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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Primary care should 'direct' community health teams - official review
2019-01-15T06:34:00
Community health teams have not integrated with GP services and should in future be “based in” and “under the clinical and service direction” of primary care networks, the author of a government review of general practice has said.
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Chief Executive Interview: Alwen Williams, Barts Health Trust
2019-01-11T15:42:00
This is the latest in a series of interviews with provider chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Membership subscribers. Each month in 2018 a member of the HSJ expert team will conduct a challenging, candid and in-depth interview with a provider trust boss.
Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Seven things you might have missed in the long-term plan
2019-01-10T10:25:00
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Five NHS Improvement directors step down
2018-12-11T12:05:00
NHS Improvement has announced that five of its directors are stepping down, as the organisation combines its management with NHS England.
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Seven regional directors named by NHSE and Improvement
2018-12-11T07:40:00
The joint directors of the new NHS England and Improvement regional teams have been confirmed by the system managers. They include three former hospital chief executives and an ex-Department of Health director general.
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Exclusive: Regulator may get powers to force FTs to merge
2018-12-07T05:00:00
National officials are set to seek strengthened legal powers to force NHS providers to merge, HSJ has learned.
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Former NHS England and hospital boss to lead integration firm
2018-11-30T11:26:00
A former hospital boss and NHS England director has been appointed the chief executive of the UK arm of international insurance firm Centene.
Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Landing the long term plan
2018-11-28T13:45:00
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Long term plan to 'guarantee' primary and community funding share - PM
2018-11-21T22:30:00
The NHS long term plan will guarantee primary medical and community healthcare services “a growing share of overall NHS spending” over the next five years, the prime minister has announced.
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Exclusive: Public want new NHS money to go on cancer and staff, not digital
2018-11-20T06:18:00
The public’s highest priorities for new NHS funding are cancer care and staffing, while their lowest are digital access and better services for vulnerable groups.
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Matt Hancock tells chief execs: Get a CIO on your board
2018-11-15T05:51:00
The health secretary has said NHS chief executives should “be asking serious questions” of themselves if their board does not include a chief information officer.
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Health secretary identifies ‘big three’ workforce shortage areas
2018-11-14T09:26:00
Nurses, GPs and mental health staff are “the big three” areas where the health and social care secretary is most concerned about staff shortages, he told HSJ.
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”.
Expert Briefing
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.
Expert Briefing
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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