All Health Service Journal articles in July 2022 – Page 2
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: The terrifying non-acute backlog
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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HSJ Local
Dozens of patients wait more than two days in A&E, reveals trust
Nearly 90 patients waited two days or more before admission in a two-month period in one of the NHS’s most under pressure emergency departments, according to new trust data.
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News
NHSE director switches to national integration role
NHS England’s medical director for primary care is being seconded to a national integration role.
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Comment
Report reveals game-changing nature of thrombectomy
The NHS Mandate 2022-23 includes acute thrombectomy treatment as a key priority for improvement, but the NHS is currently over 70 per cent away from its original long-term plan target. Juliet Bouverie says that, with thrombectomy’s potential to significantly reduce disability and save the health and care system £73m each ...
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HSJ Interactive
Restoring eye care services to reduce avoidable sight loss
A recent HSJ webinar explores issues surrounding the huge backlogs for ophthalmology treatments, how to tackle them and the pandemic’s role in our response
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News
Speaking up ‘still not business as usual’, national guardian warns
Whistleblowing is still not ‘business as usual’ and leaders must take action after an unusual drop in the proportion of staff viewing their organisation as having a positive speak up culture, the national guardian for freedom to speak up has said.
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News
CQC probes bullying allegations at national NHS agency
Bullying and harassment allegations made against leaders of the organisation that supplies blood to the NHS have prompted a Care Quality Commission review, with staff claiming poor culture has exacerbated the crisis around low blood stocks.
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: Trying something not-so-new
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ Partners
ICSs are officially here, but what needs to be different for digital, data and tech?
The establishment of 42 integrated care systems ushers in an unprecedented opportunity to deliver wide ranging improvements in population health and care as well as wider system performance. If that potential is to be realised, digital and analytics will need to play a central role. How can ICS leaders grasp ...
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News
Chief executive to lead neighbouring trust
The chief executive of Derbyshire Healthcare Foundation Trust will leave this year to lead a neighbouring mental health trust.
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News
Barclay calls urgent ‘hackathons’ over ambulance crisis
The new health and social care secretary has asked officials to hastily organise several “hackathons” to try to address the crisis in ambulance performance.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Shouldn’t need an improvement programme
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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News
Londoners several times more likely to get life-saving treatment
The NHS and the Treasury need to make a renewed commitment to increasing the number of patients who benefit from thrombectomy, the Stroke Association has said, as it revealed the service was dependent on just 106 doctors in England.
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News
Shrinking NHS England issues £9m contract for digital ‘delivery partner’
A lack of digital ‘skill and resource’ has led NHS England to issue a £9m contract which will see an external supplier establish a ‘centre of excellence’ for the organisation.
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HSJ Partners
What the Fuller Stocktake report means for primary care and digital technology
Digital technology has a supportive role to play in realising the Fuller Stocktake report’s vision to create sustainable primary care for the future
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: Not such a good experience
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Trust’s IT crash stops staff accessing patient information
An IT crash at one of the country’s largest trusts has prevented some of its staff from logging in to access patients’ medical information.
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Expert Briefing
The Download: What’s gone wrong at the NHS AI lab?
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Written by senior correspondent Nick Carding. Contact me in confidence here.
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HSJ Local
GPs reject joining trust in favour of ‘John Lewis’ model
A GP surgery is believed to have become the first practice in England to switch to a ‘John Lewis’ ownership model after rejecting the prospect of joining its local integrated NHS trust.
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News
Leak reveals 1,300 confirmed cancer patients still waiting after 104 days
More than 1,000 people are still waiting for cancer treatment 104 days after referral, despite having received a confirmed cancer diagnosis and having been referred with ‘urgent suspected cancer’, leaked data shows.