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Expert BriefingImPatient: How patients risk getting left behind when tech moves fast
Patient (Lived Experience) Leadership is about those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability who want to influence change through being equal partners in decision making. In this monthly expert briefing, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the ...
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Staffing the virtual hospital and AVT dilemmas
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Joe Talora, Ben Clover and Ella Devereux. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: AVT winners, the App’s future and how to get funding
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Joe Talora and Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Baroness Amos’ interim report sparks a sense of déjà vu
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
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NewsHospitals must update 100,000 pacemakers after safety fault
Hospitals are having to update more than 100,000 patients’ pacemakers – and replace hundreds of the devices – after the manufacturer discovered their batteries run down years early, HSJ has learned.
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CommentYou have until Monday to help influence the NHS's use of AI
NHS leaders are being asked to help shape how AI tools are tested, deployed and governed as the MHRA’s national commission seeks to balance innovation with patient safety
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Expert BriefingImPatient: Patient-centred AI regulation – a call to action
Patient (Lived Experience) Leadership is about those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability who want to influence change through being equal partners in decision making. In this monthly expert briefing, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the ...
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NewsNICE names new CEO amid government ‘power grab’ plans
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has named its new chief executive.
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NewsRevealed: Home monitoring operating under lowest level of regulation
Several technologies in use in the NHS are operating under the lowest level of medical device regulation, despite being advertised for remote monitoring of patients’ vital signs, HSJ can reveal.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: A risk too far
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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NewsGovernment steps in to ‘accelerate’ AI in the NHS
AI regulation will be clarified by a major commission to help the NHS and investors “accelerate uptake”, the government has announced.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Will league tables lead to hitting the target but missing the point?
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
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NewsDHSC staffing spend up under Labour
Spending on staff at the Department of Health and Social Care and seven other central agencies has increased by more than 10 per cent since Labour came to power, analysis shows.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE orders trusts to halt ‘safety risk’ AI projects
NHS England has been forced to warn trusts and GPs against adopting “non-compliant” AI technology which “risks clinical safety, data protection breaches [and] financial exposure”.
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HSJ LocalExec leaves £3bn trust to run regulator
A major London acute will see both its chief executive and deputy chief executive leave post this year, as the latter has been named the new boss of a regulator.
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CommentReducing the impact and £2bn cost of adverse drug reactions
Alison Cave writes how new technology continues to drive the Yellow Card scheme forward, serving to improve user experience and streamline reporting, in order to enhance patient safety
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HSJ Local11,000 patients may have been given wrong test result
Up to 11,000 patients may have received incorrect test results – including being misdiagnosed as diabetic – due to an equipment error at a trust, HSJ has learned.
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NewsHospital forced to close sterile unit after leak
A trust has been forced to close its sterile drugs production unit due to “increasing infrastructure weakness”, risking a £3m annual bill for purchasing the medicines.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: ‘They are professionals. We need to trust them.’
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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News‘Horrifying’ failure to provide safety warnings for high-risk medicine
Concerns have been raised that patients may not be receiving “vital” safety information after HSJ discovered a high-risk medication was frequently not being dispensed as originally packaged.