All Health Service Journal articles in March 2023
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HSJ LocalExclusive: inquiry exaggerated trust death toll, claims CEO
A trust chief executive has suggested an inquiry team looking at 2,000 deaths is lacking in ‘expertise’ and has created a ‘disproportionate impression’ of the problems at his trust.
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News‘Toxic working environment’ exposed at troubled unit
Staff endured a ‘toxic and difficult working environment’ at a maternity unit where staff were ‘shouted and sworn at over differences of professional opinion’, an employment tribunal has found.
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CommentNHS needs to work with data and analysis from beyond healthcare
A cancer study that relates consumer and retail data to healthcare highlights the potential of the NHS joining forces with commercial entities to activate the behavioural data they collect and own to build better population health strategies, explains Andi Orlowski
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HSJ LocalBMA ‘rate card’ wipes out elective recovery gains, claims trust
A struggling acute trust says its failure to hit its elective care targets is directly linked to doctors’ demanding overtime rates in line with the British Medical Association’s new rate cards, as national tensions around the issue intensify.
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CommentThe answer to improving urgent mental healthcare
Figuring out the best way to help people experiencing a mental health crisis to access the care they need is not a new challenge
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Tooting or Waterloo?
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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HSJ InteractiveHow can integrated care systems make the best use of medicines optimisation and pharmacy services?
At a recent HSJ webinar an expert panel explored how medicines optimisation can work at an ICS level. Thelma Agnew reports
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Cards stacked against it
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsConsultancy firm wins £13m contract for NHSE merger work
NHS England is paying management consultancy PA Consulting up to £13m under a new contract to help merge its national directorates and regional teams with those of NHS Digital and Health Education England.
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NewsRace and deprivation set back medical trainees, GMC analysis finds
New research shared with HSJ has ‘laid bare’ the inequalities experienced by medical trainees, with black doctors more likely to perform worse in exams than any other ethnic group.
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CommentEthnic minority doctors are being undermined
GMC chief executive Charlie Massey sets out new evidence on racial and ethical inequalities in medicine, and how new targets are being set to try to eliminate it.
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NewsNHS ‘notoriously bad’ at managing contracts, says procurement chief
NHS trusts are ‘notoriously bad’ at managing their contracts with suppliers, according to a former Department of Health and Social Care official who is now setting up a large-scale procurement team.
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HSJ InteractiveLeadership Q&A: NHS Resolution’s Practitioner Performance Advice service
Director of Advice and Appeals, Vicky Voller, explains how the Practitioner Performance Advice Service – and the role of the head of case advice – will make a real difference, by providing an independent and expert advisory and support service for medical, dental and pharmacy practitioners and healthcare organisations.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: When ‘no strategy’ is best
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsInquiry chair hits back at trust CEO
The chair of a high-profile mental health inquiry has hit back at a chief executive who suggested she had created ‘an impression of disproportionate deaths’ at his trust.
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News30pc cut to ICB staffing budgets
Integrated care boards have been told to cut their running costs — most of which is their staff — by 30 per cent.
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HSJ Local‘Significant escalation’ in strike action, warns ambulance chief
Ambulance chiefs have warned of a ‘significant escalation’ in the strike action being planned by unions next week – saying the flexibilities that helped deal with previous walk-outs will no longer be available.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: The merger millions
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Is it time to scrap foundation trusts?
Could foundation trusts be hindering the success of integrated care systems – and is it time to do away with them? One foundation trust chair thinks so and we discuss the merits of the idea on the show this week.