All Innovation articles – Page 14
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News
Prior: use of barcodes should be ‘commonplace in the NHS’
The widespread adoption of barcoding by the NHS is needed to meet the challenge posed by the Cumberlege patient safety review, according to NHS England chair Lord David Prior.
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Comment
We must offer patients hope, even if we can't offer timely treatment
With no capacity for any operations other than the urgent and emergency, waiting list growth looms large over patients, writes Polly Dickerson.
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News
NHS seeks another huge increase in testing capacity
The NHS has been told to increase its covid-19 swab testing capacity again by at least double, HSJ has learned, including via efforts to expand rapid-turnaround tests.
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Comment
Sweeping aside patient involvement during pandemic was too easy
To deliver a new normal that serves patients we must grab this opportunity to bake patient involvement into new structures, processes and cultures within the NHS, writes Rachel Power
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News
Asymptomatic people will have to self-isolate after contact with covid-19 cases
People will be asked to self-isolate for two weeks even if they are asymptomatic after coming into ‘high-risk’ contact with a person who has tested positive for covid-19 – a testing chief has told NHS executives.
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: Third NHS trust partners with Babylon for patient triage tool
A third NHS acute trust has partnered with private healthcare firm Babylon in a bid to give patients better information on how to respond to emerging symptoms.
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HSJ Interactive
Why we should reimagine rather than reopen
As the coronavirus pandemic has unravelled, there has been a shift in the way the NHS works. We should work to preserve the best of this new system while finding new ways to draw on the innovation that can emerge from collaboration, says Erin Birch
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News
Trust chief joins covid-19 ‘test and trace’ top team
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Foundation Trust chief executive Sarah-Jane Marsh will lead the government’s ‘test and trace’ programme along with a council boss, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced.
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News
Pandemic spurs NHS to ‘urgently’ speed up elimination of pagers
NHS technology chiefs want to accelerate the elimination of pagers in the NHS due to the impact of covid-19, it has emerged.
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News
NHSI chair to lead covid-19 test and trace programme
Dido Harding has been appointed chair of the government’s test and trace programme, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced.
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HSJ Partners
Selenity introduces service for key worker organisations
Anthony Sherwin on Selenity’s CV19 tracker, available as a free service to manage expenses and absences related to covid-19.
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Comment
‘Think yourself into a new way of acting’
Will Warburton calls for innovative approaches to understand, assess, learn from and sustain the effective changes that have rapidly been put in place by the NHS.
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Comment
The NHS Covid contact tracing app: risks and safeguards
Mathilde Groppo examines the perceived risks to privacy and discusses three safeguards to secure personal information and prevent data breaches through the CV19 app.
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Comment
Surgeons face “uncomfortable” decisions and a “mammoth” catch-up task
The surgical workforce has a key role to play in the current crisis which requires adaptation and cooperation, write Emily A.H. Duggan, Alex C.G. Armstrong, Justin C.R. Wormald and Mark M. Mikhail
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News
Government counts mailouts to hit 100,000 testing target
The government changed the way it counts the number of covid-19 tests in order to hit its target of 100,000 tests per day by the end of April, HSJ can reveal.
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Comment
The political science of choices and consequences
Whether it is to develop an eventual exit strategy for lockdown or to prepare for handling acute care demands from a second wave of covid-19 infections, testing is essential, says Andy Cowper.
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Expert Briefing
Why data modelling is key to unlocking the lockdown
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Contact Nicholas Carding in confidence here.
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News
Apology after NHS sends thousands of dead people covid-19 warnings
NHS Digital has apologised to families after sending letters to more than 10,000 deceased patients, warning them they were at extra risk of covid-19.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: Schrodinger’s Virus
Andy Cowper on how real problems persist with the availability of PPE supply
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HSJ Partners
Managing chronic wounds in a pandemic is more important than ever
Digitising the management of wound care provides accurate and accessible data to nurses and clinicians while also enabling remote assessment of wounds, notes Katherine Ward