All Health Service Journal articles in November 2018 – Page 7
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Workforce
Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare Trust – Developing the role of staff nurses within health visiting Sponsored by The national Healthy Child Programme sets out a recommended framework for supporting child health and health promotion. But in 2015, staff at Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare Trust were aware ...
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NewsWinners of 2018 HSJ Awards revealed
The 38th annual HSJ Awards felicitated winners in 26 categories
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NewsMerger trust boss named chief exec of the year at HSJ Awards
Lesley Watts won the award for her “outstanding, engaging and sensitive leadership” of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Foundation Trust
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NewsNew patient safety requirement for trusts after Gosport scandal
NHS trusts must report annually on how they have dealt with staff concerns over patient safety, under new legislation proposed by the Department of Health and Social Care.
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NewsConsultants brought in to advise on overseas recruitment
The government has awarded a contract worth almost £100,000 to research how the UK can expand its healthcare education and training offer to overseas students.
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NewsNew mental health role labelled a 'nonsense sticking plaster'
Experts have questioned the decision to introduce a new mental health role in schools, rather than upskill the existing registered nurse workforce.
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NewsRestraint 'culture' prompts investigatory pilot with 25 trusts
National improvement teams are set to visit 25 mental health trusts as part of a bid to prevent inappropriate physical restraint and other “restrictive practices”.
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NewsTrust to miss financial plan for fourth straight year
An acute trust in Kent has admitted it will miss its financial plan for the fourth year in a row.
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CommentNext year’s planning guidance is an opportunity to reset the NHS
Chris Hopson outlines what is needed from next year’s planning guidance to ensure the NHS is able to break out of the current cycle and start recovering financial and operational performance
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CommentChild and adolescent mental health services: A case study in confused priorities
An audit of child and adolescent crisis admissions via A&E to CAMHS beds has identified problems that are symptomatic of the wider challenges facing mental health services, say Dr Daniel Poulter, Dr Ben Baig, Molly Cooney and Dr Sarah Cornick
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NewsNew pharma deal raises cap on drugs' spending
The government has negotiated a new deal with the pharmaceutical industry which raises the NHS’ cap on spending on branded medicines.
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch Up: NHS fiefdoms, lagging out of hours and King’s of the deficit
Your essential update on health for the week.
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CommentThe Bedpan: Still rattling cages
This week: Sarah Wollaston, Conservative MP for Totnes and chair of the Commons health committee
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Data dump delving
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Brownian Motion and Johnsonian home economics
With the re-announcement of money for the NHS, the health service faces a very real risk of raised expectations and a budget increase too low to deliver on them. By Andy Cowper
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NewsTrusts expected to create new patient safety director role
All NHS trusts will be expected to appoint patient safety directors working at a senior level within a new national structure designed to deliver “uniformity” and help reduce patient harm.
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NewsIndustry can help design out human error, says safety tsar
The NHS must do more to prevent patient harm by working with industry to design out human error, according to the new national patient safety director.
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NewsCCG admin budgets to be cut by a fifth
Clinical commissioning groups will have their administration budget cut by 20 per cent in a push to save money and spread integrated care systems.
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NewsEarly cancer diagnosis rates drop in several areas
The proportion of cancers being diagnosed at an early stage has dropped in several areas across England, according to recently released data.
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NewsExclusive: Top physician flags concerns over race to cut length of stay
NHS England’s drive to cut length of stay this winter could have damaging patient safety consequences without appropriate checks and balances, one of the country’s leading geriatricians has warned.