All articles by Annabelle Collins
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The making of a Health Bill – part 1
The first in an occasional series of HSJ Health Check podcasts tracking the development of the government’s planned Health Bill, which is due to bring about the biggest change in the central running of the NHS for more than a decade.
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NewsRevealed: Trusts spending millions on B&B rooms
Mental health trusts spent £2m on “bed and breakfast” accommodation in order to discharge patients last year, highlighting big gaps in appropriate housing, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsMental health sidelined in key waiting list policy
GPs should be incentivised to get advice and guidance from specialist mental health teams to help “drive down waiting lists”, the new director of the NHS Confederation’s mental health network has said.
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NewsMental health A&E programme ‘not far away’
A wave of “mental health A&Es” could be built alongside or close to existing emergency departments, HSJ has learnt.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: What to do about the NHS’s capital drought
HSJ revealed last week at least £150m has been wasted planning for “new hospitals” that might never materialise.
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NewsChris Hopson to leave NHSE
NHS England has confirmed Chris Hopson, its chief strategy officer, will leave at the end of June.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The future of ICBs and NHSE
This week the team look at the continuing fallout from the ICB cuts and pending abolition of NHS England, following the first interview with new boss Sir Jim Mackey.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The never-ending care scandal
After another damning coroner’s report following the preventable death of a baby at a Lancashire hospital, we take a closer look at why the NHS is beset with so many maternity scandals.
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NewsExclusive: Government admits cutting mental health spend share
The proportion of the NHS budget spent on mental health services is being cut for the first time in several years, the government will admit to Parliament, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHSE ‘ignoring trusts’ pleas for fair funding’
Mental health and community trust bosses have warned they could be forced to cut services because they may lose out under the formula used to distribute pay rise funding.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The week that changed everything
As the dust begins to settle, we unpick one of the busiest weeks ever for NHS news.
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NewsPatients routinely smoking in hospitals, despite ban
Mental health patients are routinely smoking on trust premises, and do not have enough support to stop, despite the threat of tightening rules.
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NewsExclusive: Pritchard takes top trust CEO role
Amanda Pritchard is to set to return as chief executive of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust.
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HSJ LocalTwo more directors exit trust where ‘poor behaviour was tolerated’
Two non-executive directors have left the board of a mental health trust just a few months after the early departure of its chair.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The ups and downs of the NHS Staff Survey
This week we take a closer look at the trends in this year’s NHS Staff Survey, published yesterday.
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NewsPoor support ‘driving rise in deaths after discharge’
The rate of patients dying by suicide shortly after discharge from mental health units has increased in recent years, with researchers calling for better post-discharge support.
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NewsHospital trusts name first joint chair
The chair of an acute trust in the Midlands is to leave after seven years in the role to take up a joint chair position in the North West.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The big patient choice row
This week, we discuss why private providers are threatening to refuse to treat NHS patients, and why hospital bosses are equally vexed.
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NewsExclusive: Fall in A&Es with proper crisis support
The share of acute hospitals which have proper mental health crisis support has fallen to less than two-thirds, according to new findings for NHS England, seen by HSJ.
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NewsPayment plan could make accessing care ‘as hard as getting an Oasis ticket’
Patients’ right to choose the provider of mental health services where waits can stretch into years could soon become an “illusion”, companies and patient groups have warned.