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NewsTreasury agrees ‘limited’ funding to ease discharge blocks
The Treasury has agreed to fund “time-limited” insurance cover to encourage care providers to accept covid patients from hospitals — although some have questioned whether the measure goes far enough to help ease the NHS capacity crisis.
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Comment
The pandemic has broken the promise of universal healthcare
The promise of universal healthcare from the NHS has been broken, as it is not “coping” with covid-19, and will be hard to reinstate without being honest, writes Charlotte Augst
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: Why, according to Matt Hancock, vaccines are like Range Rovers
Andy Cowper on the latest developments with regards to the coronavirus vaccine
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News
Exclusive: Treasury ‘the barrier’ as full hospitals desperate to discharge patients to social care
The government is being pressed to urgently pay care homes to take on thousands of patients from hospitals, many of which are on course to be overwhelmed by covid-19 patients.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: A government consistently ahead of the Dunning-Kruger curve
Andy Cowper on the real state of affairs with regards to the coronavirus pandemic
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Leader
The government must not be allowed to rewrite history on its failure to protect the NHS
Let us lay to rest the assertion that the government acted quickly to stave off the threat from the new coronavirus variant.
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Comment
Why has the government gone quiet on prevention when we need it most?
The government has gone quiet on prevention, but it could save the NHS, boost the economy and level up the country, writes Chris Thomas
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News
Government finally accepts need for ‘independent’ national patient safety commissioner
The government has accepted the need for a new ‘patient safety commissioner’, according to the author of a safety review commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care.
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HSJ Partners
The ethics of health passports: we need them
Health passports can protect the wellbeing of citizens, restore the economy and release NHS and social care resources to meet other pressing challenges. By Christine Macqueen
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News
CEOs frustrated by ‘discriminatory’ approach to vaccine prioritisation
Chief executives of mental health trusts have expressed their frustration at the government’s failure to include people with learning disabilities higher up the priority list for covid vaccines.
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News
NHSE director: government has ‘absolute duty’ to hold public inquiry into handling of covid
‘Scared’ health and care staff who ‘put themselves on the line’ during the covid pandemic are owed a ‘duty’ by government to hold a public inquiry into how it was handled, a senior NHS England director has declared.
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News
Exclusive: NHS pleas for covid upgrade funds went unmet ahead of second wave
Local NHS requests for hundreds of millions of pounds of government funding to help deal with covid pressures have gone unanswered throughout the pandemic, an HSJ investigation has found.
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Comment
The government's grasp of the NHS's recovery challenge is questionable
The spending review raises real concerns about whether the government fully grasps the scale of the recovery challenge, writes Anita Charlesworth
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News
NHSE recommends law to abolish CCGs by 2022
NHS England is backing legislation to abolish clinical commissioning groups by April 2022, strip back competition rules, and require trusts to be part of care alliances, HSJ can reveal.
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Comment
Director's appointment should be used to reframe the debate around health inequalities
Dr John Ford outlines what should be the prime concerns for the new director for patient equalities and health inequalities
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News
Steep capital spending rise still falls £1bn short of NHS ask
The health service’s capital budget is to increase by almost a third on its pre-covid level, although still lags behind previous calls to put healthcare spending in line with that of other advanced nations.
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News
Stevens targets April 2022 for NHS reorganisation
Integrated care systems will be put on a statutory footing by April 2022 if legislation can be passed early next year, Sir Simon Stevens has said, setting a target date for the proposed reorganisation of NHS planning and commissioning.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: The covid vaccine plan is the biggest integration ask to date
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior integration correspondent Sharon Brennan.
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News
Exclusive: NHS setting up dozens of mass covid vaccination centres and seeking 40,000 staff
The health service is setting up more than 40 mass vaccination centres, and working on recruiting tens of thousands of staff for the huge covid-19 vaccination effort, HSJ has learned.
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News
DHSC review ‘compounded mother’s suffering’, concludes watchdog
The Department of Health and Social Care has been criticised by the national health ombudsman for the ‘maladministration’ of a 2018 review into the death of a teenage girl under the care of one of England’s top specialist hospitals, HSJ can reveal.
