All Health Service Journal articles in August 2023 – Page 5
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News
Staff ‘let down by leaders’ as ‘chaotic’ service gets double downgrade
A teaching trust has had its maternity services downgraded to ‘inadequate’ after inspectors found stillbirths and massive haemorrhages were not being treated as ‘serious incidents’.
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: ‘Warts and all’
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CEO Interview
CEO interview: Mairead McCormick, chief executive, Kent Community Health Foundation Trust
This is the latest in a series of interviews with provider chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Insight subscribers.
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News
‘Warts and all’ references for NHS leaders ‘may be attacked’
NHS England could have gone further to insist that errors and failures by senior NHS leaders are disclosed to future employers, according to the leading barrister who reviewed the NHS’s fit and proper person test.
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News
NHSE chief officer takes role in Singapore
The NHS’s first chief sustainability officer Nick Watts has stepped back from the role after nearly three years, HSJ has learned.
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Expert Briefing
The Download: NHS tech’s pay problem
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by senior correspondent Nick Carding. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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Comment
Racism is preventing the NHS from getting the most from its international recruits
Titilola Banjoko discusses the untapped expertise of healthcare professionals from the black and minority ethnic diaspora within the NHS
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News
NHSE reveals ‘two tier’ intervention regime for ICSs
Failing integrated care boards can commit to improving before NHS England formally intervenes, according to new ‘enforcement guidance’ set out by the regulator.
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News
Ministers name 30 trusts receiving share of £250m fund
Ministers have named the 30 trusts which will receive a share of a £250m fund to increase urgent and emergency care capacity.
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News
Exclusive: Hancock denies political motive for inclusion of ‘Red Wall’ project in new hospital programme
A building project in a marginal constituency was added to the government’s ‘40 new hospitals’ programme despite not being on the longlist of schemes proposed by NHS England.
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: Your name’s not on the list
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: Staying very much on target
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
US firm gets green light for £1.2bn takeover of UK GP tech giant
American health giant UnitedHealth has provisionally been given the go-ahead to buy UK-based firm EMIS – the leading supplier of GP IT systems – by the Competition and Markets Authority in a deal worth £1.2bn.
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News
HSJ Awards shortlist revealed
The shortlist for the 2023 HSJ Awards – including the six providers vying to be “trust of the year” – was announced today.
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News
Most cancer targets set to be scrapped
NHS England is expected to confirm plans consulted on last year to cut several cancer targets, including the two-week target for urgent appointments.
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Trusts still seeking compensation a year after cyber attack
Two trusts remain in discussions with a tech firm over financial compensation a year after a cyber attack left them without access to patient records for months.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Grit in the CoG
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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HSJ Partners
Live bed state: reducing the strain on wards and staff at Leeds Teaching Hospitals
With current bed occupancy levels above 95 per cent, electronic bed and capacity management can help the NHS fix the problem, writes Stephen Bush
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Daily Insight
The mythbuster: Managers are the real heroes of the NHS movie
The NHS seems to hold to a sort of Hollywood view of history where a handful of heroes solve the problem and the backroom bureaucrats or managers are an impediment to – not the foundation of – success, writes Steve Black
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News
Mapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in June 2023, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.