improved despite intense pressures, but Robert Reed, research analyst at the Nuffield Trust, explains that the NHS in England is facing serious challenges in maintaining standards of care. The New Year has seen numerous reports of the NHS under immense strain this... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/very-real-risks-to-resilience 409,426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/very-real-risks-to-resilience Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:30:00 GMT Jennie Brice-Boutard writing on behalf of NHS Supply Chain explains how strong clinical engagement, dedicated resource and a close procurement partnership helped Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS FT deliver over £600,000 savings. With increased pressure on budgets and maintaining high standards of care, individual departments within... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/driving-savings-in-procurement 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/driving-savings-in-procurement Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:15:00 GMT Since April 2016, it is a contractual obligation for all GP practices in England to have a patient participation group (PPG). Dr Patricia Wilkie, president and chairman of the National Association for Patient Participation (N.A.P.P.), discusses how to build better working relations on the frontline. The NHS and general practice are... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/building-better-participation-patients-as-partners-in-healthcare 409,426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/building-better-participation-patients-as-partners-in-healthcare Mon, 13 Feb 2017 07:30:00 GMT Vivek Kotecha from the Centre for Health and the Public Interest (CHPI) considers the argument for and against greater outsourcing in the NHS. In England, a recent addition to the list of Christmas traditions (mulled wine, Christmas pudding, carols and crackers) seems to be an annual NHS winter crisis. The fear is that that what was once... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/outsourcing-will-not-be-the-panacea-for-the-nhs-funding-crisis 426,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/outsourcing-will-not-be-the-panacea-for-the-nhs-funding-crisis Mon, 13 Feb 2017 05:00:00 GMT Paul Fenton, national chairman of the Health Estates and Facilities Management Association (HefmA), explains why collaboration will be the single most important factor in achieving the objectives within the Carter programme and the sustainability and transformation plan (STP) process. The £1.2bn target of productivity and efficiency... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-nhs-estates-challenge 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-nhs-estates-challenge Wed, 08 Feb 2017 11:30:00 GMT Dr Mike Knapton, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation (BHF), discusses the need to support cascade testing for inherited cardiovascular conditions. Inherited cardiovascular conditions (ICCs) are a group of genetic disorders that primarily affect the heart, including cardiac electrical systems and blood vessels. Sadly... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/is-it-time-to-rethink-testing-for-inherited-cardiac-conditions 426,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/is-it-time-to-rethink-testing-for-inherited-cardiac-conditions Wed, 08 Feb 2017 11:00:00 GMT Paul Briddock, director of policy at the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), discusses sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) and NHS finance in 2017. A New Year brings new hopes and expectations, yet as we enter 2017 the NHS financial situation continues to remain fairly bleak. In December, we released our latest... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/how-much-can-stps-improve-nhs-finances-in-2017 426,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/how-much-can-stps-improve-nhs-finances-in-2017 Wed, 08 Feb 2017 10:00:00 GMT Jill DeBene, chief executive at the Institute of Healthcare Management (IHM), reflects on the challenges to ensure successful place-based care, centred on the patient and built by everyone involved trusting each other and collaborating to make it happen. Published by the IHM in early January, the ‘Swimming Together or Sinking... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/swimming-together-or-sinking-alone 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/swimming-together-or-sinking-alone Wed, 08 Feb 2017 09:30:00 GMT NHS Digital’s head of security, Dan Taylor, discusses the importance of data security being on the leadership agenda. There’s no doubt that cyber security has gained prominence over the last couple of years. In health its prominence is probably more recent, amplified by the publication of Dame Fiona Caldicott’s review on... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/taking-the-lead-on-data-security- 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/taking-the-lead-on-data-security- Wed, 08 Feb 2017 05:00:00 GMT Don Redding, director of policy at National Voices, the coalition of health and care charities, looks at the challenges facing integrated care in the NHS. This year’s conference of the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC16) in Barcelona attracted over 1,000 delegates and participants. Shortly afterwards, the World... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/progress-on-integrated-care 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/progress-on-integrated-care Tue, 13 Dec 2016 06:00:00 GMT The national inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) audit is changing, and the IBD Registry is now the vehicle for the biologics audit and quality improvement programme. Dr Fraser Cummings, clinical lead, and Stuart Bloom, chair of the organisation, explain what this means. In his report on efficiency and productivity in the NHS, Lord Carter... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/improving-quality-safety-and-efficiency-in-ibd-care 409,426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/improving-quality-safety-and-efficiency-in-ibd-care Tue, 13 Dec 2016 04:00:00 GMT Paul Maubach, chief executive officer at Dudley CCG, discusses the early success and challenges of the Dudley Multi-specialty Community Provider (MCP) vanguard, the benefits of GP-led teams to deliver better integrated care and how the use of shared technology is improving outcomes. The heart of the NHS starts with the local population... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/dudley-ccg-mcp-model-success-requires-time-commitment-and-trust 426,410 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/dudley-ccg-mcp-model-success-requires-time-commitment-and-trust Fri, 09 Dec 2016 04:00:00 GMT Dr Michael Dixon, social prescribing lead at NHS England, discusses the opportunities and challenges facing social prescribing. Social prescription is an idea whose time has finally come. It was virtually unspoken of a year or two ago, and is now poised to become national policy and part of the furniture of every GP consultation within... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/social-prescription-a-trojan-horse-for-a-health-creating-community 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/social-prescription-a-trojan-horse-for-a-health-creating-community Fri, 09 Dec 2016 03:00:00 GMT Jill DeBene, CEO of the Institute of Healthcare Management (IHM), argues that there needs to be radical change to the climate in the NHS to encourage future leaders to take up top-level positions. Earlier this year, the IHM published a report which looked at the pressures health and care leaders face and the impact this is having on the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/change-the-climate 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/change-the-climate Wed, 07 Dec 2016 16:00:00 GMT Sign up to Safety’s national campaign director, Dr Suzette Woodward, explains how structured conversations and helping people talk to each other can be vital key in improving patient safety. Conversation is a powerful thing. Done right, it can lay the foundations for a safety culture – helping people to connect, learn and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/increasing-patient-safety-through-structured-conversations 426,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/increasing-patient-safety-through-structured-conversations Wed, 07 Dec 2016 09:00:00 GMT Dr Liz Mear, chair of the AHSN Network, and Dr Charlie Davie, managing director of UCLPartners, consider the recommendations of the Accelerated Access Review (AAR) and what this will mean for patients and the system in the future. The recently published AAR offers clear recommendations to the UK government on reforms to speed up... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/building-on-the-great-legacy-as-one-of-the-most-innovative-health-systems-in-the-world 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/building-on-the-great-legacy-as-one-of-the-most-innovative-health-systems-in-the-world Wed, 07 Dec 2016 05:30:00 GMT Emeritus Professor Angus Wallace, a leading figure in British orthopaedic surgery, academic research and former chair of the National Osteoporosis Society, looks at how technology can be used to improve outpatient services. Managing hospital outpatient clinics has always been a challenge for both hospital managers and the clinical staff... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/delivering-a-better-nhs-hospital-outpatient-service 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/delivering-a-better-nhs-hospital-outpatient-service Mon, 05 Dec 2016 15:30:00 GMT Dr Adrian Boyle, consultant emergency physician at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, considers the case for maintaining the four-hour access standard in emergency departments, despite its imperfections. Few performance measures in the NHS generate as much heat and debate as the four-hour access standard. Currently very few type 1 emergency... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-four-hour-target-whats-the-point 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-four-hour-target-whats-the-point Mon, 05 Dec 2016 11:45:00 GMT Professor Jane Dacre, president of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), discusses the vital role that NHS managers can play in supporting trainee doctors and providing a positive workplace environment. The events of the past year have left our medical trainees feeling undervalued, disempowered and downtrodden. Morale is low, and it will... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/how-can-nhs-executives-support-trainee-doctors 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/how-can-nhs-executives-support-trainee-doctors Mon, 05 Dec 2016 08:00:00 GMT Heléna Herklots, chief executive of Carers UK, explains why a lack of community services support is leading carers to reluctantly take their loved ones more and more to A&E departments. With an ageing population, the demands on our health and care system are growing. We are all too aware of the challenges facing our NHS... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/lack-of-carer-support-is-piling-the-pressure-on-nhs-emergency-care 409,426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/lack-of-carer-support-is-piling-the-pressure-on-nhs-emergency-care Fri, 02 Dec 2016 12:45:00 GMT Dr Amanda Doyle, co-chair of NHS Clinical Commissioners (NHSCC), discusses the importance of stakeholder engagement and transparency if STPs are to deliver their aims and objectives. Prioritisation and proposed changes to local NHS services are rarely out of the headlines at the moment. Given the pivotal role they play in making decisions... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/making-difficult-decisions-to-transform-local-nhs-services 426,410 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/making-difficult-decisions-to-transform-local-nhs-services Fri, 02 Dec 2016 12:45:00 GMT Nina Pinwill, the newly appointed national Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) operational lead at NHS England, reflects on her first couple of months in the role and explains what the new changes mean for the system and patients. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the body that make decisions on what cancer treatments... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/improving-access-to-cancer-drugs 409,426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/improving-access-to-cancer-drugs Fri, 02 Dec 2016 11:15:00 GMT Benchmarking is going to become a key aspect of improving hospital pharmacy and medicines optimisation. Aamer Safdar, Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) English Pharmacy Board member, explains what work is being done to make this a reality. Lord Carter’s review focused on making potential savings by the NHS identifying variations in... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/sharing-best-practice-in-hospital-pharmacy-and-medicines-optimisation 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/sharing-best-practice-in-hospital-pharmacy-and-medicines-optimisation Fri, 02 Dec 2016 11:15:00 GMT It’s been over two years since the Department of Health (DH) mandated the use of GS1 standards by all acute trusts in England and their suppliers. Glen Hodgson, head of healthcare at GS1 UK, looks at the progress made since then, and highlights some of the many success stories – not just here in England but across the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/changing-healthcare-with-gs1-standards 426,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/changing-healthcare-with-gs1-standards Mon, 10 Oct 2016 09:00:00 GMT Will Clark, director of environmental services at Capita Health Property & Infrastructure, considers the benefits of sustainable healthcare that go beyond reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The future of the NHS is bright. In the current climate this may seem optimistic, but never before has there been such opportunity for us to make... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/carbon-reduction-is-one-part-of-the-puzzle--we-can-tackle-it-all 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/carbon-reduction-is-one-part-of-the-puzzle--we-can-tackle-it-all Mon, 10 Oct 2016 07:30:00 GMT Andrew Roberts, retail development manager at the Royal Voluntary Service (RVS), explains how a new healthy eating standard for Scotland will benefit hospital staff, visitors and patients across the UK. RVS, the older people’s charity, is the first hospital retailer to achieve the tough new Healthcare Retail Standard (HRS). This... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/scottish-healthy-eating-standard-sets-pace-for-change 426,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/scottish-healthy-eating-standard-sets-pace-for-change Mon, 10 Oct 2016 07:30:00 GMT Emeritus Professor Angus Wallace, a leading figure in British orthopaedic surgery, academic research and former chair of the National Osteoporosis Society, considers how GP consultations are being held back and what could be changed to improve the experience for both the patient and doctor. One of the most common introductions used when... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/so-what-can-i-do-for-you-today 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/so-what-can-i-do-for-you-today Mon, 10 Oct 2016 05:00:00 GMT Hilary Newiss, chair of National Voices and Patient Champion on the Accelerated Access Review, explains how six principles for engaging people and communities can help the development of health and care innovation. As Patient Champion on the government’s independently chaired Accelerated Access Review, I’ve heard again and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/engaging-people-in-research-and-innovation-how-the-six-principles-can-help 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/engaging-people-in-research-and-innovation-how-the-six-principles-can-help Wed, 05 Oct 2016 08:00:00 GMT Jeremy Marlow, executive director of operational productivity at NHS Improvement (NHSI), explains how the regulator is supporting trusts to deliver quick wins and long-term efficiency savings. With growing demands placed on the NHS each day, we cannot compromise on quality, but nor can we afford to deliver excellent services in anything... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-boost-in-efficiency-is-a-boost-for-care 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-boost-in-efficiency-is-a-boost-for-care Wed, 05 Oct 2016 07:30:00 GMT Paula HB Bolton-Maggs, medical director of the Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT), discusses the impact of human factors in blood transfusion and how errors can be reduced. SHOT, the UK national haemovigilance scheme, published its annual report for events in 2015 in July this year. Since its inception in 1996 the most common adverse... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/human-factors-in-transfusion 426,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/human-factors-in-transfusion Wed, 05 Oct 2016 00:30:00 GMT Dr Stuart Cunningham from the Department of Human Communication Sciences and Centre for Assistive Technology and Connected Healthcare at the University of Sheffield discusses the progress on an innovative project which is using speech and language technology for articulation rehabilitation. Speech and language technology, and particularly... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/star-speech-technology-for-articulation-rehabilitation- 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/star-speech-technology-for-articulation-rehabilitation- Mon, 03 Oct 2016 15:45:00 GMT Miriam Deakin, head of policy at NHS Providers, considers what the newly proposed single oversight framework means for trusts and how they can make it work.N NHS Improvement (NHSI) closed its short consultation on a new single oversight framework (SOF)  for all NHS providers in early August.  