All Health Service Journal articles in August 2020 – Page 2
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2020: Finance Team of the Year
Winner Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust: Finance Department Over the past 18 months the Sherwood Forest Hospital’s finance team has focused on ‘Working towards excellence’. To do this the team has embraced an initiative called Future-Focused Finance (FFF), which is about improving NHS finance for everyone; recognising the need for ...
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2020: IT & Digital Innovation Award
Winner Focus Games and NHS Partners: FluBee Game The Flu Bee Game is designed to improve vaccination rates by engaging, educating and encouraging staff to get vaccinated. The game presents flu facts, busts vaccine myths and tells players where and how they can get vaccinated in their organisation. The game ...
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2020: Operations and Performance Initiative of the Year
Winner Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust: Clinical Coding Transformation Programme - Getting it right for outpatients, our staff and our trust The Clinical Coding team are vitally important for Kettering as clinically coded data forms the bedrock of information they have on their patients. The trust is on a journey ...
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2020: People & Organisational Development Initiative of the Year
Winner Black Country Healthcare Foundation Trust: Cultural Ambassador Programme The Cultural Ambassador programme was an opportunity to make a difference and challenge any unconscious bias and discrimination that may occur for those black, Asian and minority ethnic employees entering or during formal HR processes. The Cultural Ambassador’s project in partnership ...
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2020: Acute Service Redesign Initiative
Winner Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care Foundation Trust and Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council: Integrated Urgent Care Team - Home First The Integrated Urgent Care Team now work together with other transformation services to support older people living in the community in an integrated model of care to deliver ‘integrated urgent ...
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2020: HSJ Value Award of the Year
Winner Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust: Vocational Rehabilitation Service including the Job Taster Programme Just one in four people suffering from a long-term mental illness are in work. Mental health problems at work cost the economy £34.9bn with a cost to business of £26bn each year. ...
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Diverse performance levels, better data and tighter security
Your essential update on health for the week.
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HSJ Interactive
How can the NHS further accelerate advances in digital communication with patients?
Professor Sultan Mahmud was part of a small expert panel considering how the NHS might further accelerate advances in communicating with patients via online services, particularly given the coronavirus pandemic.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: A warning from 2019-20 performance
HSJ’ s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector - contact me in confidence.
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HSJ Partners
We need to hear the voices of healthcare professionals on how we change the ABPI Code of Practice
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry is consulting on its proposed Code of Practice for 2021, which supports industry to operate in a professional, ethical and transparent manner. ABPI president Haseeb Ahmad explains how healthcare professionals come into contact with the Code, so it is important to contribute their ...
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HSJ Local
Major trust awards facilities contracts worth £236m to two firms
A major London trust has awarded facilities management contracts worth £236m to two firms.
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HSJ Local
Not wearing a mask a ‘serious conduct issue’, CEO warns staff
A London acute trust has told its staff they may not be paid for time at home self-isolating if it transpires they were not wearing a mask near someone with coronavirus.
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News
Confed chair: Trusts lacking senior diversity should not get top CQC ratings
Trusts underperforming on leadership diversity should not be rated “good” or “outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission, the NHS Confederation chair has told HSJ.
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News
Digital and consumer bosses encouraged to apply for CEO of new body
The government has started advertising for a chief executive of the newly formed National Institute for Health Protection.
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Expert Briefing
Daily Insight: An extraordinary exorcism
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Carrots, sticks and superspreaders
Your essential update on health for the week.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: Has covid changed hospital inspections forever?
The Care Quality Commission’s chief executive has said inspections will no longer be “big, disruptive events” - HSJ’s podcast discusses how covid has changed how the regulator operates for better or worse.
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News
New screening committee to replace PHE role
A new UK-wide national screening committee is to be set up to advise the government, following the announcement this month that Public Health England is to close.
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HSJ Local
Trusts end Lorenzo use after failed national IT programme
An acute trust in Yorkshire has become the first of its cohort to fully replace its electronic patient record installed under the much-criticised National Programme for IT, with another trust set to follow suit.
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Expert Briefing
Daily Insight: Inspectors or superspreaders?
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.