All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 99
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CommentCombating long covid will take a marathon effort
With over one million people thought to be suffering from long-term symptoms after a covid infection, the NHS needs funding for research into treatments and specialist staff so people with long covid can access the help they so desperately need, writes Sarah Woolnough, CEO of Asthma UK and the British ...
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Expert BriefingThe Download: A damp squib
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by senior correspondent Nick Carding.
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HSJ PartnersPatient engagement will be crucial to addressing the outpatient backlog
By enabling patients to become active rather than passive passengers along care pathways, we can more efficiently manage care says Jane Tyacke
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NewsPritchard: NHSE culture should ‘exemplify’ leadership behaviours needed across NHS
Leadership at the centre of the NHS should ‘echo and exemplify’ behaviours needed throughout the service, according to NHS England’s chief executive.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: The ‘magic Morecambe Bay’ facade
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsGovernment 'does not fully understand risks' of relaxing covid infection control
The government has been warned that changes to covid-related infection prevention and control guidance will not enable a ‘rapid’ increase in the NHS’ capacity to tackle the elective care backlog and could pose significant ‘risks’.
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NewsOnly one urgent care centre reopens despite NHSE call to review closures
NHS England’s call for health systems to review the temporary closures of walk-in centres appears to have resulted in only one facility reopening.
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CommentHow to make sure good analysts really can 'save more lives than a good anaesthetist'
When I think of ‘good analysts’ I picture someone striving to ‘improve decision quality’ for system leaders. Such good analysts really can save lives, writes Andi Orlowski
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CommentJulian Patterson: Longstay's dramatic return
Independent consultant to lead far-reaching leadership and IT review
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NewsSustainability chief pledges to avoid ‘death by strategy’ in push for carbon net zero
National funding will be given to those health systems with the ‘best ideas’ on how to become more environmentally sustainable, the NHS’ net zero chief has told HSJ.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Boris Johnson’s secret integration intervention
This week the HSJ Health Check podcast hears how Number 10’s mission to integrate health and social care services has ramped up with some contentious thoughts, and discuss the NHS’ overall progress in its move towards integrated care systems.
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NewsCrisis referrals leap by almost 75pc
Referrals to mental health crisis services in England have increased by almost 75 per cent ‘post-pandemic’, senior NHS leaders have revealed.
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NewsNHSE set to create new ‘transformation factory’ to redesign services
NHS England must build a ‘transformation factory’ to revolutionise ‘how it supports innovation in the delivery of care’, according to a new review of NHS tech leadership.
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CommentWe won’t have genuine integration without inclusive integrated care boards
Without the integrated care boards, there is a real risk that we lose the benefits of integration and that we exclude the voice for innovative organisations, such as social enterprises, which are able to challenge the status quo, writes Jo Pritchard
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HSJ LocalNHSE and CQC criticised after new failings at Morecambe Bay
NHS England, the Care Quality Commission, and the General Medical Council have all been criticised by a review into whistleblowing concerns at a troubled acute trust.
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HSJ LocalTrust focused on ‘reputation’ failed to address patient harms
A focus on ‘reputation management’ was a factor in how an acute trust failed to properly investigate serious safety concerns in a dysfunctional department where consultants were ‘divided along ethnic lines’
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CommentIs integration everyone’s problem but no one’s responsibility?
Matthew Taylor sets out five steps which could help bring together local responsibility for heath and social care.
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Expert BriefingNHS faces ‘gear shift’ in performance management
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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NewsBurnt out staff ‘triggered’ by ‘it’s OK’ messaging from ministers
Frontline staff are being ‘triggered’ by ministers playing down the ‘overwhelming’ pressures facing the health service with “a ‘move along, no story here’-type attitude”, a royal college president has warned.
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NewsNational plan to modernise NHS’s HR function revealed
NHS England has unveiled a plan to modernise the health service’s human resources and organisational development functions over the next decade.