All Coronavirus articles – Page 74
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News‘Key element’ of NHS Test and Trace opposed by industry
A “key element” of the NHS covid-19 test and trace regime is at risk of being undermined by resistance from the hospitality sector, it has emerged.
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Comment'A slave master situation': the lived experiences of NHS BAME staff
Tackling race inequalities will require commitment for the long haul, with locally engaged leadership and staff, including stronger allyship from white leaders and staff. By Shilpa Ross
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NewsNHS England reintroduces performance management regime
NHS England has restored parts of its performance management regime by bringing back key reporting tasks suspended since March.
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Comment'Sometimes you need a jolt': how covid made going digital urgent
Samantha Allen and Beth Lawton outline how placing digital at the centre of Sussex Partnership’s response to the pandemic has helped it transform services and deliver real benefits to patients and staff
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CommentNHS must play its part in the economic recovery too
Michael Wood shares NHS Confederation’ five-point plan for every system - offering leadership, guidance and practical support.
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NewsNew firm to be brought in to ‘harden’ covid testing system
A new external provider is being sought to “harden” the management of covid-19 home testing, to make it “fully resilient, scalable and automated”, in a £7m national deal.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: When in doubt, ignore
Andy Cowper gives the lowdown on the government’s bungled handling of the covid-19 pandemic
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NewsNHSE: Hospitals should ‘repurpose’ half non-clinical space for ‘surge capacity’
The NHS should halve its non-clinical space to free up extra capacity ahead of winter and further potential waves of covid-19, according to NHS England/Improvement’s estates chief.
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NewsStevens: NHS must gear up for huge vaccination programmes
The health service needs to prepare for its largest-ever flu immunisation season, and potentially to run a covid-19 vaccination programme in the autumn/winter, Sir Simon Stevens has said.
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Cases continue to rise in North and Midlands
ealth economies in the North and Midlands are seeing rising or persistently high covid-19 case rates while a health system in the South West is showing a notable increase in cases.
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News‘We have to aim for an oversupply of nurses’ says RCN chief
The NHS must no longer seek to train ‘the bare minimum’ of nurses, Royal College of Nursing chief executive Donna Kinnair has told HSJ.
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NewsRevealed: £350m for first three months of Nightingale hospitals
Nearly £350m was earmarked by NHS England/Improvement for spending on England’s Nightingale hospitals, according to newly published contracts.
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NewsPatients endangered by ‘hazardous’ use of PPE
The ‘hazardous’ use of personal protective equipment required because of covid-19 is contributing to the spread of secondary infections in intensive care units and other hospital settings, a leading expert has told HSJ.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: How covid turned NHS finances on their head
Finance became a dirty word in the NHS as it went into covid crisis mode, but reality is slowly returning. HSJ Health Check looks at the financial landscape now faced by the NHS.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Legislation back on the table
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by integration senior correspondent Sharon Brennan.
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NewsExclusive: PPE spend to hit £14bn by the end of the year
The Treasury is preparing for spending on personal protective equipment for the health system to hit up to £14bn this financial year, HSJ understands — representing more than 10 per cent of the pre-covid NHS budget.
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NewsCovid contributing little to areas with highest excess death rates
Death rates across England dipped below the five-year average in the middle of June, for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
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NewsExclusive: People with rare conditions 'deprioritised' by trusts during pandemic
People with rare conditions have been “deprioritised” during the coronavirus pandemic, a report has shown, with one in five patients claiming the interruption to their care has been “life threatening”.
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NewsTrust CEO slams 'cruel and ineffective' government policy
The chief executive of a London trust has criticised the government over the reinstatement of its “cruel and ineffective” benefits policy.
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CommentWest Midlands seeks to mainstream public health
We want people to think and talk more about wider determinants of health, upstream interventions and preventive approaches – only then will we fully embrace all the pillars of public health, write David Kidney and Lisa McNally