Policy and regulation – Page 4
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CommentWe need a national end-of-life delivery plan
As leaders of the UK’s largest palliative care charities, the chief executives of Marie Curie and Sue Ryder set out how the hospice sector must evolve
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NewsOverall CQC ratings to be reintroduced
The Care Quality Commission is proposing to reintroduce overall care quality ratings for trusts, and put more weight on “expert professional judgement”, in an overhaul of its assessments.
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CommentPharma is working to boost drug availability, not prices
Victoria Jordan, director of value and access policy at the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), explores how medicine pricing affects patient access, research investment, and the sustainability of the UK health system
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Expert BriefingThe Download: A risk too far
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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HSJ PartnersPlant-rich diets: A prescription for patient health and NHS sustainability
Evidence of the health benefits of plant-rich diets is abundant, and the dangers of overconsuming meat are well-documented.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Distraction, not devolution
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Sunset of the EPRs?
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Ben Clover, Joe Talora and Ella Devereux. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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CommentBecoming a strategic commissioner means treating patients as partners
The pandemic exposed how trust in the NHS had “fallen off a cliff”, particularly among excluded communities. A North West London Integrated Care Board leader argues that genuine co-production – not tick box engagement – is essential for rebuilding relationships and improving health outcomes
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Paying for AVT
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Ben Clover, Joe Talora and Ella Devereux. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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News‘Wild West’ of AI suppliers face new NHSE checks
A new national registry for ambient voice technology providers to combat the “Wild West” of suppliers is due to launch this week, England’s national chief clinical information officer has announced.
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NewsComparing trusts on new productivity metric is misleading, experts warn
Recent productivity improvements will be hard to sustain in future years, experts have warned, as they said newly published NHS England data fails to show which trusts are the most productive.
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CommentThe neighbourhood health service risks becoming a conceptual muddle
The government’s ambition to establish a neighbourhood health service will fail to move from rhetoric to reality without a clearer clarity of purpose and measures for success, writes Matthew Taylor
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CommentBetter clinical homecare is crucial to an effective neighbourhood health service
New data from a pharma-funded study shows clinical homecare keeps people out of hospitals and must be part of the new National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme, writes Stephen Cook
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Demystifying the online hospital
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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CommentGovernment reforms are leaving managers without a lifeline
The NHS risks breakdown, not from clinical shortages alone but from the silent collapse of corporate systems that sustain frontline delivery, writes Colin Graham
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NewsICB broke commissioning rules on £92m contract
An integrated care board broke commissioning regulations when trying to secure a contract for a system-wide mental health service, according to the independent oversight panel.
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CommentWe risk losing the NHS analysts vital to delivering reforms
Analysts are crucial to delivering the NHS 10-Year Health Plan, but reorganisation and underinvestment threaten to undermine reform ambitions, says Neil Morgan
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Maternity services need change now, not in 2030
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: An NHS takeover of the DHSC
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Last of the £2bn laggards
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by Ben Clover and Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.