All Health Service Journal articles in February 2021 – Page 8
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NewsStill a third more patients in critical care than last winter
The number of critical care patients in England is still significantly more than was seen last year, despite occupancy coming down across the country, HSJ analysis shows.
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CommentLetter from Scotland: What can England learn from integration north of the border?
The English NHS can draw lessons from Scotland’s experience of integrating health and social care, which has been challenging so far, notes Henry Anderson in the first of a monthly column.
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CommentEvaluation of service transformation needs more money, staff and focus
There is a need to change how rapid service evaluation is funded, co-ordinated and delivered, not just during but beyond the pandemic to enable more effective scale-up of health and care innovations, writes Prof Mike Roberts
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CommentFresh thinking can transform new hospitals in England
Lord Ajay Kakkar hopes this year’s Wolfson Economics Prize can kickstart a national conversation about the future of hospital building after government pledged £3.7bn towards the construction of 40 new hospitals.
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NewsChair of scandal-hit trust announces departure
The chair of a trust at the centre of an “unprecendented” financial collapse will step down in April.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The white paper fallout begins
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior correspondent, Sharon Brennan.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Punishing staff for gaming the vaccine system
Reasonable or ‘unnecessarily hostile”? This week’s HSJ Health Check debates whether it’s right for a trust to threaten its staff with disciplinary or regulatory action if they seek to have their second covid jab early.
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CommentWRES: Time for a reboot
NHS England’s WRES programme needs a reboot, to bring serious accountability and evidence based interventions to the issue, says Roger Kline.
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NewsMinority ethnic candidate chances of recruitment in NHS fall back, finds NHSE
The likelihood of minority ethnic candidates being appointed from NHS shortlists compared to white applicants is at its lowest rate so far recorded, while other key race equality indicators have “not improved over time”, according to NHS England’s latest annual evaluation of progress.
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NewsStaff covid vaccine uptake much lower in London
A much lower share of ‘frontline’ NHS trust staff in London have had a first dose of the covid vaccine than in other regions, according to new NHS England estimates.
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CommentBereaved families have been used as pawns in a political game
With the National Learning from Deaths Programme Board stalled, the bereaved families who were to be involved in its work have once again been left harmed and without any answers, write Dr Josephine Ocloo and David Smith
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NewsDaily Insight: Fair comment or out of line?
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsJeremy Hunt’s safety programme has stalled, say bereaved families
Bereaved families have been left feeling like their efforts to improve patient safety have been ‘in vain’ as progress of a government programme instigated by Jeremy Hunt appears to have ‘stalled’.
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HSJ PartnersWhat does the white paper say?
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CommentSocial value is coming back to NHS procurement
We need a shift to a culture where how services are delivered is seen as important as the service itself, writes Andrew O’Brien
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NewsDaily Insight: Bereaved and aggrieved
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsCalls for GPs to ‘get back to being GPs’ as other vaccine centres ‘empty’
Senior figures running the covid vaccine programme locally are calling for more flexibility, and for a big shift away from GP-run sites in the next phase.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Hancock’s grubby intervention over A&E closure
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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CommentEngagement in global healthcare challenges will help retain NHS staff
Ben Simms on the growing need of collaborative working among countries in the field of health care.
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HSJ InteractiveHow the NHS can get back on track after covid?
Former health secretary Stephen Dorrell was joined by two leading commentators to look at how the NHS can recover after covid in an HSJ webinar. Nigel Edwards, chief executive of the Nuffield Trust, and Saffron Cordery, deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, examined the mountain the NHS has to climb ...