All Health Service Journal articles in June 2021 – Page 6
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News
Trust fined £1.5m after patient deaths
A mental health trust has been fined £1.5m following a prosecution by the Heath and Safety Executive over failings related to 11 inpatient deaths.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: Picking the next NHS England chief executive - a conversation with Jeremy Hunt
Monday marked the deadline for applicants wanting to be the next NHS England CEO to throw their hat in the ring.
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News
‘Outstanding’ rating given to online GP service for the first time
An online GP service has become the first provider of its kind to be rated ‘outstanding’, and has been praised by the Care Quality Commission for its covid-19 response.
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HSJ Partners
Working in partnership with AHSNs to reset and recover after the pandemic
AHSNs can add value, supporting health and care systems to identify and adopt innovations, brokering relationships with industry and acting as catalysts for change. By Richard Stubbs
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News
Daily Insight: Broadening the horizon
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
NHS England will demand ‘tougher’ financial savings from September
NHS England will ask health systems to make ‘tougher’ savings in the second half of the financial year, in anticipation of conversations with the Treasury about future funding.
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HSJ Local
Health system sees covid occupancy double in a week
Hospitals in Lancashire have reported a steep rise in covid patients, with the numbers more than doubling over the last seven days.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Fourth wave blues
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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News
Government to consult on making covid vaccine compulsory for NHS staff
Ministers are set to launch a consultation on whether covid vaccinations should be compulsory for NHS staff, according to reports.
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News
NHS England reveals who will sit on ICS boards
NHS England has set out who will be required to be on the NHS board of each integration care system.
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News
NHS England appoints new lead for covid vaccine programme
The surgeon who has managed much of the NHS’ response to covid will take over the vaccine programme, NHS England is announcing today.
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News
GMC to investigate doctor involved in high-profile patient death
A doctor involved in the care of a teenager whose death was subject to a mismanaged review process is set to face an investigation by the General Medical Council.
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News
Revealed: NHSE tenders for overseas inspiration on covid-19 recovery
NHS England and Improvement have sought inspiration from a handful of countries around the world to help the service’s recovery from the covid-19 pandemic, new documents have revealed.
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News
Daily Insight: Follow my leader
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
ICSs asked for ‘fully staffed’ long covid plans by mid-July
NHS England has asked integrated care systems to develop ‘fully staffed’ long covid treatment plans in the next month, and is providing £70m to enable them to do so.
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Expert Briefing
The Download: Where the GP data-sharing scheme went wrong
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by senior correspondent Nick Carding.
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Comment
NHS leaders must be made accountable for reducing health inequalities
Work to address health inequalities, including ethnic health inequalities, should be elevated to a ‘must do’ rather than a ‘nice to have’, write Habib Naqvi and Richard Murray
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News
New health bill may create ‘bureaucratic nightmare’, ICS leader warns
The senior NHS leader who is representing integrated care systems has warned government and NHS reform proposals risk creating a ‘bureaucratic nightmare’.
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Comment
Spend big and go slow on re-organisation: the secret to fixing waiting times
As health and social care grapples with post-pandemic challenges, a look back at the effect of the original Wanless report released 20 years ago reveals some things are still the same and some radically different, writes Nicholas Timmins
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Comment
Kate Grimes was wrong to claim the NHS should not work with Stonewall
Gemma Stone offers her response to a piece by former hospital CEO Kate Grimes which claimed that working with the Stonewall charity on Trans rights issues was ‘incompatible’ with NHS values. Editor’s note: the number of comments the article by Ms Grimes and this reply have attracted underline how sensitive ...