All Health Service Journal articles in September 2022 – Page 6
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NewsNo new money in Coffey’s £500m winter social care fund
The £500m winter “adult social care discharge fund” announced by government will be funded from existing health and care budgets – including money freed up for NHS employers by ministers’ cancellation of this year’s national insurance rise – HSJ has established.
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HSJ PartnersNew evidence for an integrated virtual ward approach
Paul McGinness, chief executive, Lenus Health, presents new evidence showing how a digital service model can reduce respiratory-related hospital admissions and enable care at home
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: A broken system
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentThe never knowingly over-punctuated health secretary
What does an obsession with grammar tell us about the character of the new health secretary? Julian Patterson goes in search of the real Therese Coffey and the story behind her violent aversion to the Oxford comma
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Scrutiny on the bounty
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsStaffing shortages force NHSE to abandon safety target
NHS England has this week told trusts it is abandoning a patient safety target ‘until maternity services in England can demonstrate sufficient staffing levels’ to meet it.
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News‘Four-hour rush’ continuing at top A&Es
Hospital trusts are still treating many patients just before the four-hour A&E target deadline, whose proposed abolition was reversed by government yesterday, HSJ analysis has revealed.
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CommentThe cost of living crisis is a health emergency too
Author David Finch highlights the relationship between the increasing costs of living and deteriorating public health in the UK – and the action that the government could take.
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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Damaged reputations, proxy wars and unprecedented pressures
Your essential update on health for the week.
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NewsUpdated: IR35 rules on NHS contractors to stay in place
UPDATE: Controversial rules governing the tax status of contractors will now remain in place, after a U-turn by government on its own September ’mini budget’.
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NewsExclusive: Coffey warned of ‘significant risk’ posed by CQC restructuring
Staff at the Care Quality Commission have been left ‘in fear of speaking out’ against structural changes to the organisation which they believe ‘pose a significant risk’ to the CQC’s ability to regulate health services, trade unions have told the health and social care secretary.
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NewsICS rejects ‘greatest benefit’ reconfiguration option as unaffordable
Regional leaders have unveiled four options for a long-delayed revamp to emergency care at the country’s only ‘inadequate’ acute hospital trust.
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Daily InsightThe Primer: Learning our ABCDs
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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HSJ Partners
Extending the boundaries of healthcare with virtual hospitals
As video technology has matured in recent years, so it has been able to play an increasingly central role in providing healthcare at a distance alongside a new generation of digital tools. Many of the legacy objections to its use were overruled by the necessity of continuing patient care remotely ...
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HSJ PartnersIs it easy to be green?
How healthcare organisations can deliver the business of today while preparing for a more sustainable future.
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NewsCoffey accused of leaving NHS ‘in limbo’ on A&E target
The four-hour emergency care target is ‘not the right answer’ long term, but services have been left ‘in limbo’ by Therese Coffey’s promise that it will no longer be scrapped, the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has said.
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NewsLabour would ‘pool’ health and social care budgets
Health and social care budgets would be pooled together under a Labour government in a bid to boost NHS integration, the shadow health secretary has said.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: The downfall of a ‘pioneering’ private provider
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsCEO quits under-pressure ICS
A former Number 10 adviser who was made CEO of an integrated care board has become the first to leave since the organisations were created in July this year.
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NewsBig expansion of nurse and doctor training planned by Labour
Labour would use revenue from reversal of the abolition of the 45 per cent rate of income tax to fund “one of the largest NHS workforce expansions in history,” the shadow chancellor has announced.