All Coronavirus articles – Page 84
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News
Junior doctor rotations to restart in the summer
Medical training rotations will take place as planned this summer, Health Education England has announced.
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HSJ Partners
A briefing on reducing covid impact on BME communities
The NHS Confederation’s BME Leadership Network suggests in a new briefing, a suite of actions that health and care organisations could take to safeguard BME people, including BME professionals on the front line, notes Joan Saddler
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Learning disability and autism deaths within expected range, says NHSE
The covid-19 death rates among people with learning disabilities and autism are broadly in line with the rest of the population, NHS England has said.
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Weekly Catch Up: Making capital of the crisis, remote control and a data black hole
Your essential update on health for the week — this week focused on the coronavirus outbreak.
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News
NHS staff told not to join pay demonstrations as they ‘adversely affect public confidence’
NHS staff in London have been warned by national regulators not to take part in public protests, according to an email seen by HSJ.
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Patients must isolate for two weeks before an NHS operation
Patients will be told to self-isolate along with their household for two weeks before being admitted to hospital even if they have no covid-19 symptoms under NHS England’s new guidance for re-starting elective care.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: How the NHS performed during the peak
This week’s HSJ Health Check podcast digs into the latest NHS performance data, revealing how coronavirus affected normal services – taking the weight off emergency departments, but lengthening the waiting list for planned care.
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Comment
Time to join the dots: connecting what matters to staff and patients
Helen Buckingham calls for bringing patients and clinicians together to design future services that meet both their needs
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Up to 10,000 people could be waiting more than a year for operations
Up to 10,000 patients may be waiting more than a year for elective treatment as a result of covid-19, official data suggests.
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Comment
Average waiting time for NHS operations hits six months thanks to covid
The request to postpone elective care was enacted quickly and comprehensively, the latest RTT data suggests. By Rob Findlay
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HSJ Local
Former special measures trust sees main hospital rated ‘outstanding’
An acute trust which spent more than two years in special measures has had its main hospital site rated “outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission.
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News
Care home residents paid ‘huge price’ for emptying of acute beds, says STP chair
The chair of a sustainability and transformation partnership and former health secretary says there was a ‘huge price paid’ by care home residents from the ‘emptying’ of acute beds in March.
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Ambulance response fastest ever as demand wanes
Ambulance response times were some of the best ever seen last month – as the extra demand imposed by covid-19 had started to diminish and patients called the service less than last year.
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Consider redeploying staff vulnerable to covid-19, employers told
NHS staff who are deemed vulnerable to covid-19 may need to be redeployed, a new risk reduction framework backed by NHS England tells employers.
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Comment
Helping NHS staff survive the covid storm
A new paper discusses how organisations should enhance the mental health resilience of the NHS workforce to help them cope with the coronavirus pandemic, writes Andrew Coley
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HSJ Interactive
Why we should reimagine rather than reopen
As the coronavirus pandemic has unravelled, there has been a shift in the way the NHS works. We should work to preserve the best of this new system while finding new ways to draw on the innovation that can emerge from collaboration, says Erin Birch
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HSJ Partners
Elsevier launches online covid-19 resource for healthcare workers
Elsevier, a global leader in information analytics specialising in science and health, has launched a new resource to aid healthcare workers on the front lines of managing the novel coronavirus health crisis. Written by The covid-19 Healthcare Hub provides free access to toolkits, expert insights, research resources ...
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Hospitals blocked from ordering critical care equipment directly
Hospitals have been blocked from ordering crucial critical care equipment via normal channels because of an ‘exceptional increase in national demand’.
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NHS England seeks advice amid ‘shielded’ patient concerns
NHS England has set up an advisory group to look at how physical and mental health services can be delivered to patients that are most vulnerable to covid-19 and have been asked to shield themselves from the pandemic.
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Trust chief joins covid-19 ‘test and trace’ top team
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Foundation Trust chief executive Sarah-Jane Marsh will lead the government’s ‘test and trace’ programme along with a council boss, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced.