Quality and Performance
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HSJ InteractiveAs the first covid-19 peak ends, elective care demand and capacity modelling must take a new form
Amid an array of new complications, historic models for elective care will need to be reimagined and patient safety remain a guiding principle, argues Karina Malhotra
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HSJ InteractiveAdvance care planning – a difficult path to tread?
Advance care planning which is patient specific will not only ensure it acts as a protector of patients’ rights and wishes, but will also be a shield for clinicians against complaint or claim and is an essential tool for providers in ensuring a comprehensive service. Helen Claridge explains
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HSJ InteractiveUsing covid crisis recovery to transform the NHS
The covid-19 crisis has brought with it disruptive transformation. Dr Ben Horner, Stephen Sutherland and John Gooch explore ways to ensure that the positive transformative changes are not lost, and ways in which the NHS can take steps to lock-in these improvements
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NewsService rated ‘outstanding’ despite whistleblower concerns
A trust’s neonatal services have been rated “outstanding” just a year after concerns were raised about investigations into baby deaths.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in September 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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NewsLeadership diversity 'can help close child mortality gap'
The lack of diversity in NHS leadership is a contributor to ongoing higher maternal and infant mortality among some minority ethnic groups, experts have warned.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: What we want from the 10-year plan
A leading trust CEO, ICS leader and policy guru join the HSJ podcast to tell us what’s needed from the government’s 10-year health plan.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Streeting’s magic tree
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: What the ‘left shift’ means for hospitals
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover is joined by the deputy chief executive of NHS Providers to talk money, quality and the CQC
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: It shouldn’t take a CQC inspection
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsCity’s five trusts to form £2bn ‘group’
A city’s five acute and specialist trusts have agreed to form a major £2bn hospital “group”.
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NewsTeenager’s death linked to national IT system, review suggests
The 999 assessment and triage system is being reviewed after the death of a young footballer, which may have highlighted a recurring flaw in the tool.
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NewsTrust CEOs warn ‘generation of children’ at risk from failing services
A new report concludes that health services are “failing” children as young people face average waits of a year for an autism diagnosis.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Winter ‘panic buying’
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues look at what no money for winter means for the NHS, and how real a bold new integration scheme is.
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NewsAmbulance trusts suffer as calls jump 13% in London
Ambulance trusts are battling an extremely tough October with calls in one region up by 13 per cent year-on-year and others struggling with hospital handovers.
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NewsCentral support ‘set to be withdrawn’ from maternity scandal trust
A trust at the centre of a maternity scandal is expected to come out of NHS England’s maternity support programme early next year – despite concerns raised by a parent whose child died under its care.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The magic administrator
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues look at whether the NHS’s whole safety, safe-staffing and quality system is getting overhauled, plus was it one simple trick that slashed waiting times at a trust?
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: An 'incredibly difficult winter'
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsOverhauling CQC ratings ‘could bring greater clarity’, ministers told
Changes to the Care Quality Commission’s one-word ratings “could be beneficial”, Penny Dash has concluded in the final version of her review.
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NewsThree new chiefs to ‘reset’ CQC inspections
The Care Quality Commission has been told to scrap its current governance structure and return to specialist inspection teams under the leadership of three new chief inspectors.