All Health Service Journal articles in December 2019 – Page 7
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Expert Briefing
Mindless retendering
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.
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Expert Briefing
Clearing the illusion
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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News
HSJ Weekly Catch Up: Medical schools in a muddle, nursing numbers analysis and a first-of-its-kind acute
Your essential update on health for the week.
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News
Daily Insight: See me after class
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
NHS finances worsen with £130m overspend
The combined financial performance of the NHS worsened over the summer, with national regulators reporting a half-year overspend of £130m against plan.
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Six hospitals plummeted to ‘inadequate’ in wake of Whorlton Hall
The Care Quality Commission has rated six mental health hospitals “inadequate”, just months after describing them as either “good” or “outstanding”, since the Whorlton Hall scandal was revealed.
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CQC staff lose 26,000 work hours to IT issues
Care Quality Commission staff claim they have lost more than 26,000 work hours due to IT issues in the space of a year.
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NHSE director acting as commercial chief a year after first advert
An NHS England director is currently acting as the NHS’s chief commercial officer in an interim capacity — a year after the role was first advertised — it has emerged.
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FT’s staff survey raised major concerns ahead of chief quitting
Staff at a foundation trust raised concerns in a survey about discrimination and safety reporting, shortly before its chief executive quit blaming the “financial and regulatory environment”.
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HSJ Interactive
HSJ Investigation: Coventry and Warwickshire STP (Better Health, Better Care, Better Value)
This Investigation is exclusive to HSJ Insight subscribers.
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HSJ Interactive
HSJ Investigation: The Royal Wolverhampton Trust
This Investigation is exclusive to HSJ Insight subscribers.
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Comment
Analysis: Managing to the RTT target
In an ideal world, NHS hospitals would manage their elective waiting lists according to the needs of patients. Clinically urgent patients would be treated quickly, and routine patients would be treated on a first come, first served basis within a reasonable time. But the world is not ideal, explains Rob ...
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Flagship waiting time target ‘expected’ to be relaxed
Bosses at a trust trialling new access targets “expect” the existing 18-week referral to treatment requirement to be replaced by an 8.5 week average wait — a move experts say would represent a relaxation of standards.
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Trust: Patients ‘at risk’ as ICS delays new IT system
A foundation trust is warning of “significant risk” to patients because its plan for a £35m IT overhaul has not been approved by its system or regulator.
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Short-term pension tax ‘solution’ confirmed by NHS England
A temporary “solution” to the pensions tax impact on the health service has been confirmed by NHS England and signed off by government.
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BMA takes NHS property company to court over ‘unlawful’ fees
The British Medical Association will take the much-maligned NHS property company to court over fees charged which the union describes as “unjustifiable”.
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HSJ Local
Trust takes ‘drastic’ step to cancel electives over winter
An acute trust has taken the “drastic” step of halting some planned surgery activity for a period of four months, as it bids to free up capacity for emergency care.
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News
Leaked report reveals depth of failures in troubled maternity service
A leaked report on maternity failings at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust outlines extensive care failings linked to the deaths of 42 babies and three mothers, over a period of 40 years.
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New triage process helps struggling service cut waiting list by 30pc
An overhaul in the pathway for a flagship mental health service in Birmingham has led to a 30 per cent decrease in its waiting list since June.