South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 362
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: PM Johnson’s trajectory: from ‘croak us’ to ‘crocus’
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Hancock’s grubby intervention over A&E closure
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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News
Calls for GPs to ‘get back to being GPs’ as other vaccine centres ‘empty’
Senior figures running the covid vaccine programme locally are calling for more flexibility, and for a big shift away from GP-run sites in the next phase.
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News
Daily Insight: Bereaved and aggrieved
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Comment
Social value is coming back to NHS procurement
We need a shift to a culture where how services are delivered is seen as important as the service itself, writes Andrew O’Brien
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HSJ Partners
What does the white paper say?
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News
Jeremy Hunt’s safety programme has stalled, say bereaved families
Bereaved families have been left feeling like their efforts to improve patient safety have been ‘in vain’ as progress of a government programme instigated by Jeremy Hunt appears to have ‘stalled’.
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News
Daily Insight: Fair comment or out of line?
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Comment
Bereaved families have been used as pawns in a political game
With the National Learning from Deaths Programme Board stalled, the bereaved families who were to be involved in its work have once again been left harmed and without any answers, write Dr Josephine Ocloo and David Smith
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News
Staff covid vaccine uptake much lower in London
A much lower share of ‘frontline’ NHS trust staff in London have had a first dose of the covid vaccine than in other regions, according to new NHS England estimates.
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News
Minority ethnic candidate chances of recruitment in NHS fall back, finds NHSE
The likelihood of minority ethnic candidates being appointed from NHS shortlists compared to white applicants is at its lowest rate so far recorded, while other key race equality indicators have “not improved over time”, according to NHS England’s latest annual evaluation of progress.
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Comment
WRES: Time for a reboot
NHS England’s WRES programme needs a reboot, to bring serious accountability and evidence based interventions to the issue, says Roger Kline.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: Punishing staff for gaming the vaccine system
Reasonable or ‘unnecessarily hostile”? This week’s HSJ Health Check debates whether it’s right for a trust to threaten its staff with disciplinary or regulatory action if they seek to have their second covid jab early.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: The white paper fallout begins
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior correspondent, Sharon Brennan.
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HSJ Local
NHS partners with Virgin to bag £440m contract
An alliance comprising private firm Virgin and local NHS providers has bagged a £440m contract for community services currently run by a social enterprise.
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News
Chair of scandal-hit trust announces departure
The chair of a trust at the centre of an “unprecendented” financial collapse will step down in April.
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Comment
Fresh thinking can transform new hospitals in England
Lord Ajay Kakkar hopes this year’s Wolfson Economics Prize can kickstart a national conversation about the future of hospital building after government pledged £3.7bn towards the construction of 40 new hospitals.
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Comment
Evaluation of service transformation needs more money, staff and focus
There is a need to change how rapid service evaluation is funded, co-ordinated and delivered, not just during but beyond the pandemic to enable more effective scale-up of health and care innovations, writes Prof Mike Roberts
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Comment
Letter from Scotland: What can England learn from integration north of the border?
The English NHS can draw lessons from Scotland’s experience of integrating health and social care, which has been challenging so far, notes Henry Anderson in the first of a monthly column.
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News
Still a third more patients in critical care than last winter
The number of critical care patients in England is still significantly more than was seen last year, despite occupancy coming down across the country, HSJ analysis shows.