All Health Service Journal articles in March 2023 – Page 8
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News
Exclusive: NHSE aware of concerns over surgery nearly three years before suspension
NHS England was aware of concerns about upper gastrointestinal surgery at a hospital nearly three years before the Care Quality Commission intervened to stop it being carried out, HSJ can reveal.
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Three in four patients not seen within new target time
Data revealed for the first time shows nearly three quarters of adult patients needing community mental health care are waiting more than four weeks for treatment to start, which is the timeframe that NHS England wants to introduce as a national standard.
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: The New Consultants Programme
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Trusts with the biggest drop in staff satisfaction since 2018
HSJ has analysed the rise and fall in staff saying they would recommend their organisation as a place to work over the past five staff surveys – the results are shown on the animated graphs below.
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News
New clinical waste strategy launched to guard against repeat of 2018 crisis
Trusts will significantly expand their capacity to treat clinical waste in-house to improve national and regional resilience as part of a new national strategy.
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Two-thirds of ‘new hospitals’ team are consultants
Two-thirds of the people working on the government’s flagship hospital building programme are staff supplied by external consultancies, data obtained by HSJ shows.
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Daily Insight
The mythbuster: The NHS leadership needs to stop thinking like the Russian army
Introducing a new weekly column by commentator Steve Black. In a single day the NHSE director of strategy claims that the system wants more autonomy for ICBs while defending strategic decisions that strip them of any capacity to be autonomous.
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News
‘Substantial’ leadership and behavioural issues at major trust, review finds
A review into allegations of bullying and poor culture at University Hospitals Birmingham has revealed “substantial” concerns about culture, behaviour, leadership and governance, a council report reveals.
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NHSE admits elective impact as trust chiefs warn of dangers of doctors’ strike
Ministers and NHS England have not sufficiently warned the public of the risk to patient harm posed by next week’s junior doctors strike, some of the NHS’s most senior trust chief executives have warned.
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News
Mapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in January 2023, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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Daily Insight
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Deficit dreaded, ICBs constrained and staff surveyed
Your essential update on health for the week.
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Expert Briefing
Patient Safety Watch: The evolving future of patient safety
HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch trustee James Titcombe.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: Everything you need to know about the NHS staff survey
With this year’s NHS staff survey results just landed, we take a look at those invaluable annual insights into how the workforce is feeling.
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Comment
'You utter bastard, Rummage!'
The country’s most challenged integrated care system has been told to restructure. The board remains as committed as ever to protecting the most vulnerable – themselves. Julian Patterson has the details
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Comment
Another record-breaking waiting list for England
The elective backlog recovery has not yet begun
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News
Former number one CEO called in by NHSE to help struggling trust
A former trust chief executive who led his organisation to two consecutive ‘outstanding’ ratings has been drafted in to help a trust hit by a maternity scandal and performance issues.
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Maternity unit downgraded to ‘inadequate’ and handed warning notice
A trust has been issued with a warning notice after the Care Quality Commission raised concerns about parts of its maternity services.
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Staff survey: The best and worst ICBs
Which integrated care boards receive the highest recommendations from staff as a place to work? HSJ has analysed the full results of the 2022 NHS Staff Survey.
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: A bad place to start from
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Leap in staff scared to report safety concerns
NHS staff are significantly less comfortable raising concerns and are less confident in their organisation to address them, the service’s annual staff survey has revealed.