All Health Service Journal articles in May 2021 – Page 7
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HSJ LocalSerious safety concerns over third major specialty at struggling trust
Serious patient safety concerns have been raised about a third major specialty at a struggling acute trust, with inspectors also flagging wider leadership issues.
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NewsDaily Insight: Extra time for game changer?
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ PartnersICSs must put the basics in place to achieve digital transformation
Technology is essential to the transformation agenda but ICSs will face several challenges as well as huge opportunities as they work towards digital maturity
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HSJ InteractiveHow ICSs can secure the best outcomes for local populations
Against the backdrop of the latest step in joining up health and care systems, an HSJ and IMPOWER roundtable discussed what ICSs can do to deliver the best outcomes for their populations
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HSJ PartnersWhy children with SEND should be a priority for ICSs
The needs of children must be embedded in the work of integrated care systems, with particular focus required on young people with special educational needs or disabilities, writes James Swaffield
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HSJ PartnersICSs should secure genuine consumer involvement
To achieve better outcomes for people and place, ICSs need to change how they talk to patients about defining need and the ways in which those needs can be addressed, writes Michael Kitts
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CEO InterviewCEO interview: Cara Charles-Barks, Royal United Hospitals Bath
This is the latest in a series of interviews with provider chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Insight subscribers.
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HSJ PartnersSecure data can help provide real integrated care
To realise the full potential of technology, ICSs will need to take a person-led approach and collect the right information in a secure and orchestrated way, writes Declan Hadley
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HSJ PartnersMaintaining the momentum
ICSs can build on the headway made on digital during the pandemic but still need to work on some areas such as growing relationships and deciding who leads
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NewsCummings: ‘Hancock lied to everybody and wrongly accused Stevens over PPE’
Dominic Cummings has accused Matt Hancock of ‘lying to everybody on multiple occasions’, including about NHS chief Sir Simon Stevens blocking crucial orders of personal protective equipment.
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NewsNHS England in talks over permanent boost to critical care capacity
High-level discussions have started about a substantial permanent increase to the NHS’ critical care capacity, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTrust told to take ‘urgent’ action over risks to cancer patients
An external review has issued a series of ‘urgent recommendations’ to a specialist cancer service around patient safety risks.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Beefing up critical care and the issues system leaders must consider
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman
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NewsClaims around protecting care homes from covid ‘complete nonsense’, says Cummings
Dominic Cummings has said official claims around care homes being protected from covid-positive patients who were discharged from hospitals last year are “complete nonsense”.
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NewsNHS England gives green light to drop four-hour A&E target
NHS England is pushing ahead with plans to replace the NHS’s four-hour emergency target with a new set of 10 metrics, it has announced today.
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NewsTwo major private providers to the NHS to merge, expecting 'sustained demand'
One of the largest private providers of NHS acute care looks set to buy another, and has declared that the unprecedented NHS elective waiting list will “create sustained demand” for their services.
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NewsDaily Insight: Bombs over Westminster
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsCQC to focus on services where there is a ‘greater risk of a poor culture going undetected’
The Care Quality Commission has revealed a new strategy that will place more emphasis on a patient’s experience of care and seek to get a better grip on ”care settings where there’s a greater risk of a poor culture going undetected”.
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HSJ InteractiveHow can we make the most of community healthcare services through the pandemic and beyond?
Even after a year in which keeping patients out of hospital has been more of a priority than ever before, the work of community services often remains overshadowed. Claire Read reports from an HSJ webinar which explored how parity of esteem might finally be established
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NewsGovernment scraps free emergency parking for NHS staff
Ministers are set to scrap a free emergency parking pass issued to NHS and care staff last year once lockdown restrictions end next month, updated guidance reveals.