All Health Service Journal articles in December 2023 – Page 4
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News
Ambulance handover delays soar as winter bites
Ambulance handover delays rose last week with close to 13,000 crews waiting more than an hour to offload patients — marginally more than the comparable week last year.
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News
ICBs failing to ‘innovate’ on dental funding, health secretary suggests
The health and social care secretary has questioned why some integrated care boards are not spending their full primary dental budgets, and said they should find ‘innovative ways’ to use the cash.
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HSJ Interactive
How can healthcare best use past, present and future information to support transformation?
Read the detailed report here. That the NHS has an abundance of information but a lack of insight is a truth frequently repeated. At some trusts, hardcopy notes continue to occupy valuable space while the intelligence they record remains difficult to access or analyse. Even where electronic patient records systems ...
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Comment
Dying people are being failed by the NHS's approach to sharing information
Usha Grieve explains how in the realm of digital health data, the spotlight on the Federated Data Platform overshadows the sluggish progress in enhancing electronic end-of-life records, hindering meaningful patient-centric change and necessitating urgent action
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New national boss to oversee ‘40 new hospitals’ programme
The Department of Health and Social Care is looking for a new chief commercial officer to deliver its efficiency and savings targets, as well as a variety of procurement and commercial activities.
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Reversal of ‘huge achievement’ as agency spending breaches £3bn
NHS trust spending on agency staff surged to £3.5bn last year, according to recently published figures.
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: Caught on camera
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Comment
NHS productivity – does ophthalmology have an answer?
David Hare writes how ophthalmology’s 15 per cent activity boost and reduced wait times exemplify NHS productivity, with the independent sector delivering 160 per cent more care, emphasising the potential for specialisation and patient flow improvements as vital lessons for broader health system gains
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News
A&E doors upgraded after child lost part of their finger
A trust is upgrading its safety protections after a child lost part of their finger after getting it stuck in a hospital door.
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News
Hospital violence ‘going through the roof’, says CEO
A London acute trust is planning to provide staff working in frailty units with body cameras and those in antenatal clinics with additional security, as violence and aggression against them goes ‘through the roof’.
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News
Revealed: Trusts paying the highest negligence premiums
The trusts paying the highest premiums for clinical negligence as a proportion of their income have been revealed through HSJ analysis of internal data.
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HSJ Local
Only half of trusts’ staff were trained ahead of troubled IT go-live
Only half of staff across two acute trusts were fully trained in the use of a new electronic patient record before its introduction, which led to disruption and patient harm, HSJ can reveal.
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: Too outdated to modernise
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert Briefing
Carbon Copy: Why the NHS still buys diesel ambulances
The ideas, policies and challenges at the heart of the NHS goal for net zero emissions, from HSJ sustainability correspondent Zoe Tidman.
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Comment
The NHS needs a new and improved PFI programme
Matthew Custance explains how amid the NHS infrastructure crisis, revisiting private finance initiative funding addresses the £30bn New Hospital Programme, but it necessitates a revamped approach considering past pitfalls and reforms
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HSJ Local
Hospital chief on long-term absence after ‘group’ move
The hospital chief executive which last month moved to shared leadership with a neighouring trust is on long-term absence, and may not be returning to the role, HSJ understands.
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News
Money ‘leaching’ from NHS due to patient choice policy, says ICS boss
The CEO of an integrated care system has said the choice agenda, in which the NHS pays for patients to be treated at a private provider, is costing his system £8m a year.
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News
GPs don’t have time for NHSE ‘modernisation’ work, say ICBs
GP practices with the most outdated technology and processes do not have enough staff or funding to take part in NHS England’s performance recovery programme, integrated care boards are warning.
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: Midwife mauls ministers over missing maternity money
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Ditch normal procedures to avoid A&E handover delays, trusts told
Regulators have warned hospital leaders they may have to ‘depart from established procedures’ over winter to minimise ambulance handover delays.