All Health Service Journal articles in December 2019 – Page 5
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Comment
Taking a system-wide approach to NHS workforce challenges
If we want to create a more streamlined experience for people using multiple services, it is workforce reform which will make it happen, writes Leanora Volpe
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Comment
The parties’ dividing lines on health and care
There is some surprising agreement amongst the three major English parties when it comes to the NHS. But once you move away from the core of acute and primary care there are stark differences too, argues Sally Warren.
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News
Third of teaching trust’s elective patients waiting more than 18 weeks
A teaching trust’s referral-to-treatment performance has slumped 20 percentage points in the last two years as demand has soared.
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Leader
Pension tax fury exposes the centre’s strained relationship with NHS chiefs
Accusations of greed and hypocrisy over pension reform highlight the strained relationship between NHS CEOs and the centre, writes Alastair McLellan.
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Comment
The grim reality of migraine care in the UK
The NHS long-term plan does not even once mention migraine but the condition causes an estimated 25 million days lost from work and school in the UK each year, writes Gus Baldwin
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HSJ Local
Yorkshire trust appoints new chief
Sheffield’s mental health and community trust has appointed a new chief executive.
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News
Staff told to leave hospital’s flats to make way for new nurses
An acute trust has given notice to staff to move out of accommodation they have used for “some years” to make way for international recruits.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Not copying Salford
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England, with a particular focus on the devolution project in Greater Manchester. Contact me in confidence here.
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News
HSJ Weekly Catch Up: A ‘common sense decision’, an efficiency scheme under fire and a stopgap solution for pensions
Your essential update on health for the week.
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News
Daily Insight: We need to talk about pensions
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Clinical trial to resume after pathologist reverses decision on death
Researchers plan to restart high-dose radiotherapy in a cancer trial after refuting the outcome of a coroner’s inquest.
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News
Exclusive: Top trust chief picked to head new NHS England ‘taskforce’
An experienced trust chief executive has been chosen to lead a national taskforce group charged with improving inpatient mental health, learning disability and autism services for young people.
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News
Trusts told to offer pensions tax deal to senior clinicians
Trusts have been given the green light to offer a stop-gap “solution” to their senior clinicians which aims to tackle the pensions crisis gripping the health service.
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News
Region ‘working to 40-week target’ for treatment
A group of NHS organisations have said they are “working to referral to treatment time targets of 40 weeks instead of 18 weeks”, in board papers which they are now indicating are misleading.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: When norovirus and flu visit early
Listen to the HSJ Health Check podcast — our new episode covers the outlook for the nursing workforce as revealed by HSJ this week, norovirus and the flu turning up early for winter, and a Midlands trust landing an “outstanding” rating.
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News
Exclusive: New action over safety concerns at Shropshire hospitals
Inspectors have taken fresh urgent action at a severely troubled hospital trust, citing major concerns about treatment of mental health patients in its emergency department, HSJ can reveal.
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News
NHS Improvement director to take up trust chief job
An NHS Improvement director has landed the top job at a recently merged foundation trust.
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HSJ Local
FT drops ‘better value for money’ IT system in £400m deal
A large NHS trust has chosen US firm Epic as its preferred bidder for an electronic patient record, despite previously suggesting a different option would give “better value for money”.
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Expert Briefing
The Ward Round: Filling the leaky bucket
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, will make sure you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping ...