Dave West

Dave is HSJ’s Deputy Editor, leading our team of journalists who cover commissioning, care quality, integration and primary care. His own work focusses on NHS England, clinical commissioning groups, and primary care reform. He also writes about the North East and Cumbria areas. Dave has been at HSJ since 2008. In 2013 won the Medical Journalists' Association professional journalist of the year award and in 2014 was named one of the top 10 journalists on Twitter by the Press Gazette. He has been nominated for awards for HSJ’s interactive clinical commissioning group map. His past work has covered acute care, quality indicators, and informatics.

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Email:: dave.west@wilmingtonhealthcare.com

Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Lost in transition
2018-11-01T11:00:00
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior bureau chief Dave West.
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HEE to become 'accountable to NHS Improvement'
2018-10-23T09:32:00
Health Education England will be made “accountable” to NHS Improvement, chief executives have been told, as a number of measures are announced to create ”a more coherent approach to workforce development”.
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The Integrator: What the long term NHS plan will - and won't - do for integration
2018-10-08T06:00:00
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping policy, providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NHS England national director leaving to join Google AI firm
2018-09-21T11:21:00
NHS England’s national director of transforming health systems will leave to join Google Deepmind Health in the new year.
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The Integrator: Target inequalities, invest in general practice
2018-09-20T13:30:00
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping policy, providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Regulators advertise 12 jobs in top team following delays
2018-09-19T11:16:00
NHS England and NHS Improvement are now advertising a dozen jobs in their new joint “executive group”, following delays to the process.
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New chair of NHS England revealed
2018-09-05T11:58:00
The Department of Health and Social Care has announced its proposed new chair of NHS England.
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Ministers to ask drug companies to stockpile six weeks of medication
2018-08-07T10:58:00
Drug companies are due to be asked to stockpile up to six weeks of medications ahead of a potential no deal Brexit, HSJ understands.
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Stevens: Day case operations must be ‘ramped up’ urgently
2018-07-18T13:51:00
Hospitals must urgently increase the number of day case procedures being carried out to help stem the growing waiting list, Simon Stevens has said.
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Exclusive: Stevens sets out 10 year plan priorities
2018-07-18T06:10:00
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has identified five major priorities for the 10 year NHS plan due to be unveiled this autumn.
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Social care and safety ‘vital’ for new health secretary - Stevens
2018-07-18T06:07:00
Securing a social care funding deal and patient safety should be priorities for the new health secretary, Simon Stevens indicated in an interview with HSJ.
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Stevens promises ‘wholesale shift’ in funding rules
2018-07-18T06:07:00
The next three years will bring a “wholesale shift” in NHS funding rules, including the end of “sustainability funds”, the NHS England chief executive said.
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New health secretary named as Hunt goes to foreign office
2018-07-09T20:22:00
Jeremy Hunt has been named as foreign secretary, the government has announced, with Matt Hancock named as his replacement.
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Community trust director to lead acute hospital
2018-07-09T14:46:00
The chief operating officer of a community trust has taken up her first chief executive post at a small district general hospital.
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'NHS Assembly' will not get input to long term plan
2018-07-09T10:21:00
The launch of an “NHS Assembly” has been moved back to November, meaning it will not contribute to the contents of the NHS long term plan.
Expert Briefing
The Integrator: GP contract reform - it's back
2018-07-04T10:28:00
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior bureau chief Dave West.
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'Biggest reform of GP contract since 2004' planned by NHS England
2018-07-04T09:52:00
NHS England is planning to make next year what may be “the most substantial changes to the GP contract since 2004”.
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National move to stop 100,000 'unnecessary or risky' ops a year
2018-06-30T01:04:00
NHS England will consult on the first national move to strictly limit access to a list of 17 interventions on the NHS, it has announced.
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Long-term plan to ‘spread new care model vanguards’
2018-06-29T15:44:00
NHS England’s chief executive says the organisation “will sustain and spread the vanguard new care models” through the long-term plan for the NHS.
Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Repudiation, legislation and the long term NHS plan
2018-06-22T07:00:00
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior bureau chief Dave West.

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