All Health Service Journal articles in November 2019 – Page 5
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Comment
Linked datasets need not be the preserve of the rich
Linking data can offer unbridled benefits to healthcare systems, but at what financial cost? Richard Wood explores how in one healthcare system this has been achieved in little time and with a low price tag.
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News
Exclusive: NHS scrambles funding to help hospitals with winter crisis
The health service is scrambling to provide additional funding to some hospitals to mitigate a crisis in emergency departments – despite the government not providing a formal “winter fund” this year – HSJ has learned.
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Podcast
HSJ Health Check: ‘Sane’ Labour’s plans for the NHS
Listen to the HSJ Health Check podcast — this week we examine the Labour party’s big NHS announcement, and the exit of Greater Manchester’s “devo health” chief.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: System plans face domino effect delays
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by integration correspondent, Sharon Brennan.
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Comment
Biggest ever waiting list as general election looms
The best way for the next government to reduce waiting times will be steadily and patiently, by keeping up with demand. Not with a blitz of waiting list initiatives.
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News
Trust drops £50m contract to reshape around ICS
A west midlands trust is set to lose roughly 20 per cent of its income after deciding not to renew a mental health contract, as two providers reshape around the patches of their integrated care systems.
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News
Daily Insight: ‘Good’ news, Birmingham
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Senior ICS leader to step down and ‘swim Alcatraz’
A senior leader within the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West integrated care system has announced she will step down from her roles next year.
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News
Trust rated ‘good’ two years after merger
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Foundation Trust has achieved a “good” rating overall following its first Care Quality Commission inspection as a single organisation - down from the “outstanding” held by one of its predecessor trusts.
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News
Exclusive: Labour will be ‘pragmatic’ on private outsourcing
Labour’s prospective health secretary says he will be a “pragmatist” when it comes to routine NHS operations being outsourced to private hospitals.
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News
Labour voices ‘respect’ for NHS chief Simon Stevens
Labour’s leadership says it has a “very good relationship” with NHS England’s chief executive Simon Stevens, and has highlighted his record working for the party during Tony Blair’s government.
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News
Manchester devo health chief quits
The leader of Greater Manchester’s devolved health and care system is leaving to join a local authority, he has announced.
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News
NHS ‘preparing’ for contractors’ tax status row
NHS England and Improvement are reviewing contractors’ tax statuses, and say they are “prepared for every possible outcome”, after NHS Digital was hit with a £4.3m IR35-related bill.
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News
STP and ICS plans still being ‘refined’ as deadline pushed back
Finalisation and publication of five-year system plans – setting out how each area will implement the NHS long-term plan – will be delayed by at least a month, officials have told HSJ.
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Comment
Obituary: Frank Dobson
Michael White on Frank Dobson, former health secretary, who has died at the age of 79.
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Weekly Catch Up: More problems with pensions and politics
Your essential update on health for the week.
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News
Daily Insight: I love deadlines
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Long-serving hospital chief takes over national agency
A former long-serving NHS chief executive has taken over the NHS Leadership Academy as interim lead.
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News
Labour plans second fastest funding growth in NHS’ history
Labour has pledged to increase NHS England’s budget by an average 3.9 per cent per year in real terms over the next four years if it forms the next government.
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News
Daily Insight: Seven-day throwback
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.