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News‘Significant risk’ to GP practices over clinical waste firm’s capacity problems
GPs across six counties in southern England are being affected by a major supplier of clinical waste services’ capacity problems, with some practices warning it could cause them to close.
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NewsDirector of beleaguered Test and Trace replaced by trust CEO
A director of the beleaguered coronavirus test and trace programme has been replaced by a trust chief executive, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTwo Midlands trusts curb electives as covid patients rise
Two major Midlands trusts have begun cancelling planned care, including cancer surgeries, with one seeing its number of covid patients reach levels seen during April.
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NewsCritical care nursing ratio diluted for second wave
Intensive care specialists have given their blessing to a diluting of the nurse-to-patient ratio in critical care for the second wave of covid in the UK — but they have warned the measure is ‘not sustainable in the long term’.
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NewsTrust becomes first to see a third of beds filled by covid patients during second wave
Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust has more than a third of its general and acute beds occupied by covid patients, according to HSJ’s analysis of NHS data.
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NewsGovernment placing delivery of £8bn tech improvements ‘at risk’
The govenment’s ‘confused’ management of the NHS’ technology needs is placing the ‘successful delivery’ of badly needed improvements ‘at risk’, a powerful group of MPs have claimed.
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NewsNorth East and Yorkshire becomes first region to exceed first wave covid bed occupancy
There are more people with covid in the hospital beds of the North East and Yorkshire NHS region than there were in the first wave of the pandemic.
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NewsPandemic delays national efforts to transform primary care IT
National efforts to end a reliance by GPs on just two major IT companies have been stymied by the pandemic, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Covid-positive care home plan failing to relieve pressure on crowded hospitals
Trusts in more than half English local authorities still do not have an agreed safe place to discharge recovering covid patients to, despite the government asking councils to identify at least one such ‘designated setting’ by the end of October.
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NewsGPs given wearable ‘mood monitoring’ devices in wellbeing drive
Wearable devices will monitor the mood of all 70 staff at a large GP practice, in a trial aimed at improving employee health and wellbeing.
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NewsNHS England reinstates central control powers as covid risk rating is increased
The NHS has been returned to the highest level of risk on its emergency preparedness framework, a move which allows national leaders tighter control over local resources and decision making.
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NewsExclusive: ‘Very low’ uptake of covid death payments by families of health and care staff
The families of fewer than half of the 547 NHS and social care staff who have died from covid are on course to benefit from the government’s £60,000 compensation package, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsSenior medics urge trusts to protect electives by boosting post-op care
Senior medics urge trusts to protect electives by boosting post-op careospitals are being urged to set up enhanced post-operative care services to free up critical care beds and protect electives in the face of a covid winter surge.
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NewsExclusive: Nearly 40,000 wrongly told to get a flu jab
The NHS has erroneously written to thousands of patients who have had glandular fever in the past asking them to get a flu jab from their GP.
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NewsICSs should have ‘accountability’ for public health, says new national lead
Responsibility for some public health services should sit with ‘integrated care systems’ once they are given a statutory basis, says the new chief executive of NHS Clinical Commissioners.
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NewsGo-ahead given for hospital rebuild backed by PM
Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock has given the go-ahead to the building of a new ‘specialist emergency hospital’ – which was pledged as one of six major rebuilds by the prime minister – the month after it was called in.
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NewsExclusive: Hospitals 70pc more full than April
There are 70 per cent more people in hospital now as when England was approaching its spring covid-19 peak, and twice as many non-covid patients, according to official figures leaked to HSJ.
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NewsAmbulance trust stands down major incident
An ambulance trust stood down a major incident this evening as it was swamped with calls.
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NewsTrust chief steps down to join national covid testing team
The chief executive of a hospital trust is standing down to join national work on testing for covid-19, HSJ understands.
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NewsTrust ‘could have avoided four never events’ if it had acted on alert
A trust which had four ‘never events’ where patients were connected to air rather than an oxygen supply could have avoided them if it had been more proactive when a national patient safety alert was sent out several years earlier, a report has found.