All Coronavirus articles – Page 62
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NewsDischarge rates slowing as providers face ‘perfect storm’
Providers are beginning to see a slowing in the rate of patient discharges, in what would be another element of the ‘perfect storm’ they face this winter, leaders have warned.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: Stevens’ successor should relish chance to tackle inequalities
In the climate of covid-19 and Black Lives Matter, the NHS faces calls for greater action to tackle race inequality. HSJ workforce reporter Nick Kituno reflects on a critical juncture for the workforce race equality standard.
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NewsFourth senior departure from NHS procurement body
The chief commercial officer of NHS Supply Chain has stood down as part of an organisational restructure, making him the fourth departure to be confirmed from the top of the agency inside two weeks.
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Expert BriefingRecovery watch: Let’s drop the ‘near normal’ pretence
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress.
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CommentThe three key tests for the comprehensive spending review
Charlotte Augst shares her insights on the need to strengthen places and communities to overcome inequalities and rebuild the health and wellbeing sector
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Expert BriefingThe mystery of the capital’s ‘high-volume’ treatment centres
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Simon Says
This week the team delves into an exclusive HSJ summit interview with NHS chief executive Simon Stevens and weighs up the trade-offs the health service might need to make as covid cases rise, why legislation is still expected next year and why no comment on NHS finances could be significant. ...
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HSJ PartnersRecovering cancer services from covid will take all of us
This is paid-for content from our commercial partners. Find out more Delivering healthcare is complicated and one of the barriers to improving it has always been the very wide range of different organisations who have a role but don’t always work together smoothly. The pandemic ...
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HSJ LocalCovid hospital deaths climb steeply in the North West, but plateau elsewhere
The number of coronavirus deaths in North West hospitals has started to climb steeply, following weeks of high infection rates in the community.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: A matter of trust
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by digital services correspondent Jasmine Rapson.
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CommentThis government spending review is likely to please very few
Social care reform pushed further down the road, minimal increases to public health at a time of significant population health need and training and education budgets pretty flat — such a settlement will disappoint a great many, writes Richard Sloggett
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NewsExclusive: Ex-Sainsbury’s boss to join beleaguered Test and Trace as NHS chief returns to trust
The former chief executive of Sainsbury’s is to take over as testing director at NHS Test and Trace, while the hospital chief executive currently running it will leave at the end of October, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Leaked data gives first view of growing cancer waiting list post covid peak
Official data from mid-September shows that nearly 6,400 people had waited more than 100 days following a referral to cancer services.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Rally the troops
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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CommentA sticking plaster for adult social care as winter approaches
To help social care services cope with covid-19 over winter, it needs more than just a plan, by Hugh Alderwick and Lucinda Allen
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HSJ PartnersISO 27001 certification offers a secure choice for NHS organisation
This is paid-for content from our commercial partners. Find out more The global pandemic caused by covid-19 has taught us many things about the way we live and work. For NHS Greater Manchester Shared Services, it put into practice months of hard work and demonstrated ...
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NewsStevens: 2021 legislation must give integrated care systems ‘a legal form’
NHS England is expecting new legislation ‘in the first half of 2021’ which will create a ‘legal form’ for integrated care systems, Sir Simon Stevens has told HSJ.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Skidmarks and superforecasters
Staggering TAT figures and government’s aspiration driven by superfactors, by Andy Cowper.
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HSJ LocalTrust becomes the first to record 1,000 covid-19 deaths
University Hospitals Birmingham FT has become the first trust to record more than 1,000 deaths from covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, new data has revealed.
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NewsNHS bosses told to consider scenario where covid occupies 35pc of beds
Health systems have been told to explain how they would cope with varying levels of demand from coronavirus over winter, including a scenario in which 35 per cent of hospital beds were occupied by covid patients.