All Health Service Journal articles in November 2024 – Page 6
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: The Budget will not necessarily improve the value of NHS care
The NHS must boost management and capital spending, not just frontline hires, to truly enhance healthcare value, writes Steve Black
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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Musical chairs, financial farces and costly mistakes
Your essential update on health for the week.
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CommentTrusts need to prepare for physician associate registration
Upcoming regulation will hold physician associates and anaesthesia associates to higher standards, ensuring safer patient care and stronger accountability while addressing doctors’ concerns on team integration
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HSJ LocalDoctors to refuse overtime in major dispute with hospital trust
Doctors at a major teaching trust are to refuse overtime and extra shifts from next week, HSJ has learned, amid escalating tensions with executives over a decision to stop paying premium rates for locum shifts.
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NewsNHSE faces court battle with GP refusing to join a network
A landmark legal battle between NHS England and a GP who is refusing to join a primary care network will be heard by the Court of Appeal, it has confirmed.
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NewsCEO steps down after ‘rollercoaster’ five years
The chief executive of an ambulance trust has announced her retirement in the second high-profile departure from the organisation in as many weeks.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: What the ‘left shift’ means for hospitals
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover is joined by the deputy chief executive of NHS Providers to talk money, quality and the CQC
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: The new breed of gamers
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsThe leaders chosen to guide the government’s 10-year plan
HSJ can reveal the health and care leaders who have been selected by government to lead the 11 advisory groups which will feed ideas into its 10-year plan for health.
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NewsJust one in 10 scans moved to community centres despite push
Only about one in 10 CT and MRI scans are taking place in “community diagnostic centres” despite a national drive to shift these services into the community.
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NewsExclusive: Trusts accused of ‘gaming’ £2bn elective fund
Government has ordered a review into how the NHS is spending billions of pounds of extra elective recovery funding, over concerns trusts are charging more for procedures but not treating significantly more patients, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ and tech giant team up to discuss ‘most consequential’ shift in government’s NHS plan
NHS leaders and experts will come together this December to discuss how digital technology can help deliver the 10-year plan at an exciting HSJ event, being run in association with IBM.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: The cost of avoidable harm
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsNurse leader ‘pressed execs to call police over Letby’
A nursing leader called on Countess of Chester executives to inform the police over concerns about Lucy Letby earlier than they did, she told the public inquiry into the events.
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NewsFormer doctor to chair trust
An acute trust has appointed an experienced chair and former medic to help it provide “sustainable high-quality health services”.
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NewsRevealed: Trusts paying the biggest premiums for safety errors
The trusts paying the highest negligence premiums as a proportion of their income have been revealed, with experts warning the “sheer costs involved in managing accidents that could be avoided” neared £3bn last year.
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NewsTrust proposes to cut its estates team by half
A prestigious teaching hospital is consulting on plans to cut its number of estates and maintenance staff by more than half.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Board malfunction
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsBaby death inquiry delayed by leadership confusion
Investigations into serious maternity safety concerns have been delayed by at least six months because national agencies could not decide who should lead the work, HSJ has learned.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: How far does £22bn go?
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.