All articles by Alastair McLellan – Page 6
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NHS told to raise its game on IPC or face omicron-driven surge in hospital infections
The NHS must apply covid infection prevention and control measures more robustly if it is to avoid a steep rise in infections within healthcare settings, a senior doctor at NHS England has said.
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Omicron helps drive London covid admissions to 10-month high
Admissions of covid positive patients to hospitals in London have risen by 30 per cent.
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Trust confirms new CEO after six-month wait
Ify Okocha has been appointed chief executive of Oxleas Foundation Trust, after six months as an interim.
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Updated: Javid says non-urgent elective operations will have to be postponed until 2022
The Prime Minister has admitted the NHS drive to provide booster vaccinations to as many people as possible by the end of the month will cause widespread disruption in the service before Christmas.
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Major trust’s CEO appointed DHSC director
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust chief executive Julian Hartley has been appointed a non-executive director at the Department of Health and Social Care.
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Covid admissions increase ahead of potential Omicron wave
The number of covid positive patients being admitted to hospitals in London and the South East has risen noticeably, while the decline in the rest of the country is slowing.
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What the rejection of ICS jobs by acute chiefs tells us
Cast your minds back five years. Sustainability and Transformation Plans are a relatively new thing and NHS England has announced the leaders for the new powers in the land.
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Covid admissions fall 40pc in the North
The number of covid positive patients admitted to hospitals in the North of England has seen a significant fall in the last month, in stark contrast to the South East of the country where admissions have remained more or less the same.
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NHSE set to create new ‘transformation factory’ to redesign services
NHS England must build a ‘transformation factory’ to revolutionise ‘how it supports innovation in the delivery of care’, according to a new review of NHS tech leadership.
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Messenger: ‘excellent leadership’ evident in ‘many parts’ of NHS
The Messenger review of NHS leadership, announced by the health secretary in October, will examine the ‘pay and incentives’ offered to the service’s most senior figures.
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The NHS’s ‘greatest generation’
The Americans have a name for those who were born between 1901 and 1927. Those who endured the great depression, fought the Second World War and then forged the economic miracle that enshrined the USA as the world’s leading power.
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Exclusive: Health Education England to be merged into NHSE
Health Education England is to be incorporated into NHS England by April 2023, HSJ has learned.
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Covid admissions start to decline after month-long rise
Admissions of covid positive patients to English hospitals have started to decline for the first time in a month.
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‘This is far worse than January – the vaccine hasn’t saved us this time’
“We should all be rated inadequate.” The call HSJ received on Sunday lunchtime from one of the most respected chief executives in the NHS carried an air of desperation.
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Increase in covid admissions hits three-month high
Admissions of covid positive patients to hospital rose by 20 per cent over the last week, the highest rate of increase since late July.
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Two regions see covid admissions increase by a quarter in one week
The South West and East of England regions have seen a sharp rise in covid admissions, with the former now outstripping the much larger London region.
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NHS leaders hold ministers’ fate in their hands
When push comes to shove, this delivery-focused government knows that NHS leaders and the wider managership cohort are essential to driving down waiting lists (and building ‘new hospitals’).
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Revealed: Healthcare’s most influential minority ethnic leaders
The vital contribution of effective and admirable leaders from minority ethnic backgrounds to the UK’s health and care services is slowly gaining more and more visibility, writes Alastair McLellan
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NHS records five-fold increase in covid admissions during summer months
The NHS in England saw five times more covid positive patients admitted to hospital in the second quarter of the 2021-22 financial year than in the first, analysis of official data by HSJ shows.
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Government launches biggest review of NHS leadership since 1980s
The government is launching what it claims is the ‘most far-reaching review’ of NHS leadership since the seminal Griffiths report of the early 1980s.