All Health Service Journal articles in May 2022 – Page 3
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: A challenging target
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ Local
Ockenden to chair Nottingham maternity review
Donna Ockenden will chair the independent review of Nottingham University Hospitals Trust’s maternity services, following sustained pressure from the families involved.
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Comment
A nationally-endorsed vision that defines integrated primary care services
In view of Dr Claire Fuller’s recently published stocktake on how primary care can work with ICSs, Toby Lewis reflects on the challenges and solutions to implement its recommendations
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News
Three more directors depart top team at trust with ‘significant bullying problem’
One of the country’s most high-profile mental health trusts has lost more members of its top team, with two senior leaders leaving just weeks after the departures of its chair and chief executive were announced.
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News
Trusts lose out on cash after safety ‘mis-declarations’
Three trusts have lost out on more than £1m in rebate from the maternity clinical negligence scheme after they ‘mis-declared’ that they were compliant with safety requirements.
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Expert Briefing
The Ward Round: Calling BS
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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News
Primary care networks must become ‘neighbourhood teams’, says review for NHSE
All primary care networks should evolve into ‘integrated neighbourhood teams’ in a bid to improve services, an NHS England review into the ‘next steps’ for primary care has said.
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: Back to basics
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Revealed: The 27 trusts still without an electronic patient record
Almost 30 NHS trusts do not have comprehensive electronic patient records amid a renewed push by government to get electronic systems into all NHS hospitals, according to HSJ research.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: 80pc of the elective challenge
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
Volunteers are not a ‘nice to have’ for NHS services
It is time for a more strategic approach to identify areas where volunteers play a crucial role for NHS trusts, writes Helen Gilburt
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HSJ Local
‘Total IT failure’ at four hospitals sparks safety concerns
Four hospitals in Greater Manchester are struggling with a near ‘total IT failure’ which has forced staff in all key services to use handwritten lists and notes.
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HSJ Partners
A person-centred, digital-first approach to recovery
Ensuring that patient pathways are digitally enabled and person centred is critical to tackling the elective backlog, writes Patricia Wynn.
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News
Return to work scheme scrapped after just five doctors find jobs
A Health Education England programme to help doctors who had left medicine return to practice has been abolished after it found work for just five medics.
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News
Exclusive: Ambulance service will collapse by August, predicts its nursing director
A struggling ambulance trust could face a ‘Titanic moment’ and collapse entirely this summer if the region’s worsening problems with hospital handover delays are not taken more seriously, its nursing director has told HSJ.
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: Seeking clarity from confusion
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: A life and death situation
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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News
Trusts block pensions deal for senior medics, claiming it is ‘unfair’ on other staff
Ten of the most pressured NHS trusts have refused to offer ‘pension recycling’ to help senior doctors avoid higher pension taxes, with sources saying this would be ‘totally unfair’ on lower paid staff.
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Comment
The NHS must be more ambitious in combating inequalities faced by disabled staff
As the country’s largest healthcare provider and employer, the NHS is uniquely positioned to play a central and pioneering role in tackling inequalities both for disabled patients and its disabled staff, writes Oliver Potter
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HSJ Local
New chair for acute trust
An acute trust struggling with emergency care pressures has appointed a new chair.