All articles by Dave West
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Healthwatch has been half saved
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 correspondent Henry Anderson.
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News17 trusts lose segment 1 status under new league table rules
Ten fewer trusts are in the top segment of NHS England’s oversight framework, in the first results under revised rules that have raised the bar for the highest rating.
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NewsMinisters to unpick Healthwatch abolition
Ministers have indicated they will amend the Health Bill in the Lords to preserve an independent local voice for patients and care users.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: NHS England’s endgame
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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NewsNHSE staff could be kept out of DHSC
Ministers and officials are considering whether to keep some NHS England functions and staff separate from the Department of Health and Social Care when the organisation is abolished next year, HSJ has learned.
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NewsLeading joint health and care deal falls foul of financial pressures
NHS financial pressures and reforms have brought about the end of one of the largest local joint health and social care funding arrangements.
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NewsEnd of life care waits help push delayed discharges to record levels
Hospital discharge delays hit their highest level on record in July.
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NewsPioneer CEO: ‘IHOs won’t fix all ills’
The CEO of a leading trust that is set to begin a “phased” launch of an integrated health organisation has warned the model should not be expected to “fix the ills of everything”.
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NewsIn-house EPRs can avoid ‘phenomenal’ costs, says top CEO
A leading hospital chief executive has championed in-house NHS technology that costs “a fraction” of major commercial systems – and said she does not use the federated data platform.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: How Burnham could meld NHS and care funding
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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NewsBurnham wants NHS savings to help pay for social care
Ministers will look at how much can be saved from NHS budgets by improving adult social care before increasing taxes to fund the reforms, Andy Burnham has said.
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NewsHospital group pioneer to chair four trusts
A former acute chief who steered a major London trust out of quality special measures has been named chair of the four trusts that make up England’s biggest hospital group.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The DHSC needs an offer on devo
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 and correspondent Mimi Launder.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Looking inward – just in time for Burnham
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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NewsWe have ‘minimised’ Health Bill power grab, says minister
The government has sought to “minimise” the new powers given to the health and social care secretary in its Health Bill, according to the minister leading it through Parliament.
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NewsTrusts ‘should recruit more managers locally’
NHS organisations should recruit more managers and leaders from local communities rather than conventional entry routes, health minister Karin Smyth told HSJ.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: How place got lost
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 and correspondent Caitlin Tilley.
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NewsTake more risks with new technology urges health secretary
The new health secretary has promised to “back” NHS leaders who take risks by increasing the use of new technology, in his first major speech in the role
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Are PCNs finished?
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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NewsRetail exec to lead NHS digital trust
A senior retail sector executive has been appointed the first chair of NHS Online, the digital-only trust which was formally launched today.