All Government/DH policy articles – Page 35
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News
Exclusive: Patients' body parts were stored dangerously for six months
Human body parts from NHS patients have been stored in unrefrigerated units for more than six months resulting in a smell of “decaying flesh” at a scandal hit waste management company, according to Environment Agency documents seen by HSJ.
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Bonuses at NHS PropCo top national health agencies
Four executive directors at NHS Property Services were paid around £180,000 in bonuses in 2017-18, which is significantly higher than nearly every other national NHS body, according to HSJ analysis.
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Primary care should 'direct' community health teams - official review
Community health teams have not integrated with GP services and should in future be “based in” and “under the clinical and service direction” of primary care networks, the author of a government review of general practice has said.
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Junior doctors suffering 'Stockholm syndrome'
Junior doctors have learnt to live in an “unhealthy culture” with “a significant amount of Stockholm syndrome”, HSJ has been told.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Seven things you might have missed in the long-term plan
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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NHS needs 'more nuanced approach' to immigration
The government’s immigration white paper does not provide a long-term solution to the NHS’ workforce needs, NHS Employers has warned.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: A brief history of NHS plans
With the release of the 10 Year Forward View imminent, Andy Cowper reflects on the success of the various NHS plans published in the last two decades and what to expect from the 10YFV
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Firm at centre of stockpiling scandal ceases operations
The company which stockpiled dozens of NHS trusts’ clinical waste, including human body parts, has ceased operations and made its staff redundant.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: That warm feeling down your back? It’s not rain
Andy Cowper discusses the government’s recently released Brexit operational readiness guidance for the health and care system in England
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Revealed: The NHS contingency plans for clinical waste disposal
NHS Improvement has hired consultants from Mott Macdonald to help NHS trusts and primary care staff whose facilities have lost their clinical waste disposal provider, HSJ has learned.
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Health minister steps down
Health minister Lord O’Shaughnessy has resigned from his post as Parliamentary under secretary of state in the House of Lords for family reasons.
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HSJ Local
Second council supports referral to Hancock over £150m reconfiguration
Health chiefs in Dorset have “confidence” in their plans to reconfigure acute services in the county despite two local authorities asking for a review by health secretary Matt Hancock, they have said.
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NHS will still be short of nurses in five years, Dalton warns
It will be more than five years before the number of nurses the NHS needs are available to it, the chief executive of NHS Improvement has warned senior NHS leaders.
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New immigration laws could slash EU recruits by a quarter
New immigration laws proposed by the government could cut the number of EU healthcare professionals coming to work in the UK by more than 25 per cent, according to the government’s analysis.
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NHS long-term plan delayed until January
There is only an “outside chance” the overdue NHS long-term plan will be published this year, HSJ understands.
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Comment
Making money ‘talk’ for integration, prevention and place-based care
A whole system approach to finance in health and social care must be used to allow a realigning of spending, and ensure the public purse is being used to provide the right services, in the right place, at the right time. By Eleanor Roy
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Comment
A national strategy to harness the value of healthcare data
There needs to be a national strategy to make sure that the value of data is optimised primarily for the benefit of patients, but also for the NHS and the private sector. By Eleonora Harwich
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HSJ Local
Special measures hospital buddied with turnaround trust
A foundation trust which has dramatically improved care quality in recent years has been buddied with a troubled organisation 80 miles away.
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News
Revealed: The winners from £1bn government capital fund
The Department of Health and Social Care has confirmed the trusts and partnerships which will receive capital funding worth around £900m for building developments.
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Review: Major investment needed for 'worst estate in the NHS'
Mental health services are operating in some of the “worst estate the NHS has” and require major capital investment, a government review has said.