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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2024: Driving Efficiency through Technology Award
WINNER Liverpool Women’s Foundation Trust Liverpool Women’s Hewitt Centre Digital Transformation Initiative Fertility Patient Portal
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NewsGovernment spend controls causing ‘considerable’ delays to ‘critical’ contracts
Government spending rules are causing “considerable” delays to the siging of “critical contracts” and “interrupting” patient care, NHS procurement leads have warned. Cabinet Office spend controls have caused delays to critical procurements in and around London, procurement practitioners warn Controls provide oversight of important components of a procurement ...
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HSJ InteractiveHow research and the NHS are partnering to improve patient outcomes
If the NHS wants to both improve care and become the sort of life sciences powerhouse the health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has talked about, bringing together data collected by both healthcare staff and researchers will be vital.
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NewsTrust abandons £65m EPR procurement after legal challenge
Trust in the North West reverses decision to award EPR contract to its preferred bidder after a legal challenge Says it abandoned the procurement rather than face cost and disruption of litigation It has yet to decide how it will proceed with procuring a new EPR An NHS ...
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NewsThirteen ICSs now in deficit turnaround
Another integrated care system has been ordered to bring in consultants to fix its finances, meaning close to a third of the 42 systems are now in mandatory escalation over their finances.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Streeting’s magic tree
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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HSJ PartnersNavigating financial challenges in the NHS: Innovating to drive efficiency
Stephen McMillan, solutions leader, Philips Europe and UK & Ireland, writes how collaboration, and shifting healthcare services into community settings can help attain productivity and financial gains
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NewsRevealed: the trusts with the highest savings targets
At least three trusts have efficiency targets approaching 10 per cent of their budget this year, HSJ research has found.
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CommentThe 'three shifts' are already happening
Moving care from hospital to community, implementing digital transformation, and shifting from treatment to prevention are the three shifts being led by NHS trusts to mitigate the challenges in how care is delivered, writes Emily Gibbons
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NewsStaff at care scandal trust have ‘little left to give’ as spending controls bite
Staff at a scandal-hit trust feel “undervalued and without any autonomy” due to newly imposed financial controls, according to internal emails.
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CommentBeing a patient taught me things I hadn’t learned as a trust CEO
NHS CEO’s patient journey helps him realise the strengths of the NHS and areas requiring improvement, particularly in EDI and the use of emerging technologies
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NewsICB faces second lawsuit for patient transport procurement
A health system broke procurement rules when it awarded a patient transport contract to a firm that went bust less than a month after it began providing the service, according to a legal claim brought in the High Court.
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NewsNHS set to breach planned annual deficit in five months
Local NHS bodies have burned through almost all of their annual deficit target in just the first four months of the year, analysis of the latest finance reports by HSJ shows.
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CommentA sudden flow of funding into primary and community care would not work
To bring about a paradigm shift in the model of care, the NHS needs a radical change from short-term to long-term thinking, writes Joe McManners
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CommentMore money will not fix the NHS's maintenance backlog
David Jones writes about how data can be used to develop strategies to mitigate the impacts of backlog maintenance on patient safety, staff morale, and the financial sustainability of healthcare facilities
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NewsHIT teams to be sent into trusts to improve efficiency
The government will send in teams of clinical experts to 20 trusts to improve theatre productivity, the health and social care secretary has announced.
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CommentReducing the impact and £2bn cost of adverse drug reactions
Alison Cave writes how new technology continues to drive the Yellow Card scheme forward, serving to improve user experience and streamline reporting, in order to enhance patient safety
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NewsNHS directors brought out of retirement to help tackle financial crisis
Former trust and regional finance directors have been drafted in to support the most financially-challenged integrated care systems by NHS England.
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CommentBusiness-as-usual NHS management won't work for 'fixing the front door'
Primary care faces the same challenges as the rest of the public sector, but typical NHS management processes can’t solve them, argue three healthcare leaders.
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News£10bn NHS medtech spend undermined by ‘lack of data’, warns DHSC director
The lack of information about the performance and value for money of medtech products is leading to ineffective procurement and wasting scarce NHS funding, a senior government official has told HSJ.