All Health Service Journal articles in August 2021 – Page 2
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NewsDaily Insight: Discrimination by another name
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Summer, salaries, systems and shielding
This week’s NHS Health Check podcast is dedicated to all matters staffing: The Agenda for Change pay deal, how much integrated care system chiefs should get paid, and shielding staff not getting risk assessments.
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NewsLeap in mental health absences among NHS staff
The number of NHS staff absent from work because of their mental health has leapt in the past few months in the wake of the huge winter wave of covid pressure, according to data shared with HSJ.
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CommentThe Blithering Chronicles: Aligned for success – your ICS questions answered
Julian Patterson reports on NHS Blithering, the country’s most challenged health economy
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CommentScrapping discharge fund will give the NHS a dangerous capacity squeeze
Failure to extend the £600m April to September “discharge to assess” funding will bring huge risk for the NHS, social care and patients, write Chris Hopson and Matthew Taylor.
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NewsCQC found emergency caesarean taking place without basic safety measures
Inspectors have raised concerns about ‘safety culture’ in a maternity unit, including that an emergency caesarean was taking place without the mother’s heart being monitored.
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NewsTrust boards take next step to merge despite governors’ objections
Two foundation trusts in the South East have taken the next steps towards a merger.
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NewsThe Primer: The gloomiest optimism
The Primer provides a rapid guide to the most interesting comment and analysis on the English health and care sector that has not (usually) appeared in HSJ.
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NewsBlood tests rationed amid equipment shortage
Trusts are taking steps to limit blood tests amid a national shortage of blood collection tubes, as the NHS puts out a call to pathology labs for emergency supplies.
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NewsExclusive: Dido Harding steps down from remaining NHS role
Baroness Dido Harding will step down from her remaining NHS role in October, she has informed the government.
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NewsDaily Insight: Without further Dido
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: The priorities for NHS data chiefs explained
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by senior correspondent Nick Carding.
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CommentPritchard cannot sign up to an inadequate financial deal for the NHS
An open letter from CIPFA CEO, Rob Whiteman, following Amanda Pritchard’s recent appointment as the new CEO of NHS England
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HSJ LocalFormer CCG chief named new ICS lead
A former clinical commissioning group chief has been named interim leader of a North West integrated care system.
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NewsNHSE steps up action on blood test tube shortage
Non-essential blood tests should be stopped and trusts and GPs should prioritise genomic tests over others, NHS England has said, as the health service continues to confront global blood collection tube shortages.
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NewsDaily Insight: When your back-up gets booked up
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsExclusive: Hospital rebuild more than two years behind schedule
One of England’s biggest hospital redevelopment schemes is more than two years behind schedule.
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NewsNHSE: Ambulance, community and private organisations ‘should join provider groups’
New NHS England guidance has said ambulance, community and private providers ‘should’ join new collaboratives, rather than only acute and mental health trusts.
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NewsSustained rise in long-stay patients stuck in hospital, leaked figures reveal
The number of hospital bed days occupied by people who are medically ready to be discharged has been growing steadily since the spring and is now higher than in the winter, according to data seen by HSJ.