All articles by Alastair McLellan – Page 3
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Comment
How should the NHS respond to the cost of living crisis?
How is the cost of living crisis impacting patients, and what can the service do to help? Alastair McLellan reviews a timely debate
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News
Hunt: Tax will need to rise to fund health and care
Jeremy Hunt believes spending on the NHS will have to rise and that the increase should be funded through higher taxation.
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Comment
The NHS is safe(ish) with Hunt
“I think the public are desperate for politicians to speak truthfully – but it isn’t always easy.”
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12-hour A&E waits soar to new record as waiting list hits 7m
Long waits in emergency departments spiralled to a new record high as the elective waiting list continued to grow, NHS England’s monthly performance data published today revealed.
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Covid positive hospital patients double in a fortnight
The number of covid positive patients in English hospitals has increased by 4,745 over the last two weeks as the fourth wave of 2022 continues to surge.
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Growth in covid hospital admissions equalling January surge
The growth in the number of hospital patients who test positive for covid is rising as steeply as during the January wave.
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Staffing shortages force NHSE to abandon safety target
NHS England has this week told trusts it is abandoning a patient safety target ‘until maternity services in England can demonstrate sufficient staffing levels’ to meet it.
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Fourth covid wave of 2022 picks up speed
The number of people admitted to hospital who test positive for covid is rising once more in every English region after two months of decline.
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Covid admissions rise sharply in the South West
The number of covid positive patients admitted to hospitals in the South and East of England has stopped falling and, in some areas, is rising steeply.
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News
Doctors declare ‘lack of confidence’ in trust board
The medical body at Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust has written to the trust’s chair saying that it is unable to provide safe care and expressing a lack of confidence in the board.
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News
‘Command and control’ leadership still ‘has a place’, say top trust CEOs
A command and control leadership style still has its place in an NHS focused on working as a system, the service’s leading provider chief executives have declared.
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Pritchard’s NHSE different in ‘tone, intent and accessibility’, say top CEOs
NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard has been praised for transforming the organisation’s relationship with local leaders by the NHS’s most highly regarded chief executives.
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NHS England ‘hasn’t got long’ to develop ‘operating model’ for system working
NHS England and local leaders must urgently develop a coherent ‘operating model’ for the era of integrated care systems or see the reforms fail, leading trust chief executives have told HSJ.
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‘We are presiding over a failing NHS,’ say leading trust CEOs
A lack of accountability is causing the quality of NHS services to crumble, according to some of the most respected trust chief executives.
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Government U-turns on pay for top managers
Very senior NHS managers will receive a 3 per cent pay increase after the government accepted the recommendations of the senior salaries review board, which found “well-founded concerns about possible loss of leadership capacity”.
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Updated: NHSE confirms £2bn extra pay bill will dent investment
Investment in diagnostics and new technology will be hit by the government’s decision to increase NHS pay above the 3 per cent budgeted for 2022-23, NHS England has said.
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Third covid wave of 2022 peaks after 40 days
The number of hospital patients who are admitted with covid or diagnosed with it in hospital is falling for the first time since early June.
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Leader
The NHS is not living with covid, it’s dying from it
Some of the covid control measures taken in the past two years need to return, argue Dr Kamran Abbasi, editor of the British Medical Journal, and HSJ editor Alastair McLellan.
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Rehab services ‘very bizarre’ in some places, says NHSE director
NHS England’s director of community health has said a new strategy for rehabilitation care is needed, because present coverage is sometimes ‘bizarre’, with other services ‘masquerading’ as rehab.