All Health Service Journal articles in February 2023
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HSJ Partners
The importance of digital maturity within healthcare
David Labajo, vice president of digital at GE Healthcare Europe, answers questions about the need for healthcare digitisation and outlines strategies for doing so
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HSJ Partners
Does digital transformation hold the answer to improving patient outcomes?
At HSJ’s recent Digital Transformation Summit, board representatives from ICS and provider organisations came together to debate the most pressing issues confronting digital health leaders
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News
‘Dangerous and unnecessary’ drugs restrictions imposed by government
Global health charities have said the government’s move to block wholesalers from exporting or hoarding two covid antivirals is akin to ‘covid nationalism’.
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HSJ Partners
Urgent action is needed to tackle rising inequalities in respiratory care
When it comes to respiratory diseases, rising inequalities are a source of concern for the NHS, and inequalities persist when it comes to care and treatment
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: The data revolution is coming… eventually
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert Briefing
The Download: Another ‘inadequate’ rating for tech
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Written by senior correspondent Nick Carding. Contact me in confidence here.
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News
Cyber security strategy among dozens of tech promises missed by government
The government has failed to meet most of its own deadlines for commitments to improve how the NHS uses data, including developing a cyber security strategy, HSJ can reveal.
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Comment
Performance management is making a comeback, here's how to stop it
If local teams can reshape demand with a risk-based approach the work to improve flow becomes quickly effective. By Dr Andy Haynes, Malcolm Lowe-Lauri and Sir John Tooke
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News
Revealed: best and worst ICSs for inpatient elective activity
Only seven integrated care systems recorded more inpatient elective activity in the three months to December than in the same period before the pandemic, according to HSJ analysis.
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Comment
How ICBs can help people die at home
Ruth Robertson highlights the need for ICBs to work through immediate pressures to deliver good quality and coordinated end-of-life care services
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HSJ Partners
How can the NHS and commercial organisations build mutually beneficial partnerships?
Following on from a recent roundtable with HSJ, Antony King, managing director and client partner for health and welfare at Capita, discusses the cornerstones for successful partnership working
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Comment
NHS managers perform better than management consultants
The advice external consultants provide can be beneficial in some cases, as it can help to combat the ‘not invented here syndrome’ by introducing new expertise and innovative thinking, but in general investment in management staff is a better bet. By Ian Kirkpatrick and Andrew Sturdy
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News
Scores of domestic flights taken by NHSE staff each year
NHS England staff have taken hundreds of domestic flights for ‘internal meetings’ in the last six years – although a target to reduce carbon emissions from air travel has been achieved.
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: Why are you still here exactly?
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert Briefing
West Country Chronicle: Two year waits have NOT been ‘eliminated’
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
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Comment
Racism: Some HR teams get it and some don’t
In light of NHS England recently losing an employment tribunal case against a senior black nurse on grounds of race discrimination and whistleblowing, Roger Kline casts light on learnings from the case for NHS board members and HR departments
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News
CCTV to be used ‘pro-actively’ by trusts to combat abuse
Mental health trusts are exploring wider use of CCTV to review incidents of seclusion or restraint in response to high-profile abuse scandals, HSJ has learned.
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News
Revealed: the 14 ICSs admitting they will end the year in deficit
At least 14 integrated care systems have now officially admitted they will end the year with a budget deficit, after just five areas said this at the start of the year.
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Comment
The changing roles of NHS trust chairs
Donna Hall gives a glimpse into the lives of the leaders of trusts and elaborates the complexity of working in partnership with social care, housing, the community and voluntary sector, and other local providers
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News
Exclusive: The highest price increases for products bought by the NHS
The NHS faced price increases of up to 50 per cent on some common products last year, although there were notable reductions in other high-volume items, analysis has found.