All King's Fund articles – Page 6
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News
Exclusive: Trial A&E target ‘driving completely the wrong behaviours’
A new accident and emergency target which could be introduced early next year is “driving completely the wrong behaviours”, senior clinicians have told HSJ.
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News
All major trusts miss four-hour target as performance plunges across NHS
Not one of the NHS’ major hospital trusts hit the four-hour 95 per cent standard in November as performance across core metrics plummeted to new lows in the face of record demand.
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Comment
The parties’ dividing lines on health and care
There is some surprising agreement amongst the three major English parties when it comes to the NHS. But once you move away from the core of acute and primary care there are stark differences too, argues Sally Warren.
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Expert Briefing
The Ward Round: Filling the leaky bucket
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night — and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, will make sure you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping ...
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Expert Briefing
Performance Watch: Flu has arrived early, fuelling NHS winter concerns
HSJ’s Performance Watch expert briefing is our fortnightly newsletter on the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders. Contact me in confidence here.
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Comment
Health and care workforce being hollowed out
For the foreseeable future the NHS and social care system will be very reliant on international workers to prevent staffing shortages from impacting on patient care and acting as a brake on ambitions to improve quality, writes Anita Charlesworth
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Expert Briefing
The dearth of system leaders
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by integration correspondent, Sharon Brennan.
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Comment
Should integrated care systems be performance managers?
Whether ICSs should be relatively thin organisations or become more health authority-like structures is still a mater of debate among their leaders, writes Nicholas Timmins
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Comment
The NHS and local government: love thy neighbour?
The mediating actions of health and wellbeing boards can bridge the gap between the local government and the NHS. By Richard Murray.
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Comment
Is underinvestment in public health setting up ICSs to fail?
William Pett reflects on concerns among STPs and ICSs that it will be they who pay the price for the ongoing squeeze on the public health grant
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News
NHSX senior adviser: Slow IT at your trust? Quit
A senior NHSX technology adviser has urged clinicians to move to more digitally-advanced trusts if they are unhappy with their current workplace’s technology.
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News
Revealed: Government preparing for nurse funding U-turn
The government is gearing up to announce reforms of financial support for NHS student nurses – likely to include a major reversal in funding policy – to boost applications.
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Comment
‘Short-termism at its worst’: why managers must be included in pension reforms
The government’s pension reforms are welcome, but they unfairly discriminate against many NHS staff. By Finn O’Dwyer-Cunliffe
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Comment
Spending round leaves questions about health and social care’s future unresolved
The chancellor’s announcement signalled the worst of austerity may be over, but that doesn’t mean we now have a clear plan for future public spending and reform. By Anita Charlesworth
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News
Government’s new training funding ‘not enough’
The chancellor today confirmed a real terms increase in the NHS education and training budget next year – but was warned this is “not enough to tackle the workforce crisis”.
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Comment
Investing in healthcare students’ education is essential
Following the plea from Simon Stevens to better support healthcare students, Danny Mortimer of NHS Employers considers the impact of education funding policy changes and identifies the priorities in supporting qualified staff to meet the needs of the long-term plan.
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News
Exclusive: Trust bosses back threatened four-hour target
More than seven in 10 hospital trust board members want to retain the four-hour accident and emergency target, despite NHS England proposals suggesting it could be ditched next year, an exclusive HSJ survey has found.
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Comment
Start work on realistic workforce planning
Workforce culture at the NHS requires a seismic shift at every level, note Ben Gershlick, Billy Palmer and Suzzie Bailey.
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News
Stevens: Nursing bursary question ‘clearly back in play’
Simon Stevens has said the debate over reintroducing a nursing bursary is “back in play” because the NHS needs a bigger pipeline of newly qualified nurses.
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