Policy and regulation – Page 38
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CommentHow 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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NewsGov 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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PodcastHSJ 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 BriefingRecovery 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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CommentCowper’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.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The job the NHS must not screw up
Vaccinating the population for covid-19 presents an enormous logistical challenge for NHS England and the NHS — the national and reputational impact of “screwing it up” would be devastating. HSJ Health Check asks if it can succeed; plus testing, and creaking emergency care.
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CommentThe targets the NHS will have to hit this winter
Many trusts and some entire systems have met the phase three activity targets set by NHS England in July, but there is recognition at the centre that holding the service to them slavishly over the winter would be pointless and counter-productive.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Legislation in the time of covid
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior integration correspondent Sharon Brennan.
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NewsICSs should have ‘accountability’ for public health, says new national lead
Responsibility for some public health services should sit with ‘integrated care systems’ once they are given a statutory basis, says the new chief executive of NHS Clinical Commissioners.
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HSJ LocalCQC orders staffing and safety improvements at trust scrutinised over deaths
A mental health trust has been told to make ‘urgent improvements’ by regulators after a fourth inpatient death occurred with similar themes to three other patients dying within 12 months.
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NewsExclusive: Watchdog investigating national rise in stillbirths during covid first wave
A national review has been launched by safety investigators because of an increased number of stillbirths during the first wave of covid, HSJ can reveal.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Just like déjà vu all over again
Andy Cowper on the announcement of national lockdown measures, the PM’s ‘protect the NHS’ narrative and shortcomings of the test and trace.
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NewsDischarge rules a ‘risk to patients and should change’
National hospital discharge policy could pose a ‘risk to patients’ because local areas may treat it as a ‘target’, two major patient groups have said.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The circular firing squad
As the news over covid-19 hospitalisations and deaths inevitably ramps up during the coming months, the fear factor will drive the blame game to ever less adequate and rational behaviour, writes Andy Cowper.
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NewsExclusive: CQC launches criminal investigation into medication incidents at major acute trust
A major acute trust has confirmed the health service inspectorate has begun a criminal investigation into three incidents at its hospitals.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: ‘Stay away patients’ are causing alarm
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 bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Is the government’s covid response driven by incapacity, incompetence or malice?
Andy Cowper on governments’ ‘comms big, real problems away ambition’, the PM’s three-tier local alert system and concerning TAT performance.
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NewsExclusive: Police given access to Test and Trace data on those told to self-isolate
The contact details of those who have been instructed to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace are to be passed to the police on request, in a move that has alarmed senior health figures who are concerned it will undermine confidence in and co-operation with the testing regime, HSJ has ...
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NewsWards rated ‘inadequate’ treble in a year
Inspectors are finding more evidence of poor care in inpatient wards for people with a learning disability or autism, with the proportion of these services rated as ‘inadequate’ more than tripling in a year.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: Nursing the Nightingales
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night - and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, will make sure you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping ...