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NewsMore than half of staff say EPRs make their job harder
More than half of NHS staff using an electronic patient record system say it made their job harder and they lacked necessary training, a survey has found.
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HSJ PartnersHow nurse-led endoscopy models are supporting NHS diagnostic recovery
Endoscopy services are central to the NHS diagnostic pathway. Procedures such as gastroscopy, colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy are critical for diagnosing gastrointestinal disease, detecting cancer early and monitoring long-term conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease. Yet like many diagnostic services, endoscopy has experienced significant pressure in recent years.
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HSJ PartnersHow can AI-powered rostering transform our NHS workforce?
Rostering has always been complicated. Rotas need to accommodate a huge range of specialties, grades and skills, as well as factor in clinician preferences and align with service plans. It’s a major time sink for trusts and rarely leaves all parties satisfied.
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HSJ PartnersHow consultants can integrate at-home cancer care into private pathways
For private consultants, integrating cancer treatment at home is not about relinquishing control – it is about extending the reach of clinical practice. It offers a way to deliver systemic anticancer therapies (SACT) and supportive care in patients’ homes under strict governance frameworks, keeping the consultant as the primary decision-maker.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Doctor in whose pocket?
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 and Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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CommentChanging the economics of outpatient care through technology
NHS productivity has stalled, not because digital investment failed, but because it was layered onto old ways of working. Ambient technology offers a chance to finally redesign them
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Is it safe?
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 Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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CommentSuccessful tech business cases do not have to offer cash savings
Humber Teaching Foundation Trust’s new EPR delivered no cash savings – by design. Lee Rickles, its chief information officer, argues the real return lies in clinical time, safety and user experience, not balance sheet gains
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HSJ PartnersFrom long-term vision to in-year savings: digital solutions for today’s NHS
Digitally enabling solutions must deliver (in-year) cost savings as well as show demonstrable value in driving up productivity across the NHS
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CommentData must be used to better inform decisions, not simply justify them
In a data-rich NHS, the question is no longer how much information is collected, but why so little of it is translated into meaningful improvement
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CommentThe NHS’s digital accountability gap
NHS England’s digital drive risks hollowing accountability: outsourcing and AI can expand assurance capacity, but cannot absorb clinical risk, reputational exposure or the state’s ultimate responsibility
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HSJ PartnersTackling health inequalities through people-led projects
Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd has provided sponsorship funding for this non-promotional piece. Novartis has had no input into the content, aside from agreement on the topic (tackling health inequalities through people-led projects).
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CommentFor neighbourhood care to work, we need a shared data infrastructure
An East London initiative offers a practical blueprint for how the NHS can deliver the preventive, neighbourhood-based care set out in its 10-Year Health Plan
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CommentWhy improvement programmes fade away
Improvement endures only when boards protect learning, and do not treat it as optional
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CommentWhen safety does not sell
Despite decades of inquiries and warnings, the NHS continues to tolerate predictable medication harm, revealing a system better at analysing failure than preventing it
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CommentThe risks that plans for an NHS Online hospital are ignoring
The proposed NHS Online hospital risks confusing speed with safety, embedding remote-first care in areas where clinical adequacy depends on physical examination, and losing clear accountability
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Expert BriefingImPatient: From having a voice to being put on mute
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 ...
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CommentSlow NHS decision-making makes it vulnerable to cyber attacks
When time-critical risks escalate, NHS governance that treats delay as neutral can unintentionally amplify harm and undermine patient safety
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NewsA&Es to open dedicated areas for ‘extended stay’ patients
“Extended emergency medicine” areas will be opened in hospitals for A&E patients whose care can’t be turned around within the four-hour target, according to new national guidance.
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NewsNHSE to revive 2000s-style improvement collaboratives
NHS England plans to revive compulsory “structured improvement collaboratives” for outpatients, urgent and emergency care, and frailty services – in an echo of the Modernisation Agency approach of the 2000s.