All Health Service Journal articles in March 2021 – Page 5
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CommentEngland just weeks away from a national 52 week waiting times breach
And then we won’t know how long waiting times really are. By Rob Findlay
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NewsAmbulance and community staff grew more positive about their trusts in 2020
Most ambulance, community and specialist trusts saw an increase in the proportion of their staff recommending the organisation as a place to work during 2020.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Stressed out but feeling positive - what covid did to NHS staff
This week has seen the publication of not one but two huge sets of data: the biggest workforce survey in the world and the latest NHS performance stats – and we’ve crunched them both.
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NewsNHSE hard line fails to speed up staff vaccine uptake
There has been only a slight increase in covid-19 vaccination uptake among ‘frontline’ NHS workers, despite NHS England’s hard line, the latest data shows.
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NewsDaily Insight: Wish you were here?
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsCQC orders ‘significant improvements’ at trust criticised over deaths
The Care Quality Commission has ordered ‘significant improvements’ from a mental health trust which has been criticised over the deaths of vulnerable patients.
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NewsGPs can ‘opt out’ of vaccine effort or move into shopping centres
GP practices providing covid vaccinations have been asked to decide by next week if they want to drop out as the programme moves on to adults under 50, and urged to ‘carefully consider’ whether they can do the vaccinations as ‘business as usual’ begins to ramp up.
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch-up: London cooling, WRES under fire and Stevens grilled
Your essential update on health for the week.
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NewsNHSE director: It could take a year for cancer services to return to normal
NHS England’s cancer director has said it could take another year for the level of cancer treatments and diagnosis carried out to return to normal, after being impeded by covid-19.
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CommentHow to better help children needing mental healthcare in acute trusts
Unless the CQC adopts some kind of bare minimum mental health staffing level measure, we will continue to fail children, young people and families in acute trusts. By Dr Virginia Davies
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: What the staff survey said about quality and safety
HSJ’ s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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NewsDaily Insight: A return to risk
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Doctors could qualify without doing traditional degree course under HEE ‘apprenticeship’ plan
Health Education England is in the early stages of developing an apprenticeship programme for doctors as part of plans to improve access to medical training, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsControversial subsidiary plan dropped by trust after union campaign
A hospital trust has dropped its plans to set up a wholly owned subsidiary after two years of campaigning against it by unions.
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NewsStaff who decline covid vaccine could be redeployed, says NHS England
NHS England has advised trusts to consider redeploying staff who decline the coronavirus vaccine — an approach criticised as a ‘threat’ and ‘sledgehammer approach’ by one union.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The Government’s fetish for throwing money at Test And Trace
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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NewsRevealed: Trusts with the worst levels of discrimination for minority ethnic staff
The acute trusts with the highest and lowest proportions of minority ethnic staff who told the NHS staff survey they had experienced discrimination from colleagues or managers can be revealed today.
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HSJ PartnersDigital service helps link health and social care as response to the pandemic
The Dorset Intelligence and Insight Service (DiiS) works by bringing together millions of data records made widely accessible via interactive digital dashboards.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: A Greater big dog's dinner
Tensions have been building in Greater Manchester around the extent to which it should try to diverge from the “integrated care system” model which is being prescribed nationally.
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NewsMore than nine in 10 of CCG’s staff give it their approval
More than 95 per cent of staff at one clinical commissioning group would recommend it as a place to work – but one newly-formed organisation would be recommended by well under half its staff, according to NHS staff survey results.