All Health Service Journal articles in November 2020 – Page 3
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News
Exclusive: 111 First to go live imminently amid ‘vehement’ opposition in some EDs
Emergency care leaders are warning it will take up to six more months to determine whether pilots of a radical change to accident and emergency are working, even though it is due to go live nationally next week, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Partners
Rise of the Scalable Workforce
GRI CEO, Andrew Preston, addresses the need for a clear strategy to tackle workforce challenges in the NHS, to ensure the agility and flexibility to maintain and improve performance and manage the long-term impact of coronavirus.
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HSJ Partners
‘There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about’
James Dunmore on the transformative power of community
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News
Exclusive: Government review proposes third tech unit alongside NHSX and Digital
A major review of national NHS IT leadership proposes a new “NHS transformation taskforce” to drive digital change across the health service, in addition to NHSX and NHS Digital, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Partners
Small Hospitals of the World: Be Bold and Assert Your Future Place in Health Care
Increasingly integrated care challenges the current role of small hospitals, but the pandemic has revealed a powerful new role for these traditional institutions, say Ben Horner, Laura Bergonzini, Stephen Sutherland and Robert Marshall
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Expert Briefing
Daily Insight: The shape of tests to come
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Hospital staff likely to get covid vaccine first
Hospital trusts have been put on notice that the challenging storage requirements of the first covid vaccines are likely to mean the vaccination of their staff will have to form the vanguard of the planned roll-out next month due.
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Stevens targets April 2022 for NHS reorganisation
Integrated care systems will be put on a statutory footing by April 2022 if legislation can be passed early next year, Sir Simon Stevens has said, setting a target date for the proposed reorganisation of NHS planning and commissioning.
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News
Hancock calls for routine flu testing as part of major diagnostics expansion
Matt Hancock has called for British people to routinely get tested for the flu, saying covid diagnostic capacity should be kept and used for “everything” once the pandemic dies down.
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HSJ Partners
Bridging the primary care capacity gap: digital healthcare in the age of covid
Digital health solutions can help deliver additional capacity and resilience for primary care during the vaccination programme and the covid-19 expansion fund would benefit from its specific provision, writes Juliet Bauer.
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News
CCG finds multiple concerns with problematic procurement
A clinical commissioning group has admitted there were problems with the handling of a dermatology contract which needed to be suspended because of patient safety concerns after little more than a year.
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News
Exclusive: Three trusts paying US firm £210m for tech catch-up
A new electronic health record system will cover three linked London trusts in a deal worth £210m as they look to catch up with peers on tech maturity, they have revealed to HSJ.
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Expert Briefing
Daily Insight: Unlocking conclusions
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Hancock delays decision on controversial reconfiguration for 14 months
The health secretary has yet to make a decision on a contested reconfiguration plan, despite having received official advice on it nearly 14 months ago and the local NHS warning delays would lead to “avoidable death”.
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News
Covid admissions falling in all regions except London and the South East
Covid admissions are continuing to rise in London and the South East as they fall away in the rest of the country, NHS England’s hospital data shows.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: The long and slow decline
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Comment
Covid decimated, then re-energised patient voice
It seems we may emerge from covid with some exemplars of good practice in the patient leadership field, writes David Gilbert
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News
Integrated trusts aim for first-of-its-kind merger
Two trusts are planning a merger which would create England’s first provider of primary, acute, community and mental health care services.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: Greasing palms and squandering trust
Andy Cowper on big funding announcements, a heroic set of planning assumptions for rolling out vaccines and the accuracy of covid testing tech.
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Expert Briefing
Daily Insight: Worse problems, fewer beds
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.