All Health Service Journal articles in August 2020 – Page 7
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News
Exclusive: NHS agency put under Cabinet Office-backed review in wake of PPE crisis
Government has placed the national agency which was at the centre of the coronavirus PPE crisis under review, HSJ can reveal.
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Trust declares critical incident over ‘relentless demand’
A trust has declared a critical incident after experiencing “relentless demand” on urgent and emergency care, months after downgrading one of its emergency departments.
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Comment
Leave Prerana Issar alone and do your bit for BAME staff
Professor Partha Kar on the need to read the NHS People Plan and then make any constructive suggestions about it
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News
Region predicts it needs 1,000 more beds to meet winter demand
NHS leaders in the West Midlands claim 1,000 new hospital beds are needed to meet expected demand over the coming winter.
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HSJ Interactive
The NHS digital agenda in the covid era
An HSJ webinar, supported by Pulse Secure, found there has been a real acceleration in digitisation in many organisations – but whether that progress is consistent across the system remains unclear
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HSJ Interactive
Cybersecurity in the covid-19 era
Covid has brought with it the potential of more threats but not all organisations are equally well positioned to respond
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Expert Briefing
Daily Insight: Winter funding with a covid flavour
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Digital GP provider expands to North East
Nearly a quarter of million people in the North East are to gain access to a virtual GP service following the expansion of a digital healthcare provider.
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New A&E models may increase 'discrimination’ against some patients
The development of separate emergency units to help acute trusts manage demand during the covid pandemic may risk increasing “discrimination” against mental health patients, a royal college has warned.
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News
Intensive care unit stays open despite fire warning
A children’s hospital is having to put safety measures in place because it discovered building problems which could mean fire spreading quickly, it has emerged.
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Expert Briefing
Daily Insight: Scandal-hit trust’s new buddy
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Whistleblower chief executive placed on extended leave
A joint director employed by a foundation trust and local authority has been put on ‘extended leave’ by the council, after warning elected members about alleged wrongdoing.
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News
Patient deaths prompt ambulance chiefs to look for alternative defibrillators
Ambulance chiefs are looking at alternative defibrillators after coroners highlighted confusion over how to correctly use their existing machines.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: ‘Whatever we think the NHS needs’
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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Comment
Revealed: the region where 1 in 4 of the population could be waiting for hospital care by April
George Batchelor sheds light on the regional impact of covid-19 on elective waiting lists
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: Dido joins the war on reality
Andy Cowper tracks the reality on NHS’ test and trace performance and the government’s attempt to shadow it.
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Expert Briefing
Daily Insight: Sort it out
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
NHS told to let patients initiate follow-up appointments
Trusts are being encouraged to adopt a system in which patients initiate follow-up appointments by the latest guidance from NHS England designed to help the NHS recover from the covid crisis.
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Chair of failing trust replaced as NHSI brokers support from major FT
A failing trust is to be given “targeted support” from a major teaching hospital in a bid to improve its services.
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NHS England warned fixing e-referral system now ‘critically urgent’
Hospital and GP leaders in east London have warned problems with the capital’s e-referral system have become a ‘critically urgent matter’.