All Health Service Journal articles in May 2021 – Page 6
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HSJ Local
Supplier to ‘every NHS trust’ placed in special measures
Patients have come to avoidable harm after a large private provider failed to deliver thousands of medicine prescriptions, according to a report from the Care Quality Commission.
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Comment
So it begins: the real elective backlog starts to emerge
Referrals are up year-on-year, for the first time since covid restrictions began. But activity is not.
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News
Doctors want tougher line on racist patients
GPs’ representatives have called on the government to taker a tougher line on racist patients, including preventing patients from refusing doctors who have a minority ethnic background.
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News
Interim finance chief’s row with CCG over ‘warm words’ revealed
An interim finance director who was embroiled in a row with his former employer over whether he should be permanently appointed has lost his employment tribunal.
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News
Patients needing scans to be ranked on risk of becoming disabled
Patients awaiting a diagnostic test are to be assessed according to risk of becoming disabled as the service tries to prioritise in the face of huge backlogs.
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Comment
End of life fast track care is a postcode lottery
Fast Track CHC funding can be crucial in allowing people to die in the place of their choosing — with many wishing to spend their final days at home rather than in hospital — but many CCGs are still missing the mark, writes Mark Jackson, policy manager, England at Marie ...
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News
Revealed: the 12 ICSs receiving £160m to meet elective target
Twelve integrated care systems and a coalition of children’s hospitals will receive a share of a £160m fund and commit to delivering 120 per cent of their pre-covid elective activity levels by July.
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News
Nearly half of eye patients at Hancock’s local trust waiting more than a year
The East of England has been revealed as the worst-performing region for long ophthalmology waits, with almost half the waiting list at one acute trust already breaching the 52-week milestone.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: A&E has plunged into a ‘performance vacuum’
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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Comment
The new NHS Bill is an ideal opportunity to improve workforce planning
Over the next decade the NHS will need a funding settlement that reflects the challenge of recruiting and retaining enough staff, catering to the quality of workforce planning, writes Anita Charlesworth.
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Expert Briefing
The Ward Round: The pandemic's disproportionate toll on female staff
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, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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HSJ Local
Hospital chief: ‘If I was a man from Manchester, I’d have been a CEO 10 years ago’
A new provider chief executive says her path to the top job would have been 10 years quicker if she was male and from somewhere more fashionable than Bolton.
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News
Trusts to form first-of-its-kind group
Two East Midlands mental health and community trusts have agreed to what HSJ understands is a first-of-its-kind group arrangement.
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News
Provider ‘dismisses’ CEO as regulators question governance and oversight
The directors of an east London primary care provider have told HSJ the organisation’s chief executive has been ‘dismissed’.
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News
Daily Insight: Len’s turnaround task
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
New law to dissolve CCGs and curtail the internal market confirmed
The government has confirmed its commitment to bring in new health legislation during this Parliament, but social care reform has again been ‘kicked into the long grass’.
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HSJ Local
New CEO appointed at northern acute trust
Len Richards will take the helm at the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust in October after four years as the chief executive of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board.
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News
Families launch court case in bid for public inquiry into deaths
The Department of Health and Social Care is facing being taken to court over an inquiry it launched into the deaths of dozens of mental health patients in Essex.
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News
Ex-health minister to chair trust
A former public health minister has been appointed chair of a mental health trust.