All Policy articles – Page 35
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NewsUnions call on government for ‘early’ NHS pay rise
Healthcare unions representing over one million NHS workers have written to the government calling for a boost in pay before the end of the year.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: How covid turned NHS finances on their head
Finance became a dirty word in the NHS as it went into covid crisis mode, but reality is slowly returning. HSJ Health Check looks at the financial landscape now faced by the NHS.
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NewsHospitals 'want to cut PPE requirements to speed surgery return'
Some hospitals have sought to water down PPE requirements in order to “accelerate” the return of planned surgery, senior doctors have said, as they issued new guidance aiming to inform the decision.
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CommentHunt: Scrap national waiting time targets
Jeremy Hunt sets out his vision for the post-covid NHS
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Running the health service under covid
This week’s HSJ podcast reveals the dilemmas facing those running and working in the NHS as it tries to operate while keeping covid-19 outbreaks under control.
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NewsTrusts with the most covid outbreaks to get regional intervention
NHS trusts have been told to carry out internal investigations each time a patient is suspected of contracting covid-19 while in hospital — with “outlier” trusts subject to regional intervention.
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HSJ InteractiveDiscrimination and inequality cost lives – it’s time to replace virtue signalling with action
Ifti Majid and Danielle Oum explain why clarity of vision is vital as we strive for a healthcare system where ethnicity becomes irrelevant to patient experience and outcomes, as well as staff experience and career prospects
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PodcastHSJ podcast: ICS' role in the covid recovery
The week’s podcast explores whether system integration will become central to how the NHS recovers and resets after covid.
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NewsCQC plan to restart inspections needed like ‘hole in head’, says Confed
The Care Quality Commission has issued a plan for re-starting routine inspections — but has been warned by the NHS Confederation that the health service needs this ‘like a hole in the head’.
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News‘Independent review of NHS’ ahead of second wave
There should be independent reviews of the NHS’ readiness for a potential second major outbreak of coronavirus in the UK, senior doctors are arguing.
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NewsRevealed: People Plan’s proposal to tackle local workforce crisis
Regional ‘people boards’ are to be recommended for all regions in England by the unpublished People Plan for the NHS.
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NewsA&E leader: All departments should be ‘call before you walk’
A ‘call before you walk’ system to prevent overcrowding and the spread of covid-19 in emergency departments should be implemented alongside a ‘beefed up’ NHS 111 service, a senior figure has said.
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NewsExclusive: Government’s social care directorate restored after four-year gap
A dedicated director general for adult social care has been appointed in government for the first time since 2016.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Watching the defectives
Andy Cowper on the current political upheavals, data governance and NHS’ contracts, and declining ratings of the government over tackling the pandemic.
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NewsCovid-19 tests ‘must have purpose,’ says pathology chief
Covid-19 testing must be done for a purpose and is not merely something that should be counted, according to the head of the Royal College of Pathologists.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: What the next six months hold for the NHS
In this week’s episode, HSJ editor Alastair McLellan discusses the next phase for the NHS in the wake as services and government respond to the ongoing threat of coronavirus.
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CommentGiving psychological first aid to NHS colleagues
Dr Tracey Ryan-Morgan, Lynda Mizen and Sharron Price explain the urgency of planning immediate responses and services deployed for staff wellbeing through the covid crisis
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NewsNHS must rethink its reliance on overseas recruitment, says regulator
The NHS must think “long and carefully” about its reliance on overseas recruitment, as it will be “difficult” following the covid-19 pandemic, the chief executive of the Nursing and Midwifery Council has warned.
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CommentNHS procurement strategy should aim to boost local economies, not save money
Tom Llyod Goodwin emphasises on the role of the NHS in post-covid-19 local economic recovery and support to greater social and environmental value within NHS supply chains
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News‘Much higher’ risk of staff-to-staff covid infection behind decision to insist on masks in non-clinical areas
Hospital staff will be required to wear surgical masks at all times to prevent them infecting colleagues with covid-19, health secretary Matt Hancock has announced.