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HSJ InteractiveMaking the most of community services
Raj Jain, who is chief executive of Northern Care Alliance (Salford Royal Foundation Trust and Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust), discussed the interconnectedness between the community and acute services his organisation provides – and how the pandemic has further influenced this. Joining him in offering insight on how the NHS can ...
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CommentHSIB should investigate staff well-being as well as patient safety
The NHS has been plagued by failures to learn lessons relating to patient safety and also by neglect of issues related to staff wellbeing. We offer two proposals to address this issue – that the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch broadens its remit to investigate adverse events relating to staff wellbeing, ...
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CommentLetter from Scotland: Honesty on NHS responsibility for care home deaths
In his regular dispatch from north of the border Henry Anderson discusses Scotland’s care home deaths during the coronavirus pandemic
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Exit Sir Simon Stevens
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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NewsExclusive: Government to suspend NHS recruitment from India amid covid crisis
The UK government is set to suspend NHS recruitment from India in light of the devastating covid wave currently hitting the country, HSJ has learned.
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NewsStretched GP practice writes scathing open letter to patients
A large GP practice has written a scathing open letter to patients, citing growing pressures and criticising them for ‘ignoring’ medical advice, contacting GPs for ‘minor symptoms’ and ‘avoiding’ looking after themselves.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: Is a mandatory covid jab for staff inevitable?
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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NewsNHS staff from India in ‘desperate’ situation as covid wave restricts travel
Many Indian healthcare professionals who either work in the NHS or have plans to do so have been left in a desperate situation by the devastating covid wave sweeping the country.
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NewsThree hospitals placed in special measures following infection control concerns
Three private mental health hospitals have been placed in special measures after the Care Quality Commission found concerns over infection control.
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NewsGovernment paid £38m for covid diagnostics contract that was never signed
The government has paid out nearly £38.5m to a covid diagnostics supplier despite never signing a full contract with the firm.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Analysing the elective challenge at ICS level
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress.
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NewsCIA hunt for Bin Laden and pharma experimentation has fed distrust of govt vaccine policy among NHS staff
An ambulance trust has cited ‘mistrust’ of government and national healthcare policy as one of the factors driving lower vaccine uptake among its ethnic minority staff, linking concerns to historic international controversies around vaccination programmes.
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HSJ Local‘Covid triangle’ A&E service rated ‘inadequate’ after infection control concerns
Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust’s urgent and emergency care services have been downgraded from ‘requires improvement’ to ‘inadequate’.
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NewsGovernment drops plans for 24/7 covid vaccination service
Ministers have dropped plans to launch a 24-hour coronavirus vaccination service after two hospital trusts piloted the scheme earlier this year.
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HSJ InteractiveHow can greater use of IT help the NHS meet the challenges ahead?
With a huge backlog of elective work to tackle, a panel of experts explored the role of digital in not only dealing with delayed care, but in transforming the patient journey. Alison Moore reports
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NewsTrust ‘reviewing hundreds of patients’ after failings discovered
The suicide of a woman with severe mental illness has prompted a review into the care of hundreds of other patients, according to her family.
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NewsNHS staff ‘tremendously anxious’ over data sharing, says new national leader
Data sharing principles established during the covid-19 pandemic should be retained for the future, the new national data guardian has told HSJ.
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HSJ PartnersSupporting your Trust to implement Covid-19 recovery
Jonathan Wedgbury says collaboration with a private sector partner could help trusts deliver the speed of execution required and return to pre-pandemic activity levels
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Exclusive: DHSC reveals procurement shake-up in wake of covid
The Department of Health and Social Care is standing up a new medical technologies directorate, after covid exposed vulnerabilities in government and distribution, as well as global supply chains.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The Sieve Administration
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.