All Podcast articles – Page 9
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Barclay’s in-tray cancer crisis
Tough times are ahead for the NHS, with a “nightmare” new health and social care secretary appointed and performance spiralling.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The hardest job in the NHS
The NHS is facing a major reorganisation this year, including within NHS England itself.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Race, inequalities and NHS ConfedExpo
Race and racism in NHS leadership and workforce, and health inequalities, are the subject of this week’s HSJ Health Check podcast.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Dispatches from Liverpool
This week the news team bring you the podcast from the NHS Confed/Expo conference in Liverpool.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Ali Parsa is back in the news
This week our focus is on new ways of delivering care in the NHS.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Boris Johnson’s ‘new hospitals’ in jeopardy
“Our project is in jeopardy.” This is the verdict of one trust working on long-needed major hospital redevelopments, which were promised by the government in the run-up to the 2019 general election.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: NHS England’s unhappiest people
On this week’s episode, we discuss NHS England’s leaked staff survey results, which reveal the best and worst performing departments and regions, and deliver a particularly worrying verdict on the People Directorate.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Secret merger mania
Three further acute trusts are considering a move to joint leadership, HSJ has learned, and mental health hubs for NHS staff are being underused – we analyse both issues on this week’s HSJ Health Check podcast.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: ICSs under threat from devolution frenzy
A plethora of complex governance arrangements are being set up in and around ICSs – which are only just due to become statutory. We discuss why these complications might hinder successful service change.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Is infection control relaxation worth the risk?
The NHS has been told to scale back infection control measures, but what will this mean for staff and patients?
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The ICS rebellion and exec diversity declines
NHS England has asked systems to ensure their financial plans break even this year – but this is easier said than done when many face deficits of over £100m.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: A painful recovery
On this week’s episode we explore the pressure points hindering the NHS’s recovery this spring.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Inside the Shropshire maternity scandal
It’s been a sobering week for the NHS, with the long-awaited review of the NHS’s latest safety scandal and the annual Staff Survey both being published.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Rishi’s big asks of the NHS
NHS spending is being scrutinised more than ever, with trusts asked to double the amount of annual efficiency savings they make.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Why the two-year waiters target could be already doomed
Is it time to rethink how the NHS manages its elective waiting list? On this week’s episode we talk about the worryingly high number of people waiting over two years for their planned care – and the alarming number which do not even have a decision to admit.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The multimillion-pound cost of Russia’s invasion to the NHS
As war rages in Ukraine, we discuss the impact of the West’s response against the Kremlin on NHS trusts with supply chains linked to Russia.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The return of payment by results
NHS England has introduced significant changes to the mechanism that is used to pay hospitals, with the era of covid ‘block contracts’ finally coming to an end.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: How to fix an NHS trust
NHS trusts are getting better – that’s the view of the Care Quality Commission, at least, which now rates only a single organisation as “inadequate”, and two-thirds as “good” or “outstanding”, a big shift from five years ago.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: An uncomfortable message for NHS CEOs
The man in charge of elective recovery in the NHS has said the health service faces more scrutiny from ministers, and the public, than ever before. But is the NHS ready to respond?
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The NHS has captured this government
After weeks of wrangling over the elective recovery plan a compromise has been reached and on this week’s episode we get stuck into the politics surrounding it and of course what it means for NHS leaders.