All Health Service Journal articles in January 2022
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HSJ PartnersEvaluation of AI risk scores in COPD opens to England
The new year brings a unique opportunity to pioneer the validation and accelerate the adoption of machine learning models trained to deliver clinically actionable risk scores, meet elective care targets and achieve the aims set out in the NHS long-term plan
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NewsHealthcare leader asked to tackle data debacle made a dame
The woman brought in by government to help sort out the latest controversy over the sharing of NHS data has been made a dame in the New Year’s Honours list.
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CommentNHS England must act now to improve the vaccination of those with a learning disability
Dan Scorer on the new data on the health inequalities facing people with a learning disability
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News‘Get a lift to hospital,’ ambulance trust tells patients with suspected heart attacks
Ambulance trusts have begun asking patients with heart attacks and strokes to get a lift to hospital with family or friends instead of waiting for an ambulance, because of high covid absences and ‘unprecedented’ surges in demand, HSJ has learned.
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NewsData suggests first signs of potential slowing in omicron hospitalisation surge
Covid admissions have fallen in London hospitals for the first time in over a month, while the growth rate of the national total rate has also dropped, according to official data.
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CommentCommunity referrals can relieve burden on primary care
The pandemic has worsened health and wellbeing for many and widened inequalities further. Link workers can improve outcomes for people whom GPs may struggle to support and help achieve better results, writes Julie Bass
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NewsMinister intervenes over heart attack patients told to get a lift to hospital
NHS England has been asked to look at an ambulance trust which has been asking patients with heart attacks and strokes to get a lift to hospital.
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NewsNew NHS contract sets ‘realistic’ watered-down targets
NHS England’s proposed new standard contract confirms a watering down of several waiting-time targets, following the big deterioration in performance accelerated by covid.
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News‘Outdated’ infection control rules ‘crippling’ hospitals, government told
Officials are under pressure to relax national guidance which is ‘crippling healthcare’ by taking large numbers of beds out of action and blocking patient flow, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalCEO of 19 years named chair of challenged trust
Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has appointed a highly experienced former NHS executive leader, who spent almost 20 years in charge of an acute trust, as its new chair.
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NewsDaily Insight: New year diet for regulators?
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsOmicron blocks thousands of overseas doctors joining NHS
Thousands of overseas-qualified doctors wanting to work in the UK will be delayed after the General Medical Council cancelled exams due to the surge in covid cases.
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NewsA quarter of inpatients at mental health trust have covid
More than one in four inpatients at one of England’s largest mental health trusts were reported as covid-positive this week, according to data seen by HSJ.
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CommentThe NHS needs a National Wellbeing Guardian
The wellbeing of NHS staff is now recognised as a priority, as evidenced by the introduction of Wellbeing Guardians into the NHS. The NHS needs to appoint a National Wellbeing Guardian to provide a leadership role for the work of these guardians, and more generally to actively promote wellbeing in ...
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NewsTrust appoints integrated care director as acting CEO
A mental health and community trust has appointed its executive director for integrated care as acting chief executive.
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NewsCommunity staff diverted to inpatient care as absences bite
Mental health chiefs are ‘juggling’ staff supervision and spiralling patient backlogs as more trusts start redeploying their workforce amid soaring absence rates caused by covid-19.
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NewsNHS to begin move to dismiss staff who refuse covid vaccine or redeployment
Trusts will be told next week how they should go about dismissing potentially thousands of NHS staff who have decided not to be vaccinated against covid, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Absences hit 120,000 as military sends 200 staff to help hospitals
Staff absences from NHS trusts hit nearly 120,000 on Wednesday after another increase, HSJ has learned, as the government deployed 200 military staff to plug gaps.
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NewsDaily Insight: Exam decision tests patience
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: What the 2022-23 NHS planning guidance really means
On this week’s podcast, we explain what the latest planning guidance from NHS England – published over Christmas – means for the service and its patients.