All Health Service Journal articles in November 2020
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HSJ Interactive
Can digital technology help embed a strong patient safety culture?
The panel explored how digital solutions might help clinicians improve patient safety and what barriers there might be along the way
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HSJ Interactive
Enabling patient-centred care by maximising digital and AI tools – what works and what could be improved
An HSJ roundtable explored what collaboration and progress on digital has meant for the ability to deliver patient-centred care. Claire Read reports
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HSJ Local
‘Deep-rooted cultural problems’ found within trust’s ‘inadequate’ maternity services
The Care Quality Commission has raised serious concerns about a major teaching trust’s maternity services and taken action to prevent patients coming to harm.
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News
Revealed: Delays freeze a third of lung cancer screening schemes
Cancer screening programmes designed to save hundreds of lives have been delayed by up to a year as services struggle with staff and equipment shortages, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Interactive
How the NHS might reduce the isolation of inpatients during this time of pandemic
The debate explored how the NHS might reduce the isolation of inpatients during this time of pandemic, thereby improving patient experience and potentially longer term outcomes
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Comment
How hospitals could step in to help manage GP practices
One way to help struggling GP practices could be ‘vertical integration’ which occurs when healthcare organisations operating at different stages along the patient pathway combine, by Jon Sussex and Dr Manbinder Sidhu.
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News
Eleven patients suffered harm after ambulance handover delays
Eleven patients have suffered harm after being kept waiting in ambulances outside accident and emergency departments, a review has found.
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Insight Briefings
Why outpatients are a mountain of risk and a land of opportunity during the pandemic
The UK’s most well-regarded waiting list expert Rob Findlay joins HSJ’s performance lead James Illman to tackle one of the NHS’ most pressing challenges: the colossal outpatient backlog. The NHS has talked about transforming these non-urgent services. But failure to deliver the substantial changes needed has seen what experts warn ...
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Comment
The government's grasp of the NHS's recovery challenge is questionable
The spending review raises real concerns about whether the government fully grasps the scale of the recovery challenge, writes Anita Charlesworth
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News
Hospitals pass peak of second wave
The second wave has peaked in England’s hospitals, with the number of beds occupied by covid patients falling for five consecutive days across the country.
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HSJ Local
Regulator sorry for manager’s ‘five years of hell’
Regulators have apologised to a health manager who went through “five years of hell” while being investigated for misconduct, before being told there was no case to answer.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: For the birds
Andy Cowper on the impact of covid on economy, the £350m lie and blame game in the national political narrative.
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News
Nearly half of trusts report no BAME staff in top management tier, HSJ investigation reveals
Nearly 100 trusts have no ‘very senior managers’ who are declared to be from a black, Asian or minority ethnic background, HSJ analysis has revealed.
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HSJ Partners
Population health is for life, not just for a pandemic
The pressures of the pandemic have highlighted and changed so many things across health and social care, among them how aggregated data from across all health and social care settings is now at the forefront of local, regional, and national activities.
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News
Major concerns over funding and staffing of new ‘long covid’ clinics
There are serious concerns over the funding and staffing numbers available for new ‘long-covid’ clinics, while patient groups ‘remain in the dark’ over their locations.
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News
NHS England reveals community pharmacies’ role in covid vax effort
Selected community pharmacies will provide up to 1,000 coronavirus vaccines each week, in addition to those provided by general practice and mass centres, according to an NHS England letter.
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News
CQC finds ‘no evidence’ GP changes are driving A&E attendances
The Care Quality Commission says it can find no evidence changes to GP access during the covid pandemic are leading to more emergency department attendances, after examining the issue.
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News
‘Difficult to maintain emergency care’ as region’s ICUs at full stretch
Several intensive care units in the Midlands are working at full stretch, and options for hospitals to help their neighbours by transferring patients are “drying up”, amid high covid pressure, HSJ can reveal.
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Comment
Why we created a ‘financial hardship fund’ as part of our covid response
Consistently delivering the physiological needs are what most of our colleagues require this winter and beyond, writes Richard Mitchell
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News
Covid occupancy rates grow at outlier trusts while trend flattens nationally
The rate that England’s acute hospital beds are filling with covid patients has slowed down nationally — but a handful of trusts are still reporting growing occupancy rates despite four weeks of national lockdown.