All articles by James Illman – Page 18
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NewsTributes paid to ‘exceptional’ national A&E leader ‘who will be remembered forever’
NHS leaders and former colleagues have paid emotional tributes to Clifford Mann, the national clinical adviser for accident and emergency care, who passed away on Saturday.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: The waiting list won’t be 10 million by April — but it will take years to fix
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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NewsNHS England reinstates central control powers as covid risk rating is increased
The NHS has been returned to the highest level of risk on its emergency preparedness framework, a move which allows national leaders tighter control over local resources and decision making.
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NewsExclusive: NHS faces winter with ‘2,000 less’ beds than last year
The NHS has ‘significantly less’ beds now than last winter and parts of the system ‘don’t have enough’, a NHS England and Improvement director has admitted.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: ‘Stay away patients’ are causing alarm
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Liberating local leaders for wave two
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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NewsNHS England will ‘trust local leaders’ to handle second wave, says chief
There will be more regional flexibility in managing NHS services in coming months than during the spring covid-19 peak, NHS England’s deputy chief executive has said, promising to ‘trust our local leaders to do the right thing’.
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Expert BriefingRecovery watch: Let’s drop the ‘near normal’ pretence
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress.
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NewsOvercrowded A&Es ‘much more dangerous now because of covid’
Emergency departments across England are suffering ‘dangerous’ overcrowding comparable with pre-covid levels - and are struggling to maintain social distancing.
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HSJ Local‘Witch hunt’ review at Hancock’s local hospital due in December
A review ordered by ministers into an alleged “witch hunt” by West Suffolk hospital bosses following the leak of confidential patient details is expected in December, sources familiar with the process have told HSJ.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: What constitutes a successful winter this year?
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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HSJ LocalLeadership group to meet in private to drive acute service integration
Norfolk and Waveney’s three acute providers have set up a 12-strong leadership group which will meet in private to determine the organisations’ service integration strategy.
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Expert BriefingRecovery watch: the NHS’ biggest restoration challenge
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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NewsRecord poor performance ‘dashes hopes of near normal’
Unprecedentedly poor waiting time data for electives, diagnostics and cancer suggests the chances of NHS England’s ambitions for ‘near normal’ service levels this autumn being met are very unlikely, experts have warned.
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HSJ LocalGetting shielded staff back before winter key priority, says hospital CEO
A teaching hospital which had over a thousand staff shielding or working from home at the peak of the covid outbreak has made getting these employees safely back on site a top priority before winter, its chief executive has told HSJ.
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Revealed: the trusts getting a share of the £300m winter pressures fund
Over one hundred trusts will share a £300m capital fund to support coronavirus-related upgrades to emergency departments ahead of winter, the prime minister has announced today.
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NewsNHS told to let patients initiate follow-up appointments
Trusts are being encouraged to adopt a system in which patients initiate follow-up appointments by the latest guidance from NHS England designed to help the NHS recover from the covid crisis.
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NewsNHS and private sector on collision course over plans to reduce hospital waiting list
The NHS and private hospitals are on a collision course over a new multibillion-pound deal for how the service will access the independent sector’s capacity.
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NewsNHS Providers accepts case for axing four-hour target
NHS Providers has accepted the case for ditching the four-hour target – but has not yet backed system leaders’ replacement proposals due to significant concerns around accountability and deliverability, it has told HSJ.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: The return of DToCs
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter will track prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.