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NewsTriple award success for HSJ team
The HSJ team took home a trio of awards at the AOP Digital Publishing Awards 2021 today.
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NewsICS admits 14 of its major services are ‘fragile and challenged’
Fourteen of an integrated care system’s major services — which account for the ‘majority of [its] planned care’ — have been described as ‘fragile and challenged’.
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NewsMajor survey reveals ‘best and worst’ A&Es for patient satisfaction
A survey of almost 50,000 patients by the Care Quality Commission found people’s experiences of emergency departments improved in 2020, compared to the last time the poll was conducted in 2018.
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News‘Everything up for grabs’ as NHS reviews ‘long-term plan’ goals
NHS England is reviewing the commitments to improve services made in its long-term plan, with senior officials believing many of them cannot be met under last week’s funding settlement and after the damage of the pandemic, HSJ has learned.
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NewsDaily Insight: When culture, not covid, is to blame
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ Local‘Severe pressures’ driving two-month waits for urgent scans
A trust in the Midlands has cited ‘severe pressures’ on its imaging department which mean patients are waiting more than two months for urgent scans that should normally happen within two weeks.
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NewsTrust put in ‘special measures’ as inspection finds ‘culture of bullying’
A hospital trust is being put in ‘special measures’ after ‘a culture of bullying’ and ‘racial discrimination’ was reported during an inspection.
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NewsTroubled provider sees ‘outstanding’ services downgraded to ‘inadequate’
A mental health trust already subject to an inquiry into a string of adult patient deaths has had its rating for children’s wards downgraded from “outstanding” to “inadequate”.
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NewsDaily Insight: Now you see me
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsCQC chief inspector to retire
The Care Quality Commission’s chief inspector of hospitals, Ted Baker, has announced he will retire in March next year.
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HSJ LocalCEO ‘astonished’ by how few junior doctors meet their senior directors
A retiring chief executive was “astonished” how many junior doctors had never met the senior directors of their hospitals — and stressed how being visible on the wards is “critical” to good leadership.
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NewsPrivate provider’s takeover of urgent service sparks union opposition
A private organisation’s takeover of a hospital’s urgent treatment centre has sparked opposition from staff and trade unions.
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NHS leaders ‘set for fight’ amid signs mental health will miss out on new funding
Mental health leaders are preparing for a “fight” over the new NHS funding announced by the government, with senior sources saying none of the new money has been earmarked for the sector.
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NewsDaily Insight: Moving the goalposts
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsExclusive: New hospitals bottom of public’s NHS priorities
Building new hospitals ranks bottom on the public’s priority list for the NHS, according to a new poll shared exclusively with HSJ.
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NewsNearly half of hospital trusts hit ‘unsafe’ occupancy levels
The number of acute trusts running at very high bed occupancy hit a new peak last week, with nearly half of acute trusts over NHS England’s 92 per cent benchmark, analysis shows.
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NewsHospital trust makes chief permanent after two years
England’s most high-profile hospital trust has appointed its interim chief executive on a permanent basis after two years.
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NewsThe Primer: Social insurance and social care
The Primer provides a rapid guide to the most interesting comment and analysis on the English health and care sector that has not (usually) appeared in HSJ.
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NewsJavid wants review of ‘nonsense’ NHS targets
Health secretary Sajid Javid has called for a ‘proper review of NHS targets’ after describing some targets as ‘nonsense’.
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NewsNHS England appoints top trust chief to support elective recovery
Sir Jim Mackey has been brought in by NHS England to advise on elective recovery, it was announced today.