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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2020: Diabetes Care Initiative of the Year
Winner Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust: Youth Empowerment Skills Programme (YES) The Youth Empowerment Skills (YES) programme is a psycho-educational intervention for young people (age 14-20 years) with type 1 diabetes, co-developed by young people and co-delivered by a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals, youth workers and peer educators. ...
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NewsRegion puts £80m of waiting list catch-up out to tender
Managers in London anticipate spending £80m with private hospitals over the next four months to catch up with the region’s waiting list backlog, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsLong waits for cancer treatment double
The proportion of cancer patients receiving their treatment 104 days or more after referral has doubled year-on-year, new data shows.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: ‘Mad’
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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News5,000 jobs at risk as NHS commercial work collapses
The NHS could lose more than 5,000 research staff and around £500m in funding because of covid-19, according to senior trust leaders.
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NewsTeaching trust’s top nurse leaves after 15 years
A major teaching hospital trust’s chief nurse has stepped down after 15 years.
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NewsThe Royal Mint joins growing list of PPE suppliers
The Department of Health and Social Care spent at least £488.8m buying personal protective equipment in April and May, newly published documents reveal.
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NewsTrusts to buy Serco out of joint venture after losing major contract
Two foundation trusts are set to buy an outsourcing company out of a multimillion pound pathology partnership, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsUrgent cancer treatment down 60 per cent in April
The number of patients receiving urgent cancer treatment fell by 60 per cent in April, as hospitals struggled to provide services while grappling with covid-19.
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NewsOxygen supply problems ‘the new PPE’, warn hospital bosses
Oxygen shortages and difficulties in expanding storage quickly are now a major problem for hospital bosses dealing with covid-19 patients, HSJ has been told.
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NewsTrusts advise widespread use of PPE as staff ‘refuse to see patients’
Several major hospital trusts are telling staff to use personal protective equipment in a wider set of areas than recommended by current national guidance, amid staff concern and reports of doctors refusing work without it.
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NewsCoronavirus deaths mapped: 13 trusts see 50 per cent of fatalities
Seventy-two trusts had recorded at least one coronavirus death on Sunday, an increase of 15 on Friday.
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HSJ LocalLondon teaching trust says non-clinical staff must go to work as normal
One of the largest teaching trusts in England has told its non-clinical staff to go into work as normal, as it continues to plan its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
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NewsEleven trusts renew £1.5bn court battle with their local councils
Eleven hospital trusts are continuing a High Court action against their local authorities, by seeking to appeal a previous ruling that denied them an estimated £1.5bn in backdated business rates.
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NewsRevealed: The trusts which will struggle most to deliver quality care in 2020
The trusts which are likely to face the fiercest struggle to deliver quality care in the immediate future have been identified through an analysis carried out exclusively for HSJ.
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NewsTeaching trust hires deputy group chief and site CEO
A major teaching trust has appointed a new deputy group chief executive who will also act as site chief for its largest hospital.
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NewsNew targets set to be phased in from April, says NHSE
The NHS can expect a phased implementation of new operational targets from April — instead of a full switchover on day one — NHS England’s number two has said.
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NewsICSs must move beyond ‘transformation’, says Pritchard
Integrated care systems cannot focus purely on transformation, and will gradually move to taking on performance management jobs from NHS England and Improvement, the regulators’ number two has said.
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HSJ LocalMerger deal paves way for huge land sale
A prestigious specialist trust will merge with one of the capital’s biggest teaching hospital trusts, in a deal which could pave the way for a huge land sale in west London.
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NewsFirst coronavirus cases confirmed in England
Two patients in England have been tested positive for the Wuhan novel Coronavirus, the chief medical officer said today.