In a context of unprecedented... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/what-does-the-single-oversight-framework-mean-for-trusts 426,412 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/what-does-the-single-oversight-framework-mean-for-trusts Thu, 29 Sep 2016 08:30:00 GMT Jon Latham, NHS Blood and Transplant’s assistant director for donor services and marketing, discusses the early success of the Missing Type campaign. This year NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) led an international blood donation campaign, Missing Type, to attract new donors.  When NHE talked to Jon Latham, assistant... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/maintaining-the-missing-type-momentum 426,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/maintaining-the-missing-type-momentum Thu, 29 Sep 2016 04:30:00 GMT Michelle Fitzgerald-Shaw, national programme lead, talent management at the NHS Leadership Academy, explains why talent management should be for everyone in the NHS. Getting the right talent into the top jobs across the NHS is a challenge in itself, but keeping people there is another issue completely. A recent report showed that, on... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/why-talent-management-is-more-important-than-ever 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/why-talent-management-is-more-important-than-ever Thu, 29 Sep 2016 04:00:00 GMT Dr Mark Spencer, co-chair of the New NHS Alliance, explains why sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) seem to be more about slash and burn rather than transformation at present.  I recently heard a phrase that was used in the context of how to go about making sustained and meaningful change. The analogy was to look at an... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/stps-a-mile-wide-and-an-inch-deep 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/stps-a-mile-wide-and-an-inch-deep Wed, 31 Aug 2016 09:45:00 GMT Karen Lynas, interim managing director at NHS Leadership Academy, explores how to successfully leave an organisation and team and do so well enough to ensure the success of what you leave behind. We’ve recently started a new support offer for newly appointed chief executives looking particularly at their first 100 days. Indeed, we... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/five-ways-to-leave-an-organisation-well- 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/five-ways-to-leave-an-organisation-well- Tue, 12 Jul 2016 10:15:00 GMT Louise Pasterfield, managing director at e-learning company Sponge UK, reflects on the chequered history of e-learning in the NHS and why it needs to rethink its approach. The NHS has a chequered history with e-learning. On the one hand, it is a world-class innovator, using techniques like 3D and virtual reality to transform medical... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/why-nhs-e-learning-needs-more-ambition 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/why-nhs-e-learning-needs-more-ambition Tue, 12 Jul 2016 10:15:00 GMT Dan Taylor, head of cyber security at the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), soon to be NHS Digital, discusses the importance of cyber security and the development of CareCERT. Many of you may be thinking that this piece isn’t for you, because you aren’t an IT professional. You would be wrong, and this... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/cyber-security-in-nhs-trusts 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/cyber-security-in-nhs-trusts Mon, 11 Jul 2016 10:45:00 GMT Emeritus Professor Angus Wallace, a leading figure in British orthopaedic surgery, academic research and the former chair of the National Osteoporosis Society, looks at why the NHS has fallen behind the US with the development of electronic medical records (EMRs). The NHS in England should have excellent, comprehensive and widely... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/why-the-us-has-overtaken-the-nhs-with-its-emr 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/why-the-us-has-overtaken-the-nhs-with-its-emr Mon, 11 Jul 2016 10:15:00 GMT Community Health Partnerships’ (CHP’s) commercial director Graham Spence tells us how his organisation is helping to secure the transformation of NHS estate and services to best meet future need. With a large and established property portfolio developed over the last 15 years, CHP is responsible for 339 modern purpose-built... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/securing-estate-transformation 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/securing-estate-transformation Thu, 07 Jul 2016 10:45:00 GMT Karen Borrer, head of reputation at the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), on a new industry-led initiative that marks a step change in transparency in the relationship between the pharma industry and healthcare professionals. Thursday 30 June was a landmark day for transparency in the relationship between the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/disclosure-uk-a-milestone-for-transparency 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/disclosure-uk-a-milestone-for-transparency Wed, 06 Jul 2016 10:45:00 GMT Simon Dawkins, head of Medical Equipment Library at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT (CUH), explains how the trust is capitalising on the benefits of RFID technology. By pioneering the use of active and passive RFID technology, and implementing GS1 standards to manage mobile medical equipment, CUH has improved efficiency, increased... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/improving-medical-device-management-with-gs1-standards 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/improving-medical-device-management-with-gs1-standards Wed, 06 Jul 2016 09:45:00 GMT The Local Government Association’s (LGA’s) portfolio holder for community wellbeing, Cllr Izzi Seccombe, outlines the essential components to help deliver fully integrated health and social care by 2020. Health and social care is in a period of uncertainty. It is now more important than ever for local government to work with... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-shared-vision-for-integrated-health-and-social-care 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-shared-vision-for-integrated-health-and-social-care Tue, 05 Jul 2016 17:00:00 GMT Mark Robinson, New NHS Alliance pharmacy lead, explains why the NHS needs community pharmacy to do more in order to deliver sustainability and transformation plans (STPs). The NHS Alliance described community pharmacy as being in a unique position in its recent report, ‘Supporting the development of community pharmacy’. It is... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/community-pharmacy-in-a-unique-position 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/community-pharmacy-in-a-unique-position Tue, 05 Jul 2016 10:45:00 GMT As the Care Quality Commission (CQC) prepares to implement its new strategy, Martha Everett, policy officer at NHS Providers, considers what factors will help it deliver a more targeted, responsive and collaborative approach to regulation. The CQC has come a long way in its recent history. Under new leadership since 2012, it has rolled... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/what-next-for-the-care-quality-commission 426,412 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/what-next-for-the-care-quality-commission Tue, 05 Jul 2016 09:45:00 GMT How did health and safety legislation actually emerge? And what does this mean for today’s workforce? Chris Langer, scheme intelligence manager at CIRAS, looks at the progress made over the last 150 years. To understand the birth of health and safety as we know it today in the workplace, we really need to journey back to the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/origins-of-health-and-safety-legislation-and-accident-reporting 426,405 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/origins-of-health-and-safety-legislation-and-accident-reporting Mon, 04 Jul 2016 17:00:00 GMT Glen Hodgson, head of healthcare at GS1 UK, explains how the implementation of the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) will mean enormous changes to pharmacy practices. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 1% of all medicines in the developed world are counterfeit. That percentage goes even higher on a global scale –... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/falsified-medicines-directive-a-great-opportunity-for-improving-patient-safety 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/falsified-medicines-directive-a-great-opportunity-for-improving-patient-safety Mon, 04 Jul 2016 10:45:00 GMT Professor Lord Patel of Bradford OBE, former chair of the Mental Health Act Commission, makes the case for a radical new report that offers practical solutions to breaking integration barriers. How many times have we heard that if only we had full integration of health and social care, we would be able to improve the lives of those who... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/collaboration-and-innovation-will-break-down-barriers-to-health-and-social-care-integration 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/collaboration-and-innovation-will-break-down-barriers-to-health-and-social-care-integration Sun, 03 Jul 2016 16:45:00 GMT Former care minister Norman Lamb MP writes for NHE about the danger of mental health services becoming further disadvantaged unless a concerted effort is taken to deliver a holistic approach that places mental health at the heart of STPs. Successfully delivering the Five Year Forward View (FYFV) will be a massive challenge. Contending... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/real-possibility-that-mental-health-will-slip-through-the-net-once-again 426,414 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/real-possibility-that-mental-health-will-slip-through-the-net-once-again Fri, 01 Jul 2016 16:45:00 GMT Saffron Cordery, director of policy and strategy at NHS Providers, examines the complex structures, processes, approaches and laws that make public health more complicated than it might seem. Public health is often in the news. It’s an important issue, and by definition is something that matters to us all, because it concerns the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/more-than-meets-the-eye 426,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/more-than-meets-the-eye Thu, 23 Jun 2016 14:15:00 GMT Karina Nielsen, professor of work and organisational psychology at the Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, challenges the view that transformational leadership is wholly positive – especially at a time when NHS bosses are presiding over major service changes. Transformational leadership is thought to be a good thing.... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/do-transformational-leaders-make-you-sick 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/do-transformational-leaders-make-you-sick Thu, 02 Jun 2016 16:45:00 GMT Dean Royles, director of human resources and organisational development at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, and the former CEO at NHS Employers, explains why workforce planning is not the main problem with the quality and design of NHS services. This could be our last shot, the Five Year Forward View (now 3½ year) and the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/our-last-roll-of-the-dice 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/our-last-roll-of-the-dice Mon, 30 May 2016 16:45:00 GMT Dr Natalie Armstrong, senior lecturer at the University of Leicester and co-lead of SAPPHIRE Group at the Department of Health Sciences, discusses some of the key learning to emerge from an evaluation of six pilot sites putting the Patient Activation Measure to the test. The NHS Five Year Forward View set out a central ambition for the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/patient-activation-measure-learning-from-early-adopters 426,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/patient-activation-measure-learning-from-early-adopters Thu, 26 May 2016 16:30:00 GMT Alan Whiteside, innovation consultant in the research, development and innovation department at NHS Highland, runs through the many potential medical uses of the internet-connected ‘super glasses’. Would you be lost without your glasses? I believe the time will come when clinicians will consider themselves lost, or at the very... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/medical-super-glasses-are-just-around-the-corner 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/medical-super-glasses-are-just-around-the-corner Tue, 24 May 2016 16:30:00 GMT Peter Owens, medical engineering manager at Heart of England NHS FT, explains why his organisation decided to implement RFiD tracking and the benefits it has delivered so far. For a number of years there was a growing concern around the number of reusable medical devices which could not be located for planned maintenance at Heart of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/building-up-the-benefits-of-rfid-scanning 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/building-up-the-benefits-of-rfid-scanning Mon, 23 May 2016 17:15:00 GMT Professor Terence Stephenson, chair of the General Medical Council and Nuffield Professor of Child Health at UCL’s Institute of Child Health, discusses the benefits of GS1 barcodes in improving patient safety. When I presented at the GS1 UK Healthcare Conference in April, I was not the first to remark that barcoding doesn’t... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/gs1-as-a-patient-safety-initiative 426,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/gs1-as-a-patient-safety-initiative Thu, 19 May 2016 17:00:00 GMT Andrew MacPherson, programme director of Fit for the Future and managing director of The Strategic Projects Team, explores how healthcare for 650,000 people living in east and west Suffolk looks fit for the future as NHS leaders have worked collaboratively, integrated services and explored opportunities to improve health and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/getting-fit-for-the-future-of-healthcare-in-suffolk 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/getting-fit-for-the-future-of-healthcare-in-suffolk Tue, 17 May 2016 17:00:00 GMT Elizabeth Dymond, deputy enterprise director at the West of England Academic Health Science Network (AHSN), talks about Diabetes Digital Coach, an NHS-based Internet of Things (IoT) test bed being rolled out across the west of England. Diabetes Digital Coach is one of seven test beds announced by the NHS earlier this year as part of a... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/diabetes-digital-coach-putting-patients-in-the-driving-seat 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/diabetes-digital-coach-putting-patients-in-the-driving-seat Tue, 17 May 2016 16:15:00 GMT As the NHS accelerates integration ambitions and new models of care, could New York City offer any lessons? Tom Moore, vice-president for innovation at Healthix, New York’s regional health information exchange, explains how information on 16 million patients has been joined-up across the city. Devo Manc, the Five Year Forward View... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/lessons-from-new-york-for-nhs-integration 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/lessons-from-new-york-for-nhs-integration Mon, 16 May 2016 16:15:00 GMT Richard Edmondson, professor of gynaecological oncology at the University of Manchester, explains how a new scheme funded by Cancer Research UK will be able to extract and predict data to dramatically improve cancer treatment. In contrast to Tesco, which learns something from each of its shoppers on every visit, the NHS learns nothing... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/time-to-learn-from-the-retail-sector 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/time-to-learn-from-the-retail-sector Thu, 12 May 2016 17:15:00 GMT Dr Phil Koczan, chief clinical information officer for UCLPartners Academic Health Science Network, examines what needs to happen to deliver the ‘paperless’ NHS by the end of the decade. I have been a GP for over 20 years and, during that time, have always recorded clinical information directly into our computer system at the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/what-is-needed-to-achieve-a-paperless-nhs-by-2020 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/what-is-needed-to-achieve-a-paperless-nhs-by-2020 Thu, 12 May 2016 17:15:00 GMT Tim Jones, executive director of delivery at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS FT (UHB), reveals what the trust has done to set the standard in IT developments, and explains how other providers can follow suit. We are currently living through a third industrial revolution: the first was driven by steam power, the second by the petrol... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/tapping-into-data-across-the-nhs 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/tapping-into-data-across-the-nhs Thu, 12 May 2016 09:00:00 GMT Sir Muir Gray, director of Better Value Healthcare, discusses the importance of commissioning for population healthcare. As a veteran of twenty-two, or thereabouts, structural reorganisations of the NHS I have long lost faith in them. The reason why structural reorganisations fail is because the bureaucracies we organise are linear... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-importance-of-population-healthcare-in-commissioning 426,410 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-importance-of-population-healthcare-in-commissioning Thu, 05 May 2016 15:30:00 GMT The future of public services is people-led and place-based says Lord Victor Adebowale CBE, CEO of Turning Point. The way health and social care services are delivered is changing. The FYFV sets out a compelling vision of multidisciplinary teams, co-location and flexibility. Place-based health, as recently explored by the New Local... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/connected-care-power-to-the-people 426,410 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/connected-care-power-to-the-people Wed, 04 May 2016 15:30:00 GMT Shirley Cramer CBE, chief executive of the Institute of Healthcare Management (IHM), looks at how NHS managers have not been involved in the recent junior doctors’ contract dispute. However, and whenever, the junior doctors’ row over their new contract is finally resolved, it will be without consulting those who may well be... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/shut-out-of-the-dispute 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/shut-out-of-the-dispute Tue, 03 May 2016 15:15:00 GMT Beccy Baird, Fellow at The King’s Fund, looks at the crisis in general practice which, until recently, she argues has seemed largely invisible to national policymakers. While the pressures facing hospitals are obvious through almost real-time data on activity and performance, by contrast, there is almost no nationally collected... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/time-to-tackle-the-crisis-in-general-practice 426,405 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/time-to-tackle-the-crisis-in-general-practice Mon, 02 May 2016 15:00:00 GMT Mark Spencer, co-chair of the New NHS Alliance, gives his thoughts on NHS England’s recent General Practice Forward View. If there’s one word that sums up my reflections on the General Practice Forward View (GPFV) publication, it’s “hope”.  General practice is well into its eleventh hour. We are on... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/general-practice-forward-view-reflections 426,407 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/general-practice-forward-view-reflections Sun, 01 May 2016 15:00:00 GMT Dr Graham Jackson, chair of NHS Aylesbury Vale CCG and the new co-chair of NHS Clinical Commissioners (NHSCC), discusses the challenges facing commissioners. There is no doubt in my mind that taking on the role of co-chair of NHSCC at this time will be challenging. Not only to follow on from the excellent work Steve Kell has done but I... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-challenges-in-moving-closer-to-place-based-commissioning 426,410 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-challenges-in-moving-closer-to-place-based-commissioning Tue, 12 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT Writing for NHE in his capacity as a qualified, integrative counsellor and a member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists, Chris Langer, scheme intelligence manager at CIRAS, explores the potential negative effect of labelling people with mental health problems.L Labels for mental health illnesses have the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/be-wary-of-mental-health-labels 426,414 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/be-wary-of-mental-health-labels Thu, 07 Apr 2016 10:15:00 GMT It has been 10 years since the introduction of Hospital at Night. Caroline Chapman, nurse consultant for Hospital at Night, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, argues it is time to modernise and explains how this can improve safety. In the dead of night, when the rest of the world sleeps, ward nurses up and down the country are calling the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/can-we-make-the-hospital-a-safer-place-at-night 426,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/can-we-make-the-hospital-a-safer-place-at-night Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:00:00 GMT Tom Kirkbride, director of registration at the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), on revalidation and the major projects the regulator is undertaking this year. As director of registration of the NMC my work contributes to ensuring that the NMC is responsive to the ever-changing needs of modern health and care services.  It is... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/nmc-set-for-a-big-year-of-change 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/nmc-set-for-a-big-year-of-change Fri, 01 Apr 2016 16:30:00 GMT Following the recent launch of the National Social Prescribing Network, Dr Marie Polley, the organisation’s co-chair, writes for NHE about its aims, objectives and how health professionals and commissioners can get involved. Until recently, social prescribing has been a phrase on the lips of many, yet no-one knew what level of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/what-is-the-national-social-prescribing-network 426,410 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/what-is-the-national-social-prescribing-network Mon, 28 Mar 2016 16:30:00 GMT NHE’s Luana Salles looks into the reasons behind the collapse of one of the largest NHS clinical services deals ever awarded, and explores what this could mean for the future of procurement. The collapse of UnitingCare, the £726m contract for Cambridgeshire’s older people’s and adult community services, was widely... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/unitingcare-collapse-casts-doubts-on-nhs-tenders- 426,410 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/unitingcare-collapse-casts-doubts-on-nhs-tenders- Wed, 23 Mar 2016 16:30:00 GMT Barry Cooper, chief operating officer at Vocare Group, which provides urgent healthcare services to 10 million patients countrywide, through urgent care centres, GP out-of-hours services, integrated urgent care centres and the NHS 111 service, explains the benefits of GP video consultations. The world’s oldest public healthcare... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/gp-consultations-via-video-conferencing-is-the-smart-choice 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/gp-consultations-via-video-conferencing-is-the-smart-choice Fri, 18 Mar 2016 15:45:00 GMT Stuart Bolton, engagement manager from the Centre of Excellence for Information Sharing, explains how local areas around England are changing the way they share health and social care information, and why this is helping to improve services for patients. Across the country, increasing numbers of health and social care providers are facing... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/healthy-information-sharing 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/healthy-information-sharing Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:45:00 GMT Simon Jones, former director of long-term conditions and patient choice at NHS Direct, and now commercial director at Inhealthcare, responds to Lord Carter’s latest review of NHS efficiencies. Digital health and the wider use of technology is the subject of much debate and expectation at all levels of the NHS. Paperless hospitals... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/digital-health-and-the-productivity-challenge 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/digital-health-and-the-productivity-challenge Tue, 15 Mar 2016 15:30:00 GMT Tam Fry, patron of the Child Growth Foundation, spokesperson for the National Obesity Forum and expert advisory team member with Action On Sugar, writes for NHE about the government’s delayed child obesity strategy. March was an interesting month as far as childhood obesity was concerned. The good news was that it saw the government... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/delay-to-child-obesity-strategy-dumbfounding- 426,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/delay-to-child-obesity-strategy-dumbfounding- Fri, 11 Mar 2016 15:30:00 GMT James Foxlee, co-founder of Circular Wave, discusses the government response to the rapidly escalating NHS agency spend and how technology can help. Spending on agency staff is now recognised as the major cause of the growing NHS provider deficit. In an attempt to curb it, Monitor and the TDA have directly intervened in the agency market... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/putting-the-brakes-on-the-runaway-agency-train 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/putting-the-brakes-on-the-runaway-agency-train Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:15:00 GMT Robin Miller, senior fellow, and Professor Judith Smith, director, from the Health Services Management Centre at the University of Birmingham, consider the future potential for accountable care organisations in the NHS. The accountable care organisation (ACO) is often vaunted by US commentators as the ideal way to align the motivations... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/accountable-care-organisations-the-future-of-the-nhs 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/accountable-care-organisations-the-future-of-the-nhs Tue, 08 Mar 2016 14:45:00 GMT Suzie Bailey from NHS Improvement, and former development director at Monitor, explains what NHS trusts can expect from the new regulator. Nowadays, it seems as if the NHS is rarely out of the news with a dizzying amount of debate on whether it’s in good or bad shape, and what the solutions might be. So much so, that you find... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/remember-to-breathe 426,412 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/remember-to-breathe Fri, 04 Mar 2016 14:30:00 GMT The findings of the recent NHS staff survey should send a warning to leaders that their greatest asset is in danger of being neglected, says Shirley Cramer, CEO of the Institute of Healthcare Management (IHM). NHS staff, in the main, work extremely hard, often going beyond the call of duty, and are truly dedicated to the NHS and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/time-to-turn-our-attention-to-the-frontline 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/time-to-turn-our-attention-to-the-frontline Thu, 03 Mar 2016 14:30:00 GMT Karen Lynas, interim managing director of the NHS Leadership Academy and a noted expert on equality and leadership, offers some tips for women in the NHS looking to move into more senior roles. I have been asked to speak a lot recently about the leadership landscape in the NHS and often start by reeling off the names of the chairs and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/tips-for-women-moving-up-in-the-nhs 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/tips-for-women-moving-up-in-the-nhs Thu, 28 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT Jan Hoogewerf, Health Informatics Unit programme manager at the Royal College of Physicians, discusses the importance of standardising both the structure and content of NHS clinical records. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges’ (AoMRC) vision for health informatics, iCare, describes patient records as “the cornerstone of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/setting-the-standards-for-electronic-documents-and-records 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/setting-the-standards-for-electronic-documents-and-records Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:45:00 GMT Paul Briddock, director of policy at the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), explains how an interactive training tool can help NHS staff develop financial awareness in an engaging, collaborative atmosphere. We’re all aware that it’s critical to the future success and sustainability of the NHS for staff to have... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-game-changer-for-nhs-finance 426,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-game-changer-for-nhs-finance Tue, 26 Jan 2016 14:30:00 GMT Miriam Deakin, head of policy at NHS Providers, looks at the key considerations for local leaders following the publication of this year’s planning guidance. There has been a growing focus in recent years on a more ‘place-based approach’ to delivering health and care, reflected in the recent planning guidance, which... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/finding-your-place-what-does-the-planning-guidance-mean-for-local-leaders 426,405 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/finding-your-place-what-does-the-planning-guidance-mean-for-local-leaders Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:30:00 GMT Allan Johnson, CEO of The Practice Group, which holds contracts for more than 50 GP surgeries and GP-led health centres, discusses the pressures on general practice. According to the British Medical Association, large numbers of GP surgeries in England have stopped taking on new patients, or have applied to do so. Although NHS England is... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/future-proofing-for-patient-care 409,426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/future-proofing-for-patient-care Mon, 18 Jan 2016 11:15:00 GMT Shirley Cramer CBE, chief executive of the Institute of Healthcare Management (IHM), discusses the challenges facing leaders in these integrationist times. The drive to achieve integration of health and social care services, the goal of successive governments over several decades, is finally gaining momentum. While it is clearly too early... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/successful-integration-demands-leadership-continuity 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/successful-integration-demands-leadership-continuity Fri, 15 Jan 2016 12:45:00 GMT Andrew Daly, a specialist procurement partner at health sector solicitors Hempsons, examines some of the changes introduced by Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR15) from a legal perspective, and how it has impacted on procurement professionals. It is nearly a year since the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR15) came into force... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-public-contracts-regulations-2015-has-anything-actually-changed-in-practice 426,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-public-contracts-regulations-2015-has-anything-actually-changed-in-practice Tue, 12 Jan 2016 11:15:00 GMT Richard Jones, partner at Moorhouse, says A&E departments act as the barometer for local health economies. It’s not saying anything new to observe that winter is the busiest time of year for the NHS; the sharp rise in the demand for both primary and acute care puts great strain on the system. In winters past, additional... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/groundhog-day 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/groundhog-day Thu, 07 Jan 2016 11:00:00 GMT Professor Terence Stephenson, chair of the General Medical Council, recently spoke at the Developing Excellence in Medical Education conference. Here he talks about the GMC’s work to put safety and quality at the heart of medical education. As doctors we go into medicine to make people better. However, there is the uncomfortable... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-gmc-as-a-21st-century-patient-safety-organisation-the-role-of-education 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-gmc-as-a-21st-century-patient-safety-organisation-the-role-of-education Tue, 05 Jan 2016 13:00:00 GMT Helen McKenna, senior policy adviser at The King’s Fund, analyses what the Spending Review means for health and social care. A few weeks before the government announced the Spending Review, Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, set out five tests against which he said he intended to judge the settlement. Failure against... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-sustainable-health-and-care-settlement-is-as-far-away-as-ever 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-sustainable-health-and-care-settlement-is-as-far-away-as-ever Tue, 05 Jan 2016 10:45:00 GMT Chris Langer, scheme intelligence manager at CIRAS, the confidential incident reporting and analysis system, argues that when it comes to health and safety, organisations could be utilising digital technology to much greater effect, and at minimal cost too. When junior doctors voice their concerns that excessive hours could impact upon... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/digital-health--safety-culture 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/digital-health--safety-culture Mon, 04 Jan 2016 10:45:00 GMT Laura Boyd, NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) programme manager at UCLPartners and Dr Amanda Begley, director of innovation and implementation, update NHE readers on progress with the programme. It is often quoted that it can take an average of 17 years for a great idea to scale within the health service so that it is available for all... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/scaling-innovation-faster-for-patient-and-population-benefit 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/scaling-innovation-faster-for-patient-and-population-benefit Sun, 03 Jan 2016 10:45:00 GMT Laurence Webb, Pride in Practice co-ordinator, explores the heightened risk of alcohol and drug abuse among lesbian, gay and bisexual people, and how the NHS can support them. Evidence shows that problematic patterns of drinking are much more common among LGBT people, with available comparable data suggesting that LGB people are... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/drug-and-alcohol-use-among-lgb-people- 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/drug-and-alcohol-use-among-lgb-people- Sat, 02 Jan 2016 10:45:00 GMT Eddie Saville, chief executive of the Hospital Consultants & Specialists Association, a professional body and trade union, writes on workplace stress and plummeting morale. Repeat a warning enough and there is a risk it will lose its power. It is sometimes hard to avoid the suspicion that this is precisely what is happening among key... