All Health Service Journal articles in March 2023 – Page 6
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NewsPay deal may lead to band 9s being paid more than senior managers
The pay offer made to NHS staff on the Agenda for Change payscale by government yesterday could see an increasing number of senior leaders paid less than the staff they manage, the managers’ union has warned.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: The NHS needs a productivity plan, not a workforce one
The second in a new weekly column by commentator Steve Black. Historic workforce plans have ignored productivity. Most discussion seems to assume that the plan must demand far more clinical staff to drive up NHS activity while ignoring other factors
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HSJ PartnersMaking virtual wards a reality
Technology-enabled virtual wards can be an important component of successfully and sustainably addressing the discharge to assess challenge
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HSJ InteractiveValues-based leadership once again takes centre stage
Values and collaboration were at the heart of the judges’ considerations for HSJ’s Top Chief Executives 2023
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NewsNew number one trust CEO revealed
The overarching theme of HSJ’s 2023 ranking of the NHS’s leading provider trust chief executives is one of change. Twenty-four of the names in the top 50 are new when compared to the 2022 list, although some have appeared in the rankings during previous years. In association with ...
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HSJ InteractiveJudging HSJ’s Top Chief Executives
HSJ’s list of the top chief executives in the NHS was judged by some of the service’s leading figures
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HSJ InteractiveLeadership Q&A: Independent Health Group
The role of chief operating officer involves working in a newly formed board, delivering agreed operational objectives with a great but small team, and being at the heart of the organisation, says Independent Health Group’s chief executive officer, Claire Damen
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NewsChildren getting ‘conveyor belt’ care due to waiting list pressure
The pressure to tackle long waiting lists in children’s community services is impacting care quality, clinical leaders have warned.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Magna Carta to ‘mandated support’
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: The human cost of clearing lists
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ Local‘Insufficiently curious’ leaders ‘tolerated’ safety failures
Leaders at a mental health trust tolerated high levels of safety incidents and accepted verbal assurance with ‘insufficient professional curiosity’, a critical report has found.
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NewsFraud probe reveals ‘full time’ contractors had second jobs
More than a dozen staff meant to be working ‘full time’ at NHS Digital were found to be doing other jobs at the same time, an investigation by fraud officials has revealed.
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NewsTrust told to pay more than £200k over dementia patient’s death
A hospital trust has been told to pay almost a quarter of a million pounds after pleading guilty to failing to provide safe care to a patient with advanced dementia who fatally injured himself.
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CommentDivide and rule on NHS pay would be disastrous
The government’s proposed settlement to resolve the current wave of industrial action sows the seeds of some incredibly difficult and possibly decisive changes to NHS pay in the future, write Anita Charlesworth and James Buchan
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NewsThousands of English NHS 999 calls answered in Wales
Thousands of 999 calls are being transferred to the Welsh Ambulance Service because they are taking more than five minutes to answer in England, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE halts ‘pioneer’ health centres due to lack of capital
A national plan to build new ‘super’ primary care hubs in six areas has been halted with immediate effect by NHS England because of a lack of capital funding.
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NewsTributes after death of ‘strong, fair and compassionate’ NHS chief
Tributes have been paid after the death of a ‘strong, fair and compassionate leader’ who was chief executive of a North West acute trust for 12 years, and previously a director in the Department of Health.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Workin’ nine to five?
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ PartnersAutomation and low code: Democratising digital innovation in the NHS
After the talks of introducing a new process at the HSJ Digital Transformation Summit, Microsoft’s roundtable of senior digital leaders found four focus areas that can help upscale the automation efforts in the NHS