All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 152
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News
Frustration over new PPE tracking tool
Trust procurement leads have expressed frustration over a new stock reporting tool introduced by NHS England/Improvement on Monday.
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NHS could have ‘answers’ on new covid treatments ‘before end of June’
The first results of clinical trials into therapeutic drugs used to treat covid-19 patients could be available before the end of June, according to an NHS letter.
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Podcast
HSJ Health Check: Testing, tracing and mortality rates
This HSJ Health Check podcast special explores the issues around testing, tracing and mortality rates.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: An opportunity to tackle widening health inequalities
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by integration senior correspondent, Sharon Brennan
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ICUs advised how to improve staffing ratios as covid pressure eases
Intensive care units will be advised how to improve their staffing-to-patient ratios shortly as the number of patients admitted to hospital with covid-19 falls across the country.
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Only 2pc of community providers can use government PPE website
The great majority of primary, community and social care organisations are still unable to order personal protective equipment from central stocks through a new web portal expected to launch early last month.
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Ministers act after claims covid deaths of disabled and autistic people being 'ignored'
Deaths of those with learning disabilities and autism from covid-19 are to be analysed by Public Health England, HSJ can reveal.
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Comment
‘Think yourself into a new way of acting’
Will Warburton calls for innovative approaches to understand, assess, learn from and sustain the effective changes that have rapidly been put in place by the NHS.
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Revealed: the NHS’ plan to protect BAME staff from covid-19
The NHS faces a new set of wide-ranging requirements as part of a comprehensive plan to mitigate the impact of covid-19 on black, Asian and minority ethnic staff, HSJ has discovered.
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Comment
Without colleges, the People Plan will have a hollow core
Michael Wood reflects on the opportunity that covid-19 may have created for the future of colleges and their role in retraining, reskilling and restoring workforce.
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100,000 people incorrectly told they needed to self-isolate because of coronavirus
Over 100,000 people have been incorrectly informed that they were “extremely vulnerable” to coronavirus and needed to self-isolate until 30 June, HSJ has discovered.
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Comment
Younger female NHS workers may face greater risk of death from coronavirus
In a follow up to their initial analysis of NHS staff deaths from coronavirus, Tim Cook, Lesa Kearney, Ella Woodman, Emira Kursumovic and Simon Lennane have looked into the age and sex of those who have died.
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Mask guidance downgraded amid reports of failing stock
Public Health England has made new changes to its guidance on the use of face masks as “a pragmatic approach for times of severe shortage”.
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GPs and community services given two weeks to provide consistent support to care homes
Commissioners, GPs and community health providers have a fortnight to start delivering a clinical support service to every care home in England, according to a letter from NHS England.
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Comment
‘Let’s not get back to normal’
Phil Hope argues that healthcare devolution may carry the answers to four burning questions about how to battle the covid-19 crisis.
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Government bans trusts from major PPE deals to stop them competing for scarce equipment
Trusts have been told to stop procuring their own personal protective equipment, ventilators, and a range of other products in high demand due to covid-19.
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HSJ Local
Birmingham trust to open “covid-free” hospital
A large West Midlands trust has announced it will open “a covid-free” elective hospital as the NHS begins to reintroduce care back into its hospitals.
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Expert Briefing
The Ward Round: The NHS shuffles its workforce pack for covid phase 2
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night — and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, will make sure you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping ...
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: A possible covid-linked syndrome in children
On this week’s HSJ Health Check podcast we discuss warnings over a possible covid-linked condition in children, and Sir Simon Steven’s new guidance on the next phase of the response for the NHS.
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‘Restarting services more complicated than stopping them,’ say hospital bosses
A drive to restart elective procedures will be hampered by a lack of rapid testing and tracking of covid-19 positive patients, senior hospital leaders have warned.