All Health Service Journal articles in August 2024 – Page 4
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LeaderAre site chief executives a good idea?
The number of hospital groups is increasing rapidly as HSJ’s analysis earlier this year showed. Their growth has brought about the arrival of a new breed of NHS leader – the site chief executive or managing director who reports to a group chief executive.
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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Handover hold-ups, recruitment reprimand and spending surprise
Your essential update on health for the week.
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CommentShop assistant appointed trust CEO and other 'alternative' news stories
Imagine what the news might have been like. Now you don’t have to, writes Julian Patterson
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NewsAI data-sharing deal ‘breaks national guidance’
An agreement to share patient data struck between a specialist trust and a start-up company does not comply with NHS England guidance, HSJ has discovered.
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HSJ LocalTrust too ‘compassionate’ to effectively run services in-house
A trust’s “compassionate environment” would prevent it effectively managing its facilities management department, an internal report recommending the outsourcing of the service has claimed.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Summer feels winter’s chill
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsRevealed: the trusts with the worst summer A&E handover delays
Patients stuck in ambulances queuing outside A&Es have waited an average of over two hours at two trusts this summer, data published for the first time reveals.
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HSJ PartnersHow trusts are tackling elective recovery with powerful digital population health and waiting list tools
Dr Rang explains how using a population health management platform and waiting list dashboard, integrated with the patient-level primary care record, is enabling clinicians at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust to see more patients in a timely manner
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HSJ LocalICB pauses referrals to service as expansion is ‘unaffordable’
A mental health trust has stopped accepting ADHD referrals for many adults, after integrated care board chiefs warned it was “unaffordable” to expand the service due to financial pressures, HSJ understands.
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NewsProcurement checks on trusts relaxed by government
The Cabinet Office has raised the threshold for spending controls imposed on NHS trusts from £10m to £20m nearly two years after they were first introduced.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: NEDs on the block
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsExclusive: Labour launches clearout of DHSC non-execs
The Department of Health and Social Care is recruiting three new board members amid a clearout of advisers appointed under the last government.
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NewsNHS to run seven ‘tests’ to prepare for emergencies
NHS England has told organisations to run seven ‘tests’ to prepare for emergencies after admitting “further work” is needed to improve the resilience of the health service.
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HSJ LocalInterim CEO to stay on after ‘driving improvements’ at challenged trust
The interim chief executive of one of England’s most challenged trusts has agreed to stay on for at least a year longer than originally planned.
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NewsDirector sought for £20bn new hospitals procurement programme
NHS England is hiring a new director to manage the £20bn procurement budget for the New Hospital Programme.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Call it out
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: NHSE’s game of chicken with trusts’ cash
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
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CEO InterviewCEO interview: Ify Okocha, chief executive, Oxleas Foundation Trust
This is the latest in a series of interviews with chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Insight subscribers.
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NewsNHSE encourages trusts to take ‘robust action’ against staff involved in ‘civil unrest’
NHS staff must call out discrimination “whether it affects them directly or not” and trusts must take robust action where staff are involved in discriminatory behaviour “inside or outside of work”, NHS England has told local leaders.
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CommentThe NHS is failing refugees like me, but change is possible
Zafirah is a medic who fled violence in Yemen to seek safety in the UK. Upon arriving, she found it very difficult to access NHS care. She has lent her insight to a new framework by the British Red Cross