All Health Service Journal articles in October 2019 – Page 5
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HSJ LocalPensions crisis blamed for trust’s worst-ever breast cancer waits
Pension problems and staff shortages have caused cancer waits to surge at a West Midlands trust.
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HSJ InteractiveImproving A&E performance – what makes the difference?
Anne Rainsberry, Simon Weldon and Becky Taylor outline five behaviours that providers can adopt to improve A&E performance and drive change
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HSJ LocalHighly regarded CEO to step down
A highly regarded chief executive has announced she will step down in March next year.
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NewsCQC drops prosecution of trust due to lack of evidence
The Care Quality Commission has dropped a prosecution against United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust for duty of candour breaches due to a lack of evidence.
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NewsDaily Insight: Everybody needs ‘outstanding’ neighbours
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News‘Outstanding’ trust to form group with neighbour
One of the first acute trusts to be judged as “outstanding” is to form a permanent group structure with a neighbouring trust after two and a half years of sharing a senior leadership team.
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News‘Multiyear pay and contract reform’ set for 9,000 doctors
The government has embarked on an attempt to reform the contracts of the roughly 9,000 specialty and associate specialists doctors working in the NHS.
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News‘High risk’ estates maintenance cost continues to spiral
The cost of fixing NHS buildings to avoid serious injuries to patients and major disruption to clinical services continues to rise and outstrip the NHS’ investment in estates maintenance, new figures reveal.
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NewsBatch of CCG mergers approved for next year
NHS England has approved a first tranche of clinical commissioning group mergers for April 2020, but has declined to say which ones.
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NewsDaily Insight: It’s a yes from NHSE
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentThe NHS needs a chief psychological professions officer
Dr Nick Waggett and Sarb Bajwa join leaders representing 12 psychological professional groups and service users of psychological services to call for a new role of chief psychological professions officer
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NewsNHSX senior adviser: Slow IT at your trust? Quit
A senior NHSX technology adviser has urged clinicians to move to more digitally-advanced trusts if they are unhappy with their current workplace’s technology.
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NewsUpdate: 24 patients come to harm after waiting list failings
A teaching hospital has discovered more than 630 patients which it failed to follow up “as a result of a high turnover of locums and failure of a trust process”.
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NewsHSIB to stop maternity investigations by 2021
The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch will stop carrying out external maternity incident investigations by 2021, handing them back to the NHS, HSJ has learned.
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NewsConsultancy appoints former trust chief
Consultancy firm Grant Thornton has appointed a former trust chief executive as head of healthcare advisory.
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CommentThe Bedpan: Extinction Rebellion reaches the NHS
This week: Doctors for Extinction Rebellion
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HSJ InteractiveHow to transform outpatient care
Innovative approaches are needed to efficiently deliver the main functions of outpatient care, write Ben Horner and Rishi Das-Gupta
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NewsManager wins short-staffing whistleblowing case
A manager has won his employment tribunal against a patient transport company he alleged had misled clients over staffing.
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Doctors to get access to dedicated mental health services
More than 180,000 NHS doctors and dentists across England will now have access to a confidential and 24/7 self-referral service dedicated to mental health support.