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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Jeremy Hunt on how we can save 13,500 lives
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
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CommentThe NHS is still not listening hard enough to families on maternity care
The latest CQC maternity survey reveals troubling gaps in care and communication. As failures to listen and act on women’s worries persist, it’s clear that change is urgently needed to rebuild trust
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CommentForming a ‘group’ should not be the ‘default option’ for trusts
With clarity of purpose, forming a “group” with other trusts can benefit providers – but it should not be a default option just because it can be labelled as reform, says Paul Roberts.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: The plan this winter
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Managers’ regulation long overdue but watch out for unintended consequences
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
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CommentThe NHS is drowning in recommendations
Overloaded with duplicative recommendations, the healthcare system must prioritise impactful actions, improve collaboration, and ensure meaningful implementation to enhance patient safety and restore public trust, writes Rosie Benneyworth.
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NewsBest and worst trusts on maternity experience revealed by CQC
The trusts where maternity experience has improved the most and deteriorated the furthest have been revealed by the Care Quality Commission.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Fantasy and reality in the capital
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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CommentGeneric weight loss medicines will place new demands on the NHS
Mark Samuels explores how the UK government is leveraging weight loss medications as a strategy to combat obesity and stimulate economic growth, addressing the significant burden on the NHS
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Expert BriefingImPatient: Game changers
Patient (Lived Experience) Leadership is about those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability who want to influence change through being equal partners in decision-making. In this monthly expert briefing, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the NHS.
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News‘Deeply flawed’ watchdog fails to act in 182 cases
Bereaved parents have described maternity investigations carried out by a watchdog as “deeply flawed” after it failed to make recommendations to trusts in 182 cases of deaths and harm.
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NewsCouncil cancels contract with trust which ‘can’t make required efficiencies’
A hospital trust’s sexual health service has been decommissioned by council commissioners who blame cuts and a failure to propose “robust models to achieve the required efficiencies”.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Jeremy Hunt on why sacking managers is a bad idea
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2024: Patient Safety Award
WINNER Barts Health Trust The BLISTER Project – Reducing Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device Infections
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NewsRegional director told to ‘rehabilitate’ Letby trust CEO
The senior manager in charge of finding a new role for the chief executive of the trust where Lucy Letby worked has said she was “disappointed” not to be told of the full reasons behind the move.
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NewsEmergency prescribing and ‘shared care’ withdrawn by GPs
Emergency prescribing and monitoring of patients with severe mental health conditions are among services being cancelled by GP practices as part of “collective action”.
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CommentNHS dentistry must be remodelled along GP lines
As the government develops its Dental Rescue Plan, Louise Ansari, chief executive of Healthwatch England, writes what the people want is a GP-style system
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NewsC difficile rates hit 13-year high
C difficile cases rose to their highest level in more than a decade, official data published this month shows.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Streeting’s magic tree
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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News200 patients failed after hospital missed warning
Hundreds of patients got the wrong or no treatment for a lung condition, a trust investigation has found, five years after concerns were first raised.