All NHS Improvement articles – Page 55
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NewsCommunity and MH nurse numbers rise for first time since 2009
The number of registered nurses working in NHS community and mental health services have risen year on year for the first time, after almost a decade of decline.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: A GP long-term plan
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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HSJ LocalMPs 'incredulous' over trust chair's reappointment
Four MPs in Dudley have raised concerns over the reappointment of their local trust’s chair, ahead of the publication of a report into whistleblowing claims against its executive directors.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Waxing of the merger moon
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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NewsTrusts subject to new reporting regime as Brexit looms
A national “operational response centre” has gone live to deal with any fallout from a no-deal Brexit, while local NHS providers will be subject to new data collections to monitor their preparations.
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HSJ LocalShared chair for two of England's largest trusts
Two of England’s largest foundation trusts are to share a chair, it has been revealed.
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NewsHospital mergers increase death and harm, CMA study suggests
Merging hospital trusts could increase mortality rates by up to 550 per cent and cause patient harm incidents to almost triple, new analysis by the Competition and Markets Authority has suggested.
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NewsSurgery row costs trust £11m
Dispute and concerns over care quality at a teaching hospital’s surgical unit have cost it £11m, its finance director has revealed.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Hoarding the headroom
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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CommentBME staff are still struggling: here's what you can do about it
Michael West, Habib Naqvi and Yvonne Coghill outline measures to implement the values of compassion and inclusion across the whole of the NHS
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NHS England bids to offset provider deficits
NHS England has increased its forecast surplus by a further £160m, as it anticipates the need to offset deficits in the provider sector.
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CommentOverseas recruitment to fill 'NHS rota gaps' is unsustainable
Ged Byrne responds to Nadeem Moghal’s argument that Health Education England’s “earn, learn and return” strategy is a sign of desperation
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: Child health and the workforce
Staffing is the issue most often keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and 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 both the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and ...
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Expert BriefingPerformance Watch: Stevens in firing line as A&E debate heats up
Welcome to HSJ’s Performance Watch expert briefing. Our fortnightly newsletter on the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders. Contact me in confidence here.
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HSJ LocalLeading chair appointed to special measures trust
The chair of an outstanding trust has been appointed to lead Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust, which is in special measures.
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HSJ InteractiveSee me, not my cancer
Colin Rees shares his father’s journey of cancer care and how patient experience can be transformed in the NHS
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NewsTrusts told: Improve capital bids to get through nightmare process
Local NHS organisations have been told they need to submit better business cases for capital schemes, to have a better chance of getting through a “nightmarish” approval process.
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NewsOfficials drawing up new workforce funding asks
Officials will identify “further opportunities” for easing the NHS’s workforce shortages which require additional government funding, in time to set out the asks in the spring, according to a document seen by HSJ.
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NewsMerge more health quangos, says Lord O’Shaughnessy
A recently departed health minister has called for the merging of more national health bodies, and said fragmentation at the centre is slowing down much-needed transformation.
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NewsAcute trusts to benefit most from new tariff
Changes to the tariff this year would increase revenue for 137 NHS providers and reduce it for 47 compared to 2018-19 prices, according to consultation documents released by regulators.