All Coronavirus articles – Page 67
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Covid could scupper female opportunity in NHS, warns senior trust chief
The covid pandemic’s impact represents a ‘’real risk to opportunity’ for the female workforce, a senior trust boss who also chairs a women’s leaders’ network has warned.
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Raft of covid service changes not being reversed
Significant changes to a range of services, including A&E, stroke and maternity, made amid the covid-19 crisis are set to remain into next year, an HSJ analysis of key projects has found.
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Comment
NHS communicators fear crumbling of support
Health communicators are deeply concerned that public support for the NHS may soon start to crumble as the health service wrestles with the daunting task of restoring pre-covid levels of service, writes John Underwood.
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Revealed: New cash penalties and incentives for waiting list challenge
New financial penalties and incentives for elective activity will be decided solely by system-level performance, prompting concerns from local leaders.
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Trenholm: ‘CQC inspections will no longer be big, disruptive events’
The ‘effectiveness’ and ‘responsiveness’ of providers are set to be downplayed during the winter as part of more ‘streamlined’ inspections from the Care Quality Commission, HSJ can reveal.
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‘Insane secretiveness’ undermined ‘limp’ People Plan, claims one of its authors
One of the authors of the NHS People Plan has slammed NHS England’s “insane secretiveness” in the lead-up to its publication, claiming the document was “limp” on diversity and ignored the immediate staffing challenges facing the NHS.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: Did PHE deserve to die?
In the week following Matt Hancock’s announcement of the abolition of Public Health England, HSJ Health Check examines the implication for the staff and functions of the important agency
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: The grim truth on targets
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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HSJ Partners
The NHS IT challenge is not to go ‘paperless’ but to unlock the value of information
Paper records and other forms of unstructured data contain hugely valuable information. Trusts should be planning to capture and use it to meet covid and ‘reset’ challenges by deploying a modern electronic document management system, says Mike Seel
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Hancock extends emergency patient data sharing rules
Matt Hancock has extended four national data sharing orders which allow GPs and NHS organisations to share confidential patient information, as part of the ongoing response to the covid-19 pandemic.
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Hancock says new ‘standalone’ body could take PHE’s remaining functions
A new public health agency could be formed to take on the health improvement and prevention functions of the soon-to-be-defunct Public Health England, the health secretary said today.
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Comment
‘Give the NHS what it needs, or tell public that cuts are on the way’
On capital funding the government needs to give the NHS an appropriate capital settlement to meet its manifesto commitments, recover care backlogs and reform social care, writes Chris Hopson.
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Expert Briefing
The Download: Digital aspirants aim higher than Hancock
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by senior correspondent, Nick Carding.
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Exclusive: No change to PHE staff ‘terms and conditions’ until spring
Public Health England staff will not see the terms and conditions of their jobs change until the spring, a senior source has told HSJ.
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HSJ Partners
We are all in the same storm, but we are not all in the same boat
It is more vital than ever that mental health services are not forgotten, but rather included at the forefront of the national response towards the pandemic, writes Asha Patel
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HSJ Local
Leak reveals 7,000 year-long waiters at major trust
Almost 7,000 patients have waited for treatment for a year or more at a major north London trust, according to NHS data seen by HSJ.
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Trust chief: ‘I don’t expect another top NHS job without progressing diversity’
A trust chief who oversaw a national equalities guidance group said he would not expect another top NHS job if he could not demonstrate substantial progress on diversity in his current role.
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HSJ Local
Nightingale contract extended to next year
NHS England has agreed a contract to maintain the Harrogate Nightingale Hospital until March 2021.
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News
Selbie: ‘I am sorry beyond words’
The chief executive of Public Health England says he is ‘sorry beyond words’ the demise of the arm’s length body was briefed to the media before his own staff were told.
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HSJ Partners
2020: The healthcare revolution with patients at the centre
Livi’s new model NHS 2.0 aims to deliver seamless, tech-enabled care with patients at the centre, creating one digital front door.