All Efficiency articles – Page 14
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HSJ LocalICS to push ahead with contentious reconfiguration
Several acute services are set to be centralised in a partial ‘hot/cold split’ after local health chiefs recommended a controversial reconfiguration between two district general hospitals.
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CommentHow to better help children needing mental healthcare in acute trusts
Unless the CQC adopts some kind of bare minimum mental health staffing level measure, we will continue to fail children, young people and families in acute trusts. By Dr Virginia Davies
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CommentWithout urgent action the UK could slip further behind in tackling cancer
Michelle Mitchell emphasises on adoptive commitments for tackling cancer inequalities, clearing backlog of diagnostic waits and stopping cancer survival from going backwards
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CommentFresh thinking can transform new hospitals in England
Lord Ajay Kakkar hopes this year’s Wolfson Economics Prize can kickstart a national conversation about the future of hospital building after government pledged £3.7bn towards the construction of 40 new hospitals.
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CommentLetter from Scotland: What can England learn from integration north of the border?
The English NHS can draw lessons from Scotland’s experience of integrating health and social care, which has been challenging so far, notes Henry Anderson in the first of a monthly column.
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NewsRevealed: Nightingale hospitals to cost half a billion pounds in total
England’s Nightingale hospitals have been forecast to cost more than half a billion, according to the latest government projections.
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CommentCommunity health services can only absorb so much pressure
Not only do community services need recognition for their contribution, but they also need immediate support for their staff and the resources, writes Andrew Ridley
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HSJ PartnersSwitch directory functionality saves junior hospital-based doctor hours
Research held by Induction Switch reveals the average switchboard wait time plus the number of calls being made per day.
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NewsRevealed: The trusts receiving a share of £600m estates fund
An acute trust in London is among the biggest winners of a £600m allocation by the government to pay for backlog maintenance across the NHS.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow!
Andy Cowper shares his insights on Brexit British exceptionalism, slight improvement on TAT performance and 12 days of covid.
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CommentThe government's grasp of the NHS's recovery challenge is questionable
The spending review raises real concerns about whether the government fully grasps the scale of the recovery challenge, writes Anita Charlesworth
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HSJ PartnersAddressing health inequalities and creating sustainable population health management approaches
Dr Justin Whatling, vice president population health at Cerner, explains the key to scaling population health management programmes.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Stevens trumps the NHS bashers
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the recent political mayhem, falling performance of the TAT programme and ill-informed attacks on the NHS.
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HSJ PartnersNot ‘just another winter’: how leaders will build back better
Danny Silk, consulting manager at Carnall Farrar, explains how health and care leaders are shifting their approach to balance winter pressures, covid-19 waves and elective activity.
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CommentWhy ‘empty hospitals’ headlines mislead
David Oliver explains how statistics have been picked to portray the pandemic as a ‘scamdemic’ and policy responses as over-reactions in a misrepresentation of hospital admissions and bed occupancy rates
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NewsGovernment launches ‘competition’ for eight new hospitals
Ministers will invite local leaders to bid for eight ‘new hospitals’, as part of the government’s NHS building plan.
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News‘Radical’ expansion of diagnostic capacity urgently needed, claims NHSE report
The NHS must make ‘radical changes’ to transform its diagnostics capacity, which was close to ‘tipping point’ even before the pandemic, a major report has found.
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CommentThe three key tests for the comprehensive spending review
Charlotte Augst shares her insights on the need to strengthen places and communities to overcome inequalities and rebuild the health and wellbeing sector
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NewsNHS to become ‘world’s first carbon net zero national health system’
The NHS has been set a target of becoming carbon net zero by 2040 and cutting harmful emission reductions by 80 per cent over the next 12 years.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The Ministry Of Unsound: Is Dido Harding getting another, even bigger, job?
Andy Cowper sheds light on the policy and politics of healthcare as Simon Stevens closes on completing his tenure.