All Health Service Journal articles in July 2024
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HSJ LocalFormer banker to replace long-serving trust chair
A mental health trust has named a former banker, who is also a governing member of the Nursing and Midwifery Council, to replace its long-serving chair in September.
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NewsThird of services rated ‘red’ for baby deaths
The proportion of trusts with maternity services “red rated” for neonatal mortality rose from around a quarter in 2021 to a third in 2022, according to the latest national audit.
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HSJ LocalICB reprimanded for not ‘holding FTs to account’
One of the largest integrated care systems has been accused of a “failure” of financial management, as NHS England issued a formal notice requiring urgent improvements across leadership, performance and care quality.
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NewsRepairs backlog leaps 60% at trust rejected for rebuild
A trust’s maintenance backlog has risen by 60 per cent in a single year – more than four times the typical annual increase – after its bid for national funding to rebuild its main hospital was turned down.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Send in the consultants
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Deficit plans should not be a ‘comfort zone’ for trusts
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
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CommentI helped write the last Labour 10-year NHS plan. Here’s what I learned
Labour’s proposed 10-year plan for the NHS echoes similar reforms enacted two decades ago during the Milburn era. Chris Ham, who served as the Department of Health’s policy director during that time, stresses the need for sustained commitment, and an awareness of political dynamics and resource constraints
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NewsThree trusts to share CEO and chair
Three trusts in the South West have announced plans to appoint a joint chair and chief executive, and form a new “group model”.
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NewsConsultants sent in to tackle overspending at nine ICSs
NHS England has ordered nine integrated care systems to bring in management consultants to find ways to immediately bring down spending because of concerns over their finances, HSJ can reveal.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Care Quality Omissions
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsCQC chief admits ‘we’ve lost your trust’ and announces more inspections
The Care Quality Commission’s new chief executive has admitted the regulator “got things wrong” during the rollout of its new inspection regime and announced an increase in the number of assessments it carries out.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in May 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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NewsCEO of deaths inquiry trust says ‘too much secrecy’ in past
The CEO of a trust subject to an inquiry into mental health deaths has claimed the organisation has “moved forward” from a defensive and secretive culture to being more open with patients and their families.
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NewsNew chief for trust seeking hospital rebuild
A new chief executive has been announced for a trust with major plans to rebuild a hospital in the East of England.
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NewsICS leader tells Streeting ‘use us to test radical reforms’
Former Labour health and social care secretary Patricia Hewitt has urged the new government to select a group of integrated care systems as “testbeds” for radically different ways of funding and delivering health and social care.
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LeaderDoctors’ pay: a warning from Labour’s past
In November 2002, HSJ sat opposite then prime minister Tony Blair in the cabinet room and asked him what he planned to do about consultants’ refusal to accept the new contract the government wanted to introduce.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Is bringing back PFI a necessary evil?
Steve Black believes the PFI was a flawed approach to securing capital investment for the NHS, but suggests its revival might - nevertheless - be welcome.
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News‘Likely’ supplier for ‘first of its kind’ EPR revealed
An integrated care board has named Oracle Health as the “likely” supplier of an electronic patient record that will be the first to be used across acute, mental and health services.
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HSJ LocalICBs locked in dispute over emergency care funding
An integrated care board has accused a neighbouring ICB of demanding too much money for services provided to patients accessing care outside its boundaries.
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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Ministers start work and Darzi returns
Your essential update on health for the week.