All Health Service Journal articles in December 2023 – Page 2
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Comment
Increased CQC fees for ICBs threaten drive to improve care
To ensure system assessments add value and help improve care quality, the CQC should rethink the assessment process and consider two alternatives, writes Sarah Walter
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: The chronic covid hangover
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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HSJ Partners
Transforming asthma care in the UK: A path forward
The SENTINEL Project transforms care, reducing SABA inhaler dependency whilst improving patient outcomes and cutting environmental impact across the UK
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HSJ Partners
NHS at Home: a vision and reality
Virtual wards are a new, innovative operating model for healthcare, designed to help safely manage healthcare needs at home. With a smart, integrated approach that combines face-to-face contact with virtual environments, virtual wards can be the next leap forward for connected, efficient healthcare.
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HSJ Local
Trust finally launches review into consultancy contract that was never tendered
A major trust has launched an external review into a decade-long consultancy contract that was never subject to a public tender process.
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: Climb every mountain
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Actually, we’ve coped well
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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News
Long-standing Confed network chief to chair trust
NHS Confederation’s mental health network’s long-standing chief executive is leaving to chair a mental health trust.
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HSJ Partners
Can remote care-at-home help the NHS tackle the challenges facing urgent and emergency care services?
Croydon Health Services Trust pioneers virtual ward services, leveraging technology to ease NHS emergency care demands and optimise patient outcomes and comfort.
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News
Half trust’s staff told CQC they had ‘no confidence’ in its leaders
More than half of a trust’s staff told the Care Quality Commission they did not have confidence in its executive leadership, with just 16 per cent saying they did, the regulator has reported.
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: Humiliating accusations
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Two trusts in city with ‘hospital for every part of body’ to merge CEO role
The city with five separate specialist trusts will see two of its trusts share a single chief executive from early next year.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: 12-hour trolley waits an ‘acceptable compromise’
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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Comment
Let local people decide on the public health measures the NHS should invest in
Jessica Studdert explains how community-driven health initiatives in deprived areas, funded by the Big Local programme, not only demonstrate significant preventive benefits but also reduce demand on NHS services.
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News
Thirteen trusts write off £1.3m in overpayments to staff
Thirteen trusts were responsible for just over half of £2.6m overpayments to staff written off by NHS providers last year, data obtained by HSJ reveals.
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News
Junior doctors being subjected to ‘public humiliation’, says trust boss
A hospital chief has warned colleagues of ‘significant behavioural concerns’ reported by junior doctors, including ‘undermining by public humiliation’.
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News
Be ‘more directive’, providers tell NHSE
Urgent community response services must become an investment priority – and be given national targets for expansion – to tackle large variation, trust leaders have said.
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HSJ Local
ICB sued by trust over £500m deal
A company part-run by an NHS trust has launched a legal challenge against a neighbouring integrated care board over a £500m pathology contract.
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: Beds progress takes a nap
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Exclusive: NHSE crackdown on 10-hour ambulance delays
NHS England has launched a new crackdown on trusts it says have a ‘management strategy’ to hold patients in the back of ambulances to cope with emergency pressures inside their hospitals, HSJ has learned.