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/dont-ignore-our-cries-for-help 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/dont-ignore-our-cries-for-help Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:45:00 GMT Professor Annie S. Anderson, professor of public health nutrition at the University of Dundee and co-director of the Scottish Cancer Prevention Network (SCPN), says the NHS can become an exemplar in the promotion of healthy living. There has never been a better time to stop scaremongering about diet and cancer and to start sharing the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/every-contact-counts 426,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/every-contact-counts Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:30:00 GMT Glen Hodgson, head of healthcare at GS1 UK, explains how standardising medicines management will improve patient experience and safety outcomes. We hear time and again that the NHS wastes billions of pounds on preventable errors – many related to improper use of medication. This level of inefficiency can put patient safety at risk... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/medicines-management 426,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/medicines-management Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:30:00 GMT Keith Naylor, head of implementation – transfer of care at the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), discusses the interoperability challenges in the health and social care sector. Welcome to ‘Isolation International’, where beyond the check-in desk a flight beckons to sunnier climes. But there’s a... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/leaving-isolation-behind-why-interoperability-is-vital-to-health-and-social-care 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/leaving-isolation-behind-why-interoperability-is-vital-to-health-and-social-care Tue, 01 Dec 2015 12:15:00 GMT Fabia Holt, research and consultation lead for the Department of Health ProCure 21+ Repeatable Rooms initiative, explains why it is important to involve those who are actually going to use NHS facilities when designing them. Over the past year nearly all discussions within and about the NHS have featured some aspect of crisis, mostly in... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-service-user-perspective 426,414 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-service-user-perspective Mon, 30 Nov 2015 12:45:00 GMT Vijaya Nath, director of leadership development at The King’s Fund, explains how medical directors and frontline clinicians can work together to improve both care outcomes and value for money.  Electronic blood transfusion using barcodes was pioneered in the NHS at Oxford University Hospitals, and is now a NICE case study for... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-role-of-medical-leaders-in-improving-value-in-the-nhs 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-role-of-medical-leaders-in-improving-value-in-the-nhs Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:00:00 GMT Dr Steve Kell, co-chair of NHS Clinical Commissioners, and chair of NHS Bassetlaw CCG, discusses the practical changes that commissioners need to enable them to transform patient care and improve NHS sustainability. Just over a year ago, NHS England published the Five Year Forward View, which set out both the challenges faced by the NHS... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/local-solutions-to-national-challenges-ccgs-need-to-deliver-more-for-their-patients- 426,410 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/local-solutions-to-national-challenges-ccgs-need-to-deliver-more-for-their-patients- Mon, 23 Nov 2015 14:30:00 GMT With CCGs expected to have their Interim Local Estate Strategies drafted by the end of December, Nicola Theron, London area director at Community Health Partnerships (CHP) and strategic estate planning lead for London, is working with CCGs to help shape the capital’s healthcare premises for the next generation of Londoners. She argues... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/supporting-nhs-service-and-estate-transformation-in-london 426,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/supporting-nhs-service-and-estate-transformation-in-london Mon, 23 Nov 2015 12:45:00 GMT Eve Piffaretti, partner at Blake Morgan LLP, on why there is a strong signal for practitioners to consider mindfulness as an alternative approach to early intervention to prevent and combat mental ill-health. Mindfulness has received considerable press and public attention, not only as a potential means of improving people’s mental... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-better-partnership-approach-for-integrated-health-care 426,414 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-better-partnership-approach-for-integrated-health-care Thu, 19 Nov 2015 10:30:00 GMT Siva Anandaciva, head of analysis at NHS Providers, looks at the ‘challenging opportunity’ of promoting healthy behaviours for staff in the health sector. In the main atrium of Skipton House, the NHS England headquarters in Elephant & Castle, there is a large model of a pair of lungs to illustrate the damage cigarette... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/public-health-starts-at-home 426,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/public-health-starts-at-home Wed, 18 Nov 2015 10:15:00 GMT Laurence Webb, Pride in Practice co-ordinator, has some tips and strategies for general practice to improve health outcomes among LGBT people, and explores some common misunderstandings and stereotypes. Nationwide data and research has found that the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) community delays making appointments with their... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/tackling-homophobia-in-primary-care 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/tackling-homophobia-in-primary-care Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:15:00 GMT Miriam Deakin, head of policy at NHS Providers, discusses the early findings of the ‘Right place, right time’ commission, which is due to publish its report in late autumn.  We know that getting transfers of care right is critical for patients’ experience of care (and their outcomes) and that too many patients and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/getting-care-in-the-right-place-at-the-right-time 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/getting-care-in-the-right-place-at-the-right-time Fri, 09 Oct 2015 11:30:00 GMT Glen Hodgson, head of healthcare at GS1 UK, discusses the consequences for patient safety when resources are put under excessive pressure. Our health service is under an unprecedented level of pressure to deliver more for less – treating more patients and delivering a higher standard of care, with fewer resources. There is... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/poor-supply-chain-management-is-putting-patients-at-risk--but-not-for-much-longer 426,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/poor-supply-chain-management-is-putting-patients-at-risk--but-not-for-much-longer Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:45:00 GMT Ian Wheeler, head of research, labour market intelligence and evaluation at Skills for Health, writes about the need to create a high-quality support workforce. In debates around the future development of the health sector’s workforce, the current and possible future role of the support workforce is often overlooked. It is also... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/how-can-we-act-now-to-create-a-high-quality-support-workforce-in-the-uks-health-sector 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/how-can-we-act-now-to-create-a-high-quality-support-workforce-in-the-uks-health-sector Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:15:00 GMT Finding ways to improve the relationship between managers and clinicians has never been more important, says Shirley Cramer, CEO of the Institute of Healthcare Management (IHM). The evenings are drawing in and there is a chill in the air. Winter is approaching, heralding more problems for the NHS. There are the already well-known and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/tensions-between-managers-and-clinicians 426,405 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/tensions-between-managers-and-clinicians Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:15:00 GMT Dr Peter Young, consultant in critical care at The Queen Elizabeth King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust, and Dr Maryanne Mariyaselvam, clinical research fellow at the University of Cambridge, discuss entrepreneurship in the NHS. The national landscape – medical device innovation in the UK  The UK has a proud heritage of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/grassroots-medical-device-innovation-in-the-nhs-a-new-model-pioneered-at-a-dgh 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/grassroots-medical-device-innovation-in-the-nhs-a-new-model-pioneered-at-a-dgh Thu, 01 Oct 2015 10:45:00 GMT Jackie Smith, chief executive and registrar at the Nursing & Midwifery Council, explains how healthcare employers and managers can start planning ahead for revalidation. At the start of October, the NMC is due to decide about moving ahead with one of the most important regulatory improvements to nursing and midwifery in recent... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/nmc-set-for-important-decision-on-revalidation 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/nmc-set-for-important-decision-on-revalidation Thu, 01 Oct 2015 09:45:00 GMT Opposition to competition can actually be unfair to the patient and to the taxpayer, argue Ian R Smith and Stephen K Smith. The authors – who are, respectively, the chair of leading independent health and social care provider Four Seasons Health Care, and a professor of medicine who set up the first academic health and science centre at... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/competition-and-the-nhs-it-must-happen 426,407 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/competition-and-the-nhs-it-must-happen Thu, 01 Oct 2015 09:30:00 GMT Jackie Smith, chief executive and registrar at the Nursing & Midwifery Council, explains how healthcare employers and managers can start planning ahead for revalidation.  At the start of October, the NMC is due to decide about moving ahead with one of the most important regulatory improvements to nursing and midwifery in recent... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/nmc-set-for-important-decision-on-revalidation- 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/nmc-set-for-important-decision-on-revalidation- Sun, 27 Sep 2015 15:15:00 GMT Bleddyn Rees, a leading corporate healthcare lawyer, discusses the European Connected Health Alliance and his role as director. Unlike many other industries, like IT or even property services, healthcare is not a global industry. There are no clinical providers operating across all continents driving best practice and innovation. This... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/soon-digital-healthcare-will-just-be-healthcare 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/soon-digital-healthcare-will-just-be-healthcare Sun, 02 Aug 2015 15:45:00 GMT Dr Julia Montgomery of Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Dr Charlotte Ramage of the University of Brighton and Claire Martin of Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust discuss compassion in the NHS. The University of Brighton, Brighton & Sussex Medical School and University of Surrey responded to a call from HEKSS... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/cultivating-a-compassionate-discourse-in-the-nhs 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/cultivating-a-compassionate-discourse-in-the-nhs Sun, 02 Aug 2015 14:45:00 GMT Alastair Mitchell, president and co-founder of Huddle, the enterprise cloud collaboration service, discusses the role of technology and cloud computing in delivering the aims of the Five Year Forward View. NHS England’s Five Year Forward View is an exciting, inspiring and ambitious plan to drive our NHS forward. Aside from specific... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-collaboration-conundrum-and-how-to-fix-it 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-collaboration-conundrum-and-how-to-fix-it Sun, 02 Aug 2015 14:45:00 GMT Tom Slater, assistant director of provider procurement for NHS Shared Business Services, reports on a recent forum on clinical information systems. NHS organisations have a real opportunity to achieve greater productivity savings through investment in information and digital technology when they take over responsibility for end-to-end... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-roadmap-to-successful-clinical-information-system-procurement 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-roadmap-to-successful-clinical-information-system-procurement Sun, 02 Aug 2015 14:45:00 GMT Tijen Ahmet, immigration solicitor at SA Law, discusses a coming deadline that could force more than 3,000 nurses to leave the country. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has warned that the NHS is on the road to chaos, as a salary threshold for all tier 2 (general) migrants applying for settlement introduced in 2011 starts to be felt in... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/unrealistic-and-wasteful-reforms-will-kick-trained-nurses-out-of-the-uk 426,405 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/unrealistic-and-wasteful-reforms-will-kick-trained-nurses-out-of-the-uk Sun, 02 Aug 2015 14:45:00 GMT Professor Terry Young of Brunel University London, associate dean for health partnerships at the Department of Computer Science, is one of the driving forces behind the Cumberland Initiative and the push to increase NHS efficiency and innovation through systems thinking and computer modelling. The Initiative is now truly getting off the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/model-hospitals 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/model-hospitals Sun, 02 Aug 2015 12:45:00 GMT June’s announcement at the Health+Care Show that every English local health economy will be offered a ‘strategic estates adviser’, has been heralded as a great opportunity for better use of properties, improved services and efficiencies. Antek Lejk (pictured), Community Health Partnerships’ executive director and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/turning-blue-sky-thinking-into-action 426,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/turning-blue-sky-thinking-into-action Sun, 02 Aug 2015 11:45:00 GMT Paul Briddock (pictured), director of policy at the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), discusses the mounting financial pressures facing NHS trusts and CCGs. The results of our biannual NHS Financial Temperature Check research always make for interesting reading, even if I do say so myself, but it’s fair to say we... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/finance-directors-need-upfront-investment-to-meet-nhs-savings-targets 426,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/finance-directors-need-upfront-investment-to-meet-nhs-savings-targets Sun, 02 Aug 2015 11:15:00 GMT Mary Chant, partner in the health and social care team at law firm Blake Morgan, discusses the drive to consolidation in primary care structures. Primary care is at the heart of the NHS and is recognised in the NHS England Five Year Forward View as “one of the great strengths of the NHS”. It focuses around the concept that... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/gp-federations--making-them-work 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/gp-federations--making-them-work Wed, 15 Jul 2015 10:15:00 GMT Nursing revalidation could create a significant level of extra administration on an already stretched service warns Jo Parker-Swift, lead for health at Equiniti, who here looks at the challenges facing both employers and their nursing staff – and the possible solutions. It’s more than three years since revalidation commenced... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/do-not-underestimate-the-challenges-of-nursing-revalidation 426,412 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/do-not-underestimate-the-challenges-of-nursing-revalidation Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:45:00 GMT John Rogers, chief executive of Skills for Health, examines the cost benefits and efficiencies of e-learning training courses in the healthcare industry. A recent report issued by the BBC asked the question: ‘How many staff does the NHS need?’  The report is highly topical, exploring the pressures faced by the NHS in... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/e-learning 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/e-learning Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:45:00 GMT Richard Jones, partner at transformation consultancy Moorhouse, discusses new ways of working in the NHS. These are fascinating times in the health sector. At a macro-political level there appears to be a broad consensus that traditional ways of working cannot continue, and that transformational change is required for the NHS to tackle... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-changing-mindset-for-a-changing-nhs 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-changing-mindset-for-a-changing-nhs Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:30:00 GMT David Pearce, EKTRA Ltd principal physiotherapist and company director, discusses the commissioning of musculoskeletal (MSK) physiotherapy and its outstanding improvement to patient care. Following 18 months, after thousands of amendments, the Health and Social Care Bill was passed in Parliament in March 2012; the writing was on the wall... