All Health Service Journal articles in April 2019 – Page 3
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HSJ Awards
Identifying and preventing TB in the community
Newham clinical commissioning group has won the 2018 HSJ Award for community or primary care services redesign (London and the south) for the Newham latent tuberculosis infection screening and treatment programme. Alison Moore reports
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HSJ Awards
The care navigators reducing pressure on GPs
Conexus Healthcare, a GP federation in the West Wakefield area, won the 2018 HSJ Award for community or primary care services redesign (North/Midlands/East) for its national consultancy and training programme. Alison Moore reports
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HSJ Awards
The award winning campaign reducing A&E attendance
Mid-Mersey A&E Delivery Board, Widnes Vikings, Renova Developments, and Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership won the 2018 HSJ Award for primary care innovation for their awareness campaign Beat the Scrum. Claire Read reports
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News
Trio of trusts to outsource pathology services
Three trusts’ pathology services look likely to be outsourced in an STP-wide procurement process.
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News
More infection cases to be assigned to trusts
The number of cases of C difficile reported by hospitals is expected to increase after changes in how cases are measured.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Rejection for incumbent chairman
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England, with a particular focus on the devolution project in Greater Manchester. Contact me in confidence here.
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HSJ Interactive
The NHS would be unsustainable without technology
Paul Meredith on the need to ensure that technology benefits the patient experience
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News
'Dedicated' former medical director among Sri Lanka dead
A former trust medical director is among the more than 300 people killed in the Easter Sunday bomb attacks in Sri Lanka.
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Comment
How to build an effective chief executive
Stephen Hart on how the NHS Leadership Academy’s aspiring chief executive programme is helping develop the health service’s leaders
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News
Trust challenges 'perplexing' CCG boundary proposal
West Birmingham GPs are being encouraged to break away and join a new CCG, despite strong opposition from the local hospital trust, which has described the proposal as “perplexing”.
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Comment
Public health services are still part of the NHS
Matthew Winn asks why clinical public health services are being treated as poor cousins to the NHS.
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News
Pay deal row erupts between government and NHS England
A row has broken out between the government and NHS England over £50m funding for NHS staff pay.
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Expert Briefing
Sparks fly over long waits in A&E
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.
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News
Daily Insight: Agendas for change
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: Mandate: born unto trouble as the sparks fly upwards
The DHSC’s failure to publish the mandate for NHS England for 2019-20 on time is an act of avoidable disrespect, says Andy Cowper
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Comment
The Bedpan: 'You must attend the opening of every new MRI'
This week: Part two of our interview with Ben Page, chief executive of pollsters Ipsos MORI
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HSJ Local
Mental health trust chair leaves after four-and-a-half years
The chair of a leading mental health trust is to leave after four-and-a-half years in post.
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HSJ Local
Trust to share CEO with nearby struggling FT
A struggling acute trust’s leadership will be taken over on a joint basis by the chief executive of a nearby NHS provider, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
GP group rated 'outstanding' by CQC
A GP group in Yorkshire and the Humber has been rated “outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission.