All Health Service Journal articles in February 2024 – Page 5
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: Back is the future
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert Briefing
ImPatient: Patient leadership in the digital world
Patient (Lived Experience) Leadership is about those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability who want to influence change through being equal partners in decision-making. In this monthly ‘expert briefing’, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the NHS.
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News
ICS picks permanent CEO
An integrated care system has appointed a substantive chief executive after her predecessor joined NHS England.
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News
‘40 new hospitals’ chief to step down
The head of the ‘40 new hospitals’ programme has announced she will be stepping down.
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HSJ Local
Trust names ‘inspiration’ former receptionist as CEO
Homerton Healthcare Foundation Trust has promoted Bas Sadiq, who joined the NHS as an outpatient receptionist 20 years ago, to chief executive.
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News
Bid to speed up selected ‘new hospitals’
Some of the schemes within the “40 new hospitals” programme could be allowed to abandon the requirement for standard design and centralised procurement, in a bid to speed the projects up.
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HSJ Partners
Improving the lives of the people through place-based procurement
Stuart Watkins, health business manager at Crown Commercial Service, explains the importance of place-based procurement and offers key considerations for developing successful policies
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Daily Insight
The mythbuster: Fixing the NHS in 30 years won’t help it survive till then
Despite some commendable insights on the NHS’s challenges, a new commission report fails to explain why historic ideas and recommendations repeatedly fail to take hold.
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Expert Briefing
Patient Safety Watch: Calls for change
HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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News
NHSE appoints new director
NHS England has appointed a new director to implement its commercial strategy.
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News
Minister got £8k severance then returned to DHSC weeks later
A health minister received an £8,000 severance payment before being reappointed to the department seven weeks later, government accounts show.
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Daily Insight
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Realistic resignations, food failings and budget bailouts
Your essential update on health for the week.
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Comment
Saving the NHS: the Blithering Health Commission
The Blithering patient participation group, members of the integrated care board, experts by celebrity and the health and leisure editor of the Blithering Times & Argus have come together for a once-in-a-lunchtime conversation about the future of the NHS. Julian Patterson reports on the findings of the first Blithering Health ...
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News
Maternity unit rated ‘inadequate’ after delayed Caesarean warning
A trust’s main maternity unit has been rated “inadequate” and given a warning notice amid concerns delayed Caesarean sections are causing harm to babies.
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News
‘Untenable stalemate’ is halting GP practice upgrades, say ICBs
An “untenable stalemate” in funding has virtually halted GP practice building work, despite national commitments to expand primary care, multiple NHS organisations are warning.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: The victims of the DHSC’s silent restructure
In this week’s podcast, we talk more about the decimation of England’s national public health unit less than three years after it was created.
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: ‘Why would anyone submit a balanced plan?’
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Waiting times focus ‘overshadows misconduct’, finds NHSE review
Ambulance trusts have often prioritised capacity and response times over dealing with cases of misconduct, a review of culture in the sector for NHS England has found.
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News
ICB whistleblowing process ‘not fit for purpose’
An integrated care board has found its handling of whistleblowing “not fit for purpose”, after a complaint about safety incidents not being properly investigated.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: 12-hour A&E waits rise again
HSJ’s briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by senior correspondent Annabelle Collins — contact me in confidence.