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/demonisation-of-the-private-provider-the-msk-physiotherapist-perspective 426,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/demonisation-of-the-private-provider-the-msk-physiotherapist-perspective Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:30:00 GMT Tony Virtue, senior healthcare planner at Essentia Trading Ltd, based at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, discusses important concepts in health management. He argues that some of the tools and techniques used in Healthcare Planning are similar to those used in Lean Six Sigma. What is Healthcare... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/healthcare-planning-lean-six-sigma-by-stealth 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/healthcare-planning-lean-six-sigma-by-stealth Mon, 01 Jun 2015 09:45:00 GMT Andrew Prince, director of health at Serco Consulting, discusses the problems with administrative processes in the NHS. The NHS can be justly proud of the clinical care it provides. At its best, NHS clinical care stands comparison with the finest anywhere in the world. But are patients and clinicians let down by the administrative... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/patient-administration--the-weakest-link 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/patient-administration--the-weakest-link Mon, 01 Jun 2015 09:45:00 GMT Graeme Currie, professor of public management at Warwick Business School, discusses the findings of his latest research, which suggests that elderly patients are enduring poor care in hospitals because of a communication block between the frontline and NHS management. Communication is vital in any organisation but in a hospital it can... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/how-a-broken-chain-of-hospital-communication-is-impacting-elderly-care 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/how-a-broken-chain-of-hospital-communication-is-impacting-elderly-care Mon, 01 Jun 2015 09:15:00 GMT In the second of a two-part series, Rebekah Tailor from the Health and Care Professions Council draws on case studies collated as part of the WHAT? campaign to highlight how arts therapists have helped to improve the lives and wellbeing of service users. The HCPC’s ‘Why Hire an Arts Therapist?’ (WHAT?) campaign has been... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/real-life-stories-from-service-users-help-to-promote-the-statutory-regulation-of-arts-therapists 426,412 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/real-life-stories-from-service-users-help-to-promote-the-statutory-regulation-of-arts-therapists Mon, 01 Jun 2015 09:00:00 GMT Miriam Deakin, head of policy at NHS Providers, discusses the opportunities and challenges facing providers during the new Parliament.  With Parliament returned and the new ministerial team in office, it is timely to reflect on the priorities for health and care facing the new government. This article offers a perspective from NHS... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/what-will-the-new-parliament-bring-for-nhs-providers 426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/what-will-the-new-parliament-bring-for-nhs-providers Wed, 27 May 2015 16:15:00 GMT The King’s Fund’s Hugh Alderwick, senior policy assistant to Chris Ham, and senior fellow in health policy Chris Naylor, discuss provider-led approaches to integration. Hospitals and integrated care are often seen as awkward partners. The argument follows that integrated care, with its emphasis on strengthening and joining up... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/acute-hospitals-and-integrated-care-what-business-are-we-in 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/acute-hospitals-and-integrated-care-what-business-are-we-in Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:00:00 GMT In 2012, Andrew MacPherson and the Strategic Projects Team were asked to support an innovative idea that was struggling to get off the ground, despite having all the hallmarks of a simple solution for radical change in healthcare delivery. Dr Penny Newman, a GP, consultant in Public Health and director of Service Integration at Colchester... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/health-coaching-in-the-east-of-england-promoting-patient-centred-care-and-behaviour-change-for-people-with-long-term-conditions- 409,426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/health-coaching-in-the-east-of-england-promoting-patient-centred-care-and-behaviour-change-for-people-with-long-term-conditions- Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:00:00 GMT Jagtar Dhanda, head of inclusion at Macmillan Cancer Support, discusses the role of healthcare assistance in the patient experience. There are currently 1.3 million frontline unregistered staff in the UK who deliver the bulk of care in hospitals, care homes and individuals’ own homes. Included in this figure are healthcare... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/how-healthcare-assistants-can-transform-cancer-patient-experience 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/how-healthcare-assistants-can-transform-cancer-patient-experience Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:00:00 GMT Simon Monkman, managing director at Premier IT, outlines how forward-thinking healthcare organisations such as NHS England Central Midlands (north) are preparing for nurse revalidation. With revalidation commencing in 2015 and a number of official Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) revalidation pilot projects underway, what are... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/nhs-england-central-midlands-conducts-innovative-pilot-to-ensure-readiness-for-nurse-revalidation 426,412 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/nhs-england-central-midlands-conducts-innovative-pilot-to-ensure-readiness-for-nurse-revalidation Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:00:00 GMT Paul Hughes, head of NHS Providers at Grant Thornton UK LLP, discusses the challenges for local leaders. We recently completed our annual review of NHS governance, which considers current governance-related challenges and opportunities facing the NHS. Taking into account the Five Year Forward View report, there is a greater need than ever... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/nhs-governance-and-financial-resilience 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/nhs-governance-and-financial-resilience Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:00:00 GMT Gordon MacDonald, director of Loughborough University’s new MSc in Healthcare and Societal Resilience, looks at the challenge of ‘societal resilience’ and what it means to practitioners today. ‘The arrow one foresees arrives more gently’ – Dante, ‘Paradiso’.  In simple... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-need-for-healthcare-and-societal-resilience 426,405 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-need-for-healthcare-and-societal-resilience Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:00:00 GMT Gayle Curry and registered nurse Andrew Lang from the health and care team at law firm Blake Morgan discuss the need for a change in mindset to truly deliver integrated care. With all the noise surrounding the need to integrate health and social care, there is a risk that it will drown out the very essence of what integrated care is... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/integrating-health-and-social-care-taking-stock-of-the-options-and-moving-forward 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/integrating-health-and-social-care-taking-stock-of-the-options-and-moving-forward Tue, 31 Mar 2015 11:45:00 GMT Professor Terry Young, Associate Dean, Health Partnerships at Brunel University London, explains the work of the Cumberland Initiative, its new CumberLAB facility and its quest to untangle the trickiest healthcare problems. In editing her father’s letters (‘Don’t you have time to think?’, 2005, Penguin), Michelle... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-place-to-think 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-place-to-think Wed, 25 Mar 2015 09:45:00 GMT Helen Kirk, nursing and midwifery interim revalidation lead at Public Health England (PHE), describes its experiences as a pilot site. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has begun the process to introduce revalidation for nurses and midwives. The NMC describes revalidation as a ‘process that all nurses and midwives will need to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/revalidation-pilot-for-nurses-and-midwives-in-public-health-england 426,412,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/revalidation-pilot-for-nurses-and-midwives-in-public-health-england Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:30:00 GMT How can politicians, where the buck very publicly stops, be confident of what’s going on in the NHS? Politicians of all parties will be reticent to give more to the service – whether money, media air cover or autonomy – when they aren’t sure what they’d get in return. Ferelith Gaze, head of public affairs at... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/building-trust-in-the-nhs-the-role-of-the-centre-in-facilitating-change 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/building-trust-in-the-nhs-the-role-of-the-centre-in-facilitating-change Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:30:00 GMT Jonathan Seddon and Wendy Currie of the Audencia Nantes School of Management, France, discuss the practical benefits of mobile health, also known as mHealth. Europe’s health systems are facing many challenges. People are living longer (by 2050, the average life expectancy in Europe will be 82.5), chronic illness is increasing (the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/mobile-phones-are-vital-to-the-future-of-european-healthcare 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/mobile-phones-are-vital-to-the-future-of-european-healthcare Sun, 01 Feb 2015 16:45:00 GMT Simon Holden, chief executive of NHS Property Services, explains how the company’s approach is transforming property and facilities management and reaping efficiencies nationwide. The setting up of NHS Property Services was one of the less publicised aspects of the 2013 health service reforms. Property was perceived as a... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/new-approach-to-nhs-property-brings-efficiency-to-the-fore 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/new-approach-to-nhs-property-brings-efficiency-to-the-fore Sun, 01 Feb 2015 15:30:00 GMT Jenny Powell, director of JDP Procurement Services Ltd, discusses the need to embrace innovation and eliminate waste in NHS procurement, in response to the Autumn Statement and Five Year Forward View. Following the 2014 Autumn Statement announcement outlining the government’s implementation plans for its ‘Five Year Forward... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/embracing-innovation-and-eliminating-waste-in-nhs-procurement 426,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/embracing-innovation-and-eliminating-waste-in-nhs-procurement Sun, 01 Feb 2015 14:15:00 GMT Bruce Potter, partner at law firm Blake Morgan, discusses Circle’s abandonment of its contract at Hinchingbrooke and the complexity of the situation. As the dust settles following the news that Circle is going to pull out of the Hinchingbrooke franchise, what are the real lessons about the use of franchise or management contracts... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/hinchingbrooke-a-one-off-failure-or-a-failure-of-franchising-itself 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/hinchingbrooke-a-one-off-failure-or-a-failure-of-franchising-itself Sun, 01 Feb 2015 13:30:00 GMT General practitioner and NHS Alliance chair Dr Michael Dixon, a member of NHE’s editorial board, explores the reasons young doctors are turning their backs on family practice. I have been a happy and fulfilled GP for over 30 years. During that time, my work has changed almost beyond belief, while the system has stayed almost exactly... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/why-dont-doctors-want-to-become-gps-anymore 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/why-dont-doctors-want-to-become-gps-anymore Sun, 01 Feb 2015 11:45:00 GMT Lord Darzi is chairing the upcoming World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH). One of the UK’s leading surgeons and cancer experts, as well as a noted leader in health policy and innovation, he argues that the Cancer Drugs Fund has bypassed the principles of fairness and value for money on which NICE was founded. The rocketing cost... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/delivering-affordable-cancer-care-meeting-the-challenge-for-now-and-future-generations 426,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/delivering-affordable-cancer-care-meeting-the-challenge-for-now-and-future-generations Sun, 01 Feb 2015 11:00:00 GMT General practice and primary care have now reported their first feedback to NHS England for the Friends & Family Test. There have been mixed results, argues Jim Ward at Good4Health. The primary care Friends & Family Test (FFT) is now online, with dentistry and others to follow. Have they had a good experience? Unlike... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/gathering-feedback-isnt-always-as-easy-as-it-seems 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/gathering-feedback-isnt-always-as-easy-as-it-seems Sun, 01 Feb 2015 10:45:00 GMT Dr Mike Knapton, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation, a member of NHE’s editorial board and a part-time GP in Cambridge, discusses smoking cessation. In a few weeks I expect nearly a million smokers will try to quit for good on No Smoking Day on 11 March.  It’s taken a long time, but with... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/are-we-in-sight-of-a-smoke-free-britain 426,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/are-we-in-sight-of-a-smoke-free-britain Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:30:00 GMT Professor David Haslam chairs the National Obesity Forum, which leads National Obesity Awareness Week (www.noaw.org.uk), taking place between 12 and 18 January. He also sits on NHE’s Editorial Board. It’s no secret that the UK has an obesity problem. The evidence speaks for itself. HSCIC data shows obesity rates amongst... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/time-to-tackle-obesity 426,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/time-to-tackle-obesity Tue, 13 Jan 2015 09:45:00 GMT Dr Janet Harrison, director of MSc Healthcare Management and Governance Centre for Information Management at the School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University, explores the role of training and development in tackling the NHS funding gap. The general election planned for May 2015 has kicked the NHS back – as usual and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/mind-the-gap-the-nhs-funding-question 426,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/mind-the-gap-the-nhs-funding-question Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:30:00 GMT Integrated care is heralded as the way forward for health and social care services facing the increasing demands of populations who are living longer, and where increasing numbers of people are living with complex conditions. Mary Twomey, programme director for health and social care at the Open University, argues that in order to succeed... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/integrated-care--from-whose-perspective 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/integrated-care--from-whose-perspective Fri, 14 Nov 2014 12:00:00 GMT Sir Charlie Mayfield, chair of the John Lewis Partnership, explains the relevance of his company’s employee-ownership model to the NHS. I am often asked whether the ‘John Lewis model’ – owned by its employees – has applicability within the public sector and specifically the health service. The parallels... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/shared-responsibility-and-shared-reward 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/shared-responsibility-and-shared-reward Fri, 14 Nov 2014 12:00:00 GMT Matt James, research fellow at think tank 2020health, and its chief executive Julia Manning, argue that the commissioning process has been fractured by distinguishing between the treatment and prevention of HIV. American comedian George Burns may have quipped, “You can’t help getting older but you don’t have to get... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/growing-older-positively-the-challenge-of-commissioning-for-an-ageing-hiv-population 426,410 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/growing-older-positively-the-challenge-of-commissioning-for-an-ageing-hiv-population Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:15:00 GMT Dr Rachael Addicott, a senior research fellow at The King’s Fund, discusses her latest publication. Many clinical commissioning croups (CCGs) across England are starting to consider how to use different contract models to encourage greater collaboration between providers at a local level. The ambition to collaborate and deliver more... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/four-lessons-for-contracting-integrated-care 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/four-lessons-for-contracting-integrated-care Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:15:00 GMT Professor Rick Hillum, CEO of the High Performance Computing (HPC) Wales collaboration, explains how supercomputing can be used to help speed-up breakthroughs in medical research. Over the past two centuries, innovations in healthcare have led to breakthroughs such as the administering of antibiotics, the use of anaesthesia and wide-scale... