All Health Service Journal articles in August 2021 – Page 8
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News
CQC found emergency caesarean taking place without basic safety measures
Inspectors have raised concerns about ‘safety culture’ in a maternity unit, including that an emergency caesarean was taking place without the mother’s heart being monitored.
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Comment
Scrapping discharge fund will give the NHS a dangerous capacity squeeze
Failure to extend the £600m April to September “discharge to assess” funding will bring huge risk for the NHS, social care and patients, write Chris Hopson and Matthew Taylor.
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Comment
The Blithering Chronicles: Aligned for success – your ICS questions answered
Julian Patterson reports on NHS Blithering, the country’s most challenged health economy
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News
Leap in mental health absences among NHS staff
The number of NHS staff absent from work because of their mental health has leapt in the past few months in the wake of the huge winter wave of covid pressure, according to data shared with HSJ.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: Summer, salaries, systems and shielding
This week’s NHS Health Check podcast is dedicated to all matters staffing: The Agenda for Change pay deal, how much integrated care system chiefs should get paid, and shielding staff not getting risk assessments.
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News
Daily Insight: Discrimination by another name
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert Briefing
Government’s advisers urge senior pension reform
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter will make sure you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce. This week by employment ...
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Comment
The full health and care data strategy must address its shortcomings
Focussing on building trust, addressing health inequalities, and improving social care data are critical if the NHSX data strategy is to address public concerns about privacy and unlock the potential of health and social care data, writes Josh Keith
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HSJ Local
Hospital to restart service three years after outsourcing it
An acute trust wants to restart an elective service at its facilities, three years after outsourcing much of that work to a private provider.
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HSJ Local
Neighbouring ICSs plan single hospital IT system
Five trusts across two integrated care systems are drawing up plans to roll out a single electronic patient record funded by the government’s flagship infrastructure project.
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News
Daily Insight: Marks for Style
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Two trusts appoint single CEO and form ‘hospital group’
A pair of London trusts have appointed a single chief executive as they join forces to form a ‘hospital group’.
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News
Minority ethnic staff ‘told to adopt Western names’ by managers
Hospital line managers allegedly told staff from minority ethnic backgrounds to adopt ‘Western work names’ because their own were deemed ‘too difficult’ to pronounce, according to Care Quality Commission inspectors.
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News
Rapid fall in covid admissions suggests early peak for summer wave
The weekly total of covid positive patients admitted to English hospitals fell by 10 per cent in the five days between 27 July and 1 August.
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News
NHSE names interim chief operating officer
NHS England has appointed a former hospital chief as its interim chief operating officer, succeeding Amanda Pritchard.
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News
Shielding staff say they were forced back to work without a risk assessment
Significant numbers of ‘extremely vulnerable’ clinicians said they were forced back to work despite not having a risk assessment in line with official guidance.
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News
NHS England director set to leave for senior DHSC job
A top NHS England finance official is set to move to become a director general at the Department of Health and Social Care, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Senior trust medics complain of ‘excessively authoritarian’ management
Senior doctors in a trust’s radiology services have reported a ‘toxic’ culture and feelings that managers had been ‘excessively authoritarian’.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: Rating Simon Stevens’ reign
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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News
NHSE tightens procurement rules after major service failures
NHS England is tightening the rules on commissioning patient transport services — and may remove free access to transport for some people — following major service failures in recent years.