All Health Service Journal articles in October 2017 – Page 4
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Comment
Restricted visiting hours are harming dementia patients – it's time for a rethink
Dementia sufferers see the best results when professional carers work in partnership with the patient’s family and friends. Restricted visiting makes that impossible, writes Julia Jones
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HSJ Local
Deficit spirals at special measures trust
A troubled integrated trust is drawing up a three year financial plan after auditors warned it could record a deficit worth 16 per cent of its income.
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HSJ Local
Trust board backs chief nurse over 'unpopular' ward closures
A nursing director has warned his trust that more wards may have to close due to a shortage of registered nurses.
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News
Daily Insight: Commissioners join the resistance
The must read stories and biggest debate in health policy
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Comment
DTOCs dispute could jeopardise care reform
Richard Humphries on the storm clouds gathering over the NHS and local authorities this winter
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Comment
Nursing workforce: Have we got the balance right?
As we expand and focus on training more support workers in nursing, we must also continue to nurture our degree-educated workforce and the future educators and leaders. By Katerina Kolyva
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HSJ Knowledge
Leadership Q&A: Manchester University Foundation Trust
Sir Michael Deegan, group chief executive of Manchester University Foundation Trust, says the position of hospital chief executive officer for the Manchester Royal Infirmary will give the successful candidate the chance to form a legacy of high quality healthcare
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HSJ Local
Trust reviews entire department waiting lists after inadequate rating
An inadequate trust is risk assessing every patient on its elective cardiology and ophthalmology waiting list in response to be being put in special measures earlier this month.
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HSJ Local
Trust lost half its radiologists in private work row
Nearly half the radiologists at a hospital trust left the provider in a row about private sector work, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: CCG resists Virgin Care demands for more money
Virgin Care has demanded more money for a controversial prime provider contract it signed with commissioners in Staffordshire last year, HSJ has learned.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: The brown stuff and the bulletproof
Once nobody in NHS management is bulletproof anymore, everybody in NHS management is bulletproof. By Andy Cowper
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News
Suspended NHS app cleared to resume service
An NHS developed app used by half a million patients is back online, having assured regulators of its safety, less than a month after NHS England pressure forced a suspension.
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Catch Up: A&E targets, 'worrying' staff surveys and Dido's job interview
Your essential update on health for the week
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News
New NHS Improvement chair urged to retire Tory whip
The Commons health committee has endorsed the appointment of Baroness Dido Harding as NHS Improvement’s new chair, but recommended she relinquish the Conservative whip.
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Expert Briefing
Following the Money: The only way is ethics
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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News
Peter Homa reveals next NHS role
Veteran NHS trust chief executive Peter Homa will become the first chair of the NHS Leadership Academy next month.
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HSJ Local
Chief officer leaves financially challenged CCG
North Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group chief officer Liane Langdon is stepping down from the role.
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News
Former success regime and SHA boss to lead troubled STP
The former chair of the North Cumbria success regime has been appointed to chair an STP going through the national capped expenditure process, HSJ has learned.
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Comment
Chris Hopson: The NHS is caught in an impossible trap
As everyone waits with bated breath for the upcoming autumn budget, Chris Hopson outlines three key priorities for NHS leaders to help bring the hobbled health service back to its feet