All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 173
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CommentCovid made the NHS realise the value of HR departments
In many ways the critical link between the health and wellbeing of NHS staff and patient care has been brought into sharp focus by the pandemic, highlighting the importance of HR in protecting and promoting positive relationships at work, writes Richard Saundry.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The circular firing squad
As the news over covid-19 hospitalisations and deaths inevitably ramps up during the coming months, the fear factor will drive the blame game to ever less adequate and rational behaviour, writes Andy Cowper.
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NewsRevealed: Full picture of how covid is hitting hospitals in the north
The most comprehensive picture so far of how covid’s second wave has hit the NHS in the north of England is revealed in new figures obtained by HSJ.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The North reaches boiling point
On the podcast this week, we try to get to the bottom of this week’s political furore in the North West, the confusion that ensued and the impact the continued rise in covid admissions could have on normal NHS work. We also discover quite how long it takes to heat ...
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NewsExclusive: NHS faces winter with ‘2,000 less’ beds than last year
The NHS has ‘significantly less’ beds now than last winter and parts of the system ‘don’t have enough’, a NHS England and Improvement director has admitted.
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CommentThe NHS must aim for more than just recovering dementia diagnosis rates
It is time to press reset and put in place more streamlined and consistent diagnostic services across the country, writes Fiona Carragher
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NewsCQC reveals some patients have spent a decade in seclusion
The Care Quality Commission has called for ‘ministerial ownership’ to end the ‘inhumane’ care of patients with learning difficulties and autism in hospital – after finding some cases where people had been held in long-term segregation for more than 10 years.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: ‘Stay away patients’ are causing alarm
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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CommentWill provider collaboratives crowd out community and specialist care?
The idea of health and care providers working together has taken on new significance in the fast-evolving system landscape. Providers collaborate in multiple forms and functions, around multiple clinical and non-clinical services, and across multiple geographies. So, could provider collaboratives be the key to unlocking the next phase of system ...
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NewsLeak reveals hundreds of 12-hour A&E breaches for mental health patients
New data has revealed for the first time that hundreds of mental health patients are waiting more than 12 hours in London’s emergency departments.
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NewsReviewer ‘felt bullied by CCG’ over findings on young man’s death
An independent review found that commissioners’ investigation of a young boy’s death was ‘mismanaged’, and heard allegations that the person who coordinated it was bullied over the contents.
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NewsRevealed: South East sees ‘striking’ levels of excess deaths at home
Parts of the South East saw ‘striking’ levels of excess deaths occurring in people’s homes between July and October.
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NewsThousands of NHS staff excluded from race equality standard
Thousands of the lowest paid workers in the NHS are being excluded from data collected for the NHS workforce race equality standard, potentially skewing trusts’ results, HSJ can reveal.
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CommentRevealed: How NHS boards operated during the first covid peak
Prevailing board leadership behaviours are amplified during the protracted NHS emergency, write Ann Highton, Gillian Conway and Naomi Chambers
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NewsNHS spend on tech, estates and workforce to be overseen by national procurement 'councils'
A major consolidation of NHS procurement has been outlined by NHS regulators which will include steps to address “gaps in our collective abilities” such as how to negotiate effectively with suppliers.
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NewsTrusts dismissive of ‘unsuitable’ Nightingales
Senior leaders have expressed concern that Nightingale hospitals in the North of England will not be suitable for patients during the covid-19 second wave, despite their remobilisation.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The NHS was not prepared for covid’s second wave
As covid wave two crashes on to the North of England, HSJ Health Check discusses the last minute scrambles in the NHS to deal with admissions, try to protect elective care, and provide mass testing for staff.
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NewsNHS seeks £10bn covid deal with private hospitals
Private providers have been asked to apply to a new procurement framework worth up to £10bn, from which NHS organisations will purchase additional capacity for up to four years.
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CommentIt is policy not demographics that drives NHS funding choices
One of the big short-term decisions with very long-term consequences is the capital allocation for the NHS in this autumn’s spending review and prioritising backlog of elective care, writes Anita Charlesworth
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: Nursing the Nightingales
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, will make sure you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping ...