All Health Service Journal articles in May 2021 – Page 3
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HSJ Local
CEO to take over third teaching trust
The chief executive of two acute providers is set to take over the leadership of a third teaching trust in Lancashire.
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News
Hancock: 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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News
Digital health service provided care without CQC registration
A digital paediatric and maternity service which says it has ‘saved the life of a child’ operated for up to seven months without a Care Quality Commission registration, it has emerged.
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News
NHS chiefs press Treasury for ‘game-changing’ discharge fund
NHS leaders are pressing government for a ‘game changing’ discharge fund to be made permanently available.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: The (incomplete) picture of eating disorder performance
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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News
Covid hospital patient numbers stop falling, as admissions increase across England
The number of covid patients in English hospitals has stopped declining, with hospitalisation in the North West beginning to increase and admissions rising across the country.
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News
Revealed: Ten-fold increase in children waiting too long for specialist care
The number of children and young people waiting longer than recommended for admission to a mental health bed has increased nearly ten-fold since last summer, according to figures from one NHS region seen by HSJ.
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News
Daily Insight: Race and the NHS
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Deaths of covid hospital patients hit record low
The deaths of covid positive patients in English hospitals has hit a record low.
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News
Leaked report reveals trust failings over ‘racially aggravated attack’
A hospital trust’s management has apologised, after being heavily criticised by an independent review for ‘letting down’ a staff member who reported suffering a racially aggravated attack while on duty.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Why two ICS bosses quit
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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Comment
Our ICS promises partners they will own what they create
Helen Hirst discusses the approach adopted to design the ICS and ICPs, and manage the changes to clinical commissioning framework for serving local communities
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News
Racial ‘disparity ratios’ created for each trust to root out ‘racist practice’ in NHS systems
‘Disparity ratios’ highlighting how staff with minority ethnic backgrounds are represented at different levels in each trust have been created by the national workforce race equality standard programme to help tackle ‘racist practice’ in the NHS.
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HSJ Partners
Relieving health inequity in elective care access after the pandemic
By working together and utilising the ‘four Is’, health and care systems can build a fairer system with less unwarranted variation. Andrew Moran explains how this population health management approach could work.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: Waiting for The People’s Dominic
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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News
Daily Insight: How to face the fourth wave
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
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.
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Slippery surpluses, dangerous devices and constrained comms
Your essential update on health for the week.
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News
Tory MP: No business in the world would treat their staff like the NHS
The NHS must significantly improve its training offer to staff, or risk losing many of them according to two Conservative MPs who are also clinicians.
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News
Exclusive: NHS plans to keep electives at 80pc in next covid surge
NHS England has asked hospitals to prepare for a potential further surge of covid cases reaching around half the level of first wave of the virus last year – and to seek to deliver 80 per cent of normal elective activity throughout it, HSJ has learned.