All Health Service Journal articles in September 2021 – Page 10
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HSJ InteractiveOrganisations need to find ways of addressing cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is only going to become a more complex issue, and one which is ever more closely tied to patient safety. Organisations need to find ways to address this agenda accordingly, writes Jonathan Lee
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HSJ InteractiveHealthcare services now need to develop a uniform strategy for digital patient engagement
The pandemic has demonstrated the potential for digital care. To maximise the benefits of this style of service delivery, healthcare systems will need to unite a range of tools under one strategy. By Andrea Tait
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HSJ InteractiveImproving services through greater digital engagement with patients
Digital patient engagement has accelerated during the pandemic but sometimes in a piecemeal fashion. Now some organisations are introducing a more consolidated approach, hoping to further increase service efficiency and patient satisfaction as a result, reports Claire Read
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HSJ InteractiveMaking healthcare a digital self-service sector
By further enhancing digital engagement with patients, some hope it will be possible for healthcare to become as responsive as other digital-first sectors
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HSJ InteractiveIntegration of IT security measures at a hardware and software level
Board level awareness of the breadth of IT security issues is increasing. How can IT teams continue to support their colleagues’ knowledge development? Claire Read reports
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HSJ LocalICS sets ‘maturity’ test for its ‘places’ to access budgets
Nine areas within a large integrated care system are to be assessed in terms of their ‘maturity’ — with the most developed potentially taking on delegated budgets and decision-making from April next year.
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NewsTrust CEO to leave for Welsh health board
The chief executive of a South Eastern trust is leaving to run one of the largest NHS organisations in Wales.
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CommentThe true cost of cancer nursing shortages
When the pandemic hit, an already short-staffed cancer workforce was depleted even further. The nursing workforce are struggling to cope with high vacancy rates and extreme workload pressures. By Steven McIntosh
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NewsNHSE: Trusts must report performance by deprivation and ethnicity
All NHS trusts are now expected to include performance reporting by deprivation and ethnicity in papers to their boards, NHS England has said.
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NewsTrust efficiency target lower than feared
Efficiency targets for the second half of the financial year will be lower than providers were told to plan for, NHS guidance published today reveals.
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NewsTrusts must ‘stabilise’ waiting lists and eliminate two-year waiters by March
Trusts have been told to hold the line on elective performance, keeping year-plus waiters at current levels, and eliminate two-year waiters by the end of March.
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NewsNHSE switches activity targets to reward ‘clock stops’
NHS England has lowered the elective activity target which trusts have to meet to win incentive payments from a £1bn fund.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Another winter nightmare?
On the podcast this week, we look ahead to winter and ask whether NHS England’s 10-point accident and emergency action plan could prevent a crisis.
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CommentJulian Patterson: GP shortage worsens as panic-booking continues
GPs consider retraining as HGV drivers as RCGP promises to restore supplies of unleaded pencils
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CommentThe Health and Care Bill must combat alcohol harm
The Health and Care Bill offers an opportunity to bring the rules on alcohol advertising in line with those of all other ‘less healthy food and drink’. By Professor Sir Ian Gilmore
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NewsThe Primer: The price of money
The Primer provides a rapid guide to the most interesting comment and analysis on the English health and care sector that has not (usually) appeared in HSJ.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: We know you’re tired, but…
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HSJ LocalCEO of major acute trust steps down after contracting covid
The chief executive of a major acute trust has stepped down from her role after being off sick with covid since July.
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CommentHow ICSs can avoid becoming SHAs 2.0
How can the pursuit of integrated care be maintained during recovery, and ICSs prevented from becoming strategic health authorities 2.0, writes Sir John Oldham