All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 87
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NewsNHSE tells trusts to prioritise education over fear trainees are being 'messed about'
Junior doctors and student nurses are being ‘messed about’ as hospitals continue to struggle with operational pressures, prompting NHS England to call on local leaders to prioritise their training.
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NewsDischarge policy reviewed as NHSE warns ‘capacity may decrease’
Two national reviews are taking place into hospital discharge policy, it has emerged, amid major changes to funding and legislation.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Merger ‘kicked into long grass’ amid warring departments
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NewsAcute trust fined £111,000 over 91-year-old's 'awful' injuries
United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust has been fined more than £100,000 after it pleaded guilty to causing an elderly patient avoidable harm.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Rishi’s big asks of the NHS
NHS spending is being scrutinised more than ever, with trusts asked to double the amount of annual efficiency savings they make.
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NewsExclusive: A&E tents ‘borderline immoral’ and ‘dangerous’, claims royal college
The use of temporary treatment areas for patients arriving via ambulance at over-crowded A&Es is ‘borderline immoral’ and ‘a danger to patient safety and dignity’, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has warned.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Partnership Awards 2022: Procurement Project of the Year
WINNER: Bond Solon, Capita and NHS England and NHS Improvement: Ensuring Safeguarding is Core Business Throughout the NHS
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Partnership Awards 2022: Best Pharmaceutical Partnership with the NHS
WINNER: MSD, 8 NHS Cancer Alliances and Five National Representative Organisations: The Do It For Yourself Campaign and Supporting the Recovering of Lung Cancer Services From COVID-19
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NewsThird acute trust to be prosecuted by CQC
The Care Quality Commission is to prosecute an acute trust after a patient was injured when allegedly exposed to ‘avoidable harm’.
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NewsTech spend under pressure as NHSE told to ‘cut core funding’
The government has asked NHS England to reduce core NHS funding by hundreds of millions of pounds in 2022-23, NHSE revealed today.
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NewsLong ambulance handovers and covid staff absences soar
Ambulance handovers of over an hour have hit record highs in the last two weeks, with one day seeing more than 1,500 ambulances waiting outside A&E departments for more than 60 minutes.
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CommentThe NHS is still stuck in the sixties
Despite big changes in diseases, drugs, technologies and lifespan, NHS service delivery looks trapped in its 1948 aspic. Hard questions need asking about what the NHS is delivering, given its impact on the funding of other public services, writes Norman Warner
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HSJ PartnersThe recovery position: taking a person-centred approach to the NHS
As the biggest supplier of flexible staff to the NHS, retention is now just as important to us as recruitment, writes Juliette Cosgrove, chief nurse at NHS Professionals
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NewsFirst integrated care strategies should be published by December, says government
Government has said the pan-public sector board of an integrated care system should produce a ‘strategy’ by the end of the year so as to inform NHS plans for the region – but has implicitly acknowledged that some may not hit the deadline.
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CommentNHS’ failure to address racial inequality in access to vaccines is shocking
Unless NHSE learns from how it failed immunocompromised people from ethnic minority communities last autumn, we are likely to see the same racial disparity in access to any future vaccine doses, writes Gemma Peters
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Just get on with it
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NewsAbuse of staff at ‘dangerous level’, say NHS bosses
Healthcare leaders have written an open message to NHS staff, drawing attention to “the dangerous level” of abuse many are confronted with, “simply for going to work”.
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News‘Disproportionate’ infection control holding back electives, say NHS bosses
Infection control rules in the NHS are ‘now disproportionate to the risks’ posed by covid and should be relaxed, including potentially allowing staff with covid to work, some of the NHS’s most senior leaders have said.
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News£450m cost of US records system is ‘chicken-feed’ says trust CEO
The £450m cost to install the Epic electronic patient record system across six hospitals is “chicken feed” when compared to the NHS’s overall budget, according to one trust chief.
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NewsNew pandemic record for hospital-acquired covid rates
A record proportion of covid cases recorded in English NHS hospitals in the latest week were most likely caught by patients who were being treated for other illnesses, new figures reveal.