All Health Service Journal articles in June 2018 – Page 6
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News
Daily Insight: A scandal in Gosport
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership
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News
Hunt: Gosport will prompt 'searching questions' for government
Health and social care secretary Jeremy Hunt has told MPs the government will “ask searching questions” over whether safety and regulatory processes are right following the Gosport Memorial Hospital Inquiry.
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Commissioners look again at trust's 'fragile' services
NHS England and local commissioners want to look again at “fragile” clinical services run by Bedford Hospital Trust – less than a year after the provider committed to retaining its emergency and obstetrics departments.
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Comment
Mackey: It's pointless to argue we should have got more
In the context of the general economic situation and funding settlements for other public services, this announcement must be widely recognised, and accepted, as significant extra investment, writes Jim Mackey.
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News
Exclusive: Councils threaten to quit leading STP
Local authorities from a leading health economy have threatened to quit working with its STP as they say it “cannot legitimately claim to be working towards an integrated system.”
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Blood boils over pathology plan
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News
Regulator to 'tighten the screws' on agency spending
NHS Improvement has launched a new crackdown on NHS agency staff spending prompting warnings the ambitions could be “undeliverable in practice.”
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'Disregard for human life' - 450 patients killed by painkillers at hospital, report says
More than 450 patients died from prescriptions made “without medical justification” at a hospital where the use of opioids resulted in an “institutionalised practice of shortening patients’ lives”, an investigation has found.
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Lord Darzi appointed chair of new innovation panel
Former health minister Lord Darzi has been appointed chair of a new innovation panel which will choose which “transformative” medical products should be fast tracked into the NHS.
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Consultancies hired to 'accelerate' integration of four STPs
Two management consultancies have been commissioned to help four STPs in the West Midlands “accelerate” their integration plans, HSJ has learned.
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Major hospital with ‘bullying culture’ put in special measures
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Foundation Trust has been placed in special measures after inspectors rated the trust and its leadership inadequate, having found a “bullying culture” and an “obvious deterioration” in services.
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HSJ Partners
Using trusts' own data to identify improvement opportunities
Four Eyes Insight helps NHS trusts improve operational productivity. In this second of two articles, the company explains what it can add to trusts’ own efforts to become more productive across their clinical services and how its support for their improvement has expanded to cover a range of hospital operations.
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Comment
The PM has shown faith - we now need bold policies for change
Extra funding for the NHS has been secured despite Treasury scepticism that the health service can change. If there’s a deal for social care and local government, backed by a more coherent policy landscape, we can prove them wrong, says Rob Webster
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Five CCGs forced to make £50m savings
Five clinical commissioning groups in Sussex have to save £50m in the next nine months to achieve an agreed £65m deficit – and to gain access to sustainability funding.
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Leader
The funding deal is done, but a crucial few months follow
How far the NHS’s new funding deal will stretch will be shaped by some important decisions in the next five months.
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Expert Briefing
Performance Watch: Honesty needed ahead of another tough winter
The NHS is facing a winter which is likely to be just as tough, or tougher still, than the last one. Even if new money is pumped into the service this year, there is a danger the die is already cast.
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News
Daily Insight: Trust takes on staff from collapsed PFI provider
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership
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News
Stevens: Law change will ‘speed us on the journey’ of new plan
Simon Stevens has welcomed the prime minister’s suggestion that the NHS develop proposals for changes to the law, saying legislation could “speed us on the journey” of implementing the long term plan.
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News
NHS Providers warns against 'safe space' plans
NHS Providers has added its voice to warnings against local NHS trusts being given “safe space” powers to investigate patient safety incidents.
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Devastating fire prompts checks on 3,500 NHS buildings
NHS Property Services is to carry out a review of all the clinical buildings it owns after a report into a devastating fire which destroyed a community hospital.