All Health Service Journal articles in January 2023 – Page 2
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NewsAmbulances ‘lose’ 55,000 hours in one week during handover delays
Hours lost to ambulance handover delays, and the numbers of ambulances waiting more than an hour outside hospitals hit new highs in the week after Christmas.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: The three-day threat
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsNew discharge fund risks being ‘political theatre’, warn NHS leaders
The government has ‘a week to 10 days’ to distribute the £200m it is committing to speed up hospital discharge if the initiative is to have a meaningful impact on reducing the 13,000 patients who are medically fit to leave hospital, national healthcare leaders have told HSJ.
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Daily InsightThe Primer: Tearing up the GP model
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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NewsNational procurement chief appointed
NHS Supply Chain has appointed a commercial director to take charge of major reforms to its operating model and oversee day-to-day procurement of £3.5bn worth of devices and supplies vital for trust operations.
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CommentChanging who the NHS treats first will open a 'can of worms', but it is a debate we must have
We have, for too long, avoided opening the moral and ethical debates around equity of access to care. We must grasp this thorny debate and apply sophistication to how we tackle waiting lists if we really want to close the inequality gap instead of making a poor position even worse, ...
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Your failing hospital
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsMP says NHS ‘shambles’ is fault of ‘utterly useless senior managers’
A Conservative MP has blamed “far too many overpaid and utterly useless senior managers” for what he described as the “shambles of the NHS”.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: ‘Useless, overpaid and appallingly run’
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsConfusion over changes to CQC inspections signalled by Barclay
The Care Quality Commission is to ‘adjust’ its ‘regulatory activity for the rest of winter’ in an effort to help ‘increase capacity in both adult social care and the NHS’.
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NewsLong cancer waits hit record high, despite drop in backlog
The number of people waiting for cancer diagnosis and treatment for more than three months has passed 12,000 for the first time.
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NewsNHSE to bring commercial expertise to service’s innovation efforts
NHS England wants to bring more commercial and procurement expertise to the NHS’s process of developing innovative medical products, according to a proposed strategy.
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NewsCQC releases staff to help with winter crisis
Staff at the Care Quality Commission have been released to volunteer for frontline work at trusts during the winter crisis, the regulator has announced.
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NewsErrors in overflowing EDs causing heart attacks, NHS England warns
Patients have suffered cardiac and respiratory arrests because of errors using oxygen cylinders, NHS England has warned, citing more people being cared for in “areas without access to medical gas pipeline systems” such as corridors and ambulances queuing outside A&E.
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HSJ LocalEx-police chief to chair struggling trust
A former police chief has been appointed chair of England’s most under-pressure ambulance trust.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Major change and challenges for 2023
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by correspondent Emily Townsend — contact me in confidence.
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News£480m contract for national data platform tendered by NHS England
NHS England has launched its much-delayed procurement for a new national data platform.
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HSJ Local‘Tearful’ staff raise patient safety concerns to CQC
An inspection of a hospital has found all wards were understaffed, while ‘tearful [and] exhausted’ clinicians raised patient safety concerns to the regulator.
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NewsRevealed: Impact of new payment tariff on every local system
Trusts in the south of England are expected to see a lower rate of income growth under the planned new payment tariff for 2023-24.
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NewsTrust gives up running GP practices
Two Swindon GP practices that were taken over by the local hospital trust three years ago are moving back into independent GP ownership.