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NewsExclusive: Backlog of long cancer waits has doubled
The backlog of patients who have been waiting for cancer treatment for more than 104 days has more than doubled since last year, according to internal NHS England papers seen by HSJ.
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NewsExclusive: One in four critical care units got busier in past week
The number of patients in critical care grew at one in four English hospital trusts in the past week, despite overall covid-19 occupancy falling, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsExclusive: More than 100,000 waiting for ‘urgent’ operations
More than 100,000 people were waiting for ‘urgent’ priority two operations in late January, as planned care rates plummeted amid the covid third wave, according to NHS data seen by HSJ.
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HSJ PartnersHow NHS trusts are removing barriers to create ‘staffing safety nets’
Dr Anas Nader outlines key principles to ensure collaborative staff banks add value to NHS staffing infrastructure
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NewsThe 19 health systems with less than 5pc of beds available for non-covid patients
Nearly half of England’s health systems have scant space in general hospitals for non-covid patients as they juggle beds between covid and non-covid services while running at high occupancy rates, an HSJ analysis of NHS data shows.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Scandal in the Midlands
This week we look at Rebecca Thomas’ investigation into “heartbreaking” patient safety incidents in University Hospitals Birmingham FT’s haematology services. HSJ’s involvement began after Rebecca was contacted by more whistleblowers than had ever got in touch with her previously about any subject.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Jab, jab, jab
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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News31 Jan update: London and south east set to see low levels of covid hospital admissions by end of Feb
Admissions of covid positive patients in London and the south east are on course to fall to a managable level by the end of February.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: When ‘just in time’ does not work
“Resilience requires buffer and buffer can look wasteful until the moment that it isn’t,” Simon Stevens told MPs at a committee hearing in Parliament this week. We discuss how the pandemic made the NHS’ approach to running everything to optimum, just-in-time efficiency fell apart.
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NewsNorth West's vaccine supply cut by a third
The supply of covid vaccine to the North West region is set to be cut by around a third in February, seemingly due to national shortages and the need for other regions to catch up with vaccinating their priority groups.
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NewsExclusive: NHS has half the ‘empty’ beds available to non-covid patients than previously reported
Nearly half the general hospital beds previously reported as “unoccupied” by the NHS are not in fact available for non-covid patients, due to infection control measures, an HSJ analysis of new NHS data reveals.
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HSJ LocalAmbulance service facing ‘terrifying’ levels of risk, says trust chief
The chief executive of a small acute trust has described the “terrifying situation” faced by ambulance crews and hospital staff in trying to provide adequate emergency care as coronavirus threatens to overwhelm the local NHS services.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: How the NHS was left high and dry in covid’s third wave
Operational pressures on the NHS because of covid are still high and, although admissions are starting to level off in some places, the usual winter challenge of patient discharge is more troubling than ever.
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NewsRegion’s critical care occupancy up by a fifth in one week
The number of patients in critical care in the Midlands has grown by a fifth in a week, and is now 70 per cent more than in winter last year, HSJ analysis reveals.
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NewsRevealed: Nightingale hospitals to cost half a billion pounds in total
England’s Nightingale hospitals have been forecast to cost more than half a billion, according to the latest government projections.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Glimpsing the peak and surveying the wreckage
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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HSJ LocalCity ‘under the cosh’ from covid forced to admit adults to children’s critical care unit
Liverpool has been forced to re-open a paediatric intensive care unit to adults as the NHS chief executive warned the city was “right back under the cosh” from the third wave of the pandemic.
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NewsExclusive: Half of London’s hospital patients have covid-19
There are now more patients who have confirmed covid-19 in London’s acute hospitals as those who do not, after the need to treat people with the virus displaced thousands of other patients.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The covid tidal wave heads North once more
Hospitals in the Midlands are being primed to take covid patients from London and the South East, but with the tidal wave of covid admissions sweeping north this seems like a very short-term fix.
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HSJ LocalUrgent cancer cases cancelled at North West trust
Some urgent cancer treatments have been cancelled in Cheshire due to the rising covid pressures, HSJ has learned.