All Health Service Journal articles in September 2020 – Page 8
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News
Discharge guidance could lead to increased death and disability, warn senior clinicians
Serious patient safety and wellbeing concerns about the latest hospital discharge guidance have been raised to HSJ by senior clinicians and charities.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: A slap in the face
HSJ’ s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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News
HSJ summit will hear from government adviser on ‘next steps for social care’
The health and care leader who has advised government on what to do following the coronavirus disaster in social care will share his views with the upcoming HSJ integrated care virtual summit.
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HSJ Local
Regulator pressures trusts to ‘rapidly’ agree hospital group model
NHS England and Improvement has written to trusts in the Black Country urging them to “rapidly” agree on a hospital group model, HSJ can reveal
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News
Exclusive: Government covid ‘strategy’ aims at ‘10 million tests per day’
The government wants to expand covid-19 testing 30-fold to 10 million tests a day, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Partners
Maximising the potential of virtual care to better serve patients
Nicole Allan on how virtual care can improve healthcare outcomes for patients
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Expert Briefing
Daily Insight: Private meetings vs credibility
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Deciding who is in charge
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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HSJ Local
Leadership group to meet in private to drive acute service integration
Norfolk and Waveney’s three acute providers have set up a 12-strong leadership group which will meet in private to determine the organisations’ service integration strategy.
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Expert Briefing
The Download: The long road to joined-up patient records
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by senior correspondent, Nick Carding.
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HSJ Partners
Remembering sacrifices made by NHS emergency services personnel
Copyright: Tom Scholes Fogg The covid-19 pandemic, has galvanised the public’s understanding of the immediate and increasing sacrifices that our NHS and emergency services personnel, key workers and volunteers are making to keep us safe from harm. Written by This year the National Emergency Services Memorial ...
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News
‘Confidential’ document warns second covid peak could hit NHS five times harder
Modelling being used by NHS officials forecasts that hospital admissions could peak at five times the level seen in April without additional measures to control the virus, HSJ can reveal.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: ‘Top tranche’ theory trumps reality in H*nc*ckl*nd
Andy Cowper sheds light on the performace of SAS test and trace as it fails to meet 46 per cent of the targets set.
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Comment
Care home covid-19 fallout should not create toxic taboos
David Oliver on the need to use more advance care planning for care home residents.
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News
Winners revealed for HSJ Value Awards 2020
The star performers in this year’s HSJ Value Awards - which celebrate the work of NHS teams across the areas of transformation, clinical and medical services, and operational and corporate services - have now been announced
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HSJ Local
Warning to staff not wearing masks at PM’s local hospital
Staff at the hospital serving the prime minister’s constituency — which is the subject of concerns over infection control — have been warned they will not be paid for time spent self-isolating if they break mask rules.
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Expert Briefing
Daily Insight: Trying times for Test and Trace
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ Local
City plans ‘integrated care system for mental health’
Local mental health commissioning may be transferred to NHS providers under a new contract in one of the UK’s biggest cities.
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News
Staff suspended after ‘great distress’ to BAME workers
Three members of staff at London Ambulance Service Trust have been suspended from duty after comments on the trust’s internal communication channels caused “great distress” to BAME staff.
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HSJ Partners
Valuing young lives
In a four-part series, Bluebirdbio is exploring how the NHS can embrace the power of gene therapy as a treatment for rare diseases in the UK, including some of the systemic changes that will be needed. In this third column, David Taylor, emeritus professor of Pharmaceutical and Public Health Policy ...