All Health Service Journal articles in 2 December 2015
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CommentWhy the NHS estate could be the key to delivering the Five Year Forward View
Now is the time for the NHS to make the most of its massively underutilised estate
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CommentBeware the cost of digitisation
There is little doubt about the power of digitisation to transform healthcare – the only thing that needs utmost consideration is the cost factor
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HSJ KnowledgeWe are losing talented women from finance
What can be done to bring better representation of women at the top of the NHS finance function? Sue Lorimer discusses the HFMA’s recent rountable
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Comment
Let's push for gender equality now
Just as we have a workforce equality standard for race in the NHS, could we not have one for gender, Adele Waters asks
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NewsExecutive Summary: The cost of being 'fit and proper'
HSJ’s roundup of the day’s must read and must watch health stories
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NewsHSJ Awards 2015 ceremony - watch the highlights
Winners, finalists and judges talk about what it means to take part in the largest celebration of excellence in UK healthcare.
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NewsGPs warned to prepare for cuts to rent payments
GP practices in high value areas could face large cuts to notional rent payments from NHS England, surveyors warn NHS England preparing to change the way it calculates premises payments GP practices have been advised to set aside a proportion of the “notional rent” they receive from NHS ...
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NewsHSJ Women Leaders network to launch 'plan for action' on inequality
HSJ will host its second Women Leaders network event tomorrow.
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HSJ Local‘Inadequate’ Worcestershire trust placed in special measures
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust in special measures after CQC rates it “inadequate” “Urgent” improvements needed in staffing levels, governance, investigation of clinical incidents and culture Reliance on locum staff renders some services “fragile” PERFORMANCE: Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust has been placed in special measures.
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Comment'Knife, life and wife': old stereotypes persist in surgery
So-called banter is an everyday reality for female surgeons, and could be keeping more women out of the specialty
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NewsExecutive Summary: HSJ editor calls for minister to go
HSJ’s roundup of the day’s essential stories and talking points
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CommentBeware false dawns: this will be the NHS's toughest decade
Through this decade of austerity, health will have been protected relative to other government departments. But huge challenges remain for the NHS, says Anita Charlesworth
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NewsExclusive: NHS England attempts to halt judicial review in drug funding row
NHS England faces threat of judicial review over refusal to fund treatment for teenager DH and NHS England are funding Xyrem for hundreds of other narcolepsy patients Lawyers argue the decision is unlawful and discriminatory NHS England has asked doctors to resubmit a bid for funding to treat ...
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NewsWarning A&Es will 'fly blind' with less performance data this winter
NHS England winter daily situation reports will not include key performance data Royal College of Emergency Medicine president says “somebody has decided to glaze over the windscreen” NHS England says less weekly data will “minimise the bureaucratic burden on frontline hospitals and GPs” NHS England will not publish ...
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HSJ LocalFT 'disappointed' by community services tender
COMMERCIAL: A foundation trust is planning a joint bid with GPs to run out of hospital care after commissioners decided to run a competitive tender to improve local services.
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LeaderOne less health minister: how the government can lead by example
The Department is facing a reduction in its budget of 20 per cent. It therefore makes perfect sense for one minister to join the hundreds of DH staff who will be made redundant.
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NewsBMA cancels strike as government suspends imposition threat
Government agreed to drop imposition threat in exchange for “time limited” negotiations Agreement to negotiate follows Acas talks and months of acrimony after BMA walkout in October 2014 Hunt tells MPs strike action could have led to 20,000 operations being cancelled The British Medical Association has suspended strike ...
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NewsSelbie: Councils can absorb public health cuts
Public Health England’s chief executive has told councils he is confident they can absorb a nearly 10 per cent cut while making progress “protecting and improving the public’s health”.