All Policy articles – Page 68
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CommentAnalysis: STP digital plans need a major reboot
The largely vague and un-costed digital components of the STPs need a substantial upgrade, or the NHS will continue to lag behind comparable health systems on technology for years to come, writes HSJ technology correspondent James Illman
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NewsHSJ's Best of 2016: Top stories
Heartfelt appeals on whistleblowing and the EU referendum, a massive leak from BMA negotiations and the latest HSJ100 rankings all feature in our most popular articles of the year
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CommentStill doing the system’s – not the patients' – business
New recommendations on co-ordinated care would help to address patient safety issues that remain unaddressed by rafts of policy initiatives
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NewsMapped: All 44 STPs published – full coverage
Download every STP and see HSJ’s coverage of the plans on our map
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HSJ KnowledgeIs the NHS winning the great paper chase?
A paper-free health service is a worthy ambition but achieving it has proved easier said than done – so what might a more realistic plan look like
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NewsHunt to force trusts to publish avoidable deaths data
Jeremy Hunt will introduce new regulation to force NHS trusts from March 2017 to estimate and publish how many of its deaths might have been preventable He was responding to today’s CQC deaths review, and said he was accepting all its recommendations Avidable death data to be published quarterly ...
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Flickers in a pitch black tunnel
HSJ’s weekly email briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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NewsMackey: I'll cut locum doctors pay 'if I have to'
NHS Improvement chief executive says regulator will take tougher approach to medical locum spend It may further reduce the pay cap in future if necessary Regulator will use locum cost data to identify unsustainable services NHS Improvement chief executive Jim Mackey has told HSJ the regulator will now ...
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NewsHunt: Introducing NHS general management may have been a 'mistake'
Jeremy Hunt launches bid to increase NHS managers with clinical backgrounds Mr Hunt rejects idea that non-clinical managers were needed to take control of hospitals Government will look to reverse changes to medical training made after introduction of the European working time directive Introducing a general “manager class” ...
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NewsNHS staff 'quitting to stack shelves', warns provider chief
NHS Providers chief says health service wages are “uncompetitive” Chris Hopson warns trusts are “seriously worried” about retaining vital staff if pay restraint continues Survey shows concerns about retention of staff at all levels Trusts deserve great credit for driving down deficits, Mr Hopson says Staff in lower ...
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NewsHopson: Keeping trusts' deficit under £1bn would be 'extraordinary'
Chris Hopson says NHS had been “insufficiently celebratory” about stopping deficit from “running out of control” Provider deficit reduction shows trusts can deliver when given “sensible plans”, he says Refuses to rule out providers hitting £580m deficit target but says there is “risk” Keeping the provider sector deficit ...
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NewsNational officials 'ensuring' STPs plan 'right skilled' staffing
NHS England “ensuring” an STP “will put in place the right skilled workforce” Draft STP plan proposed savings through “reduction of nursing grade input” NHS England has told HSJ it is working with a sustainability and transformation plan on ”ensuring they will put in place the right skilled ...
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NewsAgency spending higher than planned despite caps
NHS Improvement quarter two report says agency spend 16 per cent higher than planned Provider sector predicting £900m savings compared to last year as a result of agency caps NHSI names best and worst performers on agency spending Trusts’ spending on agency staff is 16 per cent higher ...
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NewsPHE chief: Smoking should be banned from all hospital sites
Public Health England chief executive calls for blanket smoking ban on NHS grounds Said only a few acute hospitals had achieved it so far Duncan Selbie said it was an important action for the NHS in prevention The chief executive of Public Health England has called for a ...
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NewsAnalysis: Half of hospital trusts miss reduced waiting targets
Trusts missing largely lower “reset” targets for elective treatment times Performance means organisations could miss out on sustainability and transformation funding Total waiting list approaches 4 million More than half of England’s hospital trusts have missed their elective waiting time targets set by NHS Improvement.
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NewsMPs: Services 'likely to suffer' after UnitingCare contract collapse
Services “likely to suffer” in wake of £750m contract breakdown, say MPs “Incompetent, grossly irresponsible” NHS bodies showed business acumen which would “embarrass a child in a sweet shop” NHS England told to address commercial skills gap in NHS after “catalogue of failures” Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning ...
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NewsNational nurse leaders defend plans for new support role
Senior nurses in England sign letter defending plans for nursing associate role Letter confirms nursing associates will take on tasks currently performed by nurses New research says substituting nurses for non-nurses increases mortality risk The most senior nurses in England have defended plans for the new nursing associate ...
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HSJ LocalSTP sets publication date after MPs appeal for openness
Health leaders in the north have set a date for publishing their sustainability and transformation plan, following calls for transparency from the region’s MPs.
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NewsNHS cancer performance remains below target
Trusts hit 62 day wait target 82.3 per cent of time against 85 per cent target Charity critcises “unacceptable” performance NHS has now missed the target for nearly three years NHS providers continued to miss the main national cancer target in the second quarter of 2016-17, according to ...
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HSJ LocalNew investigation helps scandal hit trust to learn lessons
New investigation reveals failures in care after Joshua Titcombe’s death eight years ago Trust facilitated “emotional” but “healing” meeting between father and midwife Process could be adopted by other trusts dealing with cases of poor care A full investigation into the death of a baby that led to ...