All Policy articles – Page 14
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HSJ LocalICS explores trust co-funding of system roles
An integrated care board is exploring whether some ‘system level and place roles’ could be jointly funded by local providers, as ICBs look to radically cut their running costs.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Maternal health disparities and PHSO’s reflections
HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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CommentOnly to the untrained eye does this look like chaos
‘Years of careful planning may occasionally look like chaos.’ Sir Trevor Longstay explains why improvement is back at the heart of the NHS Blithering strategy after a short break. By Julian Patterson
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CommentGovernment is backtracking on promises to tackle health misinformation
Despite the lessons of the pandemic, the current version of the Online Safety Bill fails to address the harm that comes from health misinformation with no regulatory oversight on internet companies, writes Will Moy
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CommentICSs can disrupt the powerful social currents that pull people into ill health
Rosie Fogden discusses how the introduction of ICSs offers a significant opportunity for a renewed focus on the health of larger population as integrated health and social care has been the pinnacle of healthcare reform for decades
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NewsOne in 10 A&E patients waits 12hrs, long-hidden data reveals
Around 10 per cent of the 1.2 million accident and emergency attendees in February waited 12 hours or more, newly published NHS England data has revealed, laying bare the true extent of the NHS’s emergency care crisis.
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CommentPolitics and the NHS: can the link be broken?
Sir Chris Ham talks about the current crisis as a reflection of a political system dominated by short-term thinking and unwillingness to deal with long-term challenges
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NewsFears for vulnerable patients as NHSE changes covid treatment rules
Some of the most vulnerable patients could risk missing out on covid treatment because new rules will place the onus on them to access antiviral medication themselves instead of the NHS contacting them directly, senior figures have warned.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: The rise of self-pay and why it matters to the NHS
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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CommentThe optimistic view of the Hewitt review
Richard Taunt explains about the three key areas that we should focus on to make sure the review will be remembered as a step towards ICSs having the right aims
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NewsNHSE blames junior doctors’ strike for impending elective target failure
A senior NHS England figure has blamed the junior doctors’ strike for trusts’ impending failure to hit a flagship target to eliminate 78-week waiters by next month, but HSJ understands the service would have fallen short even without the medics’ walkout.
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NewsCQC merges chief hospital and primary care inspector roles
The Care Quality Commission has merged the roles of chief inspector of hospitals and chief inspector of primary medical services, it has announced.
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NewsICSs given central role in fight against cyber attacks
Integrated care systems will be responsible for planning the response to cyber security attacks, the government has said.
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NewsExclusive: NHS to miss April deadline to end 78-week waits by around 11k patients
National NHS forecasts are predicting there will be around 11,000 patients on the elective waiting list who have been waiting longer than 78 weeks at the start of April, the target for clearing this cohort, HSJ understands.
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CommentDivide and rule on NHS pay would be disastrous
The government’s proposed settlement to resolve the current wave of industrial action sows the seeds of some incredibly difficult and possibly decisive changes to NHS pay in the future, write Anita Charlesworth and James Buchan
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Magna Carta to ‘mandated support’
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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CommentNHS staff told to comply with new ‘Lineker laws’
Medics and managers unite against proposed rules that could stop them looking clever, compassionate and fabulous on social media. Julian Patterson reports
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NewsExclusive: ‘Shameful’ £500m cut to workforce and reform budgets
Government is set to cut its planned spending on adult social care workforce, reform and integration by at least £550m, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHSE admits elective impact as trust chiefs warn of dangers of doctors’ strike
Ministers and NHS England have not sufficiently warned the public of the risk to patient harm posed by next week’s junior doctors strike, some of the NHS’s most senior trust chief executives have warned.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Consultant strike cover ‘costing up to £4,500 per shift’
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.