All Health Service Journal articles in November 2024 – Page 4
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: How the new performance regime will work
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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NewsTrusts given new target as elective milestone is missed
Trusts that missed a target to virtually eliminate 65-week elective waits by September have been given another three months, as NHS England confirmed it had failed to hit the milestone nationally.
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NewsEnd GP partnership model to help A&E waits, says NHSE lead
The NHS needs to take more “radical” steps to improve emergency care waiting times, including making primary care a salaried service, a senior national clinical lead has said.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Group model moves up a gear
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsThirteen ICSs now in deficit turnaround
Another integrated care system has been ordered to bring in consultants to fix its finances, meaning close to a third of the 42 systems are now in mandatory escalation over their finances.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: What we want from the 10-year plan
A leading trust CEO, ICS leader and policy guru join the HSJ podcast to tell us what’s needed from the government’s 10-year health plan.
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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Slow reactions, familiar faces and salaried GPs
Your essential update on health for the week.
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NewsUnnecessary training wastes 100,000 days a year, says NHSE
Unnecessary “mandatory training” is wasting more than 100,000 days of NHS staff time every year, NHS England estimates.
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NewsAcute chair and CEO take over at community provider
The chief executive and chair of a North West acute trust are taking over a neighbouring community provider, the organisations have confirmed.
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NewsHospital porters to strike over ‘diabolical’ treatment by trust
Hospital porters at an acute trust are set to strike over what a union has called “diabolical” treatment.
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CommentGreater clarity is still needed on the roles of trusts and ICBs
The new emphasis on ICBs’ strategic role needs to be followed through in NHSE’s revised oversight and assessment framework, writes Saffron Cordery
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CommentElective recovery gets underway
The pace will need to be even higher in 2025-26, writes Rob Findlay.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: The 10-year plan groups seem focused on virtue signalling – not radical change
Steve Black critiques the approach to the forthcoming 10-year plan, warning that its focus on vision-building and virtue signalling could hinder meaningful change
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NewsTrust abandons £65m EPR procurement after legal challenge
Trust in the North West reverses decision to award EPR contract to its preferred bidder after a legal challenge Says it abandoned the procurement rather than face cost and disruption of litigation It has yet to decide how it will proceed with procuring a new EPR An NHS ...
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NewsLeadership diversity 'can help close child mortality gap'
The lack of diversity in NHS leadership is a contributor to ongoing higher maternal and infant mortality among some minority ethnic groups, experts have warned.
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NewsFinance director replaces long-serving CEO
A trust whose long-serving chief executive left to become an NHS England regional director has appointed her successor.
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NewsDefence chief joins new hospital programme
A new director has joined the top team behind the major programme to build “new hospitals” across England.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: A costly decision
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsOperational management is ‘biggest thing missing from NHS’, says ICB chair
Operational management is the “biggest thing missing” from the NHS, an influential integrated care board chair has said.
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NewsC difficile rates hit 13-year high
C difficile cases rose to their highest level in more than a decade, official data published this month shows.