All Health Service Journal articles in 23 May 2014 – Page 2
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23 May issue of HSJ is ready to read on the app
This week’s issue of HSJ magazine is now available to read on our tablet app.Download the HSJ app for iPadDownload the HSJ app for AndroidIn this week’s issue HSJ reveals that several hospital trusts applied for emergency loans last year to pay bills after suppliers threatend legal action. Plus:The friends ...
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Commissioners step in as care home drug supplier folds
NHS England has urged commissioners to help ensure care home residents receive an unbroken supply of medicines after a company supplying pharmacy services to hundreds of homes across the UK abruptly closed down.
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Providers fail to report waiting times data
The NHS has missed its target for starting patient treatment within 18 weeks of admission for the second consecutive month, the latest official figures show.
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Patients miss out on innovative treatments
Patients are being denied access to some innovative treatments because of a “lack of pace” and hierarchical decision making by NHS England, it has been claimed.
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Nursing workforce grows to highest level in a decade
The NHS is continuing to recruit hundreds of extra qualified nurses a month with numbers at their highest for a decade, the latest workforce data shows.
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HSJ Live 22.05.2014: Jeremy Hunt calls for better incident reporting
Secretary of State says key metric for the NHS should be the number of safety concerns raised by staff, and the rest of today’s news and comment
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One in six councils without a director of public health
Some one in six local authorites are yet to appoint a permanent director of public health, more than a year since they took control of the service.
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Councils warn over delays to better care fund
The government’s additional assessments of areas’ better care fund plans could undermine the £3.8bn programme by leaving them with too little time to make changes to services, councils have warned.
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HSJ Knowledge
Practice makes perfect: the benefits of mental health training
CCGs need to better organise nurse training
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Co-commissioning plan could ease pressure on A&E, report author claims
NHS England’s primary care co-commissioning plan could help ease pressure on accident and emergency services, a researcher behind a new College of Emergency Medicine study has claimed.
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Comment
Beyond the official data: a different picture of A&E attendances
It is an opportunity to design services fit for the future
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Green light for new emergency centre in the West Midlands
FINANCE: Plans for a new emergency centre at The Royal Wolverhampton Trust were given the go ahead by the NHS Trust Development Authority last week.
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HSJ Local
West Midlands trusts in dispute over maternity payment
FINANCE: Two trusts in the West Midlands have become embroiled in a dispute over a £400,000 payment for an antenatal service that they both help provide.
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Mental health wait standards 'must happen next year', says minister
The introduction of waiting time standards for mental healthcare “must happen from next year”, the care services minister has told HSJ.
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HSJ Knowledge
Harness the domino effect to overcome organisational boundaries
Taking a systematic approach is vital as no part of the healthcare system stands in isolation
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Friends and family test 'unreliable' comparison tool, in-depth study concludes
The friends and family test has been described as an unreliable means of comparing hospital healthcare. The finding comes in a new in-depth study, released weeks before a review into the tests is to be published by NHS England.
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Exclusive: Trusts plead for extra cash to pay bills
Hospital trusts needed financial help last year to fend off legal threats from suppliers, update “obsolete” medical equipment and even keep electricity supplies flowing, according to a raft of pleas for bailouts seen by HSJ.
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Many staff have concerns about NHS organisations' leadership
Inappropriate behaviour isn’t being dealt with effectively or quickly enough, a sizeable proportion of NHS staff believe.
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Blogs
Expenses.data
Following the Daily Telegraph’s revelations this week about the “lavish” expenses being claimed by NHS England’s top table, End Game was left wondering whether its chief Simon Stevens could have been handed a better opportunity to do what all new bosses do best: to draw a line in the ...