All Health Service Journal articles in November 2021 – Page 8
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Comment
Letter from Scotland: social care reform proves challenging
The NHS proposals of the Scottish government has angered GPs and left managing bodies of community healthcare services grumbling, writes Henry Anderson
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News
Victim’s family questions why mortuary sex abuser was not detected earlier
The sister of one of David Fuller’s hospital mortuary victims has questioned why his crimes were not uncovered earlier.
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News
Covid admissions start to decline after month-long rise
Admissions of covid positive patients to English hospitals have started to decline for the first time in a month.
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News
Trust CEO predicts ‘unprecedented’ pressure will last a year
An acute trust CEO has predicted her organisation will be under extreme pressure for 12 months due to ‘relentless and stressful’ demand on services.
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HSJ Local
Two more directors go amid heavy criticism of trust’s management
Two more directors have announced they are stepping down from their roles at a troubled acute provider, following heavy criticism of the trust’s management and some key services.
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News
Trust led by ICS CEO locked in dispute with system commissioners
Commissioners in an integrated care system have issued a formal contract challenge to a provider led by the ICS interim chief executive.
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Expert Briefing
Daily Insight: He said, she said
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Javid announces independent inquiry into mortuary sex offences
The government is to effectively take over the independent investigation into David Fuller’s mortuary crimes – but has stopped short of ordering a public inquiry.
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Comment
Racial discrimination is present at all levels and all professions within the NHS
Understanding what is needed to turn the situation around after data from new research reveals, Black and minority ethnic staff are more than twice as likely to experience discrimination at work from a colleague
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News
Demand on 111 surges linked to ‘primary care challenges’
Yorkshire’s 111 services have experienced huge surges in demand during certain times of day, and leaders consider it “unlikely that the service will ever fully return to the pre-pandemic pattern”.
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Comment
Pritchard: honesty and ambition will mark my tenure as CEO
NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard on the ‘honesty and ambition’ she hopes will define her tenure, and why she is concerned about how stretched services are even before winter begins.
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Leader
‘This is far worse than January – the vaccine hasn’t saved us this time’
“We should all be rated inadequate.” The call HSJ received on Sunday lunchtime from one of the most respected chief executives in the NHS carried an air of desperation.
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Expert Briefing
The Primer: A new backlog tsar?
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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HSJ Local
Leaked recording of ‘scared’ CEO says major hospital ‘ceasing to function’
The chief executive of a major teaching trust has told an internal meeting he is ‘anxious and scared’ that its main acute site is under so much pressure it ‘is ceasing to function as a hospital’.
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News
‘Outstanding’ rated trust given CQC warning notice after staff raised alarm
An acute trust currently rated ‘outstanding’ has been served with a warning notice by the Care Quality Commission, after senior doctors’ safety concerns prompted an inspection.
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Comment
Julian Patterson: Government pledges to end shortage of NHS plans
No shortage of turkeys this Christmas as government steps up production of plans and policy documents
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Expert Briefing
Daily Insight: Hideous crimes could damage trust
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Inspection raised no security concerns at mortuary where bodies were sexually abused
An inspection of the mortuary where dozens of bodies were sexually abused found no major security issues, HSJ can reveal.
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News
Former trust CEO to lead investigation into mortuary offences
The news of David Fuller’s assaults came as a horrendous shock to senior leaders at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust. But their ability to respond has been limited because of the need to keep the offences secret until the murder trial had concluded.
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News
Exclusive: The full story of David Fuller’s mortuary attacks
HSJ first learned of David Fuller’s crimes in June this year, but agreed to a request by Kent police not to publish before his trial concluded. We can now reveal all that we discovered.