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Daily InsightDaily Insight: That shrinking feeling
The must-read stories and debates in health policy and leadership.
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NewsA&Es to open dedicated areas for ‘extended stay’ patients
“Extended emergency medicine” areas will be opened in hospitals for A&E patients whose care can’t be turned around within the four-hour target, according to new national guidance.
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NewsICB chief apologises for restructure ‘mistakes’
An integrated care board chief has apologised for “mistakes” made in the organisation’s redundancy process.
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NewsNHS sheds thousands of managers and support staff
The expansion of large parts of the NHS’s non-clinical workforce has started to reverse for the first time in years, figures show.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: The NHS must abandon its excuse for failing to meet demand
The belief that an ageing, sicker population is driving the NHS crisis refuses to die – but new analysis shows it is a distraction from the real causes of rising activity
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NewsNHSE to revive 2000s-style improvement collaboratives
NHS England plans to revive compulsory “structured improvement collaboratives” for outpatients, urgent and emergency care, and frailty services – in an echo of the Modernisation Agency approach of the 2000s.
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NewsMike Richards to leave CQC
The chair of the Care Quality Commission is stepping down, just as the struggling regulator seeks a new chief executive.
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CommentBlaming individuals for care failures is sometimes the right response
The Great Ormond Street scandal exposes a growing imbalance in NHS patient safety policy. In moving away from blame, the system has also lost sight of individual competence, leadership responsibility, and the non-negotiables needed to prevent serious harm
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HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Deficits deepen, leaders depart and plan disappoints
Your essential update on health for the week
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Jeremy Hunt’s sobering realisation about bureaucracy and box ticking
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt