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CommentMental health summer surge must be paid proper attention
Heat and seasonal demand are pushing mental health trusts past capacity – the summer surge needs the same national priority as winter
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CommentThe NHS is dismantling AHP leadership
As ICBs slash senior allied health professional roles to save costs, the NHS risks losing the very leadership needed to deliver its shift toward community care and long-term prevention
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CommentThe NHS should fund the essential work of community doulas
Community doula services are picking up antiracism work that maternity trusts have struggled to undertake for themselves
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NewsLeading joint health and care deal falls foul of financial pressures
NHS financial pressures and reforms have brought about the end of one of the largest local joint health and social care funding arrangements.
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NewsHow serial fraudster secured nine senior managerial roles
A fraudster secured 13 management and administrative jobs over 10 years, despite extensive pre- and post-recruitment checks by trusts, commissioners, national bodies, and recruitment agencies, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsICB bids to save its Healthwatch branch from abolition
An integrated care board is planning to pay £1.6m to retain its local Healthwatch for the next four years.
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CommentThe best trained surgeon is not always the right medic for the job
The NHS should commission surgery from those doctors most appropriate to perform it. This does not always happen
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CommentBurnham’s devolution plan could make damaging ICB reforms even worse
Repeated NHS reorganisations risk losing local knowledge, weakening relationships and delaying the practical work needed to improve neighbourhood care
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CommentRelationships matter, but so do data and incentives
Strategic commissioning works when relationships and systems are built together. West and North London is investing in both, and this is what that looks like in practice
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CommentICBs are about to expose difficult truths
James Sanderson, chief executive of palliative care and bereavement charity Sue Ryder, weighs up the challenges for integrated care boards being asked to prioritise palliative and end-of-life care and how hospices need to respond
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CommentDon’t let the NHS colonise social care
Neighbourhood health offers real potential, but social care must retain its own purpose rather than become an extension of NHS priorities
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CommentWhat role for mayors in Burnham’s NHS?
Devolution could bring health policy closer to communities, but ministers must resolve competing lines of accountability before giving mayors and strategic authorities greater control over NHS resources
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NewsNHS breeds leaders who are ‘too insular’, says ex-ICB chief
The NHS has some of the best leaders in the public service, but they often have a mindset that is too insular, according to a former ICB chief and senior civil servant.
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News‘Serious failure of governance’ at ‘coach crash’ GP practice
The last remaining partner at a collapsing GP practice has admitted a “serious failure of governance” and likened its problems to a “coach crash”.
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NewsExclusive: Watchdog links patient deaths to controversial NHSE policy
A watchdog has called for a pause in the rollout of NHS England’s “advice and guidance” policy to protect safety, and linked it to two patient deaths, HSJ can reveal.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The strategic commissioning skills gap
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week, by correspondent Mimi Launder.
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NewsICB breached rules in £20m contract award
An integrated care board breached procurement rules while awarding a £20m general practice contract to a national corporate provider.
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NewsPatient safety brief upgraded in new DHSC team
Patient safety and public health have been upgraded to a ministerial responsibility, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: How Burnham could meld NHS and care funding
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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NewsLead provider role creating ‘potential conflicts of interest’, review finds
A lack of clarity around lead provider and commissioner roles at a mental health trust collaborative is creating “potential conflicts of interest”, a review has found.