All Health Service Journal articles in June 2023
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HSJ Interactive
HSJ webinar discussed how electronic bed management can improve patient flow and capacity management in hospitals
In association with An on-demand version of this webinar is available. Trusts are under tremendous pressure to move patients through accident and emergency into a hospital bed and eventually out into community care or their own homes. With growing staff shortages and capacity constraints, the NHS is ...
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Daily Insight
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Improvers wanted, culture attacked and wages deducted
Your essential update on health for the week.
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Comment
Tackling the four fold regional difference in life saving stroke care
Thrombectomy stroke treatment is a life-saving procedure, but England’s low treatment rates are causing patients to miss out. Urgent action is needed to prioritise 24/7 access and improve outcomes
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HSJ Partners
Supporting NHS recovery through reprioritising covid-19
This content has been developed and paid for by Pfizer UK. Three years on from covid-19 Over the last three years, the NHS has experienced some of the most acute pressures in its now 75-year history.1 Last winter, the strain was heightened by the “tripledemic” of covid-19, ...
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Comment
The .001 per cent investment that can open the NHS's analytics goldmine
Andi Orlowski writes about the need for a resourced workforce plan to train and retain data analysts in the NHS, ensuring analytical capabilities align with NHS values and standards
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HSJ Interactive
What role might better data play in overcoming patient safety challenges?
Making data on medical interventions easier to collect and collate would increase the odds of spotting patterns of harm, according to the panel of a recent HSJ webinar
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Comment
District councils are the NHS’s natural health improvement partners
District councils play a crucial role in addressing health inequalities and the wider determinants of health within integrated care systems, emphasising the need for prevention and local partnerships, writes Ian Fytche
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News
Patients face medicine shortages as private market buys up drugs
A critical year-long shortage of vital type 2 diabetes medicines is being driven partly by its demand as a weight loss aid, with figures suggesting more than half the prescribing for one drug is through the private market, HSJ has learned.
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News
Ministers refuse to set target for ending maternal deaths disparity
The government has rejected calls to set a target and strategy to end ‘appalling’ disparities in maternal deaths.
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News
NHS England seeks CEO and chair for ‘national improvement board’
NHS England has begun recruiting for leadership roles – including a chief executive – for its recently announced national improvement board.
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News
Hunt demands ‘challenging’ productivity improvements in return for training cash
The chancellor has told HSJ he has agreed “ambitious improvements in productivity” with NHS leaders as part of negotiations for the long-term workforce plan.
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HSJ Local
‘Misogyny’ and ‘medical patriarchy’ widespread at major trust, reports find
A major teaching trust is dominated by a ‘medical patriarchy’, while ‘misogynistic behaviour’ is a regular occurrence, two investigations have discovered.
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News
NHS staff could be banned from agency work, says workforce plan
Substantive NHS staff may have to be blocked from undertaking work for the service through agencies and instead have to sign up with the temporary staffing banks operated by trusts, says the new NHS long-term workforce plan.
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News
ICSs handed leading role in delivering long-term workforce plan
Integrated care systems have been given a lengthy to-do list as part of the drive to deliver the NHS’s long-term workforce plan.
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News
NHSE inks £775m contract for key Microsoft software
NHS England has signed a deal worth £775m to provide local NHS organisations with Microsoft products and software for the next five years.
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HSJ Local
Trust mounts £2m legal challenge against councils
An acute trust has mounted a legal challenge against three councils after its bid to secure almost £2m to offset demand pressure from thousands of new homes was rejected.
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HSJ Local
Trust chief resigns ahead of provider joining ‘group model’
A community trust chief executive has announced she is stepping down, ahead of a new provider group being formed with a neighbouring acute.
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Daily Insight
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Unknown costs, hospital pipelines and Selbie’s salvo
Your essential update on health for the week.
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HSJ Partners
Guidance on bladder cancer needs to be more specific still
Efforts to reduce variation in treatment for bladder cancer are welcome, but panellists at a recent roundtable event spoke of the need to develop more specific approaches to target patients at the highest risk of poor outcomes
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Comment
Hello Glastonbury! Sir David’s Spinal Tap moment
He invaded the Pyramid Stage to make the NHS’s 75th birthday celebrations even more special. What a pity no one knew who he was, writes Julian Patterson