All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 7
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: How much have strikes cost the NHS?
Less than halfway through the financial year all 42 integrated care systems are in deficit.
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News
More trusts find RAAC concrete on estates
At least seven more trusts have confirmed lightweight concrete on their estates following NHS England-ordered reviews and widespread safety concerns, HSJ has found.
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News
ICS salaries face eight-month wait for ministerial sign-off
Ministers took nearly four times as long to sign off integrated care board directors’ appointments as those of NHS trusts last year, HSJ has found.
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News
NHS can’t prepare for pandemic surge due to lack of staff, NHSE warns
The NHS has too few staff to prepare for a pandemic surge, while its ageing buildings and social care’s weak ‘resilience and capacity’ would also undermine its response, NHS England has warned.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: Another maternity red flag
Nothing is more important than the process of giving birth, but hospitals are increasingly struggling to induce mothers-to-be on time.
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Expert Briefing
A big revenue hole needs filling
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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News
Former NHS tech chief joins firm bidding for £480m NHS data contract
The former head of NHS digital policy has been appointed to the advisory board of a leading UK data technology company.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: I’m afraid there is no (winter) money
Rishi Sunak announced an impressive sounding sum of money last week, apparently to help the NHS cope with winter pressures.
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News
Strikes caused 22 ‘critical incidents’, government claims
The NHS has declared 22 ‘critical incidents’ due to disruption caused by industrial action since December, including the need to transfer critical care patients, according to the Department for Health and Social Care.
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News
Police dropping most mental health calls ‘could cost NHS £260m’
The national rollout of a new policing model scaling back officers’ responses to mental health incidents could cost the NHS around £260m, a trust chief executive has told MPs.
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NHSE project will stop patients sharing data, government advisers fear
Experts fear a rise in patients opting out of sharing their health data when NHS England announces the winning supplier to provide a controversial new data platform, documents reveal.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: Child’s death highlights expectation vs reality gap on suicide
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by correspondent Emily Townsend — contact me in confidence.
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2023: Patient Safety Team of the Year
Sponsored by WINNER NHS England, Community Pharmacy England, Department of Health and Social Care: Medicines Safety - Pharmacy Quality Scheme
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News
Cap on legal fees to save NHS trusts £50m a year
New restrictions on the amount lawyers can charge trusts when bringing clinical negligence cases against them could save the NHS £50m a year, the government has claimed.
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News
NHSE warns new policy creates risk for service ‘already under enormous pressure’
NHS England has warned the decision by police forces to respond to far fewer incidents involving people in mental distress could pose ‘risks’ to both patients and a service “already under enormous pressure”.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: Getting real about manager regulation
Manager regulation remains firmly in the spotlight so this week we ask: will it actually happen this time?
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Comment
NHS must stop treating data analysis as a 'clerical' role
Recognising data analysts as vital technical experts, not clerical staff, is essential for the NHS’s data-driven future and improved patient care, writes Andrew Barraclough and Dr Marc Farr
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News
NHS has more capital but regime for investing ‘not that efficient’, admits DHSC boss
The way in which capital funding is distributed and spent across the NHS is inefficient and too heavily ringfenced, a senior Department of Health and Social Care official has suggested.
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Comment
Analysts with benefits
The NHS long-term plan’s omission of analysts and data scientists has been revealed as a deliberate act, sparking frustration and a call for a robust digital workforce strategy, writes Andi Orlowski
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News
BMA writes to trust chiefs over ‘concerns about doctors’ safety’
The British Medical Association has written to trust chief executives warning of ‘concerns regarding the safety of our members and the patients they serve’ due to flawed concrete beams.