All Government/DH policy articles – Page 9
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News
Discharge policy reviewed as NHSE warns ‘capacity may decrease’
Two national reviews are taking place into hospital discharge policy, it has emerged, amid major changes to funding and legislation.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: Rishi’s big asks of the NHS
NHS spending is being scrutinised more than ever, with trusts asked to double the amount of annual efficiency savings they make.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: The South West’s nightmare may soon spread to the rest of England
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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News
Senior manager pay shows ‘complicated’ ethnicity gap, says government
The government will work with NHS England on commissioning new research into ethnicity pay gaps in the health service, it has said.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: Why the two-year waiters target could be already doomed
Is it time to rethink how the NHS manages its elective waiting list? On this week’s episode we talk about the worryingly high number of people waiting over two years for their planned care – and the alarming number which do not even have a decision to admit.
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News
Covid inquiry will examine NHS ‘capacity and resilience’
The NHS’ ‘preparedness, initial capacity and the ability to increase capacity, and resilience’ will be among the areas examined by the UK covid-19 public inquiry, the government announced today.
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Comment
What Javid’s speech was really about
Built as a big reform speech, Sajid Javid’s recent speech widely left health policy commentators, who follow such reform talk closely, frustrated, bemused, underwhelmed or all three, writes Richard Sloggett
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News
Ditching Russian gas could leave the NHS with a huge bill
The health secretary’s order for the NHS to excise Russian and Belarusian firms from its supply chain this week came with an acknowledgement that it may not be immediately possible to end contracts with suppliers.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Saving the primary care network 20,000
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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News
NHS employers told: ‘Comply in full’ with tax rules for ‘locum and agency staff’
NHS England has told trusts and commissioners to ‘comply in full’ with regulations which mean deducting tax and national insurance from the payments made to some contractors, despite the ‘substantial administrative implications’ this will create.
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News
The regions lagging in drive to recruit 50k nurses revealed
The South East has made the most progress on increasing registered nurse staffing since autumn 2019, while the North East and Yorkshire has made the least, according to figures published by the government.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: The return of payment by results
NHS England has introduced significant changes to the mechanism that is used to pay hospitals, with the era of covid ‘block contracts’ finally coming to an end.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: How to fix an NHS trust
NHS trusts are getting better – that’s the view of the Care Quality Commission, at least, which now rates only a single organisation as “inadequate”, and two-thirds as “good” or “outstanding”, a big shift from five years ago.
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News
Javid sets new targets for NHS digitisation
Electronic patient record systems must be implemented in at least 90 per cent of NHS trusts by the end of next year, the health secretary has announced at HSJ’s Digital Transformation Summit.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Will NHS regions ‘get out of the way’?
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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News
CQC should not ‘sit in an ivory tower’ when rating ICSs, says preferred chair
The Care Quality Commission should not ‘sit in an ivory tower and dream up what it thinks good looks like’ when it starts rating integrated care systems, the proposed new chair for the regulator has told ministers.
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News
NHS not ‘human’ enough to get greater role in social care, says government review
The NHS should not be given greater control of social care because it is ‘hierarchical, centralised and not person-centred’, according to a government-commissioned review which is repeatedly scathing about the health service.
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Comment
Men need their own health strategy
Considering that there are serious challenges in men and boys’ health, developing a strategy for men’s health which includes the responsiveness of the health service and society as a whole is the need of the hour, writes Nick Fletcher
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: An uncomfortable message for NHS CEOs
The man in charge of elective recovery in the NHS has said the health service faces more scrutiny from ministers, and the public, than ever before. But is the NHS ready to respond?
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News
Coroner warns of ‘real risk of future deaths’ at provider facing government probe
A coroner is warning that if systemic problems within mental healthcare at a troubled provider are not addressed there is a ‘real risk of future deaths’, new reports sent to the trust and NHS England reveal.