All Health Service Journal articles in February 2021
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HSJ LocalPrivate centre for NHS kidney failure patients placed in special measures by CQC
A privately run training centre for NHS dialysis patients has been issued with two warning notices and placed in special measures.
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HSJ Interactive
The new normal: how to ensure IT helps the NHS going forward
Lewisham and Greenwich Trust’s chief information officer Daniel Woodruffe joined the panel at an HSJ webinar looking at how IT can support the NHS moving forward. Mr Woodruffe joined Dr Paula Cowan, chair of Wirral Clinical Commissioning Group, Charlotte Augst, chief executive of National Voices, and Indi Singh, a digital ...
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: What I’d want to know if I was an MP
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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NewsSupply of ultrasound gels suspended after bacteria outbreaks in multiple hospitals
NHS Supply Chain has suspended supplies of some ultrasound gels over concerns they might be connected with outbreaks of bacterial infections in multiple hospitals.
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NewsDaily Insight: Storm over Morecambe Bay
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentCovid has proved the value of analytics but will the NHS learn the lesson?
Covid-19 has brought to the fore the value of analytics. With an end to the pandemic in sight, and reform on the way, Richard Wood asks whether healthcare systems can seize the opportunity to embed this change within business-as-usual practices.
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NewsDaily Insight: Backed up to the future
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsFive trusts still have a fifth of beds filled by covid patients
Five hospital trusts still have at least a fifth of their general and acute beds occupied by covid patients, HSJ analysis suggests.
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HSJ InteractiveHow the NHS can get back on track after covid?
Former health secretary Stephen Dorrell was joined by two leading commentators to look at how the NHS can recover after covid in an HSJ webinar. Nigel Edwards, chief executive of the Nuffield Trust, and Saffron Cordery, deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, examined the mountain the NHS has to climb ...
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CommentEngagement in global healthcare challenges will help retain NHS staff
Ben Simms on the growing need of collaborative working among countries in the field of health care.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Hancock’s grubby intervention over A&E closure
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsCalls for GPs to ‘get back to being GPs’ as other vaccine centres ‘empty’
Senior figures running the covid vaccine programme locally are calling for more flexibility, and for a big shift away from GP-run sites in the next phase.
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NewsDaily Insight: Bereaved and aggrieved
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentSocial value is coming back to NHS procurement
We need a shift to a culture where how services are delivered is seen as important as the service itself, writes Andrew O’Brien
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NewsJeremy Hunt’s safety programme has stalled, say bereaved families
Bereaved families have been left feeling like their efforts to improve patient safety have been ‘in vain’ as progress of a government programme instigated by Jeremy Hunt appears to have ‘stalled’.
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NewsDaily Insight: Fair comment or out of line?
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentBereaved families have been used as pawns in a political game
With the National Learning from Deaths Programme Board stalled, the bereaved families who were to be involved in its work have once again been left harmed and without any answers, write Dr Josephine Ocloo and David Smith
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NewsStaff covid vaccine uptake much lower in London
A much lower share of ‘frontline’ NHS trust staff in London have had a first dose of the covid vaccine than in other regions, according to new NHS England estimates.
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NewsMinority ethnic candidate chances of recruitment in NHS fall back, finds NHSE
The likelihood of minority ethnic candidates being appointed from NHS shortlists compared to white applicants is at its lowest rate so far recorded, while other key race equality indicators have “not improved over time”, according to NHS England’s latest annual evaluation of progress.