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HSJ Local
Number of covid hospital patients in north west likely to equal April peak by end of month
Public health officials believe it is ‘extremely likely’ the North West region will have around 3,000 covid patients in hospital by the end of October – matching the numbers seen during the first peak of coronavirus.
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2020: Cancer Care Initiative of the Year
Winner Wessex Cancer Alliance and University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust: WesFit: Promoting Spread and Adoption of Personalised Prehabilitation Care Plans for People with Cancer WesFit is an innovative approach to delivering Personalised Prehabilitation Care Plans (PPCP) to people recently diagnosed with cancer. The impact of the service is best described ...
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HSJ Local
ICS ‘could save £88m’ with vast expansion of community care
An external review has recommended a region should more than double its number of intermediate care staff, with a potential saving of £88m.
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HSJ Local
Eight CCGs to merge to make ‘really tricky decisions’
System leaders have drawn up plans to merge eight clinical commissioning groups into one organisation, to take some “really tricky decisions”.
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HSJ Local
Chief executive makes bid to lead second trust
Creating a “chain” model and shared leadership between providers in Lancashire could enable crucial reconfiguration of clinical services to finally move forward, an acute trust chief executive has told HSJ.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Unpicking the headlines
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: The region’s most important job
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HSJ Local
New CEO pledges to end ‘blame culture’ at troubled trust
The new chief executive of Lancashire’s troubled mental health provider has pledged to tackle a culture in which clinicians feel blamed for errors.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Bill McCarthy's top priorities
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HSJ Local
Health system's culture problem goes from 'board to floor'
A culture which saw health and care leaders in Lancashire “take pleasure” in difficulties experienced by their peers had “a direct impact on front line service delivery” and may have contributed to service users attempting suicide, a review has concluded.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Festering relationships harm patients
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: Reviews reveal crisis situation in mental health services
Two reviews have uncovered a catalogue of problems with Lancashire’s mental health services, which have led to patients being unlawfully detained in seclusion rooms and a crisis situation developing in the county’s emergency departments.
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HSJ Local
CCGs to share accountable officer
Two clinical commissioning groups in Lancashire have moved to a shared leadership arrangement after the retirement of one of the accountable officers.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Blood boils over pathology plan
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News
Significant savings from mental and physical health integration pioneers
Providing talking therapies to patients with long term conditions saved nearly £200,000 for physical health services in one trailblazing site, data shared exclusively with HSJ shows.
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Comment
Analysis: The areas seeing sustained falls in emergency admissions
Containing and reducing emergency hospital admissions is often seen as the holy grail of sustainable and better integrated healthcare. For most it has been elusive, but HSJ has identified and spoken to several areas which appear to have seen sustained reductions in recent years.
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News
Revealed: Significant variation in A&E cancer diagnoses across England
Cancer diagnosis in accident and emergency departments are three times more likely in some parts of England than others, HSJ analysis reveals.
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HSJ Local
Eight CCGs could be 'taken over' under council proposals
PwC report proposes “integrated commissioning authority” to hold a single budget in Lancashire Also suggests social care and public health provision should transfer to NHS trusts, creating five integrated care providers described as “wellbeing corporations” Senior NHS sources in the region told HSJ it appears to set out a ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Patient Safety Awards 2016: Cancer Care
The winners want to improve services, treatment and care at all stages of the cancer journey
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News
Revealed: Children's services hardest hit by public health cuts
Services aimed at children and young people are bearing the brunt of cuts to public health spending by local authorities, an HSJ investigation has revealed.