Latest news – Page 218
-
News
Trusts and CCGs given new deadline to appoint patient safety specialists
Trusts and clinical commissioning groups have been given a new deadline to appoint patient safety specialists after delays due to the pandemic.
-
News
Updated: Government pilots payment support for people in covid quarantine
The government will offer financial support to people in areas of highest covid-19 incidence who are on low incomes and must self-isolate after coming into contact with someone with the virus.
-
News
Mental health patients excluded from ‘narrow’ winter funding
Mental health patients have been excluded from the government’s “narrowly focussed” funding to support hospital discharges over 2020-21.
-
News
NHS Confed: Suspend routine CQC inspections over winter
NHS leaders are calling for routine inspections of hospitals and other providers to be paused until after winter so services can focus on treatment backlogs and exhausted staff.
-
News
Exclusive: Review launched after ‘injustices suffered by BAME staff’
A clinical commissioning group has ordered an independent review of its culture after what is described as “injustices experienced by black Asian and minority ethic colleagues” during the covid pandemic.
-
HSJ Local
‘Missed opportunities’ in management of troubled service, review finds
Several ‘missed opportunities’ by local commissioners to tackle problems within a troubled autism service have been identified by an independent review.
-
News
Raft of covid service changes not being reversed
Significant changes to a range of services, including A&E, stroke and maternity, made amid the covid-19 crisis are set to remain into next year, an HSJ analysis of key projects has found.
-
News
Systems told to pick single executive to oversee hospital discharges
All health and care systems will be expected to name a new discharge executive and co-ordinator, under updated national guidance.
-
News
Extra funding confirmed for learning disability nurse apprenticeships
Health Education England is set to give employers additional funding for learning disability nursing funding in a bid to increase the sector’s dwindling workforce numbers.
-
News
County hopes for £400m in spending review for massive service change
Leaders in the south east are hopeful they will secure funding for a delayed £400m acute reconfiguration from the comprehensive spending review this autumn.
-
News
Covid could scupper female opportunity in NHS, warns senior trust chief
The covid pandemic’s impact represents a ‘’real risk to opportunity’ for the female workforce, a senior trust boss who also chairs a women’s leaders’ network has warned.
-
News
Revealed: New cash penalties and incentives for waiting list challenge
New financial penalties and incentives for elective activity will be decided solely by system-level performance, prompting concerns from local leaders.
-
News
Trenholm: ‘CQC inspections will no longer be big, disruptive events’
The ‘effectiveness’ and ‘responsiveness’ of providers are set to be downplayed during the winter as part of more ‘streamlined’ inspections from the Care Quality Commission, HSJ can reveal.
-
News
CQC chief sceptical about need for ‘patient safety commissioner’
CQC chief executive Ian Trenholm has said he is sceptical about the need to appoint an NHS patient safety commissioner, one of the key recommendations of the recently published Cumberlege review.
-
News
Delayed defibrillation led to second death despite revised guidance
Incidents of delayed defibrillation continued at an ambulance trust three years after it pledged to make changes to the way cardiac arrests were handled.
-
News
Unpublished report reveals ‘exit block’ turned A&E into ‘a ward’
Previously unpublished reports newly obtained by HSJ reveal issues including a “significant safety risk”, warring surgeons, and patients suffering sight loss due to delays and missed diagnoses.
-
HSJ Local
Trust warned after CQC’s ‘serious concerns’ for patients
Safety inspectors have ordered a mental health trust to make immediate improvements after visiting two inpatient wards where three patients died inside six months.
-
News
‘Insane secretiveness’ undermined ‘limp’ People Plan, claims one of its authors
One of the authors of the NHS People Plan has slammed NHS England’s “insane secretiveness” in the lead-up to its publication, claiming the document was “limp” on diversity and ignored the immediate staffing challenges facing the NHS.
-
News
£1.4bn procurement launched for community and discharge services
NHS trusts in Yorkshire and the Midlands have signalled a need for external help for discharge and community services through a new £1.4bn procurement framework, amid the health service’s response to covid-19.
-
News
Hancock extends emergency patient data sharing rules
Matt Hancock has extended four national data sharing orders which allow GPs and NHS organisations to share confidential patient information, as part of the ongoing response to the covid-19 pandemic.