All Health Service Journal articles in July 2021 – Page 2
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HSJ Partners
Data will pave the way to earlier, more targeted interventions across integrated care systems
Data-driven targeted early interventions would go a long way towards helping integrated care systems to address the wider determinants of health and wellbeing, and to improve outcomes, writes Brian Waters
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HSJ Local
London ‘creaking’ under pressure of covid surge, warns trust boss
Trusts are ‘creaking’ across London as they address the latest surge of covid patients and mounting non-covid activity, according to a medical director at a major London trust.
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News
Two trusts to share chief executive
Two trusts in north London are set to share a chief executive.
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News
Daily Insight: The sound of purse strings tightening
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: How the government is trying to build back cheaper
A letter obtained by HSJ’s Nick Carding revealed the government has told eight of the most advanced “40 new hospitals” trusts to put produce plans to build much more cheaply — he discusses what it means on the HSJ Health Check podcast.
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Expert Briefing
What the leaked draft ICS constitution tells us
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior correspondent Sharon Brennan.
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News
GPs given power to switch off online consulations as practices reach ‘breaking point’
GPs have been given the ability to stop patients contacting them through the online eConsult system as their professional body warns that primary care is reaching ‘breaking point’.
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News
Named: the first 25 integrated care board chairs
The chairs have been chosen for 25 of the 42 NHS integrated care boards which will plan health services from April.
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HSJ Local
Trust criticised for ‘unreasonable conduct’ in tribunal process
One of the largest trusts in the country has been criticised for its ‘unreasonable conduct’ in failing to disclose key documents to an employment tribunal.
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News
Hospital closed wards after CQC raised patient safety concerns
Staff at a private psychiatric hospital failed to notice a patient had not eaten for five days after admission and was drinking just coffee and cola during this time, Care Quality Commission inspectors found.
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News
Exclusive: Government tells hospitals to submit cheaper rebuild plans
NHS trusts hoping to build the first new hospitals under the government’s flagship infrastructure project have been told to submit plans for schemes costing less than £400m, prompting concern about plans being watered down.
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HSJ Interactive
Listen: How improved coordination between housing and health can improve patient well being
This podcast explores the benefits of closer alignment of housing and health
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HSJ Interactive
The journey to net zero – what is the first step?
Environmental sustainability has been moving up the priority list in the healthcare sector with increased awareness of climate change and impacts on public health, and more recently cemented in strategic thinking with NHS net zero targets to work towards. Sponsored by The journey to a greener NHS comes ...
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News
Daily Insight: ‘A festering, open wound’
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: The NHS is getting less democratic
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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News
Amanda Pritchard appointed as NHS England chief executive
Amanda Pritchard has been appointed as the next NHS England chief executive.
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News
Seven Test and Trace directors paid more than DHSC permanent secretary
Eight of the 10 best paid civil servants in the Department of Health and Social Care in the first quarter of the year worked for NHS Test and Trace, with seven of them on more than the department’s permanent secretary.
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HSJ Interactive
Lessons for the NHS on digital transformation
An HSJ roundtable, in association with Dedalus Group, asked where the health service is on digital transformation and how it can benefit from other countries’ experience of the same journey
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News
Trust’s board and governors clash over potential merger
The governors and board of one of England’s smallest trusts are at loggerheads over a possible merger with a megatrust neighbour.