All Community services articles – Page 12
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CommentCommunities – not hospitals – are key to a thriving NHS
We need to make community-powered prevention a valued part of the system, writes Prof Donna Hall
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: Javid’s workforce strategy is hiding in plain sight
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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HSJ LocalAcute trust hires 'outstanding' mental health CEO
The leader of one of England’s top community and mental health trusts has been appointed chief executive of a major acute provider.
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HSJ LocalStaff will quit if not given ‘time to recover’, says NHSE director
An NHS England director and trust chief says he ‘fears [the NHS] will see increasing numbers of resignations’ unless more is done to ensure burnt-out staff are given sufficient leave to recover mentally and physically.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: The legal headaches of mandatory vaccination
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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NewsRegion’s hospitals expect covid pressure to rise for another two weeks
Another two weeks of rising covid admissions have been forecast for one of the country’s hardest-hit regions for hospital cases, with senior sources telling HSJ they expect staff absences ‘to get worse before they get better’ and culminate in an end-of-January peak.
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News‘Low priority’ community cases to be deferred as staff redeployed
NHS England has told local systems to defer ‘low priority’ cases across 11 community services, because of the pressures created by the omicron wave.
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NewsCommunity staff diverted to inpatient care as absences bite
Mental health chiefs are ‘juggling’ staff supervision and spiralling patient backlogs as more trusts start redeploying their workforce amid soaring absence rates caused by covid-19.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: The Great Isolation
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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CommentNHS London’s plans for virtual wards create unnecessary risk
NHS London’s plan for dealing with the omicron wave needs to take a more multidisciplinary approach and be more evidence-based if it is to not build unwarranted variation into services, write Elaine Maxwell and Alison Leary
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Expert BriefingA very pressured ‘calm before the storm’ in London
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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CommentNHS charities can help the service tackle the huge challenges ahead
Ellie Orton, chief executive at NHS Charities Together, urges trusts to engage with their local NHS charities to not only help tackle the huge pressures facing the NHS but also open up opportunities through investments in great ideas and innovations
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: ‘It feels explosive’
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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CommentPutting neighbourhoods at the heart of integrated care
Leaning into neighbourhood working offers a threefold benefit: reducing demand on the health and care system, developing community resilience and enabling retention through delivering new models of care. By Toby Lewis
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NewsVirgin Care taken over by private equity firm
Virgin Care has been taken over by a private equity group after 10 years of providing NHS services.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Omicron in the capital
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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CommentHow digital technology is benefiting community health services
Community providers’ flexible, community-based model of service provision is well-suited to testing small-scale innovations in digital. By Andrew Ridley
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HSJ PartnersCDCs alone won’t ease the elective care backlog
Discover how an end-to-end patient pathway, smarter staff resourcing and patient-centric clouds can help community diagnostic centres get results
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2021: Primary Care Networks, GP or Community Provider of the Year
WINNER: Care Plus Group: Open Door Support for Underserved Communities in North East Lincolnshire
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Five go chief exec-ing
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.