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/supercomputers-powering-medical-innovation-in-the-21st-century 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/supercomputers-powering-medical-innovation-in-the-21st-century Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:15:00 GMT Dr Tony Lloyd, CEO of The ADHD Foundation, argues that many GPs are inadequately trained to identify neurodisabilities in children. ADHD is a lightning rod for overstretched paediatric and child and adolescent mental health services. The NHS and the Department for Education need to address the impact ADHD has on the lives of families... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/prescribing-of-adhd-medications-has-doubled-in-six-years 409,426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/prescribing-of-adhd-medications-has-doubled-in-six-years Tue, 07 Oct 2014 09:45:00 GMT Who is best placed to drive estate strategy in the community – CCGs as commissioners providing a whole economy overview or providers who know what premises they need to best support the services they deliver? Ian Greggor, who has years of experience in health estate planning, explores the issues.  One of a few issues that... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/should-ccgs-let-providers-determine-the-local-estate-strategy 426,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/should-ccgs-let-providers-determine-the-local-estate-strategy Sun, 28 Sep 2014 11:00:00 GMT Healthcare experts Jonathan Pearson, Colin Lewry and Greg Scrine discuss the history – and the future – of mergers in the sector.  "Between 1997 and 2003, over half of the 200 or so acute NHS hospitals in England were involved in a merger in which at least one hospital trust was absorbed into another. The scale of the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/making-hospital-and-health-system-consolidations-work 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/making-hospital-and-health-system-consolidations-work Sun, 28 Sep 2014 10:45:00 GMT Ruth McDonald, professor of governance and public management at Warwick Business School, argues that hospital pay for performance schemes need more evaluation.  Linking financial rewards to health outcomes or proxy outcomes has become increasingly popular in the NHS in recent years. This increased adoption of ‘Pay for... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/paying-for-performance-in-the-nhs-what-can-we-learn-from-the-latest-evidence 426,405 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/paying-for-performance-in-the-nhs-what-can-we-learn-from-the-latest-evidence Sun, 28 Sep 2014 10:30:00 GMT John Deverill, director of Integrating Care, discusses the CC4C initiative. It is a shocking fact that child mortality in Britain is the worst when compared to other similar European countries” – Dr Daniel Poulter, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health. The sagacity of Jeremy Hunt’s recent call to bridge... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/connecting-care-for-children-bridging-the-gap-in-north-west-london 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/connecting-care-for-children-bridging-the-gap-in-north-west-london Fri, 01 Aug 2014 16:00:00 GMT In June the public selected antibiotic resistance to be the focus of the Longitude Prize 2014. This £10m prize fund is calling for a new and innovative point of care toolkit that will help combat the growing problem of antibiotic resistance. Anna Williams, researcher on the project, explains. Antibiotics have revolutionised medicine... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/widening-scope-to-tackle-antimicrobial-resistance- 426,408,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/widening-scope-to-tackle-antimicrobial-resistance- Fri, 01 Aug 2014 15:45:00 GMT Health commentator and consultant Paul Corrigan, Adjunct Professor of Public Health at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and of Health Policy at Imperial College London, is a former health adviser to Number 10 under the Labour government. He is now part of the Integrating Care collective and here reports from a roundtable on health and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/health-and-wellbeing-boards-from-health-improvement-to-helping-make-homes-a-place-of-safety-for-the-frail 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/health-and-wellbeing-boards-from-health-improvement-to-helping-make-homes-a-place-of-safety-for-the-frail Fri, 01 Aug 2014 15:15:00 GMT Dr Andrew Goddard (consultant gastroenterologist at the Royal Derby Hospital and Royal College of Physicians Registrar) and Professor Ceri Phillips (professor of health economics at Swansea University and director of research at the College of Human and Health Sciences), examine iron deficiency anaemia and what it means for the NHS. Iron... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/lifting-the-mist-on-acscs-identifying-real-issues-draining-the-nhs 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/lifting-the-mist-on-acscs-identifying-real-issues-draining-the-nhs Thu, 31 Jul 2014 09:00:00 GMT A new report has shown that more needs to be done to prevent sharps injuries, says Paul de Raeve, Secretary General of the European Federation of Nurses Associations. It is a topic that has increasingly come to the fore in recent years, and it is evident that, when it comes to safety, healthcare professionals, especially nurses, are committed... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/room-for-improvement 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/room-for-improvement Wed, 28 May 2014 16:45:00 GMT Whether in health, education or finance, innovation isn’t simply about creating something new. To have impact, promising products, tools and services need to be identified, shared and taken up. So how do we get the best and most promising medicines, technologies and services to those who can benefit from them? Kathleen Stokes, senior... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-opportunity-of-eams-earlier-guidance-is-only-the-start 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-opportunity-of-eams-earlier-guidance-is-only-the-start Wed, 28 May 2014 16:30:00 GMT The NHS is the biggest single healthcare system in the world and it deserves to be recognised as being the best at healthcare improvement in the world. NHS Improving Quality’s new managing director Steve Fairman examines how we’re changing the way we change and improve the NHS. We all read and hear every day that the NHS is in... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/changing-how-we-change-the-nhs 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/changing-how-we-change-the-nhs Wed, 28 May 2014 15:30:00 GMT Steph Palmerone and Mike Speakman have been looking at successes and failures in Intermediate Care. They have come to some very clear conclusions. Everyone knows there is something wrong with the number of people we admit to hospital. Successive reviews of acute in-patient episodes in many health economies show needless occupied bed-days... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-10-important-features-of-intermediate-care 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-10-important-features-of-intermediate-care Wed, 28 May 2014 15:15:00 GMT 2020health.org recently launched its new report, ‘Healthcare and the economy 2: Going with the flow’. The briefing paper by chief executive Julia Manning and operations director Gail Beer looks beyond ‘the NHS must change’ mantra to actually consider how to change. Below is an extract on the proposal to ‘colour... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/colour-coded-service-change 426,405,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/colour-coded-service-change Wed, 21 May 2014 08:45:00 GMT Claire Kennedy and Simon Morioka, managing directors at PPL, urge critics of the Better Care Fund to examine the arguments first. In the past week, there has been increasing public debate as to the value of the Better Care Fund. On one side, the Better Care Fund has been put forward as a solution to one of the biggest problems... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/dont-jump-to-conclusions-look-at-the-bcf-facts 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/dont-jump-to-conclusions-look-at-the-bcf-facts Mon, 12 May 2014 14:30:00 GMT Brian O’Connor, chair of the European Connected Health Alliance, discusses the importance of ensuring patients understand the benefits of connected health. Connected healthcare is rapidly moving from future vision to contemporary reality. Despite this, for all the discussion of technical and commercial considerations, the way in which... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/why-communication-has-become-paramount-to-the-success-of-connected-health 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/why-communication-has-become-paramount-to-the-success-of-connected-health Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:01:00 GMT Dr Sue O’Connell, Community Health Partnerships’ chief executive, examines how the strategic use of property benefits the NHS, local authorities and local communities. There are many challenges faced by the NHS and other public sector organisations when trying to improve community-based services, but two things are a given;... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/improving-the-primary-and-community-estate-better-quality-better-value-better-health 426,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/improving-the-primary-and-community-estate-better-quality-better-value-better-health Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:00:00 GMT Endocrinologist Dr Kenneth Strauss, director of safety in medicine at the European Medical Association and global medical director at BD, discusses healthcare worker safety. A decade after the United States of America passed the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act (NSPA)[1], the European Council issued a Directive on sharps injury... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/insight-into-the-outcomes-of-sharps-injury-legislation-the-us-experience-and-its-lessons-for-europe 426,412 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/insight-into-the-outcomes-of-sharps-injury-legislation-the-us-experience-and-its-lessons-for-europe Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:00:00 GMT Helen Sanderson and Tracey Bush discuss patient-centred care Spiral Health CIC in Blackpool, the first NHS foundation trust hospital to become a social enterprise. Jeremy Hunt said recently that it was essential every patient was treated as a person – a person with a name and a person with a family, not a diagnostic puzzle or a... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/our-patient-journey-becomes-a-reality 409,426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/our-patient-journey-becomes-a-reality Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:00:00 GMT Professor Terry Young, Brunel University’s professor of healthcare systems, updates NHE on progress made with The Cumberland Initiative, following up on our interview with him one year ago.  Our care system is often described as being in crisis – which is interesting, given the amount of health we enjoy in our lengthening... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/rational-decisions-at-a-time-of-change 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/rational-decisions-at-a-time-of-change Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:00:00 GMT Practising GP Dr Anita Nathan discusses the opportunities and challenges that technology poses for the future of primary care in the ‘Skype generation’. As our daily lives increasingly move online, the NHS needs to consider how it can embrace technology to become more efficient and engage with the new generation of GPs and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/prepare-for-the-digital-future-of-primary-care 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/prepare-for-the-digital-future-of-primary-care Tue, 04 Mar 2014 12:01:00 GMT Patsy Ryan of the Strategic Projects Team outlines some of the organisation’s recent successes and its history. Dust is settling on the most significant healthcare reforms for decades and the new NHS landscape is clearly visible. On the skyline, nestling alongside the new organisations, is an increasingly familiar powerhouse of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/groundbreaking-change-in-challenging-circumstances 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/groundbreaking-change-in-challenging-circumstances Tue, 04 Feb 2014 16:01:00 GMT Nick Pickles, director of civil liberties campaign Big Brother Watch, sets out his concerns about care.data The issue of data, particularly big data, has shot up the headlines in recent months, whether you are following the revelations of government surveillance from Edward Snowden, the increasing efforts by businesses  to sell... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/honey-pot-or-pot-of-gold 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/honey-pot-or-pot-of-gold Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:01:00 GMT What does close partnership working mean in practice when it comes to delivering successful shared service projects? Jonathan Tringham, director of finance and resources at Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership NHS Trust, and David Morris, business development director of NHS Shared Business Services, explain more.  It is... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/how-a-strong-shared-service-partnership-can-bring-about-successful-transformation 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/how-a-strong-shared-service-partnership-can-bring-about-successful-transformation Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:01:00 GMT Paul Hughes, NHS provider sector lead at Grant Thornton UK LLP, which has been working with the NHS for over 30 years, discusses the financial challenges facing the NHS and the need to deliver cost improvement plans in a fundamentally different way. The financial challenges facing the UK economy are combining with ever-increasing demand... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/strengthening-financial-resilience-alternative-therapy-for-the-nhs 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/strengthening-financial-resilience-alternative-therapy-for-the-nhs Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:01:00 GMT Graeme Currie, Professor of Public Management at Warwick Business School, examines the role of middle managers in the context of service improvement, drawing upon research funded by the NIHR HS&DR programme carried out by a team he led. The value of middle managers in large organisations has been questioned for decades. When times... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/using-not-abusing-middle-managers-hybrid-middle-managers-are-knowledge-brokers-for-service-improvement 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/using-not-abusing-middle-managers-hybrid-middle-managers-are-knowledge-brokers-for-service-improvement Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:01:00 GMT The Design Council and Frontier Economics recently published evidence that accident & emergency departments could improve patient experience, increase staff wellbeing and save money by using a new and proven design solution called ‘A Better A&E’. Based on this evidence, Design Council recommends that other trusts now adopt... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-new-approach-to-creating-a-better-ae 426,405 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-new-approach-to-creating-a-better-ae Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:00:00 GMT Vicki Sellick explains why Nesta and the Cabinet Office are making more than £1.5m available to encourage more volunteers to help out in hospitals. No-one likes to spend time in hospital. It’s an experience we all dread. It can be confusing and a time of great anxiety, wondering what the future holds. Knowing we have access to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/making-helping-in-hospitals-the-norm 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/making-helping-in-hospitals-the-norm Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:00:00 GMT John Flook, a former NHS finance director in the north east who has been a non-executive director of NHS Professionals since 2003, says bringing together managers from different background creates impressive outcomes. Does the NHS need managers from the private sector? Do they bring much-needed ‘hard’ commercial skills or do they... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/private-sector-or-nhs-managers-its-time-for-a-blend-of-both 426,405 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/private-sector-or-nhs-managers-its-time-for-a-blend-of-both Thu, 05 Dec 2013 16:00:00 GMT Juliette Swift and Helen Kilgannon of the NHS’s North West Workforce Modernisation Hub and Amanda Bassett of McKesson discuss new staffing models. There is a real focus across the world on healthcare workforce: their availability, how they are deployed, and the subsequent impact on the quality of care that service users... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/staffing-models-in-healthcare-an-exploration-of-the-literature 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/staffing-models-in-healthcare-an-exploration-of-the-literature Thu, 05 Dec 2013 16:00:00 GMT Tasy Warn, director of employment services at NHS Shared Business Services, discusses process innovation. When most people think of processes and procedures, the word innovation probably doesn’t spring to mind. After all, you wonder just how much innovation can be introduced to revolutionise procedures such as filling in an expenses... