All Health Service Journal articles in October 2020 – Page 3
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Expert Briefing
Daily Insight: Not just another contract
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: Acute bosses must recognise the impact on their A&Es
HSJ’ s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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Comment
Long covid and its impact on health and social care
Health and social care services need to focus on meeting the unmet needs of people with ongoing covid, writes Elaine Maxwell
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Military levels of discipline
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Leaked data shows waiting list ‘tipping into disaster’
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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News
Exclusive: Pandemic exposing managerial ‘skills deficit’
The pandemic is threatening to expose a skills deficit among NHS managers, research exclusively shared with HSJ warns.
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Comment
Covid made the NHS realise the value of HR departments
In many ways the critical link between the health and wellbeing of NHS staff and patient care has been brought into sharp focus by the pandemic, highlighting the importance of HR in protecting and promoting positive relationships at work, writes Richard Saundry.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: The circular firing squad
As the news over covid-19 hospitalisations and deaths inevitably ramps up during the coming months, the fear factor will drive the blame game to ever less adequate and rational behaviour, writes Andy Cowper.
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HSJ Local
Shared chair steps down from troubled trust role
The chair of a struggling east London acute has stepped down after three years in post, but will remain chair of the neighbouring mental health trust.
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Expert Briefing
Daily Insight: Abandon ship
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Exclusive: CQC launches criminal investigation into medication incidents at major acute trust
A major acute trust has confirmed the health service inspectorate has begun a criminal investigation into three incidents at its hospitals.
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HSJ Local
New site for pathology hub as PwC criticise ‘crude’ selection process
A new location has been chosen to create a centralised hub for pathology services in Lancashire, after a consultancy firm criticised a ‘ crude’ process in which another site was previously identified.
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HSJ Local
Fifty people each day catching covid in region’s hospitals
The North West region is now seeing around 50 new cases of coronavirus per day that are likely to have been caught in hospital by patients being treated for other conditions.
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News
Exclusive: Taxpayers cash could be used to fill hole created by fall in NHS private work
Taxpayers may have to make up for millions of pounds lost in NHS private patient income during the covid pandemic, HSJ can reveal.
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Graze boxes, hidden waits and plane tickets to the Middle East
Your essential update on health for the week.
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News
Revealed: Full picture of how covid is hitting hospitals in the north
The most comprehensive picture so far of how covid’s second wave has hit the NHS in the north of England is revealed in new figures obtained by HSJ.
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Expert Briefing
Daily Insight: Waking up to the beds crisis
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: The North reaches boiling point
On the podcast this week, we try to get to the bottom of this week’s political furore in the North West, the confusion that ensued and the impact the continued rise in covid admissions could have on normal NHS work. We also discover quite how long it takes to heat ...
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: The mystery of deaths at home may never be solved
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior correspondent Sharon Brennan.
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News
Exclusive: 22 junior doctors under investigation after covid outbreak
A trust is carrying out an internal investigation after two junior doctors developed covid following an offsite event attended by 22 juniors where social distancing rules were allegedly ignored.