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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Misplacing patients, surprising NHSE and battling over AVT
Your essential update on health for the week
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NewsCandidates for £342k DHSC job to face mock PAC
Candidates for a readvertised post in the Department of Health and Social Care’s executive team, with pay up to £342,000, have been advised to expect a mock public accounts committee grilling.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: ‘Blindsided’ NHS England intervenes over record snooping
“I had no idea this happened. Were we informed? I am very concerned about duty of candour here… Why weren’t the victims informed immediately?”
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NewsTrust identifies ‘power imbalances’ after sexual misconduct sackings
An ambulance trust is to strengthen safeguarding for students after sacking two senior staff for sexual misconduct and identifying “inherent power imbalances” that put learners at risk.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Leaping without a safety net
The must-read stories and debates in health policy and leadership.
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CommentMartha’s Rule: The litmus test for maternity culture
Martha’s Rule can improve maternity safety, but only if NHS organisations foster cultures that genuinely hear, value, and act on concerns
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NewsProbe into hospital AI safety launched
AI tools that are already being rolled out across the NHS face an investigation by the national safety body.
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News159 sites to get £343m for ‘A&Es’ and health centres
The government has named the 159 provisional sites for new mental health emergency departments and community centres, which will share £343m of capital.
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NewsRegions roll out custom performance regimes
NHS England regions have begun introducing their own regional performance management regimes for providers, on top of the NHS Oversight Framework.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: First test for national racism standards
The must-read stories and debates in health policy and leadership.
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NewsCEOs agree new targets to cut waits
A new set of targets has been agreed between NHS England and mental health chief executives in a bid to boost the sector’s reputation within government.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Maternity versus digital
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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CommentStick with IHOs to drive health and prosperity
Integrated health organisations – such as the one we are developing in Northumbria – can boost population health and employment, but we will require both sustained support and flexibility from the centre.
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CommentThe NHS needs a summer plan as well as a winter one
As heat-related deaths rise and projections for 2050 grow increasingly stark, the NHS must stop treating summer as the quiet season. The case for giving heat the same operational seriousness as winter has never been stronger – and the cost of delay is already being counted in lives
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NewsCouncil privatises NHS-run care service
Private providers are set to take over the running of some adult social care services currently carried out by an NHS trust in the South West.
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NewsThreat to remove resident doctors after racist incidents
One of England’s most challenged trusts faces resident doctors being removed from two specialties due to racism from staff and patients, board papers have revealed.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Please stop surprising NHSE
The must-read stories and debates in health policy and leadership.
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Comment‘Consultant clinician’ should no longer always mean doctor in today’s NHS
The word “consultant” has long been synonymous with medicine, but expert clinical practice now exists across the healthcare workforce. Failing to recognise it is holding the NHS back
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NewsShared execs may be ‘stretched and less effective’, NHSE admits
Sharing executives across struggling providers can lead to leadership teams becoming “stretched and therefore less effective”, NHS England has acknowledged.
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NewsLead provider role creating ‘potential conflicts of interest’, review finds
A lack of clarity around lead provider and commissioner roles at a mental health trust collaborative is creating “potential conflicts of interest”, a review has found.