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/why-process-innovation-will-play-a-key-role-in-achieving-future-efficiency-savings-within-the-nhs 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/why-process-innovation-will-play-a-key-role-in-achieving-future-efficiency-savings-within-the-nhs Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:45:00 GMT Our health and care system, as well as its workforce, will undoubtedly look very different in the years to come, says Matt Edwards, head of Horizon Scanning and International at the Centre for Workforce Intelligence. What we as a population will require of health and care services is changing rapidly. The workforce will require different... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/horizon-2035-health-and-care-workforce-futures 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/horizon-2035-health-and-care-workforce-futures Mon, 02 Dec 2013 15:30:00 GMT Michael Boyd, partner and head of the healthcare group at business law firm DWF, examines CSU ownership. The recent suggestion that NHS England could allow CCGs to take ownership of the Commissioning Support Units (CSUs) that provide them with support services has prompted two categories of response. Those in the public sector, who... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/structure-options-for-the-ownership-of-commissioning-support-units 426,410 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/structure-options-for-the-ownership-of-commissioning-support-units Mon, 02 Dec 2013 14:45:00 GMT NHE editorial board member Dr David Haslam, chair of the National Obesity Forum and an ambassador for National Obesity Awareness Week, which takes place between 13 and 19 January 2014, discusses the problems facing primary care and what can be done about it. These are the facts. Only one in three men in England had what would be considered a... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/turning-obesity-around 426,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/turning-obesity-around Mon, 02 Dec 2013 13:30:00 GMT Professor Michael West, of Lancaster University Management School and visiting fellow at The King’s Fund, is the lead author on a major new report into quality and safety in the NHS, part of the Department of Health’s Policy Research Programme. It involved more than 400 interviews with leaders and staff across NHS organisations, as... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/quality-and-safety-in-the-nhs 426,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/quality-and-safety-in-the-nhs Mon, 02 Dec 2013 13:15:00 GMT Professor Sir Peter Rubin, chair of the General Medical Council (GMC), outlines the importance of CPD for doctors. Continuing Professional Development (CPD) has been a feature of medical practice throughout my career, but for much of that time it was optional, organised by the doctor and meant different things to different... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/cpd-supporting-doctors-to-be-at-the-leading-edge-of-medical-practice 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/cpd-supporting-doctors-to-be-at-the-leading-edge-of-medical-practice Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:45:00 GMT Gerry McGivern, professor of organisational analysis at Warwick Business School, makes the case for managed networks.  In times of austerity, can we afford compassionate NHS leadership? The findings of a three-year study of the NHS I was involved in suggests tapping into a sense of compassion is what often drives NHS leaders to face... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/wicked-problems- 426,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/wicked-problems- Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:45:00 GMT David Noble, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS), gives his reaction to the new national procurement strategy for the NHS. It goes without saying that the NHS is a hugely emotive and vital service and with that comes great responsibility and challenges. The procurement development programme has... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-new-push-for-procurement 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-new-push-for-procurement Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:00:00 GMT Claire Henry, head of programmes for Long Term Conditions and End of Life Care at NHS Improving Quality and the former director of the National End of Life Care Programme, discusses integration and technology. People today are living longer, healthier lives than ever before. Diseases that were once fatal can now be cured or managed, adding... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/delivering-the-right-care-at-the-right-time-in-the-right-place 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/delivering-the-right-care-at-the-right-time-in-the-right-place Wed, 25 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT Dr Ann Driver, head of programmes for Acute Care at NHS Improving Quality, sets out the benefits of more accessible care outside of normal working hours. For health and care services to be truly integrated, individuals must be able to access the services they need regardless of what day of the week it is. This requires collaboration across... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/making-care-and-support-available-seven-days-a-week 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/making-care-and-support-available-seven-days-a-week Wed, 25 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT The role of the London Implant Retrieval Centre (LIRC) in shaping the future of hip surgery - Professor Alister Hart, consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust, and chair of Clinical Orthopaedics at the UCL Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences, writes for NHE about the LIRC. The London Implant... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/understanding-the-failure-of-metal-on-metal-mom-implants 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/understanding-the-failure-of-metal-on-metal-mom-implants Wed, 25 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT Max Moullin and Rob Copeland explain how the Public Sector Scorecard can be used to evaluate public health programmes. Achieving the objectives of many public and voluntary sector organisations involves changing people’s behaviour. Whether they wish people to drink less, drive more carefully, reduce substance abuse, lose weight... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/implementing-and-evaluating-behaviour-change-programmes-with-the-public-sector-scorecard 426,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/implementing-and-evaluating-behaviour-change-programmes-with-the-public-sector-scorecard Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:30:00 GMT Dr Donal Hynes and Dr Minoo Irani of the NHS Alliance argue for an integrated system that sees care organised around individuals’ and populations’ health, in which emergency admission is viewed as a failure. The principle of healthcare in the NHS has always been clear: the maintenance of health of individuals and populations... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/integration-in-the-new-environment-what-is-the-vision-and-how-do-we-advance-it 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/integration-in-the-new-environment-what-is-the-vision-and-how-do-we-advance-it Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:30:00 GMT The Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) programme has successfully delivered a significant range of health and regeneration benefits for some of the most disadvantaged parts of England, according to an independent report that examined the programme’s socio-economic impacts over the past ten years. Dr Sue O’Connell, chief... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/socio-economic-and-health-impacts-of-lift-10-years-of-delivering-public-private-partnerships 426,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/socio-economic-and-health-impacts-of-lift-10-years-of-delivering-public-private-partnerships Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:30:00 GMT Julian Hartley, managing director at NHS Improving Quality (NHS IQ), describes the establishment, strategy and vision of the new organisation. The NHS is going through perhaps the most significant and wide-reaching changes since being created in 1948. It must adapt to the needs of the people it serves, recognising that while we are... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/time-for-change--rising-to-the-challenge-of-delivering-top-quality-affordable-healthcare-for-all 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/time-for-change--rising-to-the-challenge-of-delivering-top-quality-affordable-healthcare-for-all Sat, 01 Jun 2013 16:30:00 GMT Charlotte Morris, research assistant at think tank 2020health.org, discusses the lessons the NHS in England can learn about digital healthcare from the US Veterans Health Administration. We are at a crossroads in England in the delivery of healthcare. New technologies mean that we have the potential to deliver healthcare and monitoring... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/making-connections--new-pathways-enabled-by-technology-are-essential-for-england 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/making-connections--new-pathways-enabled-by-technology-are-essential-for-england Sat, 01 Jun 2013 11:00:00 GMT Sue Collins, head of health and social care at the British Red Cross, says its core principle of ‘refusing to ignore people in crisis’ is at the very heart of its care policy. The Care Bill, chaos in A&E, promises of reform and integration – in the last few weeks the issue of health and social care services have... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/care-in-the-home 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/care-in-the-home Sat, 01 Jun 2013 09:15:00 GMT The National Health Action Party was formed to protect a public NHS, following the introduction of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. Dr Clive Peedell, writing in his capacity as co-leader of the party, describes its formation and cause. Prior to the 2010 General Election the NHS wasn’t one of the key election battlegrounds... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/a-political-party-that-can-be-trusted-by-the-public 426,405 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/a-political-party-that-can-be-trusted-by-the-public Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Kevin Croft, president of the Healthcare People Management Association (HPMA) and director of people & organisational development at Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, outlines how good people management is vital in the NHS. The need to APPRECIATE The case that good people management improves organisational... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/appreciate-people-management-to-improve-patient-care 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/appreciate-people-management-to-improve-patient-care Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT From planning primary health facilities to effectively targeting public health programmes, NHS North Essex is mapping the way to better healthcare services. Colin Seward, public health intelligence specialist at NHS North Essex, explains. NHS North Essex is the umbrella organisation for a group of agencies working together to plan and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/mapping-the-way-to-better-healthcare-in-essex 426,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/mapping-the-way-to-better-healthcare-in-essex Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT The quality of healthcare experienced by patients is inextricably linked to the climate, culture and development experienced by staff. Good leadership is an essential ingredient of this mix and the new inter-collegiate Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management has embarked on the exciting journey of professionalising and promoting... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/medical-leadership-time-to-get-serious 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/medical-leadership-time-to-get-serious Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Helen Sanderson and Tracey Bush explain the new patient-centred approach to care that’s proving successful at a Blackpool hospital unit. Person-centred approaches focus on understanding what matters to individuals and how they want to be supported and cared for. We believe these approaches can help to deliver a better quality of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/using-person-centred-practices-to-improve-hospital-care 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/using-person-centred-practices-to-improve-hospital-care Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT The Francis inquiry into care at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust and the furore over ‘gagging clauses’ has placed whistleblowing in the spotlight for NHS employers. Robert Davies (partner) and Val Dougan (professional support lawyer) of the employment team at national law firm Dundas & Wilson explain the situation. The... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/whistleblowing-reforms 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/whistleblowing-reforms Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Kath Fontana of BAM FM sets out an innovative development that will change the way our hospitals manage their facilities. Hospitals are complex buildings. How their facilities are managed is critical to patients’ wellbeing and has a direct effect on the hospital’s success. And yet, arguably, facilities management within them... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/digital-facilities-management-in-hospitals-the-future-is-almost-here 426,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/digital-facilities-management-in-hospitals-the-future-is-almost-here Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT The NHS Alliance has launched a new manifesto for primary care, ‘Breaking Boundaries’, accompanied by 25 thought pieces. Here, Dr Mark Davies, medical director at the Health and Social Care Information Centre and a GP in Yorkshire, argues that GPs have a duty not only to make sure patient data is kept safe and used responsibly... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/care-without-boundaries-the-future-of-information 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/care-without-boundaries-the-future-of-information Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT Professor Tim Briggs, consultant orthopaedic surgeon at RNOH and its director of strategy and external affairs, explains the hospital’s vision for the future. As one of the UK’s leading specialist hospitals, the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) is prominent nationally and internationally as a provider of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/bringing-the-countrys-leading-orthopaedic-hospital-into-the-21st-century 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/bringing-the-countrys-leading-orthopaedic-hospital-into-the-21st-century Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT Julia Manning, founder and chief executive of independent think tank 2020health.org, discusses whole person care. Everyone is talking about integration: Integrated health and social care, integrated services, integrated commissioning. It’s crucial to the design of sustainable services, but it is also a critical mindset too. For not... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/integration-has-to-be-a-mindset-starting-with-whole-person-care-of-the-nhs-workforce 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/integration-has-to-be-a-mindset-starting-with-whole-person-care-of-the-nhs-workforce Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT SHOT director Dr Paula Bolton-Maggs gives an update from the national haemovigilance reporting scheme, Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT). The risks of adverse events after transfusion are fortunately low, but not absent. Infection is very rare compared to errors in the process. Adverse events in relation to blood transfusion are... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/serious-hazards 426,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/serious-hazards Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT Richard Shelley and Sara McCafferty of Newcastle University argue that economic determinants of health have an equally if not more profound impact on individual and population health than the more widely discussed social determinants of health. Here, they discuss the creation and allocation of money, and how it impacts health through debt... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-elephant-in-the-room-economic-determinants-of-health 426,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-elephant-in-the-room-economic-determinants-of-health Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT SHOT director Paula Bolton-Maggs gives an update from the national haemovigilance reporting scheme, Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT). The risks of adverse events after transfusion are fortunately low, but not absent. Infection is very rare compared to errors in the process. Adverse events in relation to blood transfusion... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/serious-hazards-of-transfusion 426,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/serious-hazards-of-transfusion Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:45:00 GMT Kerry Norval and Robert Davies examine the fall-out from a landmark equal pay judgement. There has been some upheaval in the land of equal pay recently, as the Supreme Court has given its judgment in the hotly anticipated case of Birmingham City Council v Abdulla and others and which is anticipated to trigger further multi-million pounds... