All Matt Hancock articles – Page 4
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NewsNHS 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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Expert BriefingThe 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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NewsNew 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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CommentCowper’s Cut: Workforce matters
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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NewsHancock: ‘no evidence that a shortage of PPE led to anybody dying of covid’
The official estimate of the number of health and social care staff to have died from coronavirus during the pandemic now stands at around 1,500, Matt Hancock told a Parliamentary committee today.
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NewsHancock hits back at Cummings allegations
Matt Hancock today rejected the incendiary allegations made about him by the PM’s former advisor Dominic Cummings, including that the health secretary had lied ‘to everybody on multiple occasions’.
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NewsHancock brings in top GP to help save controversial ‘data grab’
Matt Hancock has asked a leading GP and the UK’s top statistician to help NHS Digital’s data-sharing programme, which was delayed after backlash from professional bodies and privacy groups.
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NewsMinisters bow to NHS pressure to delay GP data scheme
The government has delayed going live with a new data-sharing scheme by two months, amid warnings from its project lead that ploughing ahead risked “losing public and professional trust” in the NHS’ handling of patient data.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Severed but not broken
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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HSJ LocalNew leader pledges support for controversial single county ICS
The new Conservative leader of Essex County Council Kevin Bentley has put himself on a collision course with senior NHS leaders in his area by throwing his support behind the health secretary’s vision for a single county integrated care system.
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HSJ InteractiveThe use of data post-covid
Andrew Thompson – chief technology officer and acting digital health lead at Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System – discussed how the ICS is seeking to make data more easily accessible and actionable across the region. Meanwhile David Seymour, alliance executive director at Health Data Research UK, gave a ...
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CommentCowper’s Cut: “Tens of thousands of people died who didn’t need to die”
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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NewsHancock broke ministerial code over family firm’s NHS deal revealed by HSJ
The health secretary breached the ministerial code by not declaring a firm run by his sister and brother-in-law had been put on a framework to supply the NHS, the government’s independent adviser on ministers’ interests has ruled.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Dominic Cummings’ fire and brimstone
Dominic Cummings set the Commons health committee on fire with his serious allegations about Matt Hancock’s handling of the pandemic earlier this week.
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NewsCQC to focus on services where there is a ‘greater risk of a poor culture going undetected’
The Care Quality Commission has revealed a new strategy that will place more emphasis on a patient’s experience of care and seek to get a better grip on ”care settings where there’s a greater risk of a poor culture going undetected”.
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NewsClaims around protecting care homes from covid ‘complete nonsense’, says Cummings
Dominic Cummings has said official claims around care homes being protected from covid-positive patients who were discharged from hospitals last year are “complete nonsense”.
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NewsCummings: ‘Hancock lied to everybody and wrongly accused Stevens over PPE’
Dominic Cummings has accused Matt Hancock of ‘lying to everybody on multiple occasions’, including about NHS chief Sir Simon Stevens blocking crucial orders of personal protective equipment.
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HSJ PartnersICSs must put the basics in place to achieve digital transformation
Technology is essential to the transformation agenda but ICSs will face several challenges as well as huge opportunities as they work towards digital maturity
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NewsHancock: ICSs to be rated on safety, integration and leadership
Safety and quality, as well as integration and leadership, will be a “core focus” for the Care Quality Commission’s ratings of integrated care systems, health secretary Matt Hancock has indicated.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Waiting for The People’s Dominic
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.