All Health Service Journal articles in July 2020
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NewsDelayed defibrillation led to second death despite revised guidance
Incidents of delayed defibrillation continued at an ambulance trust three years after it pledged to make changes to the way cardiac arrests were handled.
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HSJ InteractiveHow ICSs can harness the power of tech
As the peak of the pandemic has passed, which technology initiatives and innovations will endure and how can ICSs and STPs lever them to deliver efficiencies and improve care for patients? Alison Moore reports on the webinar which explored these key questions
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HSJ PartnersCovid-19 poses a new challenge for point-of-care manufacturing
The spread of covid-19 outbreaks has led facilities in medical device manufacturing to rigorously anticipate, plan, and innovate. By Ali Burns, managing director of Siemens Healthineers Sudbury, UK manufacturing facility.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Prepare for a winter of discontent
National guidance for the remainder of 2020-21 reveals NHS rows with councils over care funding will be back this winter, and sets a series of unattainable targets for resuming planned care. HSJ Health Check this week explains why.
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NewsBig increase in BAME leaders sought by 2025
Senior NHS leaders have been set a new target to ensure they will match the overall composition of their black, Asian and minority ethnic workforces or communities in five years’ time.
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HSJ PartnersImproving mental health with digital CBT: bridging the treatment gap for insomnia
In its efforts to address insomnia and improve mental health, the NHS is grappling with long-standing challenges that leave millions every year without access to therapy. Sleepio’s digital CBT for insomnia offers an intervention that is safe, effective, and scalable – and now proven to offer multimillion pound cost reductions ...
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Expert BriefingThe Download: The NHS’ widening digital exclusion gap
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by digital services correspondent, Jasmine Rapson.
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HSJ LocalCoastal trust to be ‘twinned’ with high performing US hospital
A hospital trust in the North West is set to be ‘twinned’ with a US hospital as part of a programme it believes will improve staff retention and care quality.
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HSJ PartnersRestoring health by embracing the transformative potential of gene therapy
In a four-part series, bluebird bio is exploring how the NHS can embrace the power of gene therapy as a treatment for rare diseases in the UK, including some of the systemic changes that will be needed. Here in the first column, Nicola Redfern, bluebird bio UK’s General Manager, discusses ...
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The future of Matt ‘who, me, guv?’ Hancock
Andy Cowper’s insights on Hancock’s most remarkable speech featuring “seven lessons” for the NHS and the “future of healthcare”
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NewsNHS told to return to “near-normal” performance before winter
Trusts have been set a series of “very stretching” targets to recover non-covid services to nearly normal levels in the next few months, in new guidance from NHS England.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Uncomfortable scrutiny
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Hancock's exotic litany, fog of finance and new emergency care standards
Your essential update on health for the week.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Hancock’s vision for health and care after covid
Matt Hancock set out his post covid vision for health and care in a wide-ranging speech this week – HSJ’s podcast dissects key themes including staffing, emergency care, digital, system working and social care.
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NewsTrust with record covid deaths sees high rate of hospital acquired infection
The proportion of patients confirmed as infected with covid-19 after admission to East Kent hospitals is running at twice the national rate, according to figures seen by HSJ.
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NewsFirst region sees zero covid hospital deaths
The south west has gone a week without a single covid-related death in its hospitals.
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NewsThree trusts agree pathology 'hub' model expected to save £51m
Three trusts in east London have agreed to consolidate much of their routine pathology work on a single “hub” site.
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HSJ PartnersA system working together towards personalisation
Developing new models and solutions such as care navigation and co-ordination, remote monitoring and multi-channel contact centres will go a long way in improving healthcare outcomes and experience. By Nicola Mortali
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NewsTrusts have ‘lost focus’ on patients who cannot use the internet
NHS trusts have “sometimes lost focus” on people who do not have access to the internet during the recent rapid rollout of online appointments, a Royal College of Physicians chief has told HSJ.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Time for outrage
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.