All Health Service Journal articles in February 2020 – Page 7
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HSJ LocalTrust forecasts £92m deficit after waiting list push
A struggling hospital trust has increased its forecast year-end deficit to £92m.
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NewsNHSE defends primary care cuts for marginalised patients
NHS England/Improvement has defended a clinical commissioning group over planned cuts to services aimed at health inequalities facing marginalised groups.
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NewsNHSX will try to develop digital test result alerts
National officials are working with radiologists on systems to digitally warn patients of diagnostic test results, after the NHS failed to inform a woman of signs of her lung cancer.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Quality not quantity
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NewsSelect group of trusts to pilot Hancock’s new tech scheme
A small number of trusts will pilot Matt Hancock’s new plan for improving technology in the NHS, HSJ has learned.
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NewsYoung people put at risk by delays for treatment
More than 70 children and young people have been put at risk by long delays in treatment by mental health services in Kent and Medway, HSJ has learned.
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CommentWhy health inequalities have not changed since 2010
Kieron Boyle suggests the UK is insufficiently clear about how to address health inequalities.
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CommentHow Jeremy Hunt should lead the Commons’ health committee
A senior and engaged committee chair who knows the policy area well and has the experience to run a body of MPs has the potential to do much good, and examine a lot of big questions, writes Eliot Wilson
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CommentWhy volunteers are crucial to the success of the long-term plan
A sustainably resourced volunteer service is the first step in achieving the long-term plan – something, the trusts and health boards across the country must take on to help the NHS. By Sam Ward.
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News‘Mac the Knife’ to lead STP and five CCGs
A well-known NHS figure will take over as interim accountable officer of five clinical commissioning groups next month, after they were “unable” to recruit someone substantively.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Something to aspire to
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News£20bn construction framework set to deliver ‘40 new hospitals’
Billions of pounds of NHS capital is set to flow through a new national framework as part of the government’s drive to deliver “40 new hospitals” by 2030.
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HSJ InteractiveFocusing on clinical strategy to drive service transformation
It’s time to move from focusing on simply rebuilding the structure of NHS buildings, and instead place a firm focus on overall clinical strategies to drive models of care, says Bev Evans
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HSJ LocalCEO ‘delighted’ as trust prepares to exit special measures
A trust is due to leave special measures, after problems with quality and bullying landed it in the regime more than two years ago.
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NewsSimon Stevens headlines first HSJ Sustainability Forum
NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens will deliver the keynote address at HSJ’s inaugural Sustainability Forum this June.
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CommentSpecialised services: transforming delivery for patients
Adam Wright on the future of specialised services and their contribution to the long-term plan
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NewsFT’s leaders unaware of staff’s ‘high-risk’ practices, warns regulator
Leaders at a mental health trust have been criticised for being too “removed” from front line issues, which meant they were not alerted to “high-risk” restraint practices being used by staff.
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NewsOnly six of 200 NHS private units signed up to complaints watchdog
Just six of the NHS’ more than 200 private patient units are signed up to the independent complaints adjudicator, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHS collecting coronavirus data from 111 calls
The NHS nationally is collecting data from 111 calls related to coronavirus to inform the national response, it has confirmed.