All Cancer articles – Page 5
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NewsRadiographers warn next strike could hit 100 trusts
The Society of Radiographers is considering reballoting members in an effort to significantly increase the scope of its industrial action, the union’s director of industrial strategy has told HSJ.
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CommentThe workforce plan falls short of addressing the appalling state of NHS cancer care
Professor Richard Simcock analyses the shortfalls and gaps in cancer services, highlighting issues like underfunding and understaffing that are yet to be fully addressed by NHS’s cancer workforce plan
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: NHSE’s handling of Christie whistleblowing case faces judicial review
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Consultants on the picket line
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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HSJ PartnersPreparing the NHS oncology workforce for the innovations of tomorrow
Jagtar Dhanda, director of policy advocacy and government affairs at Bristol Myers Squibb UK & Ireland, explains how a workforce planning tool can help prepare the NHS to offer the latest cancer innovations to patients
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NewsNHSE and government reprimanded for ‘selective reporting’ of cancer performance
NHS England and the government have been criticised for “selective reporting” of statistics by an influential Westminster committee.
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HSJ PartnersGuidance on bladder cancer needs to be more specific still
Efforts to reduce variation in treatment for bladder cancer are welcome, but panellists at a recent roundtable event spoke of the need to develop more specific approaches to target patients at the highest risk of poor outcomes
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NewsRevealed: the stubborn regional variation in early cancer detection
The gap between the areas with the best and worst records on the early detection of cancer has remained almost unchanged over the past five years, new data indicates.
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NewsRevealed: The specialties with rocketing litigation costs
Litigation costs for specialties including intensive care, oncology and emergency medicine have rocketed by up to five times as much as they were before the pandemic, internal data obtained by HSJ reveals.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: How much harm in London?
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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HSJ PartnersWhat my experience as a patient has taught me about healthcare systems
Last year, Ian McCrae – founder and director of Orion Health – was diagnosed with a stage four glioblastoma brain tumour. Here he reflects on what the experience has taught him about how healthcare systems need to change
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NewsTwo trusts added to NHSE list of providers at ‘high risk’
Two trusts have been added to NHS England’s list of those identified as needing the most support meeting cancer and elective targets.
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NewsExclusive: 6,500 staff gap in government cancer plan revealed
Community diagnostic centres — the government’s flagship policy for recovering cancer testing after covid — will have up to 6,500 fewer staff than they need by 2025, according to NHS England projections seen by HSJ.
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NewsMayor intervenes in NHSE reconfiguration row
The mayor of London is independently reviewing NHS England plans to reconfigure children’s cancer services in the capital, which were triggered when the commissioner finally accepted the current arrangements are unsafe.
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News‘Unreserved apology’ issued to national cancer director over ‘dishonest’ claim
Newcastle Hospitals Foundation Trust deputy chief executive Andy Welch, has issued an ‘unreserved apology’ over his public criticism of remarks made by NHSE national cancer director Dame Cally Palmer.
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NewsBarclay refusing to approve diagnostic centres that cannot be opened this year
Steve Barclay has refused to approve about 30 proposed community diagnostic centres – designed to speed up cancer treatment – unless they can be delivered in 2023, HSJ has learned.
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NewsSix systems pulled up by NHSE over poor cancer diagnosis performance
NHS England has demanded recovery plans from six systems with a poor record on delivering urgent cancer checks.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: NHSE makes aeroplane tech a key priority
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 correspondent Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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NewsNew job for Simon Stevens
Lord Simon Stevens has been appointed chair of Cancer Research UK, the charity has announced today.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Partnership Awards 2023: Most Effective Contribution to Improving Cancer Outcomes
WINNER: Implementing Tattooless Radiotherapy Treatment Using Surface Guided Radiotherapy: Vision RT and University Hospitals of Derby and Burton FT