All Health Service Journal articles in May 2021 – Page 7
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News
Top managers’ pay has fallen nearly 5pc, says government
The salaries of the country’s top-earning very senior managers have fallen by nearly 5 per cent in recent years, the government has said.
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News
Daily Insight: Overseas and under consideration
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
The overseas leaders who could – but probably won’t – become the next NHS England chief
The NHS has little chance of attracting an overseas healthcare leader to become the new chief executive of NHS England, according to a wide range of informed and senior sources who spoke to HSJ.
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HSJ Partners
How we are addressing waiting lists and social inequalities at scale
Nigel Foster on the need to not just restore services and reduce backlogs but to tackle potential inequalities in access, experience and outcomes
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News
Regulator removes struggling hospital’s junior doctors
Ten junior doctors have been removed from a struggling hospital over concerns they were being left without adequate supervision on understaffed wards.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: Bracing times and the vaccination bounce
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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News
PM: ‘More funding required’ to ‘restore and rebuild’ NHS
The prime minister will declare that ‘more funding will be required’ to ‘restore and rebuild’ the NHS after covid-19, and that government will be ‘setting out in detail the huge scale of the challenge’ for the service.
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News
NHS ramps up digital staff passport plans
NHS England and NHS Improvement has set out plans to significantly widen the use of the digital staff ‘passport’, a temporary version of which was rolled out last year in response to the pandemic.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: How trusts compared on the NHS staff survey
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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Comment
Fining NHS trusts is a pointless gesture
Peter Carter points out better ways need to be constructed than prosecuting NHS trusts and spending money on legal costs as means of improving standards and eliminating poor practice
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Comment
The non-covid dividends from Test and Trace
The UK’s covid testing work offers several promising — and dramatic — longer term dividends for public health and healthcare, says Axel Heitmueller, who oversaw developments at NHS Test and Trace.
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News
700 anaesthetists may not secure a training job this summer, warns royal college
A perfect storm of pandemic pressures, changes to the medical curriculum and inadequate Health Education England funding threatens to leave 700 anaesthetists without a job this summer, HSJ has learned.
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Payouts, properties and PPE
Your essential update on health for the week.
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News
Daily Insight: Insult follows injury
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ Partners
Digital can help unclog your elective care back-log
New digital solutions that support asynchronous communication between clinicians could transform elective care and aid in tackling the expanding waiting lists
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: Who will be the next chief executive of NHS England?
With Sir Simon Stevens stepping down from the NHS’ top job in July, the 12-week countdown to find a successor begins.
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HSJ Partners
Listening to the silence: What does the NHS staff survey tell us about Freedom to Speak Up?
Dr Henrietta Hughes urges all leaders within the health sector to ask whether staff feel safe to speak up in their own workforce surveys
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Comment
Analysis: the long road to restoring elective care performance
How bad will elective waiting times get? And what will we need to do about it? Rob Findlay crunches the numbers.
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News
Chief exec moves from trust to ICS
A trust chief executive has been seconded to become the accountable officer of its local clinical commissioning group and the dedicated leader of its integrated care system — despite a question mark over whether the ICS will be allowed to exist.
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Daily Insight: Ready, willing and Abell?
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.