All Health Service Journal articles in April 2022
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NewsAmbulance waits hit two hours for heart attacks and strokes
Average waits for an ambulance for stroke and heart attack patients have reached as long as two hours in one region, after a further fall in performance in recent weeks, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ PartnersWatch: Deploying the NHS covid-19 data ecosystem
At the start of the pandemic, technology partners Palantir, AWS and Faculty collaborated to help power the NHS’s Covid-19 response. By leveraging this technology, the NHS was able rapidly form a single source of truth that was used to power decision-making across the organization at a national scale.
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HSJ Local‘Political targets’ could make NHS ‘forget all the system stuff’, warns trust CEO
Pressure from politicians and regulators to hit emergency and elective targets will drive ‘unhelpful behaviours’ that undermine the integration of care services, a long-serving CEO has warned.
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CommentExclusive: NHS unveils technology revolution
The NHS has solved the problems of urgent care demand and staffing at a stroke with the news that it is to roll out artificial intelligence (AI) software to predict A&E attendance, writes Olaf Priol.
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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Training neglected, staff unhappy and spending curbed
Your essential update on health for the week.
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NewsCovid admissions now higher than January peak
There were more admissions of covid-positive patients to English hospitals last week than at the peak of the January wave.
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NewsGovt cuts £330m from NHS budget and gives it 13 priorities
The government has reduced the NHS revenue budget for 2022-23 by £330m, after the Treasury refused to fund the Department of Health and Social Care for additional ongoing covid costs, HSJ understands.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Words of warning
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsBullying among top surgeons sparks two national investigations
‘Horrifying and upsetting’ reports of bullying in prestigious heart units are being probed by national officials and professional leaders, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalFormer hospital chief hired to lead ICS
A former hospital trust chief is set to be appointed chair of one of the largest integrated care boards.
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Daily InsightThe Primer: Haunted by Shrewsbury failures
The Primer provides a rapid guide to the most interesting comment and analysis on the English health and care sector that has not (usually) appeared in HSJ.
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NewsBoard shake up at NHS England
Sir Andrew Morris will become joint deputy chair of NHS England when it takes on the powers of NHS Improvement later this year, while Lord Ara Darzi is leaving the board.
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HSJ LocalA&E patients waiting more than two days for a bed, warns leaked letter
A clinical director and several senior managers have written to a trust CEO warning that patients are routinely waiting more than 60 hours to be admitted to a ward from accident and emergency, leaving staff “crying with frustration and anger”.
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NewsProcurement of PPE, diagnostics and medical devices to be in-housed by national agency
The national supply chain agency will bring management of significant areas of NHS spend in-house on a permanent basis in a major overhaul of its operating model, HSJ has been told.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Accident (and emergency) waiting to happen
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ LocalTrust leaders seek to combat ‘tough place to come’ to work reputation
Leaders of an acute trust have said they have had to battle a perception from doctors that it is ‘a tough place to come’ to, while also trying to negate the reputation of the town it operates in.
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News'Inadequate' private hospital ‘not suited to modern psychiatric care’
An independent hospital for people with complex learning disabilities or autism is facing fresh criticism from health inspectors just months after it was first placed in special measures.
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HSJ InteractiveHow can the NHS make the most of temporary staff?
Organisations need to find new ways of emphasising how much the service values temporary workers, a recent HSJ webinar suggested. Claire Read reports
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CommentThe NHS is still not learning from past mistakes in maternity
In the light of the Ockenden report, James Titcombe and Nadine Montgomery share their stories of maternity care failings and what is not yet being done to prevent them happening again.
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NewsFinance team at scandal trust was ‘under-staffed and unable to whistleblow’
An under-resourced finance department where staff did not feel they could blow the whistle on senior colleagues was a factor in enabling ‘intentional misstatement’ of a major acute trust’s financial position, HSJ has been told.