All Health Service Journal articles in February 2024 – Page 3
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HSJ Local
‘Oldest NHS IT system’ to be replaced
An acute/community trust is set to implement a “game-changing” electronic patient record which will replace one of the oldest IT systems in the NHS, according to its chief executive.
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HSJ Partners
Interview: The story behind Cumbria’s next-generation smart ambulance service
Matt Dugdale, head of digital and clinical innovation at North West Ambulance Service Trust, shares how the trust is using technology to improve ambulance services
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HSJ Partners
The ghost in the machine – balancing the human and technology in digital transformation
Large-scale digital transformation is happening right across the NHS; however, this is often too focused on technological change and overlooks the human changes required to deliver the desired impact. An approach that balances the human and the digital will be key to ensuring sustainable, long-term change
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News
Top team overhauled at trust with ‘inadequate’ leadership rating
Half of the executive directors at an ambulance trust are absent from work or due to leave as it contemplates a major shake-up of its governance.
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News
NHSE not recruiting to 900 vacancies despite staff ‘frustration’
NHS England will “hold back” nearly 900 posts in its new structure, despite many staff currently being at risk of redundancy and looking to apply for the roles, it says in a note leaked to HSJ.
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Daily Insight
The mythbuster: The six ways the NHS screws up making things better
Steve Black sets out the six steps to developing and implementing good policy – and then examines how the NHS too often fails at each of those steps.
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Comment
Why 1.9% for general practice won’t cut it
The government’s proposed 1.9 per cent funding uplift for general practice this year would undermine providers and their GP partners, argues NHS Confederation primary care network director Ruth Rankine, in a rare intervention in the contract negotiation.
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Comment
A Labour government will need unpopular solutions
The solutions an incoming Labour government would need to bring to bear on the NHS would be challenging, counterintuitive, and often unpopular, say Richard Bourne and Professor Steve Iliffe.
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News
ICB pauses work on new stroke unit after ‘assurance’ concerns
A decade-long bid to establish a hyper-acute stroke unit has been delayed further after commissioners raised “assurance” concerns.
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News
Newly installed EPR contributed to A&E death, warns coroner
A newly installed electronic patient record contributed to the “preventable” death of a 31-year-old woman in an emergency department, a trust has been warned.
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Daily Insight
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Digital dawn, stars slip-up and missing millions
Your essential update on health for the week.
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Comment
A positive lack of clarity
Technical problems prevented livestreaming of the latest meeting of the Blithering Integrated Care Board. Fortunately, Julian Patterson was there to capture highlights of the proceedings
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HSJ Partners
Empowering healthcare providers with digital transformation
Kodak Alaris has a long heritage in empowering healthcare providers to streamline their operations, improve data accuracy, and enhance patient care. Read on to discover how Kodak Alaris has already helped several NHS trusts meet their transformation goals
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News
Revealed: The ICBs most reliant on private hospitals
Up to 20 per cent of NHS elective patients are now being treated by private hospitals in some areas, analysis by HSJ suggests.
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HSJ Local
Council scheme could cost trust £1.7m a year
A council’s controversial car parking levy is likely to cost an acute trust £1.65m each year for providing spaces, it has calculated.
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HSJ Local
Trust loses ‘outstanding’ rating
An ambulance trust rated “outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission since 2019 has lost the top-tier rating.
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: The NHS’s new front door
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Why the NHS is cutting pooled budgets
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Comment
The NHS is on the right path to combating discrimination
The NHS grapples with diversity challenges, but strides towards inclusivity offer hope for positive change in healthcare, writes Jon Czul
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News
Outside CEOs bring ‘positive challenge’ to sector, says review author
The senior leader who carried out a cultural review of the ambulance sector has said bringing in chief executives from outside has “shone a different light” on the service, although she stressed it was not a “silver bullet”.