All Health Service Journal articles in July 2021 – Page 9
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NewsDaily Insight: ‘A festering, open wound’
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ InteractiveThe journey to net zero – what is the first step?
Environmental sustainability has been moving up the priority list in the healthcare sector with increased awareness of climate change and impacts on public health, and more recently cemented in strategic thinking with NHS net zero targets to work towards. Sponsored by The journey to a greener NHS comes ...
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HSJ InteractiveListen: How improved coordination between housing and health can improve patient well being
This podcast explores the benefits of closer alignment of housing and health
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NewsExclusive: Government tells hospitals to submit cheaper rebuild plans
NHS trusts hoping to build the first new hospitals under the government’s flagship infrastructure project have been told to submit plans for schemes costing less than £400m, prompting concern about plans being watered down.
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NewsHospital closed wards after CQC raised patient safety concerns
Staff at a private psychiatric hospital failed to notice a patient had not eaten for five days after admission and was drinking just coffee and cola during this time, Care Quality Commission inspectors found.
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HSJ LocalTrust criticised for ‘unreasonable conduct’ in tribunal process
One of the largest trusts in the country has been criticised for its ‘unreasonable conduct’ in failing to disclose key documents to an employment tribunal.
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NewsNamed: the first 25 integrated care board chairs
The chairs have been chosen for 25 of the 42 NHS integrated care boards which will plan health services from April.
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NewsGPs given power to switch off online consulations as practices reach ‘breaking point’
GPs have been given the ability to stop patients contacting them through the online eConsult system as their professional body warns that primary care is reaching ‘breaking point’.
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Expert BriefingWhat the leaked draft ICS constitution tells us
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior correspondent Sharon Brennan.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: How the government is trying to build back cheaper
A letter obtained by HSJ’s Nick Carding revealed the government has told eight of the most advanced “40 new hospitals” trusts to put produce plans to build much more cheaply — he discusses what it means on the HSJ Health Check podcast.
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NewsDaily Insight: The sound of purse strings tightening
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsTwo trusts to share chief executive
Two trusts in north London are set to share a chief executive.
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HSJ LocalLondon ‘creaking’ under pressure of covid surge, warns trust boss
Trusts are ‘creaking’ across London as they address the latest surge of covid patients and mounting non-covid activity, according to a medical director at a major London trust.
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HSJ PartnersData will pave the way to earlier, more targeted interventions across integrated care systems
Data-driven targeted early interventions would go a long way towards helping integrated care systems to address the wider determinants of health and wellbeing, and to improve outcomes, writes Brian Waters
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Calls for ICS chiefs’ pay to be set higher
NHS England should set higher pay rates for integrated care system directors than most currently receive, if the posts are to attract people who can “hold the ring” among provider trusts, some NHS leaders have told HSJ.
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NewsTech body sets stretching workforce targets to end ‘unacceptable’ lack of diversity
NHS Digital has launched ambitious new workforce targets to tackle an “unacceptable and inexcusable” lack of diversity, according to its new chief executive.
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CommentSimon Stevens’ mental health legacy - and the task for Amanda Pritchard
Paul Farmer on Simon Stevens’ role in bridging the gap between physical and mental health in the NHS.
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NewsExclusive: NHS faces shortage of blood collection tubes amid ‘UK border challenges’
Disruptions to the supply of tubes for collecting blood used in diagnostic tests across the NHS, including for a complication of covid, may mean trust stocks run short, HSJ understands.
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HSJ LocalRegulator threatens trust over ED overcrowding
A major acute trust has been threatened with regulatory action by the Care Quality Commission after inspectors raised safety concerns about overcrowding in its emergency department.