All Amanda Pritchard articles – Page 6
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News
Exclusive: NHS’s struggles to increase private sector activity revealed
The NHS sent less elective work to private sector providers in almost all specialties during the first six months of 2021-22 than it did in the comparable period before the pandemic, an HSJ analysis can reveal.
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Comment
Political complacency is a major risk for NHS ‘recovery and reform’
The new political leaders in healthcare need to articulate a clear and ambitious vision, or will undermine efforts to “build back better”. Here’s how, by Chris Thomas
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News
Pritchard: NHSE culture should ‘exemplify’ leadership behaviours needed across NHS
Leadership at the centre of the NHS should ‘echo and exemplify’ behaviours needed throughout the service, according to NHS England’s chief executive.
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Comment
How to make sure good analysts really can 'save more lives than a good anaesthetist'
When I think of ‘good analysts’ I picture someone striving to ‘improve decision quality’ for system leaders. Such good analysts really can save lives, writes Andi Orlowski
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Comment
The future of cancer screening
Taking a glimpse into the possible future of cancer screening, diagnosis and treatment in the UK and globally, by Sir Harpal Kumar
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: Pritchard and Javid’s key messages to trusts ahead of ‘toughest winter’
This week we discuss Amanda Pritchard and Sajid Javid’s key messages to local NHS chiefs at this week’s NHS Providers conference.
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Leader
‘I have heard you’ on service pressures, Pritchard tells NHS leaders
NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard today told NHS leaders that she has ‘heard’ the concerns they have raised about the intense pressure on services, and claimed it was ‘unfair’ for staff to continue working so hard.
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News
Messenger review could ‘set NHS leaders up to fail’, Javid warned
A government-commissioned review of NHS management could turn into a ‘blame game’ with leaders ‘set up to fail [against] unrealistic expectations’, NHS Providers chief Chris Hopson has warned.
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Comment
Deceased NHS staff called on to do their part
The government is planning to bring the dead out of retirement in an audacious bid to solve the workforce crisis, writes Julian Patterson
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Comment
Pritchard: honesty and ambition will mark my tenure as CEO
NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard on the ‘honesty and ambition’ she hopes will define her tenure, and why she is concerned about how stretched services are even before winter begins.
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HSJ Local
NHSE regional boss to step down
NHS England and Improvement East of England regional director Ann Radmore is stepping down and plans to retire, it was announced today.
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News
Single rooms should be ‘default’ in hospitals, says Powis
Single rooms should be the ‘default’ for inpatients in English hospitals as they would improve infection control and patient flow, NHS England and Improvement’s national medical director has said.
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News
GPs who see less than 20pc of patients face-to-face barred from winter funding
GP practices recording less than 20 per cent of face-to-face GP appointments have been told this is “contrary to good clinical practice” and they will be barred from accessing a £250m winter fund.
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News
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.
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News
Trusts must ‘stabilise’ waiting lists and eliminate two-year waiters by March
Trusts have been told to hold the line on elective performance, keeping year-plus waiters at current levels, and eliminate two-year waiters by the end of March.
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Comment
Julian Patterson: The Lego NHS reconstruction set
Lego and the Department of Health and Social Care promise to help us rediscover the joys of bricking it at scale says Julian Patterson
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News
NHS England seeks ‘strong’ COO who can ‘suspend ego’
NHS England is advertising for a “strong” permanent chief operating officer who “suspends ego”, following Amanda Pritchard’s promotion to CEO earlier this year.
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News
Hospital trust makes chief permanent after two years
England’s most high-profile hospital trust has appointed its interim chief executive on a permanent basis after two years.
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News
Candidate for NHS CEO job joins ex-NHS director’s company
A former candidate to be NHS England’s next chief executive has joined a tech firm run by an ex-NHS England director.
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Comment
Blithering Chronicles exclusive: Amanda Pritchard on her first week
A month ago, Amanda Pritchard succeeded Simon Stevens as chief executive of NHS England. Julian Patterson takes a satirical peek at her first week in post.