Policy and regulation – Page 26
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CommentA more agile approach to regulation is needed as we embed system working
There is an opportunity to reset the dial and create a stronger, more durable system of regulation for the future which continues to recognise the primacy of public protection and safety, writes Danny Mortimer
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CommentNext week’s budget will offer little for the NHS
The Spring Statement comes just a few weeks before the NHS and social care levy is due to be introduced. Anita Charlesworth explores its possible impacts on finance and workforce
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CommentIs the CQC giving the NHS an easy ride?
The purpose of Care Quality Commission ratings has been a hotly contested question since the creation of the four category classifications in the last decade. With only a single trust rated inadequate, despite pandemic pressures, is the regulator now letting the service off the hook?
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CommentNew access standards need the funding to make them meaningful
Harnessing the full potential of mental health access standards to improve patient outcomes? Not without government backing, writes Adrian James, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
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CommentWhat the NHS needs to hear from Javid tomorrow
Chris Hopson on the challenges created by the pandemic and the need of the hour for the NHS
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NewsJavid backs report calling for GPs to be ‘directly employed’ by the NHS
Sajid Javid has backed a think tank report which calls for a radical restructuring of NHS GP services, including scrapping the General Medical Services contract within a decade.
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CommentJavid's impossible dream
Sajid Javid recently shared his vision of digital transformation with NHS heads of IT. Julian Patterson reproduces the health secretary’s speech word for word (more or less)
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NewsNHS not ‘human’ enough to get greater role in social care, says government review
The NHS should not be given greater control of social care because it is ‘hierarchical, centralised and not person-centred’, according to a government-commissioned review which is repeatedly scathing about the health service.
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HSJ LocalLong-challenged trust lifted out of special measures
A Norfolk district general hospital long viewed as among the NHS’ most challenged trusts is set to be removed from the recovery support scheme, formerly special measures, after making ‘fantastic improvements’, inspectors have announced.
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Expert BriefingWest Country Chronicle: Trusts set ‘enablers’ for merger
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
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CommentPlace is a state of mind
With integration ready to move into a first exciting phase, it’s time for a refreshed national vision of systemness, writes Martin Plackard
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NewsPrepare for tighter grip from regulators, says Mackey
Trust leaders now face a far more ‘performance management-orientated world’ than most have realised, following a prolonged period in which there has been little grip from regulators, Sir Jim Mackey has warned.
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CommentLetter from Scotland: Care reforms could ‘dismantle’ health service
NHS Scotland leaders fear the reforms to fix social care as it includes, what they call a ‘radical restructuring’, which would ‘disconnect’ community services from acute care and disrupt the health service as it recovers from covid. By Henry Anderson
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CommentPublishing an integration white paper smacks of desperation
There seems to be a moratorium on meaningfully investing long-term and in a strategic way in the things that will make the biggest difference: workforce, team capacity, culture change. By Charlotte Augst, chief executive of National Voices
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CommentFocusing on answers, not questions, on a ‘journey to outstanding’
A big week for the Blithering health economy, with a raft of policy announcements and exciting new acronyms. Julian Patterson reports from the scene
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NewsNHSE must allow councillors to sit on integrated care boards, says government
The government has said NHS England must change draft guidance to allow councillors to be members of NHS integrated care boards, but it remains unclear if they will be permitted to chair the new organisations.
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CommentWill the desire for political grip trump the government's integration ambitions
The integration white paper marks a significant attempt to start to push the policy pendulum back towards local places; closer to patients and where care is delivered, writes Richard Sloggett
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NewsRole of NHS national and regional teams under review as ICSs develop, says Confed chief
The role of the centre and region of NHS England is under review because trusts will increasingly be accountable to and challenged by their integrated care systems, the NHS Confederation chief executive has said.
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NewsRecovery plan expects two more years of waiting list growth
The government’s NHS recovery plan says elective waiting lists are likely to continue growing until March 2024.
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NewsNational chiefs tell staff covid vaccine is ‘professional responsibility’
The most senior clinical leaders in the NHS have written to staff telling them it is their professional responsibility to be vaccinated against covid-19, in the wake of the government abandoning plans to make it a legal requirement.