All Health Service Journal articles in December 2019 – Page 7
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National efficiency scheme costing ‘an arm and a leg’, say trusts
Trust procurement leads have expressed serious concern over savings reports provided by a flagship efficiency model, with one saying the scheme was “costing [them] an arm and a leg”.
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NewsApprenticeship pay talks stall amid calls for reform
Negotiations over a pay deal for NHS apprentices have broken down due to a “lack of consensus” over what are considered appropriate salary levels.
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NewsFT fined after cancer clinical trial death
A hospital trust has been fined £45,000 following the death of a leukaemia patient who was given five times the amount of drugs she was prescribed during a clinical trial.
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NewsDaily Insight: Election day thoughts
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsLabour plans ‘democratically accountable’ integrated care systems
Integrated care systems would become “democratically accountable” under a Labour government, shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth has told HSJ.
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LeaderNobody really knows how this Labour party would run the NHS
Although discussion of the NHS has dominated much of the election debate, there has been little scrutiny of how Labour would run the NHS. The party’s focus has been on attacking the Tory record, making spending pledges and raising the existential fear that the service is “for sale” to Donald ...
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NewsControversial stroke plans delayed
A controversial reconfiguration of stroke services in Kent and Medway will be delayed by over a year, regardless of whether an ongoing court case forces NHS organisations to change their current plans.
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NewsTrusts hired behavioural psychologist to resolve differences between medics
Managers hired a behavioural psychologist to work with senior clinicians from two trusts whose disagreements about clinical practice had undermined a prestigious joint transplant programme.
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CommentInternational comparisons highlight the challenges for the NHS
If the UK is to maintain its efficiency gains while strengthening the resilience of the NHS it must integrate and innovate across health and care, writes Dr Layla McCay
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NewsGovernment called on to stop ‘unsustainable’ £10m contracting process
Dentists have called on the government to halt an “unsustainable” contracting process they estimate has racked up more than £10m in tendering costs.
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NewsCouncils welcome ‘common sense’ tax victory over NHS trusts
A group of NHS trusts have lost a high court battle with local authorities over their business rates.
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NewsData on trusts' procurement savings delayed
Trusts may not know how much they are saving through a national efficiency project until at least April 2020, HSJ has learned.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Crunch time for PCN relationships
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by primary care correspondent, Jack Serle.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Partnership Awards shortlist revealed
The shortlist for the HSJ Partnership Awards 2020 has been announced.
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NewsThree patients died after delayed cancer tests at teaching hospital
Three people died of cancer and another four came to severe harm after their endoscopies were delayed, a teaching hospital trust has confirmed.
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NewsDaily Insight: Death by diagnostic delays
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ Local‘Improvement board’ created for ‘inadequate’ secure hospital
A mental health trust has established a dedicated improvement board to try to “deal with cultural issues” at the “inadequate”-rated high-secure hospital which it runs.
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NewsHigh-performing trust to share its chief exec with neighbour
Two small general hospital trusts are to share a chief executive under an interim arrangement.
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HSJ LocalTroubled acute trust appoints another interim CEO
A troubled north London trust has appointed another interim chief executive before it forms a new provider group with a neighbouring trust.
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NewsAll major trusts miss four-hour target as performance plunges across NHS
Not one of the NHS’ major hospital trusts hit the four-hour 95 per cent standard in November as performance across core metrics plummeted to new lows in the face of record demand.