All Policy and regulation articles – Page 39
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: An NHS overwhelmed by covid
The HSJ team dissect what has been happening in a week of ever-climbing covid cases in hospital.
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News
NHS warned “don’t stockpile vaccines” as UK leaves EU
NHS organisations have been warned against stockpiling vaccines in the wake of the UK’s exit from the EU and told that any “over ordering” will be “investigated”.
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News
HSJ’s 10 most read commissioning stories of 2020
As we get ready to say goodbye to 2020, HSJ takes a look back at the 10 most read commissioning stories of the year.
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Leader
The government must not be allowed to rewrite history on its failure to protect the NHS
Let us lay to rest the assertion that the government acted quickly to stave off the threat from the new coronavirus variant.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: Rhetorical diarrhoea and distraction
Andy Cowper on the worsening developments regarding the coronavirus
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News
Government finally accepts need for ‘independent’ national patient safety commissioner
The government has accepted the need for a new ‘patient safety commissioner’, according to the author of a safety review commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care.
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News
Exclusive: CQC to ramp up inspections of trusts’ infection control
Trusts’ infection control measures will be put under greater scrutiny by the Care Quality Commission, HSJ has been told.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: The NHS’ post-coital vaccine glow begins to fade
This week has seen the first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine administered in the UK, but the continuing covid pressures on the NHS remain, with concerns raised about the health service being overwhelmed in coming weeks and months.
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News
Nurse seeks funds to take sexual harassment complaint to tribunal
A specialist nurse is taking her employer to tribunal over the handling of a sexual harassment complaint she first raised five years ago.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: Delivering the vaccine - the NHS’ greatest challenge
The UK is the first country in the western world to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech covid vaccine and now the baton has been passed to the NHS to successfully deliver it.
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News
NHS must review ‘all disciplinary procedures’ by March following nurse’s suicide
Trusts have been urged to reflect on their disciplinary procedures, and review them annually where required, following the death of a senior nurse who took his own life after being dismissed.
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Comment
The government's grasp of the NHS's recovery challenge is questionable
The spending review raises real concerns about whether the government fully grasps the scale of the recovery challenge, writes Anita Charlesworth
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: Big decisions under cover of covid
This week has seen a flood of coronavirus related news so the podcast this week discusses two other important happenings, that might have been given more attention in normal times.
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Comment
The case for strong systems and joined-up care
Chris Ham and Clare Gerada argue that partnership working, not legislation alone, is the key to improved health and integrated care
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Comment
How to inculcate joint working across health and care
Opportunities to change the architecture of the health and care sector do not come around often. It is right that we take the opportunity we have to address the limitations of the current framework and move to a more integrated future. By Nick Ville
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News
Gov warned integrated care systems could join ‘long list’ of failed re-orgs
Integrated care systems could fail without carefully crafted backing in law, NHS Confederation has said.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: Long-covid care cannot be delayed any longer
With delays to promised support clinics, warnings about the need to protect staff pay, and trusts accused of penalising staff during their recovery, we dig into why the NHS must provide serious support sooner rather than later for debilitating long-covid.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: Trusts must not penalise staff during long-covid recovery
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ senior correspondents Annabelle Collins and Sharon Brennan.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: Vaccine candidate No. 1 is in; Cummings is out of No. 10 and Dido Harding’s retail fallacy
Andy Cowper writes on the discussions held for better NHS funding, talks of a new contract with Palantir to use Foundry for the TAT’s data and the retail fallacy.