All Health Service Journal articles in January 2022
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Expert BriefingThe Download: NHSE targets digital support for clinicians
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by senior correspondent Nick Carding.
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Expert BriefingWest Country Chronicle: Trusts set ‘enablers’ for merger
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar discussed how can the NHS make the most of temporary staff?
in association with On demand recording now available Temporary staff, most notably through staff banks, play an important role in the delivery of NHS services. With staffing pressures compounded by the pandemic, the need for a well managed flexible workforce is ...
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HSJ InteractiveRoundtable: Meeting the mental health needs of cancer patients
At an HSJ and All.Can roundtable, experts discussed how fragmented services often mean cancer patients’ mental health needs were not adequately met – and explored how to change that
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HSJ LocalWaiting lists balloon after suspension of private provider
Waiting lists for some diagnostic scans have ballooned after the sudden suspension of a major private provider.
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NewsDaily Insight: From ‘ashamed’ to proud
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsTrust unsure ‘whether and how’ its ‘mini Nightingale’ might be used
A trust has revealed its wide-ranging concerns about the Nightingale surge hub that has been built on its premises under national plans to cope with a future wave of covid admissions.
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NewsDaily Insight: Under pressure and overspending
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ LocalChair leaves trust ahead of ‘positive’ CQC report
The chair of an ‘inadequate’ rated hospital trust – said to have made improvements now being recognised by regulators – is moving to another provider in the region.
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NewsRevealed: the underserved areas losing more GPs
Several areas that already had low numbers of GPs in the middle of the last decade have seen some of the largest declines over the past six years, HSJ analysis reveals.
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NewsNHSE tells trusts not to dismiss unvaccinated staff, after government U-turn
Trust were tonight told to cease plans for dismissing unvaccinated staff, as the government announced it would consult on dropping its mandatory covid vaccine policy.
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NewsDaily Insight: An unexpected U-turn of events
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Long-awaited NHSE report fails to answer key question
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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CommentLevelling up must include action on variation in GP services
Unless urgent action is taken, failure to provide general practice according to people’s needs will likely widen disparities further, write Becks Fisher and Lucinda Allen
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NewsCap on legal costs for negligence cases to save £600m
The government is pushing ahead with long-standing plans for a new cap on legal costs for lower value clinical negligence cases, which it predicts could save £600m spread over the next 10 years.
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NewsGovernment U-turns on mandatory staff vaccination in ‘shambles’
The government is scrapping its mandatory NHS staff vaccination policy just days before the deadline for all patient facing staff to have a first jab.
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CommentThe lessons the NHS needs to learn from the covid vaccination programme
A study from The King’s Fund looks at the trials, tribulations and successes of the vaccine roll-out in England from its inception - and asks if there are broader lessons from it for both the NHS and local government. By Nicholas Timmins
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NewsNew chair for red-rated ICS
Sir Andrew Cash has been appointed as interim chair of Lincolnshire’s integrated care board.
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Expert BriefingThe Primer: A stern rebuke
The Primer provides a rapid guide to the most interesting comment and analysis on the English health and care sector that has not (usually) appeared in HSJ.
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NewsMore than 100 trusts bid for ‘massively oversubscribed’ New Hospitals programme
Nearly two thirds of NHS trusts in England have submitted bids to the government’s ‘massively oversubscribed’ hospital building programme, HSJ has learned.