All Health Service Journal articles in July 2021 – Page 8
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NewsThe Primer: Stevens’ last supper
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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HSJ LocalJoint leader for four trusts with £3bn income
The four acute trusts in north west London will appoint a joint chair, in the latest move towards greater collaboration between the system’s providers.
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NewsTrust complains of ‘very harsh’ exclusion from national costing report
Fourteen trusts have had their financial data excluded from a national survey of spending due to accounting errors, in a process that one described as ‘very harsh’.
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HSJ LocalICS gets fourth leadership team in five years
The troubled Cheshire and Merseyside health system has appointed a new interim chief officer, while it attempts to recruit permanently to the role.
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CommentA referral to diagnosis target is the wrong solution to the huge risk in the elective backlog
A cancer-style referral-to-diagnosis target sounds simple. But it turns out to be a lot more complicated than splitting the RTT target. By Rob Findlay
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HSJ PartnersPatient data-driven insights can help reduce health inequalities
A new approach to population health planning and collaboration in health systems is required to tackle health inequalities – and data is the key vehicle for social change, says David Sharp
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NewsExclusive: Eight trusts now have one in 10 beds filled by covid patients
Eight hospital trusts have hit the point where one in 10 of their beds is occupied by a patient with coronavirus, figures seen by HSJ reveal, and several more are approaching it.
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NewsUnder-pressure trust to stop sending ambulances to hundreds of patients
An ambulance trust will stop sending crews to hundreds of calls a day and instead divert patients to other services.
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NewsDaily Insight: Music stops with four trusts on one chair
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsDismay at failure to align ICS footprints with council boundaries
There has been an outcry from some local government figures in areas where the health secretary Sajid Javid has decided not to go ahead with making integrated care partnership footprints coterminous with upper tier authority boundaries.
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HSJ LocalCouncils issue ‘confrontational’ list of ‘red lines’ for ICS working
Nine councils have angered NHS leaders by issuing a series of ‘red lines’ and pre-conditions which they say must be met for an integrated care system to be successful.
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NewsNew chief exec for national NHS agency
The publicly owned company that oversees £5.4bn in NHS procurement has appointed a new chief executive.
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HSJ LocalCEO quits trust accused of ‘witch hunt’
The chief executive at Matt Hancock’s local troubled trust, where leaders have been accused of bullying staff during a ‘witch hunt’ for a whistleblower, is to leave the post, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsDaily Insight: Covid can’t peak too soon
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ Partners10 ideas to reduce hospital waiting lists and minimise staff burn out using human-first design
Sid Singh and Alex Barclay discuss the critical challenges at hand, and show how a rapid approach to innovation involving a multidisciplinary team can lead to high-quality solutions
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NewsTrust’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.
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HSJ InteractiveLessons 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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NewsSeven 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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NewsAmanda Pritchard appointed as NHS England chief executive
Amanda Pritchard has been appointed as the next NHS England chief executive.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: The NHS is getting less democratic
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.