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/equal-pay-in-the-nhs-after-abdulla-the-calm-before-the-storm 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/equal-pay-in-the-nhs-after-abdulla-the-calm-before-the-storm Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Tim Pryce, head of public sector at the Carbon Trust, explains the staggering scale of the opportunity for energy efficiency across the sector. In an era where the need for austerity and cuts are frequently discussed, opportunities can often be overlooked. The case for the public sector to invest in comprehensive carbon management... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/looking-to-carbon-management-to-drive-resource-efficiency 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/looking-to-carbon-management-to-drive-resource-efficiency Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Toby Knightley-Day responds to the new guidance on the Friends and Family test published by the Department of Health. We should all welcome the publishing of the Department of Health’s (DH) Friends and Family test (FFT) guidelines for the endorsement and clarifi cation they provide. Initial test work undertaken by NHS Midlands and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/making-the-friends-family-test 426,405 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/making-the-friends-family-test Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Leela Barham and Julia Manning of 2020health discuss ways of improving access to orphan drugs. Medicines that are developed to treat conditions with a very low prevalence are usually described as ‘orphan’. The European Commission brought in legislation to encourage research and development (R&D) into rare diseases over a... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/orphan-medicines-special-treatment-required 426,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/orphan-medicines-special-treatment-required Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Rick Stern, chief executive of the NHS Alliance, discusses the new direction the organisation is taking as the NHS reforms come into force. Clinical commissioning is now enshrined in law, the full force of which we will see in April 2013. This unprecedented change in the way services are designed and delivered is something the NHS... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-nhs-alliance-and-the-new-health-and-care-landscape 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-nhs-alliance-and-the-new-health-and-care-landscape Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Tom Stone, public affairs director at NHS Supply Chain, discusses carbon management within the organisation and across the health service. Spending more than £150bn every year on healthcare and being one of the largest employers in the world, it’s inevitable that the NHS will have caused Mother Nature a few problems throughout... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/treading-gently-a-fresh-approach-to-carbon-reduction 426,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/treading-gently-a-fresh-approach-to-carbon-reduction Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Lord Victor Adebowale, chief executive of Turning Point, discusses the role of NHS organisations and employers in tackling mental health issues. As an employer, the public sector has a major role in tackling stigma and mental health issues. The economic cost of mental health issues, such as anxiety and depression, in England has been... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/designing-and-delivering-mental-health-services 426,414 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/designing-and-delivering-mental-health-services Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT Helen Bevan, chief of service transformation at the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, introduces the newlylaunched NHS Change Model. The NHS Change Model has been launched. This is a dynamic framework for change that pulls together everything we know about delivering successful improvement – it’s about improving... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/introducing-the-nhs-change-model-a-shared-approach-to-leading- 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/introducing-the-nhs-change-model-a-shared-approach-to-leading- Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT Chief economist at the Nuffield Trust, Anita Charlesworth, considers the impact of payment reform in the NHS. The NHS is not alone in facing a severe financial squeeze over the coming years. Across Europe, healthcare systems are coming to terms with a medium-term future of rising demand and almost no prospect of meaningful budget... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/making-payment-pay 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/making-payment-pay Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT Sam Hudson, head of experience and engagement at the NHS Institute reports on the NHS Patient Feedback Challenge, a one-year programme designed to find and spread great approaches which use feedback from patients to improve services. An understanding of patient experience can be achieved through a range of activities that capture direct... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/nhs-trusts-rise-to-the-challenge-to-improve-patient 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/nhs-trusts-rise-to-the-challenge-to-improve-patient Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT The NHS is operating in a world which is changing at a scale and pace we have never seen. We are serving a population with increasingly complex and enduring health needs and which is getting older. We are working in challenging financial circumstances and yet we, and our patients, quite rightly have high expectations of the NHS and the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/outstanding-leadership- 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/outstanding-leadership- Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was the overall winner at the QIPP Awards and Conference in Manchester on June 28, chaired by Sir Muir Gray, for its ‘Better Together’ collaboration initiative. Here, Nick Hodson, head of service improvement and programme assurance at the trust, describes its work with the independent... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/better-together 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/better-together Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT Penny Pereira, assistant director at The Health Foundation, discusses quality improvement and leadership development. In 2010 The Health Foundation launched a new leadership and quality improvement programme: GenerationQ. It aims to develop leaders who understand how complex health systems work and have the skills to inspire others to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/generationq 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/generationq Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT Professor Sir Peter Rubin, chair of the General Medical Council, explains the role of doctors and employers in the new CPD guidance. We have recently published new guidance to help doctors across the UK keep their knowledge and skills up to date throughout their working life. ‘Continuing professional development: guidance for... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/reflecting-on-our-new-cpd-guidance 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/reflecting-on-our-new-cpd-guidance Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT Jointly developed by the College of Radiographers and Royal College of Radiologists, the ISAS (Imaging Services Accreditation Scheme) is aimed at UK organisations providing diagnostic imaging services to both the NHS and private sector. Launched in 2009, ISAS promotes best practice by comprehensively addressing patient experience, clinical... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-benefits-of-isas-accreditation 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-benefits-of-isas-accreditation Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT Jules Acton, Director of Engagement & Membership at National Voices, discusses integrated health and social care. Top of patients’ wish list is joined-up care or integration. This came a strong first when National Voices members worked together to set out the improvements service users most want to see in their care and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-principles-of-joined-up-care 409,426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-principles-of-joined-up-care Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT Dr David Haslam, chair of the National Obesity Forum and a Hertfordshire GP, and its vice-chair Debbie Cook, a clinical nurse manager, discuss the evidence base for bariatric surgery, which could be under threat in the new commissioning landscape. The commissioning baton being handed over to primary care is a great opportunity for... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/bariatric-surgery 426,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/bariatric-surgery Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT Dr Susie Sanderson, executive board chair of the British Dental Association (BDA), discusses the changes coming under the NHS reforms, and the importance of local expertise in dental commissioning. Dentistry. Like a well-known brand of wood varnish, it does what it says on the tin. That’s true of course; a general dental... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/dentistry-and-public-health 426,407 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/dentistry-and-public-health Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT Helen Wakefield, co-director of personal and professional development company Windmills, discusses the challenges involved in maintaining staff wellbeing through periods of significant change in the NHS. Service cuts, redundancies, disgruntled patients – times are certainly tough for those working in the NHS at the moment. And all... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/dont-stop-developing 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/dont-stop-developing Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT Gregory Timotheou, senior analyst at Cerner Limited, and Professor Matthew Swindells, the company’s senior vice president and managing director for global consulting, a former NHS CIO who also chairs BCS Health and is a member of NHE’s Editorial Board, discuss employers’ role in improving health outcomes. Working for an... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/making-your-workforce-healthier 426,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/making-your-workforce-healthier Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT Geographic information is playing a vital role in helping the NHS plan and deliver services more effectively. Iain Goodwin from Ordnance Survey explains how a licensing agreement for the public sector enables health organisations to get the most out of digital maps. The Health and Social Care Act is paving the way for a major shake-up of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/mapping-a-path-to-better-healthcare 426,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/mapping-a-path-to-better-healthcare Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT Dave Palmer, solicitor in the employment team at law firm Dundas & Wilson, explains the issues highlighted by a recent Court of Appeal decision. In the last six months, employment tribunals have made a number of extraordinarily large compensation awards in cases involving former NHS employees. In Michalak v Mid Yorkshire... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/suspending-employees-fairly-in-the-nhs 426,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/suspending-employees-fairly-in-the-nhs Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT Steph Palmerone of the NHS Partners Network, director of strategic initiatives at Barchester Healthcare, investigates collaborative working that delivers quality services for the public, brings benefits for the organisations involved and is efficient and effective use of public funds. Although partnership working has been actively... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/collaboration-rather-than-partnership-a-different-approach-in-health-and-social-care 409,426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/collaboration-rather-than-partnership-a-different-approach-in-health-and-social-care Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT Louise Pritchard, managing director of services at Action on Hearing Loss, discusses the Hear to Help programme. Hearing loss is a major public health issue affecting more than 10 million people in the UK – one in six of the population. As our population ages, this number will grow and reach 14.5 million people by 2031. People... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/hear-to-help-partnership-delivers-life-changing-support-for-thousands 426,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/hear-to-help-partnership-delivers-life-changing-support-for-thousands Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT NHS Improvement’s director of audiology improvement Fiona Thow considers the way to improve audiology services throughout the NHS. NHS Improvement’s strength and expertise lies in practical service improvement. It has over a decade of experience in redesigning clinical pathways in cancer, diagnostics, heart, lung, stroke and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/Improving-audiology-services 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/Improving-audiology-services Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT Ranald Macdonald, legal adviser to the NHS Central Legal Office at NHS National Services Scotland, discusses an important legal ruling. In a judgement issued on 24 February 2012, Lady Anne Smith, an Outer House Judge in the Court of Session in Edinburgh, refused a petition from two midwives who considered that they were entitled to be... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/judicial-review-abortion-act-1967 426,405 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/judicial-review-abortion-act-1967 Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT Ingrid Saffin, head of healthcare at law firm Mundays LLP, considers the future for NHS property after the reforms. For many primary care providers, the landlord of their surgery is their local PCT. When PCTs cease to exist in April 2013 – a little over a year’s time – where will that leave the primary care... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/the-future-for-primary-care-premises 426,407 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/the-future-for-primary-care-premises Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT Why do some NHS Trusts thrive while others fail and succumb to having their operations privatised? Vin Mole, a former UK HR director and senior services line manager at AstraZeneca Biopharmaceuticals; Dave Mettam, an organisation, team and personal development consultant; and Jane Searles, an independent specialist systems practitioner... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/insourcing-nhs-trusts 426,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/insourcing-nhs-trusts Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT Nick Chapman, NHS Direct chief executive, discusses the need to provide reliable health information to give patients more choice. NHS 111 will be an innovative addition to the urgent care landscape and will significantly change the way in which people access healthcare. At NHS Direct, we are using our 12 years’ experience in... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/Learning-from-experience-to-deliver-the-NHS-111-service 409,426 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/Learning-from-experience-to-deliver-the-NHS-111-service Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT Dr Nick Goodwin, Senior Fellow at health think tank The King’s Fund, discusses the practicalities of the shift to community-based care. It is no secret that the growing numbers of older people, and the related numbers of people with complex and long-term care needs, will absorb by far the largest share of health and social care... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/Making-a-success-of-case-management 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/Making-a-success-of-case-management Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT Dr David Colin-Thomé, the former National Clinical Director of Primary Care at the Department of Health, now an independent healthcare consultant, makes his case for a reconfiguration of outpatient care. The above quotation is one of Professor Sir Muir Gray’s many aphorisms with which I wholeheartedly concur. In fact I would... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/nhs-outpatient-care-is-a-relic-of-nineteenth-century-medicine 426,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/nhs-outpatient-care-is-a-relic-of-nineteenth-century-medicine Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT Julia Manning, chief executive of independent think tank 2020health, discusses the lessons in long-term condition management emerging from the USA. At present, the NHS spends 70% of its budget on the 15 million individuals who have one or more long-term condition. This number is expected to increase by 23% within the next 20 years due to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Comment/what-can-the-nhs-learn-from-the-vha 426,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Comment/what-can-the-nhs-learn-from-the-vha Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT