All Health Service Journal articles in April 2024
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Security failures unlocked
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Rethinking targets, belittling staff and quizzing leaders
Your essential update on health for the week.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: ‘They are professionals. We need to trust them.’
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: The view from the top
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsNational programme seeks new ‘GP operating model’
Seven integrated care boards are to test new “operating models” for GP provision under a wide-ranging programme backed by NHS England, they announced today.
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CommentThe data speaks for itself: our virtual wards go from strength to strength
The transformative potential of Hospital at Home services is driving dynamic change in healthcare delivery, enhancing patient outcomes, and easing pressure on traditional hospital systems, writes Elliot Howard-Jones
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NewsICBs challenged over ‘untenable’ GP workload
Integrated care boards must do more to tackle the operational failings that saddle GPs with “untenable workloads”, a group of local medical committees have warned.
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HSJ Interactive
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NewsRadical rule changes would boost NHS recovery, say chiefs
The vast majority of ICB chiefs believe “drastically reducing data sharing restrictions” would help them achieve their aims, according to HSJ’s survey.
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NewsRevealed: ICBs plan pay bill squeeze and provider consolidation
Strict pay bill controls and more provider consolidation are key to recovery plans in most integrated care systems, according to an HSJ survey of NHS leaders.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Newish Hospitals Programme
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentThe three reasons why the push to increase the role of pharmacies is being undermined
William Pett, head of policy, public affairs and research at Healthwatch England says the public welcomes the launch of Pharmacy First. This positive news sends a clear message to healthcare leaders on addressing access barriers.
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NewsEx-DH boss takes NHS and data firm jobs
A former candidate to be NHS England’s chief executive has been appointed to chair a health innovation network, as well as to a board role at a data and AI company.
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NewsStaff ‘belittled’ for contacting senior doctors, NHSE finds
The safety of a teaching hospital’s out-of-hours supervision has been questioned, including reports that trainees were told not to ask for help “unless your patient is dying”.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Ferris wheel
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Ferris returns
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by senior correspondent Nicholas Carding. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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NewsSafety to get more priority over cost in NHS buying decisions
Draft proposals would mean NHS procurements would give more emphasis to a product’s system value than its price This would reverse established practice that is seen to put price above all other consideraitons, even when this does not produce the best value for a system The draft methodology also ...
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NewsNHSE brings back Tim Ferris to advise on spending
A former national NHS transformation director has been hired by NHS England to advise on how billions of pounds of promised technology funding should be spent, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ PartnersBuilding strong and robust NHS partnerships
Providing NHS trusts across the UK with reliable and proven specialist pharmacy services, LloydsPharmacy Healthcare Services Limited looks to the future and the ever-changing needs on the NHS
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NewsTrusts with ‘distressing’ mixed-sex ward breaches blame poor estates
The trusts with the worst breach rates of mixed-sex ward rules in hospitals are revealed today by HSJ analysis after national levels hit a record high in 2023-24.