All Health Service Journal articles in January 2022 – Page 8
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News
Five ‘new hospital’ projects due to miss 2025 completion target
Only one of the six ‘new hospitals’ prioritised for construction by the government more than two years ago is on track to be operating by the original target date of 2025, HSJ can reveal.
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News
Daily Insight: We’ve got your back
A Derbyshire trust has reassured its registered clinical staff they have its support when making difficult decisions during the pandemic. Derbyshire Community Health Services Trust set out its backing for staff in an email last week. Some HSJ readers questioned whether it was right that patients should be in a ...
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News
Treatment disrupted as trust suffers major data loss
A major IT incident at an acute trust is disrupting treatment for eye patients after a significant data loss, it has emerged.
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HSJ Local
Former ambassador appointed chair of merging trust
An acute and community trust has appointed a former UK ambassador as its new chair.
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News
Javid directs NHSE to agree new private sector deal
The NHS has been directed by the health and social care secretary to agree a three-month nationwide ‘covid surge deal’ with independent sector providers.
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New trust chair signs off review of proposed merger
A rapid independent review has been launched into how a trust handled a controversial proposed merger and its relations with its governors.
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HSJ Local
Trust tells clinicians ‘we’ll support you’ over safety risks caused by covid pressures
A trust has written to its registered workforce to reassure them of management support when delivering care in ‘extremely challenging circumstances’.
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News
The Primer: Hope and hopelessness
The Primer provides a rapid guide to the most interesting comment and analysis on the English health and care sector that has not (usually) appeared in HSJ.
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News
Stevens intervenes to force transparency on funding amid fears of service cuts
Lord Simon Stevens has proposed amendments to the Health and Care Bill which would force the government to be transparent about levels of mental health funding.
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Daily Insight: Less haste, more speed
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Occupational health staff told not to get involved in decisions on mandatory covid vaccination
Occupational health professionals should avoid employment and management matters related to unvaccinated NHS staff, new guidance has warned.
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Comment
ICS appoints ‘Well Meaning Guardian’ to oversee 'Chatting Charter'
Well-meaning Guardians and virtual nursing teams feature in new year plans of England’s most challenged health economy, writes Julian Patterson
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HSJ Interactive
HSJ webinar discussed shaking off the shackles of the hospital: How can taking a smart approach across a health and care economy enable ICSs to deliver care closer to home?
in association with On demand recording now available In the run-up to the official move to integrated care systems, what are the essentials that leaders will have to ensure are in place if the new landscape is to be ...
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Trusts fall far short of NHSE discharge target
NHS trusts have been unable to get anywhere close to the target for reducing delayed discharges set by NHS England last month ahead of the omicron wave.
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The 16 trusts where covid patients occupy one in five beds
Sixteen hospital trusts had a fifth or more of their general beds occupied by covid patients on 4 January, the latest figures show, including three outside London and the South East.
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Daily Insight
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Regulators scrutinised, exams cancelled, healthcare ‘crippled’
Your essential update on health for the week.
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‘Patients at risk’ from ‘hastily rolled out virtual wards’
NHS England’s plans to rapidly expand virtual wards are being ‘hastily rolled out’ and could put patients at risk while taking up significant staffing capacity, leading clinicians have warned.
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Podcast
HSJ 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.
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News
Daily Insight: Exam decision tests patience
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Exclusive: 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.