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HSJ InteractiveWhat role might better data play in overcoming patient safety challenges?
Making data on medical interventions easier to collect and collate would increase the odds of spotting patterns of harm, according to the panel of a recent HSJ webinar
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar discussed how organisations can make the most of their IT teams
In association with An on-demand version of this webinar is available. In discussing the relentless pressure that has been faced by NHS staff in recent years, IT staff are sometimes forgotten – yet they too have encountered novel challenges. When the pandemic first hit, they were charged ...
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CommentDistrict councils are the NHS’s natural health improvement partners
District councils play a crucial role in addressing health inequalities and the wider determinants of health within integrated care systems, emphasising the need for prevention and local partnerships, writes Ian Fytche
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NewsPatients face medicine shortages as private market buys up drugs
A critical year-long shortage of vital type 2 diabetes medicines is being driven partly by its demand as a weight loss aid, with figures suggesting more than half the prescribing for one drug is through the private market, HSJ has learned.
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News£4bn contract to run NHS logistics out to tender
The procurement for a new national logistics provider has started, with NHS Supply Chain looking to sign a deal with a firm worth up to £4.4bn and potentially running for nearly 12 years.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Improvers and shakers
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsMinisters refuse to set target for ending maternal deaths disparity
The government has rejected calls to set a target and strategy to end ‘appalling’ disparities in maternal deaths.
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NewsNHS England seeks CEO and chair for ‘national improvement board’
NHS England has begun recruiting for leadership roles – including a chief executive – for its recently announced national improvement board.
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NewsICB failure creating ‘absolute nightmare’ for vulnerable patients needing covid treatment
Many vulnerable patients are struggling to access covid treatments after commissioning responsibility switched to integrated care boards this week, charities have warned.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Incoherent and wishy-washy, two NHS studies that left me cold
Steve Black reports on two recent studies of the NHS which present contrasting viewpoints, with one lacking practical solutions and the other providing insights without concrete recommendations
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NewsHunt demands ‘challenging’ productivity improvements in return for training cash
The chancellor has told HSJ he has agreed “ambitious improvements in productivity” with NHS leaders as part of negotiations for the long-term workforce plan.
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HSJ Local‘Misogyny’ and ‘medical patriarchy’ widespread at major trust, reports find
A major teaching trust is dominated by a ‘medical patriarchy’, while ‘misogynistic behaviour’ is a regular occurrence, two investigations have discovered.
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NewsNHS staff could be banned from agency work, says workforce plan
Substantive NHS staff may have to be blocked from undertaking work for the service through agencies and instead have to sign up with the temporary staffing banks operated by trusts, says the new NHS long-term workforce plan.
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NewsICSs handed leading role in delivering long-term workforce plan
Integrated care systems have been given a lengthy to-do list as part of the drive to deliver the NHS’s long-term workforce plan.
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NewsNHSE inks £775m contract for key Microsoft software
NHS England has signed a deal worth £775m to provide local NHS organisations with Microsoft products and software for the next five years.
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HSJ LocalTrust mounts £2m legal challenge against councils
An acute trust has mounted a legal challenge against three councils after its bid to secure almost £2m to offset demand pressure from thousands of new homes was rejected.
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HSJ LocalTrust chief resigns ahead of provider joining ‘group model’
A community trust chief executive has announced she is stepping down, ahead of a new provider group being formed with a neighbouring acute.
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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Unknown costs, hospital pipelines and Selbie’s salvo
Your essential update on health for the week.
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CommentHello Glastonbury! Sir David’s Spinal Tap moment
He invaded the Pyramid Stage to make the NHS’s 75th birthday celebrations even more special. What a pity no one knew who he was, writes Julian Patterson
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NewsNew national plan to radically reduce time taken to recruit NHS staff
NHS England has begun work to modernise the way in which the service recruits staff, and has committed to reducing the average time taken to appoint staff from 10 to six weeks.