All Government/DH policy articles – Page 4
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CommentIs your performance dashboard revealing what you need to know?
Digital decision-support tools are widespread in the NHS, but their impact remains limited. Digitisation has focused on generating insights without creating the organisational architecture needed to act on them
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NewsMore strikes unlikely amid ‘increasingly positive’ negotiations, says doctors’ leader
A resident doctors’ leader has predicted that further strike action is unlikely, thanks to “increasingly positive” and “constructive” negotiations.
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CommentThe plan to regulate managers is well-intentioned but dangerous
Chief nurses are not opposed to accountability for managers and leaders – but they think the government has designed the wrong system
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CommentPatients with dementia are spending too long in hospital
Better dementia care could significantly ease winter pressures on the NHS, but the system is not set up for current needs, let alone future demands
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NewsTrust to review claims of multiple cases of patient harm by surgeon
A trust is investigating the work of one of its former consultants amid claims the cases of “significantly more than 50 patients” he treated at its main site and a local private hospital should be reviewed for potential harm, HSJ has learned.
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CommentYou have until Monday to help influence the NHS's use of AI
NHS leaders are being asked to help shape how AI tools are tested, deployed and governed as the MHRA’s national commission seeks to balance innovation with patient safety
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NewsOne in four NHSE staff seek redundancy
More than a quarter of NHS England’s workforce have applied for voluntary redundancy, the organisation has told staff.
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NewsFlagship 10YHP policy ‘won’t solve long A&E waits’
A flagship 10-Year Health Plan policy will have “limited ability” to cut emergency care pressures, one of its main objectives, according to research shared with HSJ.
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CommentHospice care faces a ‘cliff edge’ this spring
Hospices are facing more serious challenges than ever before: costs are rising, demand is growing due to an ageing population, and insufficient funding means at least two in five hospices are planning cuts
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NewsDHSC-NHSE merger timetable revealed
The Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England have revealed a full timetable for merging their functions.
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CommentReaching the 'vaccine ambivalent'
As flu strains NHS services, Gloucestershire’s experience shows that local delivery, targeted outreach and convenient access can significantly improve flu vaccination uptake
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NewsExclusive: NHS failing to honour £1bn funding deal
The NHS is rowing back on plans agreed with the Treasury, but never published, to boost community services spending, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ PartnersWe digitised decisions. Now we must digitise delivery.
The NHS holds more clinical data than ever, yet patient flow remains a daily struggle. Not because digital transformation has failed – but because we digitised decisions while leaving delivery analogue.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: The deeply concerning state of home birth services
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
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Expert BriefingThe Download: When the patient brings the scribe
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Ella Devereux. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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NewsNHSE launches ‘sprint’ in bid to hit waiting list target
NHS England has told trusts to begin a “sprint” exercise in a bid to hit its politically critical waiting list target by March.
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NewsTwo trusts scrap faxes following Streeting pressure
All trusts in England except one will stop using fax machines this month, HSJ has learned.
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NewsPrestigious trust ends joint chair arrangement
A major trust is to end its shared chair agreement with its neighbour when the incumbent leaves later this year.
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CommentThe launch of ‘ChatGPT for health’ is both a threat and an opportunity
OpenAI’s entry into consumer health is not speculative innovation but a response to behaviour already happening at scale. For the NHS, it exposes a long-ignored gap in law, interoperability and patient agency that policy can no longer sidestep
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CommentWhy pharmacy is still excluded from neighbourhood care
Community pharmacy is one of the NHS’s most accessible assets, yet it remains largely excluded from new integrated care models.