All Policy articles – Page 24
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News
Government reveals plan to bring more stability to NHS pensions
The government is consulting on plans which would bring more stability to public sector pensions, including those in the NHS.
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Comment
ICSs should focus on relationships as much as governance
Integrated care systems must combine the software of relationships with the hardware of governance, writes Sir Chris Ham
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News
Javid warned: Drop ‘power grab’ and press on with ICS bill
If Sajid Javid delays introduction of NHS legislation, the service will lose good managers and could sacrifice a rare consensus on health policy, the NHS Confederation is warning him today.
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News
Revealed: NHS tech bodies wrangle over patient data sharing
Health officials have discussed giving NHS Digital more visibility over patients who opt out from having their data shared, HSJ has learned.
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News
New No.10 health unit will ‘intervene where delivery is slowing’
Number 10 Downing Street is setting up a new unit to oversee ‘recovery’ in the NHS and other health priorities, and ‘intervene where delivery is slowing’.
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Comment
The government's NHS data strategy missed the boat on transparency
The new data strategy is once again a lost opportunity to advance the transparency agenda – providing accessible performance data on hospitals and all other care settings, writes Alex Kafetz
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HSJ Local
Hospital and primary care leaders at odds over ICS boundary changes
Primary care leaders in Essex and Suffolk are at loggerheads with some of their acute counterparts over proposals which would make integrated care systems coterminous with the county council boundaries.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: A new era dawns for specialised services
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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Comment
Spend big and go slow on re-organisation: the secret to fixing waiting times
As health and social care grapples with post-pandemic challenges, a look back at the effect of the original Wanless report released 20 years ago reveals some things are still the same and some radically different, writes Nicholas Timmins
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News
Trusts and ICSs will have until April to develop carbon neutral plans
NHS trusts and integrated care systems will have until April next year to develop plans to achieve net zero carbon emissions, HSJ has learned.
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News
More than 50,000 people have waited over 18 months for planned care
There were 64,959 patients on the elective waiting list who have waited over 18 months for procedures as of April – 2,722 of whom have waited over two years, new NHS data reveals today.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: The real waiting list problem (clue: it isn’t longest waiters)
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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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: Plot thickens around controversial care model
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: Severed but not broken
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: How NHS England (quietly) axed the A&E target
Under the cover of Cummings’ headline-grabbing testimony last week, NHS England gave the green light to plans to scrap the landmark four-hour accident and emergency target.
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News
Hancock broke ministerial code over family firm’s NHS deal revealed by HSJ
The health secretary breached the ministerial code by not declaring a firm run by his sister and brother-in-law had been put on a framework to supply the NHS, the government’s independent adviser on ministers’ interests has ruled.
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News
Government scraps free emergency parking for NHS staff
Ministers are set to scrap a free emergency parking pass issued to NHS and care staff last year once lockdown restrictions end next month, updated guidance reveals.
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News
NHS England gives green light to drop four-hour A&E target
NHS England is pushing ahead with plans to replace the NHS’s four-hour emergency target with a new set of 10 metrics, it has announced today.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: Beefing up critical care and the issues system leaders must consider
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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News
Tory MP: No business in the world would treat their staff like the NHS
The NHS must significantly improve its training offer to staff, or risk losing many of them according to two Conservative MPs who are also clinicians.