All Amanda Pritchard articles – Page 2
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: The chronic covid hangover
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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News
Exclusive: NHSE crackdown on 10-hour ambulance delays
NHS England has launched a new crackdown on trusts it says have a ‘management strategy’ to hold patients in the back of ambulances to cope with emergency pressures inside their hospitals, HSJ has learned.
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News
£100m national accounting system delayed by up to six months
The delivery of a ‘business critical’ accounting system for the NHS has been delayed because the stretched programme team wants more time to ensure readiness in light of a similar project being deemed ‘unachievable’ by a government watchdog, HSJ has learned.
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Comment
The NHS needs to give its 'accidental managers' more support
Inadequate training for NHS managers highlights a pressing need for mandated and high-quality leadership training to enhance patient care and organisational effectiveness, writes Anthony Painter
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News
‘We’re overwhelming people with efficiency asks’, says NHSE director
Local leaders are likely being ‘overwhelmed’ by centrally driven efficiency programmes, according to an internal NHS England document.
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Comment
Amanda Pritchard’s diary: Passionate about priorities
This exclusive extract from the NHS chief executive’s diary is brought to you by the letter P (as told to Julian P)
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: How one trust changed England’s A&E model
A trust that gave its name to a controversial A&E policy has seen performance improve significantly, so this week we discuss how North Bristol Trust handled the risks and how quickly its model could spread throughout the NHS.
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News
Some managers get no training or support, warns Pritchard
Training and development of managers is inadequate and patchy, the NHS England chief executive has warned, arguing that introducing statutory regulation would improve it.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: Targets and funding need to aid inequalities, warns NHSE director
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. HSJ’s Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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News
Pritchard defends NHS productivity levels
The NHS is doing ‘far more’ than it was pre-covid but this is not being reflected in standard measures of productivity, NHS England’s chief executive told MPs today.
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News
Pritchard warns strikes threaten elective targets and safety
NHS England boss Amanda Pritchard has warned that meeting key elective recovery targets to eliminate 65-week waiters by March and ensure the waiting list is falling by next year is becoming “increasingly challenging”.
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Comment
An analyst-shaped hole in the workforce plan
The long-term workforce plan highlights the critical role of data analysis and AI in healthcare but overlooks the existing and growing community of professional healthcare data analysts, writes AphA
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Comment
As a doctor I don’t believe regulation of managers should be a priority
David Oliver expresses his five big doubts on the statutory regulation that is in place for NHS managers and examines the complex realities of accountability and performance in healthcare leadership
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Comment
NHS to get ‘tough on winter’
The government is determined to crack down on the cost of winter to the NHS. Tougher regulation of cold weather could be the answer, reports Julian Patterson
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News
Labour commits to regulating NHS managers
Labour has said it would introduce a tougher system of regulating NHS management, and is consulting the sector on how to approach it, in the wake of Lucy Letby’s murders.
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News
Crumbling estate impacting patient care ‘day in, day out’, NHSE boss tells MPs
NHS England’s finance boss says patient treatment areas are being closed “all the time” due to crumbling estates, fire risks and flooding.
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News
NHS staff to be asked about sexual harassment for the first time
NHS staff will be asked if they have experienced sexual harassment or inappropriate behaviour in the workplace for the first time.
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News
‘Performance variation’ may justify manager regulation, says Barclay
Steve Barclay has cited performance concerns at some trusts as part of the reason he is considering new powers to disbar NHS managers.
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News
Revealed: 60pc of trusts have a ‘first-time’ CEO
Nearly two-thirds of trusts have a ‘first-time’ chief executive, while one-third of the sector’s CEOs have been in their current post for 18 months or less, following a period of remarkable turnover since the covid crisis.
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NHSE calls urgent meeting over powers to strike off managers
Amanda Pritchard has said it is time to “look again” at whether NHS England should be given formal powers to disbar managers for “serious misconduct”.