All Coronavirus articles – Page 24
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: The ‘new hospital’ playbook lie
This week’s HSJ Health Check podcast discusses the government comms “playbook” which, as revealed by HSJ, told trusts they should describe new wings, units and refurbishments as “new hospitals” — which they are not.
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2021: Primary Care or Community Service Redesign Initiative
WINNER: North West London CCGs, Hillingdon GP Confederation, Central London Healthcare CiC, Imperial College Healthcare Trust, NHSX, AstraZeneca Digital Health Team, Huma: North-West London COVID-19 Primary Care Remote Monitoring Due to the significant challenges posed by the first wave of Covid-19, CCGs in North-West London (NWL) designed and piloted a ...
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2021: Cancer Care Initiative of the Year
WINNER: South Tees Hospitals FT: Holistic Wellbeing Calls for Cancer Patients At the outset of the pandemic a new telephone service was established to proactively call cancer patients to check their wellbeing, offer holistic therapy, provide local information and support, refer to appropriate services or simply provide a listening ear ...
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2021: Digital Clinical Transformation Award
WINNER: City and Hackney ICP, North East London CCG, East London FT, The Advocacy Project, Core Sport: A Digital Recovery Platform for Severe Mental Illness The digital pathway helps people with severe mental illness to plan and manage their own care, supported by a platform that brings all the tools ...
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2021: Post-Covid Sustainable Transformation Award
WINNER: Barts Health Trust - Royal London Hospital: Barts Emergency Access Co-ordination Hub (BEACH) Barts Health NHS Trust launched the Barts Emergency Access Care Hub (BEACH) in September 2020, which covers patients across the Barts Health footprint. The BEACH provides a single point of access for all eligible patients who ...
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2021: Operations and Performance Initiative of the Year
WINNER: Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children FT: Form an Orderly (Digital) Queue! EPR Integrated Clinical Prioritisation Provision of an integrated system to work within the electronic patient record capturing prospective and retrospective clinical priority for patients waiting for appointments, investigations and treatment. This was a hospital-wide need affecting all ...
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News
Large-scale GP group says its doctors routinely have ‘unsafe’ workload
One of England’s biggest general practice groups has warned its GPs are regularly seeing more patients each day than is safe, after activity surged in the wake of covid.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: The rocky road ahead for integrated care systems
With seven months to go, we discuss what ICSs have to do before they become statutory on 1 April, amid brewing rows over who might sit on the board.
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News
Government extends GCHQ powers over NHS IT systems
A British intelligence service will continue to have access to information from NHS IT systems after the health and social care secretary extended the duration of a direction that the government says enables officials to help ensure network security.
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News
Major spikes in hospital-acquired covid infections at two trusts
Two acute trusts have seen a spike in the number of covid infections that were probably acquired in hospital.
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Comment
When it comes to staff safety during the pandemic, the buck stops with chief executives
One of the main preventive roles of occupational health experts in the pandemic is, or should have been, to advise and support managers/employers in risk management and control both as regards compliance with legal duties on health and safety
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: On closer inspection
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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News
Interim chief commercial officer chosen by NHS England
The NHS’ ‘chief negotiator with the pharmaceutical industry’ has been made interim chief commercial officer after the incumbent CCO left to head up Downing Street’s new delivery unit.
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HSJ Interactive
Enhancing patient safety during the pandemic
Aidan Fowler writes about the progress made in improving patient safety during the covid pandemic
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: Are covid visiting restrictions damaging patient safety?
An HSJ investigation revealed this week that coroners have raised multiple concerns pandemic hospital visiting restrictions may have had a damaging effect on patient care.
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Comment
A permanent department for pandemics
Andrew Sturdy writes on the possibility of having a permanent government department for pandemics which can deploy latest technology and skills for testing and vaccinations
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News
Covid hospital occupancy hits new high for summer wave
The number of covid patients in English hospitals has hit a new high in this summer’s wave, leaping sharply over the weekend.
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Comment
NHSI could not have had a better chair than Dido Harding
Narinder Kapur, Chris Harkensee and Terry Skitmore praise Dido Harding’s work on introducing fairer procedures for NHS staff which, they say, have contributed to workforce wellbeing, and patient safety.
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News
Families: How visiting bans led to poor care
Families of patients admitted to hospital during the coronavirus pandemic have told how visiting restrictions contributed to poor care for their loved ones.