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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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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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HSJ PartnersHow better data and technology can improve our approach to medicines optimisation
Meera Parkash, a clinical facilitator at Optum® and former head of medicines management at Bexley Clinical Commissioning Group, describes the obstacles holding back medicines optimisation in primary care — and explains why technology can be a catalyst for change
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LeaderThe three tensions the new government must resolve
The new government will need to resolve three tensions in its mission to fix the broken NHS, writes Dave West.
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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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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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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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NewsNHSE director to step down after seven months
An NHS England non-executive director who is also the only GP on the organisation’s board will leave her post seven months after being appointed.
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NewsNeighbouring providers aid cyber attack victim
Two pathology networks are coming to the aid of a neighbour, still largely paralysed following an unprecedented cyber attack on its IT system earlier this month.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Live from Confed
This week’s episode comes to you from the NHS Confed Expo conference in Manchester, where we’re joined by NHS Confederation’s CEO Matthew Taylor and chair Victor Adebowale.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: How NHSE may seek to incentivise more community care
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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NewsNHS can succeed where it previously failed in shifting care to community, says NHSE CEO
A “startling” change to system working along with other opportunities means the NHS can succeed where it failed in the past to shift more care into the community, the NHS England chief executive has claimed.
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NewsICB plans to ‘decommission outpatient clinics’
An integrated care board is planning to decommission secondary care outpatient clinics and replace them with primary and community care services.
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NewsLabour warned against ‘disruptive’ move to ‘bypass ICSs’
The NHS Confederation chief executive has warned Labour against “bypassing” integrated care systems in pursuit of elective care targets, if the party forms the next government.
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NewsGovernment must ‘direct officials’ to prioritise prevention, says ex-minister
Ministers must be “a lot stronger in directing officials” to prioritise prevention in health spending, a former Conservative health minister has said.
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NewsCardiac surgery and maternity displaced by cyber attack
Cardiac surgery and complex maternity cases are among the work the hospitals hit by a cyber attack earlier this week have been forced to transfer to other providers, HSJ understands.
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NewsExclusive: Minister proposed £10 monthly ‘insurance style’ fee for NHS dentistry
A health minister has suggested citizens could pay a monthly fee — similar to an insurance scheme — to be entitled to free NHS dentistry, at recent meetings about how to solve the crisis in the service, HSJ has learned.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Held to ransom
The NHS is facing weeks of disruption after pathology services across south east London were hit by a major cyber attack this week, affecting care from blood tests to transplants.