All Health Service Journal articles in February 2020 – Page 3
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News
Simon Stevens headlines first HSJ Sustainability Forum
NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens will deliver the keynote address at HSJ’s inaugural Sustainability Forum this June.
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HSJ Local
CEO ‘delighted’ as trust prepares to exit special measures
A trust is due to leave special measures, after problems with quality and bullying landed it in the regime more than two years ago.
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HSJ Interactive
Focusing on clinical strategy to drive service transformation
It’s time to move from focusing on simply rebuilding the structure of NHS buildings, and instead place a firm focus on overall clinical strategies to drive models of care, says Bev Evans
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News
£20bn construction framework set to deliver ‘40 new hospitals’
Billions of pounds of NHS capital is set to flow through a new national framework as part of the government’s drive to deliver “40 new hospitals” by 2030.
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Expert Briefing
Daily Insight: Something to aspire to
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
‘Mac the Knife’ to lead STP and five CCGs
A well-known NHS figure will take over as interim accountable officer of five clinical commissioning groups next month, after they were “unable” to recruit someone substantively.
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Comment
Why volunteers are crucial to the success of the long-term plan
A sustainably resourced volunteer service is the first step in achieving the long-term plan – something, the trusts and health boards across the country must take on to help the NHS. By Sam Ward.
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Comment
How Jeremy Hunt should lead the Commons’ health committee
A senior and engaged committee chair who knows the policy area well and has the experience to run a body of MPs has the potential to do much good, and examine a lot of big questions, writes Eliot Wilson
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Comment
Why health inequalities have not changed since 2010
Kieron Boyle suggests the UK is insufficiently clear about how to address health inequalities.
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News
Young people put at risk by delays for treatment
More than 70 children and young people have been put at risk by long delays in treatment by mental health services in Kent and Medway, HSJ has learned.
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News
Select group of trusts to pilot Hancock’s new tech scheme
A small number of trusts will pilot Matt Hancock’s new plan for improving technology in the NHS, HSJ has learned.
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Expert Briefing
Daily Insight: Quality not quantity
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert Briefing
Scent of a scandal
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News
NHSX will try to develop digital test result alerts
National officials are working with radiologists on systems to digitally warn patients of diagnostic test results, after the NHS failed to inform a woman of signs of her lung cancer.
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News
NHSE defends primary care cuts for marginalised patients
NHS England/Improvement has defended a clinical commissioning group over planned cuts to services aimed at health inequalities facing marginalised groups.
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HSJ Local
Trust forecasts £92m deficit after waiting list push
A struggling hospital trust has increased its forecast year-end deficit to £92m.
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Weekly Catch Up: Digital aspirants, Procure 2020 and stern words from a comptroller
Your essential update on health for the week.
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News
Exclusive: NHS ‘falls short’ on social mobility, think tank warns
The NHS “falls short” on enabling social mobility and must improve its commitment to the Living Wage if local health service organisations are to help boost the economic wellbeing of local populations, a think tank has warned.
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HSJ Interactive
Creating an NHS estate that’s fit for the future
With continuing challenges to capital funding, only a strategic approach to the NHS estate will result in the facilities required to best meet future need and new types of care
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Comment
How can the NHS become the best employer?
As demand for care surges and recruitment becomes more difficult, the NHS needs to work harder to be a better employer. It may find its future depends on it, writes Ben Franklin