HSJ Value Awards 2021: HSJ Value Pilot Project of the Year
The project’s purpose was the redistribution of power, whereby citizens identify local needs and coproduce the agenda for improving quality in the Barkantine practice, Tower Hamlets. The project embodied power sharing at every level: system collaboration via a steering group, and a project team that included staff and community.
Regulator warns trust over serious safety concerns
Regulators ordered a trust to take immediate action after it found junior doctors were seeing acute inpatients alone, the year after a psychiatric patient stabbed a doctor at one of the provider’s hospitals.
Revealed: the London trusts yet to vaccinate a quarter of their staff
There is a gap of around 30 percentage points in staff uptake of the covid-19 vaccination between different London trusts, according to figures seen by HSJ.
Exclusive: NHS setting up dozens of mass covid vaccination centres and seeking 40,000 staff
The health service is setting up more than 40 mass vaccination centres, and working on recruiting tens of thousands of staff for the huge covid-19 vaccination effort, HSJ has learned.
HSJ80 full list: The most influential people in health
The HSJ80 lists the figures who will exercise the most power and/or influence in the English NHS and health policy over the next 12 months
HSJ Value Awards 2020: Facilities Management or Estates Initiative of the Year
The project was set up to:
HSJ Value Awards 2020: Specialist Service Redesign Initiative
The place based paediatric offer across Tameside and Glossop consists of a number of initiatives that support children and their families being seen and treated by the most appropriate professional, at the right time and in the right place:
Revealed: The trusts put on notice over risks to staff
NHS providers were given 40 official warnings because regulators believed they were failing to protect staff from violence, injury and hazardous substances in the past two years, HSJ can reveal.
Two-thirds of trusts failing to protect staff from violence
Around two-thirds of NHS providers were found to be breaking laws aimed at protecting staff from violence and aggression, when inspected by the Health and Safety Executive, information released to HSJ reveals.
NHS England director backs tighter recruitment checks
NHS England’s national director for mental health is considering asking trusts to look at their recruitment processes, after discovering her own trust had hired a nurse who previously falsified a care plan.
Revealed: The trusts testing latest round of emergency targets
New mental health emergency care targets will be trialled across 11 NHS organisations and one social enterprise, NHS England has confirmed.
Regulator bans trust from taking on new apprentices
An ambulance trust has been temporarily barred from training new apprentices after a critical report from the education regulator.
Prisoners face 'year-long' waits for hospital beds
Prisoners are waiting for as long as a year to access secure beds in psychiatric hospitals, despite guidance stating they should be transferred within 14 days.
Pay deal row erupts between government and NHS England
A row has broken out between the government and NHS England over £50m funding for NHS staff pay.
Inadequate CCG making 'good progress' after scathing review
An inadequate-rated clinical commissioning group, which was heavily criticised in a review of its governance, leadership and operations, is now making “good progress” on addressing its problems, a follow-up report has said.
Mental health trusts reporting high levels of violence
Mental health trusts are continuing to experience higher than average incidences of violence against staff, the NHS staff survey has shown.
Exclusive: Trusts 'limiting access' to psychosis services
Struggling community teams have resorted to “limiting access” to services for seriously ill patients as investment fails to reach the front line, an official report has claimed.
New Year honours for hospital bosses and NHS England staff
Hospital chief executives and senior NHS England staff were among those named in the New Year’s Honours list.
Preferred bidder named for controversial £450m contract
A London trust has been named as the preferred bidder for a £450m community services contract that has been criticised for not offering enough money to meet its service obligations.