All Health Service Journal articles in October 2024 – Page 3
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NewsExclusive: Trust CEOs sound alarm as ‘ministers float plans to cut elective funding’
Ministers are considering “capping” the £3.2bn elective recovery fund this year, senior NHS figures have told HSJ, in a move they warned could derail Labour’s pledge to cut waiting lists – and send NHS finances into further disarray.
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NewsEmergency performance dips as winter nears
Ambulance response times rose dramatically last month with urgent care performance also worsening as winter appeared to strike early.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: ‘Black holes’ and revelations
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The ticking timebomb
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues discuss whether the NHS can cut into the elective waiting list this winter. Plus the latest on the state of the service’s estate.
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HSJ LocalOne of NHS’s top chairs to stand down
One of the NHS’s most influential chairs is standing down after over a decade in post at a large teaching hospital trust.
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CommentYear-on-year waiting list reduction accelerates
But it needs to shrink by nearly a million a year to restore 18-week waits.
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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Toxic banter, thwarted recoveries and legal dust-ups
Your essential update on health for the week.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Further evidence maternity safety is going in the wrong direction
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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NewsTrust in row with BMA over ‘regional rate card’
A large hospital trust’s attempt to reduce its medical rates for extra shifts to bring them in line with other trusts in the region has sparked a row with the British Medical Association
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NewsLocal authority leader appointed ICS chair
A former local authority leader has been appointed chair of an integrated care board.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in August 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Management matters more than money
The idea that only the amount of money spent matters for healthcare performance or improvement is wrong. Hospitals with better management practices do a better job on both clinical and financial outcomes
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NewsExclusive: NHSE’s defunding of older people’s programme ‘a source of national shame’
NHS England cut £390m (70 per cent) from its planned budget for improving community care for older people in the past two years, according to information obtained by HSJ.
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CommentCentre warns NHS of deadly new threat to service
The government and NHS England have told integrated care systems to get a grip on the challenges presented by cold weather and to stop looking to the centre for answers, reports Julian Patterson
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NewsPrivate firm wins ‘unsafe’ £300m children’s contract
A major contract for children’s community health services — which incumbents claimed was unsafely cutting costs — has been awarded to a private provider.
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HSJ Local‘Dangerous’ people should not be admitted to specialist beds, warns CEO
Police should work with mental health services to ensure people who pose a danger to society — and show no signs of being mentally unwell — are not inappropriately admitted to rarely available specialist beds, a chief executive has said.
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NewsCQC ordered to pause ICS inspections
The Care Quality Commission has been ordered to “formally” halt its plans for integrated care system inspections, following the latest criticisms of the organisation.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Ageing well or falling behind?
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ LocalChair to step down after decade at trust
The chair of a teaching hospitals trust is set to step down after more than a decade on its board.
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NewsTrusts to form single £1.4bn ‘group’
Two trusts that share a chair and a chief executive have announced they will move to a single executive “group” model.