All Health Service Journal articles in March 2019
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NewsThe week in Brexit: Planes, gloves and organs
HSJ brings you an end-of-week fix of Brexit roundup health news.
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch Up: Devo damage, assembly appointments and IT issues
Your essential update on health for the week.
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NewsRoyal colleges: A&E target could stay alongside new measures
The four hour accident and emergency standard could be retained “in conjunction” with new targets for emergency departments, the leader of the medical royal colleges has told HSJ, as NHS England considers ditching the flagship measure.
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NewsExclusive: Nearly 3,300 patients in 'harm review' for merged service
The Royal College of Pathologists has been called in to review a merged pathology service which has had to recall thousands of patients for repeat blood tests.
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CommentCowper's Cut: Why Ian Dalton and Matthew Swindells really got the bullet
Andy Cowper discusses the recent appointment of Simon Stevens as the chief of both NHS Improvement and England
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NewsNHSI stands down review panel over 'cover up' concern
A controversial panel set up by NHS Improvement to review the findings of an independent investigation into poor maternity care has been disbanded after HSJ exposed concerns it was a “cover up” and that its members were conflicted.
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CommentNHS and local government should work closely for cancer prevention
Matthew Day, Andy Fox, Cate Edwynn and David Baldwin suggest cancer services can be a unifying opportunity that can end the debate over who will fund and commission preventive health services
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Stevens’ liability
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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NewsTop trust appoints chief after year-long search
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed a new chief executive after a year-long search.
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NewsLong-standing trust chief to retire
The long-standing chief executive of a Greater Manchester trust has announced his intention to retire 12 years in the post.
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NewsDozens of trusts take financial hit from ‘maverick’ accounting measure
Dozens of NHS providers face a significant financial hit next year after an official body provided “clarification” around a contentious accounting adjustment.
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News'Outlier' trust addresses cancer service concerns
A trust has made changes to its lung cancer service after concerns patients were much less likely to access chemotherapy and other anti-cancer therapies than elsewhere in the country.
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NewsDaily Insight: Unaccounted for
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsNew lead appointed for national death review service
NHS Improvement and the Department of Health and Social Care have appointed a national medical examiner to oversee the introduction of the new death review service.
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NewsSecond NHS trust prosecuted for safe care failings
A second NHS trust is being prosecuted by the Care Quality Commission over the death of a patient under fundamental standards brought in after the Mid Staffordshire care scandal.
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NewsTrust welcomes chair after 'reluctantly' accepting regulator's veto
A special measures trust has been forced to accept with “reservations and reluctance” a regulators’ decision to veto their choice for a new chair and instead parachute in an interim, trust meeting minutes have revealed.
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NewsNHS pension employer contribution rate to rise next month
The proportion employers will be expected to contribute to the NHS Pension Scheme will rise next month, the government has revealed.
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HSJ LocalTeaching trust withholds review into surgery unit
A major teaching hospital in south London is refusing to release a long-awaited workforce investigation that was completed late last year.