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News‘Smoking ruin’ DHSC could not lead vaccine procurement says Dominic Cummings
Downing Street took covid vaccine procurement out of the ‘smoking ruin’ of the Department of Health and Social Care in the early stages of the pandemic, according to Dominic Cummings the former chief advisor to the Prime Minister.
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CommentReconsidering the approach to regulating NHS services
Learning from the experience of the covid-19 pandemic offers an opportunity to strengthen a new and constructive dialogue between providers and the bodies that regulate them. By Leanora Vlope
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CommentThe NHS is sleepwalking into a cardiovascular catastrophe
Cardiovascular disease has received a concerning disregard during the pandemic, which will mean a looming avalanche of strokes and heart attacks over the coming months and years, warns Jules Payne
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NewsCovid patients now fill fewer than 10pc of general hospital beds in every system
All of England’s health systems now have fewer than 10 per cent of general hospital beds occupied by covid-positive patients, and half are at 5 per cent or below, according to HSJ analysis.
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CommentThe NHS has not ‘sealed the deal’ with the public on increased use of technology
New research findings suggest policymakers will need to engage with the public and staff to give grounds for future changes and help build confidence about technology-enabled care, notes Tim Horton
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CommentThe pandemic has given us a playbook for doing things differently
The past exhausting year has shown us the crucial importance of equipping doctors with the leadership skills they need to deliver first-class care, says Dame Clare Marx
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NewsTest and Trace cuts 8,000 posts
The government’s Test and Trace service is cutting around 8,000 workers as covid cases continue to decline from the January peak, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ PartnersDigital service helps link health and social care as response to the pandemic
The Dorset Intelligence and Insight Service (DiiS) works by bringing together millions of data records made widely accessible via interactive digital dashboards.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The Government’s fetish for throwing money at Test And Trace
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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NewsStaff who decline covid vaccine could be redeployed, says NHS England
NHS England has advised trusts to consider redeploying staff who decline the coronavirus vaccine — an approach criticised as a ‘threat’ and ‘sledgehammer approach’ by one union.
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NewsNHSE hard line fails to speed up staff vaccine uptake
There has been only a slight increase in covid-19 vaccination uptake among ‘frontline’ NHS workers, despite NHS England’s hard line, the latest data shows.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Stressed out but feeling positive - what covid did to NHS staff
This week has seen the publication of not one but two huge sets of data: the biggest workforce survey in the world and the latest NHS performance stats – and we’ve crunched them both.
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CommentEngland just weeks away from a national 52 week waiting times breach
And then we won’t know how long waiting times really are. By Rob Findlay
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NewsRevealed: which acute trusts performed best and worst in 2020 staff survey
HSJ analysis has revealed which acute trusts have returned the strongest and weakest performance in the annual NHS staff survey — and which have seen the greatest change.
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NewsHalf of staff who cared for covid patients suffered stress-related illness, national survey reveals
Significantly more NHS staff reported feeling unwell as a result of work-related stress in 2020 — a shift very likely due to covid-19, and more marked among those whose work had been heavily shaped by the pandemic.
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HSJ PartnersData has to be at the heart of the recovery and the reorganisation
ICSs will be shaped by analysis of comprehensive data on the populations they serve, writes Brian Waters
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NewsNHS leaders call for national rollout of drive-through vaccination centres
Drive-through vaccination centres should be set up across the country — particularly in rural areas — local leaders have said, following a ‘successful’ pilot.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: What I’d want to know if I was an MP
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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HSJ InteractiveHow to restore cancer services post covid
An HSJ webinar, sponsored by Pfizer, examined the impact of the pandemic on cancer services. Alison Moore reports
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NewsDHSC acts over low staff take-up of covid life assurance
The Department of Health and Social Care is writing to NHS organisations where staff have died from covid in a bid to increase uptake of its life assurance scheme.