All Health Service Journal articles in July 2018 – Page 2
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News
Better evidence needed before deploying digital medicine - review lead
A major review of new technologies and workforce in the NHS will “come down hard” in favour of stronger evidence before new digital treatments are rolled out, the lead reviewer told HSJ.
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HSJ Partners
Collaboration is key to improving patient outcomes
Simon Grime explores opportunities for the NHS to work in partnership with industry online
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News
Daily Insight: Fear the dark side
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership
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News
Waste disposal firm considered plan to 'hurt the NHS' to protect profits
A company discussed plans to potentially “hurt the NHS” in retribution for contract changes that threatened its profits, according to a damning high court ruling.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: The capital's scan backlogs
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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News
Exclusive: Fix ‘dark force’ surgical unit or lose it, leaked review tells trust
An independent review has challenged the leadership of a teaching hospital to make immediate changes to its cardiac surgical team or face losing the service altogether.
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HSJ Local
CCGs and trust set up mental health partnership board
Commissioners have set up a joint board with their mental health trust to create an integrated health and social care partnership, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
Fraudulent NHS manager ordered to sell barge
A disgraced NHS non-executive who lied his way into a string of top jobs has been ordered to sell his boat and cash in a pension plan to repay some of the money he earned through his fraud.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: A system problem
Andy Cowper acknowledges that NHS management is hard and the political environment is insufficiently multipolar.
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News
Daily Insight: Taking the fall
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership
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News
Regulators agree joint plan to share care concerns quicker
Eight regulators have signed up to a new “protocol” about when to share concerns with each other to prevent poor care in health and social care settings.
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News
Trusts at risk of legal action over private activity data
Up to 100 NHS trusts have been warned they are putting themselves at risk of legal action by failing to provide data on their private patient activity, HSJ has been told.
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HSJ Local
Review: Arranging new job for discredited CEO ‘accepted practice at the time’
Regulators who facilitated a secondment job for the chief executive of a scandal hit NHS trust “acted in line with guidelines and accepted practice at the time”, a review has found.
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Weekly Catch Up: Subsidiaries to be regulated, Hancock's priorities and pay rise slammed
Your essential update on health for the week
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Comment
Dementia is conspicuously absent from new NHS priorities
The government must put dementia at the heart of its priorities, not in 10 years’ time, but now. By Hilary Evans
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News
Spike in consultancy spending by NHS England
NHS England reported a steep increase in management consultancy spending in 2017-18, despite a clampdown in the use of external support across the health service.
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News
£62m cut to 'digital exemplars' to boost cyber spending
Tens of millions of pounds earmarked to create a new cohort of digitally advanced trusts was diverted to pay for urgent cyber security improvement in the wake of the WannaCry attack, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
Chief executive steps down amid financial concerns
The chief executive of a troubled acute trust has stepped down amid continuing concerns over its financial performance.
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News
Trailblazer sites to be selected to test £1.5bn plans
Between 10 and 20 regions will be selected as “trailblazer” sites to test out £1.3bn proposals to improve children and young people’s mental health.