All NHS Improvement articles – Page 17
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Expert Briefing
The Download: A deep dive into the IT behind covid-19 vaccinations
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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News
Board go-ahead for merger to create UK’s largest trust
The merger of two foundation trusts to create the UK’s largest healthcare provider was approved.
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HSJ Interactive
How can the NHS use data to better meet patient needs as it responds and recovers from the covid crisis?
An HSJ webinar, in association with PA Consulting, explored the progress the NHS has made in its use of data and how better data could help it restore and reset services
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Comment
Waiting times will probably top 52 weeks by March
Waiting times would have to grow a lot slower than they did over the summer, to avoid an England-wide breach of 52 weeks by the end of March, writes Rob Findlay
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Expert Briefing
The Ward Round: Mind the staffing gap left by the vaccinators
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, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce. ...
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News
Nurse seeks funds to take sexual harassment complaint to tribunal
A specialist nurse is taking her employer to tribunal over the handling of a sexual harassment complaint she first raised five years ago.
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News
NHSE: Ethnicity and co-morbidities ‘could’ be considered for covid vaccine priority
NHS England has advised GP groups they “could consider” prioritising based on co-morbidities and ethnicity if they have more people who are over 80 than they can cover with their first batch of covid vaccine.
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News
Exclusive: NHS pleas for covid upgrade funds went unmet ahead of second wave
Local NHS requests for hundreds of millions of pounds of government funding to help deal with covid pressures have gone unanswered throughout the pandemic, an HSJ investigation has found.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: The second wave hit to cancer pathways
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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Comment
Resolving the dilemmas of system working
As we look ahead to the likelihood of legislative change which places ICSs on some kind of statutory footing, identifying some of the key governance quandaries facing systems now is a good first step towards resolving them. By John Coutts
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News
Revealed: 13 trusts facing ‘significant safety issues’
Thirteen trusts are facing billions of pounds of maintenance — in some cases, making it more cost-effective to rebuild the hospital — over ‘significant safety issues’ stemming from outdated construction methods.
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News
NHS must review ‘all disciplinary procedures’ by March following nurse’s suicide
Trusts have been urged to reflect on their disciplinary procedures, and review them annually where required, following the death of a senior nurse who took his own life after being dismissed.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: The commanding heights
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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Expert Briefing
The Download: Tech leadership review pleases nobody
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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News
New trust’s ‘inexperienced’ leadership criticised as CQC serves warning
The Care Quality Commission has criticised a new trust’s leadership after issuing it with a warning notice to improve care in its two emergency departments.
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HSJ Partners
Managing cultural change in a crisis
Executive leaders can drive improvement by focusing on developing an organisational culture, building up staff in an open, just, and empowering environment, thereby enabling organisations to meet the challenges of the new and uncertain healthcare environment.
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News
NHSE recommends law to abolish CCGs by 2022
NHS England is backing legislation to abolish clinical commissioning groups by April 2022, strip back competition rules, and require trusts to be part of care alliances, HSJ can reveal.
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News
NHSE makes ‘employment promise’ for CCG staff — but not senior leaders
NHS England has made a ‘continued employment promise’ to those working in clinical commissioning groups, as it proposes legislation to scrap CCGs and have their functions ‘subsumed’ by integrated care systems.
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Comment
Director's appointment should be used to reframe the debate around health inequalities
Dr John Ford outlines what should be the prime concerns for the new director for patient equalities and health inequalities
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Comment
The case for strong systems and joined-up care
Chris Ham and Clare Gerada argue that partnership working, not legislation alone, is the key to improved health and integrated care