All Health Service Journal articles in April 2023 – Page 3
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HSJ Interactive
Leadership Q&A: NHS Resolution
Helen Vernon explains why the role of director of safety and learning at NHS Resolution can make a lasting difference to the safety of NHS patients
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News
NHSE ‘turns the screws’ on dozens of trusts without acceptable financial plan
NHS England’s chief finance officer has reprimanded local health service leaders for their inability to produce balanced plans almost a month into the finance year.
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Daily Insight
The mythbuster: 12-hour A&E waits kill – their abolition should be the priority
Now that NHSE has finally started publishing honest 12-hour A&E wait reports, they should rethink their improvement strategy to focus on eliminating them, writes Steve Black
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News
Streeting ‘would not look over NHS England chief’s shoulder’
Wes Streeting has said he would ‘not look over NHS England’s shoulder’ if he became health and social care secretary, calling for ‘clarity’ and a ‘healthier relationship’ between the government and NHSE.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: The NHS’s latest PFI problem
A legal battle has erupted between a hospital trust and bank-backed PFI company over fire safety and payment refusals. We discuss why the case has potentially wider implications for other NHS trusts.
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News
‘National improvement board’ to be set up by NHS England
NHS England has launched a new framework for quality improvement and delivery, including a national board that will pick a ‘small number of shared national priorities’.
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News
NHSE director’s discrimination claims dismissed by tribunal
An employment tribunal has thrown out claims brought by an NHS England director of race and sex discrimination against his employer and its former chief people officer.
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Comment
Wanted: national director of debacles
There’s never been a better time to look for a new job – just ask junior doctors. We’ve scoured the recruitment pages for a selection of the best openings for senior NHS management talent. Julian Patterson presents his top picks
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News
NHS plans new elective target after April deadline missed
System leaders are discussing pushing back the NHS’s target to virtually eliminate 78-week breaches from the waiting list by this month to ‘June or July’, HSJ understands.
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HSJ Partners
Delivering Patricia Hewitt’s ICS vision on a shrinking budget
With Patricia Hewitt’s report on integrated care systems published, ICS leaders and stakeholders must consider how to implement her vision for the future in the face of funding reductions
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: Achievability trumps ambition
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Health secretary to seek legal action over nursing strike
The health secretary will be seeking legal action regarding the Royal College of Nursing’s planned strike on 2 May, it has been announced.
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News
CQC inspectors to strike over pay
Hundreds of Care Quality Commission staff are to strike over pay next month, including those working in inspections teams.
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Comment
How an ICS learned to listen to children and young people
Rukshana Kapasi writes about Barnardo’s Health Equity Collaborative that will help devise solutions on health issues faced by children and young people while taking in their honest views to inform their work
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Expert Briefing
The Ward Round: The estates gender imbalance in senior bands
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce. This week’s column is by HSJ’s ...
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News
Child health checks failed to recover after covid, figures show
Inadequate health visiting provision has led to gaps in care for children and heaped pressure on acute services, senior clinicians have told HSJ.
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News
Ministers blamed for ‘bigger and more complex’ reporting
The level of reporting for the £8bn better care fund has become ‘bigger and more complex’ this year because of ministers’ increased interest in spending on discharge, officials have said.
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HSJ Local
Warning notice over children’s safety sent to trust
A hospital trust has been served a warning notice over safety issues while its children’s and young people’s services have been rated “inadequate”.
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News
Forty trusts are set elective target less ambitious than last year
NHS trusts have been given targets to increase elective activity that range from 103 per cent of pre-pandemic levels to nearly 130 per cent, internal data seen by HSJ reveals.
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: Storing up trouble
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.