All Health Service Journal articles in April 2024 – Page 4
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: Cutting remarks
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
GP takes over community trust as new chair
A GP has been named as the new chair of a community trust in the East of England.
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HSJ Partners
Better, faster, stronger: Incentivising capacity for NHS cancer care
By prioritising a new approach to incentives, policymakers can help create system capacity in cancer services, especially at a time when organisational reform and major financial investment are unlikely, writes David Brocklehurst
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Comment
Dementia is a system challenge
Fiona Carragher, director of research and influencing at Alzheimer’s Society, discusses the findings of The King’s Fund’s research and how ICSs could achieve more in improving dementia diagnosis
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HSJ Interactive
HSJ webinar discussed how to best manage the increasing number of patients seeking obesity treatment
In association with An on-demand version of this webinar is available. The arrival of highly effective new drugs to help patients with obesity lose weight has led to enormous media interest and many patients seeking help. But they may be disappointed: while NICE estimates that nearly 10 ...
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HSJ Partners
Pioneering Excellence: Honouring Healthcare Trailblazers at the HSJ Digital Awards 2024
Tech Mahindra champions NHS digital transformation, highlighting innovations and potential in healthcare technology, writes Jinender Jain
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News
‘Wholly unrealistic’ NHSE financial recovery policy risks ‘significant harm’ warns ICS
Leaders of an integrated care system in the Midlands have warned they cannot make the scale of staffing cuts required to balance the books without putting patients at risk.
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: Bed management blues
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
NHSE appoints to key recovery role after nine-month wait
NHS England has appointed a substantive chief dental officer after filling the post in an interim capacity for almost a year, it has announced.
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News
Block on data sharing contributed to death
A failure to share medical information between IT systems contributed to the death of a man in prison custody, a coroner has concluded.
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News
A&E problem trusts targeted for tech investment
Some of the worst-performing trusts for emergency care performance are set to get funding from NHS England to help manage patient flow through hospital.
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News
Trust ordered to cut 600 posts
A major acute trust has been ordered to cut 600 whole-time equivalent posts, its chief executive has said.
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Daily Insight
The mythbuster: The poverty of positive thinking
The NHS England’s penchant for positive spin on performance belies a deeper need for honesty and hope, crucial for organisational turnaround, writes Steve Black
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News
Two more trusts get ‘mandated intensive support’ over deficits
Two large hospital trusts have been put into NHS England’s “recovery support programme” and placed on the lowest rung of its oversight ratings.
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News
£200k fine ‘reminds trusts to provide safe care’
A trust has been told to pay more than £200k for care failings related to two patients’ deaths.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Patient safety or administrative convenience?
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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News
NHSE director lined up for trust with worst A&E problems
An NHS England director is set to be appointed to the board of a trust with some of the worst A&E problems in recent years, including the most hours lost to ambulance handover delays last year.
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Comment
‘You Turn’ service to continue, vow NHS chiefs
Martin Plackard, chief strategy officer at NHS Blithering, has made an important correction after a plan to extend health services for practitioners was initially misunderstood. Julian Patterson has the details
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Daily Insight
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: One-year waiters, two-year contracts and 100-post redundancies
Your essential update on health for the week.
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Expert Briefing
Patient Safety Watch: What can be done to improve duty of candour?
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.