All Health Service Journal articles in February 2022 – Page 5
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Comment
Letter from Scotland: Care reforms could ‘dismantle’ health service
NHS Scotland leaders fear the reforms to fix social care as it includes, what they call a ‘radical restructuring’, which would ‘disconnect’ community services from acute care and disrupt the health service as it recovers from covid. By Henry Anderson
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HSJ Partners
Connecting MedSafety and efficiency
How digital medication management will connect us to the hospital of the future sooner
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News
Trusts to be judged on ‘leadership and culture’, government warns
NHS England and the Care Quality Commission will put more emphasis on trusts’ ‘leadership and culture’ in their oversight and regulation, the government has revealed.
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News
‘Don’t overwork staff’, says trust with just one 52-week waiter
Allowing staff enough rest has been ‘the key’ to elective recovery for an acute trust which has the lowest number of 52-week waiters in England, it has said.
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News
Daily Insight: Fit to practise? Definitely maybe
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Javid to address HSJ summit on 24 February
Sajid Javid will make a keynote address at the HSJ Digital Transformation Summit next week.
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Comment
Publishing an integration white paper smacks of desperation
There seems to be a moratorium on meaningfully investing long-term and in a strategic way in the things that will make the biggest difference: workforce, team capacity, culture change. By Charlotte Augst, chief executive of National Voices
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News
Majority of ‘last resort’ ambulance diverts reported by only two trusts
Two acute trusts account for almost two-thirds of emergency department ‘diverts’ reported over the last two months.
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News
Restoring ‘much needed’ service undermined by lack of funding
Lack of funding and workforce will undermine recovery of a ‘cost effective’ and ‘much needed’ contraceptive service, despite government’s pledges to better support women’s and reproductive health, it has been warned.
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News
Covid vaccine status could be factor in misconduct cases, NHSE director suggests
There is a risk that NHS staff who remain unvaccinated against coronavirus could have this used against them in a fitness-to-practise procedure, an NHS England director has warned.
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News
Daily Insight: Challenging the career path cliché
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Comment
I know what dodgy policy looks like and the integration white paper fits that bill
The problem with the new white paper on integration is that the way it thinks change happens is pretty much the same as past attempts, writes Richard Taunt
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Comment
How the Health and Care Bill can help the homeless and socially excluded
The new structures and duties proposed in the Bill, to integrate services around patient’s needs and across organisational boundaries present the opportunity for a step-change in our collective responses to the most excluded, writes Alex Bax
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Comment
What does a 'Place' lead do?
The value of place-based working importantly strengthens the role of local democracy, elected members and accountability to residents, writes Jo Webster
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News
Radiographer COO appointed to run trust
A radiographer has been appointed to run a hospital trust in the South East.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: How to help social care
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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HSJ Partners
Shifting the dial on inequality
How data will help ICSs support those most at risk, writes Markus Bolton
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News
‘Rasputin-like’ characters dominated safety watchdog
The leadership of a national watchdog was dominated by ‘Rasputin-like’ characters and displayed many of the bullying behaviours it was set up to help prevent in the NHS, according to multiple former staff.
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Expert Briefing
The Primer: Back to the noughties
The Primer provides a rapid guide to the most interesting comment and analysis on the English health and care sector that has not (usually) appeared in HSJ.
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HSJ Local
Lassa fever case sparks ‘major incident’ across region’s NHS
The East of England region has declared a major incident due to a case of Lassa fever at a major teaching hospital knocking out significant critical care capacity, HSJ can reveal.