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Patient Safety Watch: Falling through the gaps

2024-11-08T12:00:00+00:00

HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.

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Private provider takes over NHS services worth £1.3bn

2024-10-15T16:59:00+01:00

A private firm has been awarded a contract worth around £1.3bn to lead community health services for an entire integrated care system for up to nine years.

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Trusts still seeking compensation a year after cyber attack

2023-08-14T11:48:00+01:00

Two trusts remain in discussions with a tech firm over financial compensation a year after a cyber attack left them without access to patient records for months.

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Trust names interim CEO

2023-06-05T06:03:00+01:00

A mental health trust has named a managing director as its interim chief executive while the substantive post-holder is on secondment at the local integrated care board.

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‘Discrimination’ claim as ‘40 new hospitals’ snubs mental health

2023-05-31T07:00:00+01:00

A chief executive has compared a lack of investment into mental health estate to ‘institutionalised discrimination’, after no new schemes were accepted on to the ‘40 new hospitals’ programme.

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The Download: Pathology networks’ digital maturity revealed

2022-10-04T10:57:00+01:00

The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Written by senior correspondent Nick Carding. Contact me in confidence here.

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The Download: Simple tech slashes lists

2022-09-20T11:47:00+01:00

The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Written by senior correspondent Nick Carding. Contact me in confidence here.

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NHSE’s federated data platform explained

2022-09-06T06:00:00+01:00

The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Written by senior correspondent Nick Carding. Contact me in confidence here.

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The Download: Cyber attack reverberates around the NHS

2022-08-23T11:06:00+01:00

The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Written by senior correspondent Nick Carding. Contact me in confidence here.

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Trusts face three weeks of ‘very dangerous’ IT disruption after cyber attack

2022-08-10T12:00:00+01:00

Mental health trusts are facing reduced access to vulnerable patients’ records for at least three weeks after a cyber attack on an NHS IT supplier, HSJ has learned.

Mental Health Matters: Thorn in the flesh

2022-04-12T13:00:00+01:00

HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence. Mental Health Matters is written by HSJ’s new mental health correspondent, Emily Townsend. Tell her what you think, or about issues she could write about, by emailing her in confidence at ...

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HSJ Value Awards 2021: Diabetes Care Initiative of the Year

2021-09-02T23:01:00+01:00

This was the development of a diabetes dashboard modelled on the National Diabetes Audit, which provided monthly updates on key care components. The data was displayed at both individual GP level as well as at a Locality level (now PCN level) and CCG level. Discussion about the dashboard was incorporated ...

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HSJ Value Awards 2021: IT & Digital Innovation Award

2021-09-02T23:01:00+01:00

OneLondon is transforming the capital’s health and care services through the joining up of information to support faster, safer, more effective care for Londoners. The implementation of a shared care record for London gives clinicians a mechanism to see a joined-up picture of a person’s health and care information, available ...

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HSJ Value Awards 2021: HSJ Value Pilot Project of the Year

2021-09-02T23:01:00+01:00

The project’s purpose was the redistribution of power, whereby citizens identify local needs and coproduce the agenda for improving quality in the Barkantine practice, Tower Hamlets. The project embodied power sharing at every level: system collaboration via a steering group, and a project team that included staff and community.

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Governance-scandal trust appoints new CEO

2021-07-15T11:48:00+01:00

A community and mental health trust whose previous CEO departed under a shroud of governance problems has appointed a new leader.

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HSJ Partnership Awards 2021: Most Effective Contribution to Patient Safety

2021-06-30T06:00:00+01:00

WINNER: Oxehealth, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, Oxford Health FT and South London and Maudsley FT: Improving Safety and Care for Inpatient Mental Health Patients

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Trusts drop business rates battle against councils

2021-03-29T11:20:00+01:00

Eleven NHS trusts have dropped a long-running bid to pay business rates at a discount usually reserved for charities, according to the Local Government Association.

Exclusive: NHS pleas for covid upgrade funds went unmet ahead of second wave

2020-12-08T06:02:00+00:00

Local NHS requests for hundreds of millions of pounds of government funding to help deal with covid pressures have gone unanswered throughout the pandemic, an HSJ investigation has found.

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Eleven trusts renew £1.5bn court battle with their local councils

2020-03-11T06:00:00+00:00

Eleven hospital trusts are continuing a High Court action against their local authorities, by seeking to appeal a previous ruling that denied them an estimated £1.5bn in backdated business rates.

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Trust chief moves to neighbouring provider

2020-01-28T06:18:00+00:00

A mental health trust chief executive has been appointed to the top post at a neighbouring provider.