All Health Service Journal articles in October 2020 – Page 5
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Short-lived electives, perfect storms and missing champions
Your essential update on health for the week.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Let down again
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsNHS spend on tech, estates and workforce to be overseen by national procurement 'councils'
A major consolidation of NHS procurement has been outlined by NHS regulators which will include steps to address “gaps in our collective abilities” such as how to negotiate effectively with suppliers.
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HSJ LocalMajor acute cancels non-urgent electives as covid shuts wards
Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has cancelled all non-urgent electives due to growing covid admissions and spread inside the hospital.
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NewsExclusive: Police given access to Test and Trace data on those told to self-isolate
The contact details of those who have been instructed to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace are to be passed to the police on request, in a move that has alarmed senior health figures who are concerned it will undermine confidence in and co-operation with the testing regime, HSJ has ...
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Is the government’s covid response driven by incapacity, incompetence or malice?
Andy Cowper on governments’ ‘comms big, real problems away ambition’, the PM’s three-tier local alert system and concerning TAT performance.
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NewsNHS staff offered snack box or a ‘commemorative badge’ for covid efforts
A clinical commissioning group which is making redundancies has polled staff on whether they would prefer a thank you card from senior management or a “Graze-type snackbox” as recognition of their work over the last six months.
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HSJ PartnersHeart Failure: Accelerating change to alleviate the burden on healthcare systems
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CommentRevealed: How NHS boards operated during the first covid peak
Prevailing board leadership behaviours are amplified during the protracted NHS emergency, write Ann Highton, Gillian Conway and Naomi Chambers
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NewsThousands of NHS staff excluded from race equality standard
Thousands of the lowest paid workers in the NHS are being excluded from data collected for the NHS workforce race equality standard, potentially skewing trusts’ results, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: New surge in Manchester covid patients amid lockdown row
Greater Manchester’s hospitals have seen a new surge in beds occupied by patients with coronavirus in the last 24 hours, HSJ understands.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Nibbles for thought
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsRevealed: South East sees ‘striking’ levels of excess deaths at home
Parts of the South East saw ‘striking’ levels of excess deaths occurring in people’s homes between July and October.
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NewsTrust in NHS ‘poor and diminishing’ among communities hit hardest by covid
There is growing distrust for the NHS and government in communities that are of fundamental importance to the national effort to counter covid, according to research by NHSX.
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NewsReviewer ‘felt bullied by CCG’ over findings on young man’s death
An independent review found that commissioners’ investigation of a young boy’s death was ‘mismanaged’, and heard allegations that the person who coordinated it was bullied over the contents.
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NewsLeak reveals hundreds of 12-hour A&E breaches for mental health patients
New data has revealed for the first time that hundreds of mental health patients are waiting more than 12 hours in London’s emergency departments.
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CommentWill provider collaboratives crowd out community and specialist care?
The idea of health and care providers working together has taken on new significance in the fast-evolving system landscape. Providers collaborate in multiple forms and functions, around multiple clinical and non-clinical services, and across multiple geographies. So, could provider collaboratives be the key to unlocking the next phase of system ...
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Hidden waits
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsExclusive: Public satisfaction with NHS maternity and A&E soars during pandemic
Public satisfaction with NHS hospital services has soared during the coronavirus pandemic despite the widespread cancellation of operations, the rapid switch to digital delivery and restrictions on visits, according to an exclusive analysis shared with HSJ.
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NewsTrusts plan three-way merger
The board of one of England’s smallest trusts is expected to take the next steps towards a merger with two neighbours.