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Over 30 sepsis deaths linked to ‘systemic’ failings, investigation reveals
Major progress made in sepsis care during the previous decade has been significantly reversed amid repeated failures in recognising and treating the condition.
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Confirm there is no plan to ‘replace doctors’, NHSE told
The medical regulator has told NHS England to ‘directly tackle’ a perception there is a plan to replace doctors with physician associates amid an ‘intense’ debate about their future.
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Service in ‘very distressing’ state after 19 deaths
The author of a Parliamentary report into ‘failing’ eating disorder services in 2017 says the number of concerning deaths still being reported five years on is ‘very distressing’.
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HSJ Partners
Improving health outcomes by putting patients at the centre of partnerships
Tim Coney sheds light on the urgent need to reevaluate and ensure that patients are the core of partnerships, rather than adopting a contractual approach, consisting of performance-centric models, which is detached from the reality of day-to-day operations
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: A life and death situation
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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Unlocking the ‘miracle cure’
Physical activity is an under-utilised tool in the health and care sector and professional’s toolkit. The time is right to reclaim it, writes Michelle Roberts
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Mackey: cost-saving targets for trusts ‘not really possible’
The cost savings targets set for the most financially challenged trusts ‘probably aren’t really possible’, NHS England’s national director of elective recovery Sir Jim Mackey has warned.
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Health service accused of ‘painfully slow’ progress on eating disorder training
Progress on medical education in eating disorders has been ‘painfully slow’ and is harming patients, a leading consultant psychiatrist has told HSJ.
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Healthcare leader asked to tackle data debacle made a dame
The woman brought in by government to help sort out the latest controversy over the sharing of NHS data has been made a dame in the New Year’s Honours list.
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NHSE pressure led to ‘toxic environment’, report into patient’s death told
NHS England has denied creating a ‘toxic environment’ during a push to reduce the number of people with learning disabilities living in ‘modern-day asylums’, after the criticism emerged in a report detailing sweeping structural failings that contributed to a 47-year-old man’s death.
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HEE tells trusts to prioritise training, or services will suffer
The quality and performance of services will suffer if medical training is not ‘prioritised and funded’ by trusts, Health Education England has warned.
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Hancock brings in top GP to help save controversial ‘data grab’
Matt Hancock has asked a leading GP and the UK’s top statistician to help NHS Digital’s data-sharing programme, which was delayed after backlash from professional bodies and privacy groups.
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‘Secretive’ safety findings set to be revealed direct to CQC
The Care Quality Commission may in future be notified when ‘secretive’ external reviews have looked at patient safety issues within trusts.
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NHS England gives green light to drop four-hour A&E target
NHS England is pushing ahead with plans to replace the NHS’s four-hour emergency target with a new set of 10 metrics, it has announced today.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: Why focusing on year-long waiters is futile
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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Tributes paid to ‘exceptional’ national A&E leader ‘who will be remembered forever’
NHS leaders and former colleagues have paid emotional tributes to Clifford Mann, the national clinical adviser for accident and emergency care, who passed away on Saturday.
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Exclusive: NHS faces winter with ‘2,000 less’ beds than last year
The NHS has ‘significantly less’ beds now than last winter and parts of the system ‘don’t have enough’, a NHS England and Improvement director has admitted.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: ‘Stay away patients’ are causing alarm
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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Comment
Why ‘empty hospitals’ headlines mislead
David Oliver explains how statistics have been picked to portray the pandemic as a ‘scamdemic’ and policy responses as over-reactions in a misrepresentation of hospital admissions and bed occupancy rates
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HSJ80 full list: The most influential people in health
The HSJ80 lists the figures who will exercise the most power and/or influence in the English NHS and health policy over the next 12 months