Policy and regulation – Page 5
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CommentAnti-racist policies are urgently needed to prevent unwarranted outcomes in care
Adebusuyi Adeyemi suggests that a new regulatory regime is required to limit healthcare systems from reproducing unjustified variation in health outcomes for different ethnicities
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NewsAI could solve ‘disgraceful’ structural problems, says minister
Artificial intelligence could be used to figure out the causes of “disgraceful” structural problems like the higher rates of maternal mortality for black women, a minister told a conference yesterday.
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CommentI helped write the last Labour 10-year NHS plan. Here’s what I learned
Labour’s proposed 10-year plan for the NHS echoes similar reforms enacted two decades ago during the Milburn era. Chris Ham, who served as the Department of Health’s policy director during that time, stresses the need for sustained commitment, and an awareness of political dynamics and resource constraints
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NewsCQC chief admits ‘we’ve lost your trust’ and announces more inspections
The Care Quality Commission’s new chief executive has admitted the regulator “got things wrong” during the rollout of its new inspection regime and announced an increase in the number of assessments it carries out.
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CommentHurrah! The politcians are back in control
The NHS has issued a statement expressing support for Wes Streeting as the new health and social care secretary promises to take back control, get the NHS done and lead us to the sunlit uplands. Julian Patterson has the details
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: 48,000 hours stuck in an ambulance
This week we discuss the ongoing harm done by long ambulance handover delays and what the new government must do to address this problem.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Streeting’s first days
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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NewsFormer minister joins Streeting’s team
Two new health and social care ministers, who previously held roles in the shadow team, have been announced by the new government.
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CommentThree quick wins the NHS can secure at almost no cost
These quick wins can help the NHS restore public confidence within this Parliament, despite the financial constraints, says London Ambulance Service chief executive Daniel Elkeles.
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CommentThe nursing regulator has proved itself tone deaf and wilfully blind
The Nursing and Midwifery Council faces scrutiny after appointing an interim CEO with a controversial past, raising governance concerns
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Underfunded and over-reliant
HSJ’s briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by senior correspondent Annabelle Collins — contact me in confidence.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: When HSJ met Wes
While the rest of the country was watching the football, HSJ met shadow health and social care secretary Wes Streeting in a café in Ilford for a wide-ranging interview.
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CommentThe next government’s stark choice: increase funding or see care decline
Anita Charlesworth describes the tough choices the new government will face as it tries to balance its ambitions to improve care with fiscal realities.
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NewsMinisters sitting on 26 requests to intervene in service reconfigurations
The Department of Health and Social Care received 26 requests to intervene in NHS service changes in the first three months of the new reconfiguration regime, and has yet to make a decision on any of them, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsExclusive: Streeting has ‘total confidence’ in Amanda Pritchard
The shadow health and social care secretary has “total confidence” in NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard, he has told HSJ.
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NewsLabour expects trusts to pay ‘time and a half’ to staff delivering ‘40,000 extra appointments’
Trusts should pay staff around “time and a half” for the additional shifts required to hit Labour’s manifesto pledge for an extra 40,000 elective appointments a week if the party wins power, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has told HSJ.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: What’s missing from the manifestos
This week we’re joined by Sally Gainsbury and Leonora Merry from the Nuffield Trust think tank, who help us join the dots on the key issues for the NHS in the election campaign.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Labour’s £6bn social care questions
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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NewsExclusive: CQC admits it is failing to keep patients safe
The Care Quality Commission has admitted it is failing to keep patients ‘safe’ and is losing the confidence of ministers and the NHS, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsCQC chief executive announces sudden departure
The chief executive of the Care Quality Commission has today told staff he will be leaving his role at the end of the week.