Policy and regulation – Page 21
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CommentThe ancient art of passing the parcel
The NHS is not short of beds, it is short of ideas. Dr David Rummage, head of clinical innovation at NHS Blithering believes that innovation is the key to unleashing hospitals. Report by Julian Patterson
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NewsThird health minister returns in Sunak reshuffle
A third former minister in the Department of Health and Social Care has returned to the department, as part of Rishi Sunak’s government reshuffle.
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NewsNHS lacks councils’ ‘financial discipline’, warns ICS chair
An integrated care partnership chair has criticised NHS England for requiring systems to work to “meaningless” indicators, adding he is worried health organisations lack financial discipline.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2022: Maternity and Midwifery Initiative of the Year
WINNER Royal Surrey FT: Patient-Led Service Development - Hearing the True Voice of Women
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NewsExclusive: NHS England and NHS Digital merger to be brought forward, orders Coffey
NHS England’s merger with NHS Digital will be brought forward after new instructions were issued by Therese Coffey, HSJ can reveal.
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CommentWhat people with lived experience can teach us
People with lived experience report feeling dismissed and diminished by attempts to include them, despite best efforts through legislation, policy, and a pioneering patient leadership movement, writes Rachel Matthews and Keymn Whervin
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NewsCQC taking ‘regulatory action’ against every fourth service it inspects
A quarter of high-risk services the Care Quality Commission has recently inspected required enforcement action from the regulator, its chief executive has revealed.
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HSJ LocalLeadership review launched at ‘outstanding’ trust
The Care Quality Commission has launched a review of leadership at an “outstanding”-rated specialist trust, after receiving multiple concerns from whistleblowers.
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Expert BriefingImPatient: The growth in patient leadership
Patient (or lived experience) leadership involves those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability becoming equal partners in NHS decision-making. In this new 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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NewsHunt: Tax will need to rise to fund health and care
Jeremy Hunt believes spending on the NHS will have to rise and that the increase should be funded through higher taxation.
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CommentThe NHS is safe(ish) with Hunt
“I think the public are desperate for politicians to speak truthfully – but it isn’t always easy.”
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NewsMajority of providers in some ICSs to be performance managed by NHSE
Some integrated care boards will not hold the lead performance management role for a majority of their member trusts, under the centre’s new rules for regulating the service.
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NewsTrust mergers need not deliver ‘step change’, says NHSE
NHS England has dropped plans to impose a strict test for trust mergers that would have required organisations to demonstrate a ‘step change’ in quality.
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CommentWhat the new NHS ‘operating framework’ must say
NHS England’s highly anticipated new operating framework — aka operating model — will empower integrated care systems with autonomy. Matthew Taylor lists down five crucial factors that would impact this transition
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NewsEmergency pension rules extended for some staff
Emergency measures that relaxed pensions rules for some retired NHS staff who returned during the pandemic are being extended for another two and a half years, the government has announced.
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CommentHow to ‘comms it’
When the money runs out and the workforce has quit, the ambitious NHS leader must learn to “comms it”. Martin Plackard has helpfully compiled a list of the vital terms that great NHS communicators should use in this time of crisis. As shared with Julian Patterson
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NewsExclusive: Patients declining two dates could be struck from waiting lists
Patients face being removed from the NHS waiting list if they decline two dates offered to them for their treatment, new internal guidance seen by HSJ reveals.
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NewsNew minister: Cutting capital budget ‘deeply short-termist’
New health minister Robert Jenrick has declared that cutting the NHS’s capital budgets would be ‘deeply short-term’ and undermine the government’s ability to put the service on ‘a sustainable footing for the future’.