All Health Service Journal articles in September 2024 – Page 7
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NewsMajor procurement reforms delayed
The government has delayed the implementation of a major overhaul of procurement rules until February next year.
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News‘Project Fusion’ trust merger to go ahead after delays
The boards of two community and mental health trusts in the south have approved a merger and formation of a ‘new’ trust following months of delays.
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NewsSeven-year wait for specialist assessments at ‘outstanding’ trust
Waiting times for adult ADHD assessments have hit seven years at a northern mental health trust, according to its latest board papers.
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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Reflections on Grenfell, cancer and the state of the NHS
Your essential update on health for the week.
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Comment‘We’re in a right pickle’, Darzi concludes
Julian Patterson applauds the wide-ranging aspirations and familiar themes of Lord Darzi’s performance review
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News‘Suboptimal’ IT system still used by multiple trusts
More than a dozen trusts are still using a widely criticised “suboptimal” electronic patient record system, which was discontinued by its supplier more than two years ago, HSJ can reveal.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Inquiries – who are they for?
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast guest host Ben Clover and colleagues discuss three major NHS inquiries that started hearing evidence this week.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: The great public health pitch
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentWaiting list falls year-on-year for first time since pandemic
But it needs to fall a lot faster to recover “18 weeks” performance.
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NewsAmbulance services hit crucial target
Ambulances reached some of the most seriously ill people within an average of 30 minutes last month – meeting a key NHS England target for the first time in more than a year.
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NewsTrust considers tough line on promoting minority staff
An ambulance trust may require managers to justify to its CEO each time they promote someone else ahead of a colleague with a minority ethnic background to a senior role.
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NewsRevealed: the scale of the squeeze on primary care capital funding
Primary care has been subjected to the biggest squeeze in government capital spending in recent years, according to figures behind a major report into the state of the NHS.
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NewsMinisters pressing Treasury to fund ‘a lot of prevention projects’
The Department of Health and Social Care is fighting for funding for ‘a lot of public health projects’ in the upcoming government spending review, a minister has said.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Stats, truths and a few one-liners
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsNHS has ‘thrown money’ at unproductive hospitals
Too much money is being “thrown” at hospitals where productivity “has substantially fallen” and not enough is being spent in the community, a major review of NHS performance has concluded.
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NewsDarzi: NHS ‘unlikely’ to meet performance targets in five years
Labour is “unlikely” to meet its flagship manifesto commitment to restore the NHS’s constitutional waiting times during this parliamentary term, Lord Darzi has warned.
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NewsShrink the centre to boost local management, Darzi concludes
The NHS needs to urgently reconfigure the “balance of its management resources”, says Lord Darzi’s report into the state of the NHS.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: ‘We’re in a right hole’
Recovering services from the covid crisis is a big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by bureau chief James Illman.
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Trust told to re-run flawed contract award
A trust has been advised to re-run a contract competition after a losing provider complained the process was unfair.
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NewsChild spent 44 days in A&E waiting for care placement
A child spent more than a month ‘stuck in a room with the lights on’ in an accident and emergency department, a trust has revealed.