All Health Service Journal articles in October 2024 – Page 8
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News
Local leaders should run NHSE regions, suggest trust CEOs
NHS England’s regional leadership should largely constitute senior executives seconded from local NHS organisations, some of the country’s leading trust CEOs have suggested.
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News
‘Offer GPs the consultant contract’ to reform primary care
GPs should be “brought into the NHS” by being offered the chance to be employed under the consultant contract, according to one of the country’s leading trust chief executives.
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Daily Insight
The mythbuster: Wilful blindness will not fix the NHS
The medical establishment and its leadership are sometimes very resistant to change, even when presented with clear, solid evidence, leading to serious harm, writes Steve Black
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Daily Insight
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Chiefs surrender, LIN arrives and ICB apologises
Your essential update on health for the week.
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News
Major diagnostics review kicked into long grass
There are “no plans to publish” a much-anticipated NHS England review of diagnostic services that had been expected this month, a government source has told HSJ.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: Watching the watchmen
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues discuss the future of the Care Quality Commission after a tumultuous period for the inspectorate.
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News
Former executive returns to chair same trust
A mental health trust has hired a new chair, who previously worked as its deputy chief executive and interim CEO.
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News
£10m supplier ‘cancelled NHS contracts with six hours’ notice’
A patient transport firm serving two major teaching hospital groups gave its customers just six hours’ notice it was stopping services, the trusts said.
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News
NHS England director warns ‘we can’t surge beds and capacity’ this winter
An NHS England director has warned the health service will not be able to create the same extra capacity used to get through winter in previous years, adding to concerns about performance and safety pressures in coming months.
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Comment
The NHS has had enough of hollow promises to tackle racism
Senior NHS leaders must take bold, decisive action to tackle racial inequality, going beyond performative gestures to address systemic barriers and create a truly equitable healthcare environment for all, writes Yvonne Coghill
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: The influence of ‘place’ is being chipped away
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by correspondent Mimi Launder.
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News
ICBs told to fix ‘substantial gaps’ in whistleblowing support
Integrated care boards have been told to rectify the “substantial gaps” in reporting through Freedom to Speak Up in primary care.
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News
Trust says BBC story about ‘penknife surgeon’ was misleading
A BBC story about a patient being operated on with a penknife has been challenged by the trust involved as misleading.
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HSJ Local
‘NHSE delay’ leaves ICB spending £1m on staff stuck in defunct roles
An integrated care board has apologised to dozens of staff who have waited months for redundancy packages, apparently due to NHS England delaying their approval.
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HSJ Interactive
Event: How digital technology can help deliver the NHS 10-year plan
In association with Tuesday 3 December 2024, 9:30am – 17:00pm IBM Innovation Studio, 20 York Road, London SE1 7ND How can we help drive the change we all want to see in the NHS? Join HSJ and IBM to discuss, post-Darzi, how digital technology ...
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Inequity in the capital
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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Comment
The NHS must measure what matters to solve its productivity puzzle
Graham Cookson calls for the NHS to measure what matters as politicians eye reforms to address the ailing health system’s declining productivity
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News
MD representing £18bn turnover teaching trusts steps down
The managing director of the Shelford Group, representing 10 of England’s biggest trusts – with a combined £18bn turnover – is to step down after three years in the role.
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HSJ Local
New CEO joins hospital group
A new chief executive has become CEO of two hospitals within a group trust seeking to recover after years of performance problems and leadership churn.
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Expert Briefing
Following the Money: NHSE is ‘trying to hide the reality’ of health service finances
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.