All Health Service Journal articles in June 2019 – Page 7
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Trust deficit shrinks but NHSI reports large underlying shortfall
One-off benefits helped the NHS provider sector report an improved financial deficit for 2018-19 – but the underlying position worsened by £700m.
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NewsBreast cancer target performance drops 10pp in a year
Performance against a target for the NHS to quickly see patients with suspected breast cancer fell by more than 10 percentage points in the last financial year, new data reveals.
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HSJ LocalFT loses £59m windfall to other trusts
An NHS trust that was expecting receive around £59m of national incentive funding has instead seen the money distributed to dozens of other providers.
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NewsFourteen trusts to be excused from reporting A&E target during controversial trial
Fresh concerns have been raised about how NHS England is conducting its controversial pilot of new accident and emergency standards.
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CEO InterviewCEO Interview - Alwen Williams, Barts Health Trust
This is the latest in a series of interviews with provider chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Insight subscribers.
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HSJ InteractiveNational Briefing: The digitisation of NHS trusts
This National Briefing is exclusive to HSJ Insight subscribers.
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Comment18 weeks “no longer important”?
English waiting times will continue to grow, indefinitely, until the NHS gets closer to keeping up with demand. By Rob Findlay
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CommentShould pilot sites ‘go dark’ while testing new A&E measures?
The arguments for ‘going dark’ look weak, compared with the damage to official statistics and public confidence in them, writes Rob Findlay
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NewsDaily Insight: Black box recorder
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsED staff ‘wanted to delay ambulances’
The Care Quality Commission found standards have dropped at a struggling emergency department where a nurse told inspectors: “We don’t want to release the ambulances because we know they will return with more patients.”
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HSJ LocalCouncil chief to lead city’s ‘integrated care provider’
The chief executive of a city council which had previously suspended its involvement in an integrated care system has been appointed to one of its leadership posts.
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch Up: Definite deficit, the £14m thread and empty promises
Your essential update on health for the week.
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HSJ InteractiveTechnology can help healthcare professionals work smarter
The solutions in the interim people plan will take time to show results but in the meantime technology can help healthcare professionals work more effectively right now, argues Jonathan Patrick
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LeaderSimon Stevens' exit strategy
HSJ is asked one question more often than any other: ’when will Simon Stevens step down as NHS England chief executive?’ The focus on the end of his tenure is understandable, Mr Stevens has been the most dominant NHS figure in modern times – and arguably since Nye Bevan.
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NewsReview found ‘significant concerns’ about conflicts at CCG
A clinical commissioning group has been criticised for how it handled potential conflicts of interest when it handed out contracts to organisations owned by its own GPs.
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NewsTrust fined £200,000 for prisoner death
A mental health trust has been fined £200,000 for breaching the Care Quality Commission’s fundamental standards in only the second case of its kind.
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CommentHow to survive as an NHS chief executive
An ongoing research study seeks to identify how CEOs in the NHS develop and maintain personal resilience, and the attitudes and behaviours that lead to professional longevity, say Professor Naomi Chambers and Professor Mark Exworthy
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NewsExclusive: Hundreds of patients kept in ‘distressing’ dormitory-style wards
NHS England says the government should consider hundreds of mental health patients who are being treated in “distressing” dormitory-style wards when it determines future capital spending budgets.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: The future of NHS procurement revealed
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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NewsDaily Insight: Who will have 2020 vision?
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership