All Health Service Journal articles in November 2024 – Page 8
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CommentSenior leaders must 'buy in' to supporting staff mental health
With 76 per cent of NHS staff experiencing mental health issues in the past year, NHS Charities Together’s £16m workforce wellbeing programme aims to address the growing crisis
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: An ever-deepening deficit
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ LocalStreeting’s ‘targets and terror won’t work’, trust chair warns
Wes Streeting is “sounding like a merchant of doom” and is wrong to call the NHS “broken”, a trust chair has said in a strongly worded commentary to his board.
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NewsBig teaching trusts put under extra NHSE ‘oversight’
Four trusts – including three of England’s largest teaching hospital trusts – are now receiving extra “oversight” from NHS England, after being put into the lowest tier of providers for cancer and/or elective care performance.
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CEO InterviewCEO interview: Roisin Fallon-Williams, chief executive, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust
This is the latest in a series of interviews with chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Insight subscribers.
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HSJ PartnersEnhancing cost certainty for NHS capital projects with Daisy: A digital AI and sustainability tool
The new government’s focus is firmly on fixing the NHS, increasing productivity by 2 per cent year-on-year, reducing the current repairs backlog of just under £13.8bn and creating a step change in the NHS’s overall capital budget through a £3.1bn increase for 2024-2025. It is therefore of utmost importance to ...
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NewsNHSE chief denies local financial plans are ‘fantasy’
NHS England’s chief financial officer has denied it influenced trusts and systems to sign up to “fantasy” plans to paint the best possible picture of the service’s finances at the start of the year.
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NewsAmbulance response times soar
Ambulance trusts are coming under severe pressure this week with typical waits reaching two hours for category 2 calls in the West Midlands this morning.
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NewsBMA accuses trust of ‘gambling’ with overtime pay cut
The British Medical Association has accused a large hospital trust of “gambling” with doctors’ pay rates, and entered a formal dispute with the organisation.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Targets, terror and merchants of doom
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News1,500 patients may need retest over potential results error
Hundreds of patients are being contacted over potentially incorrect results at a second NHS trust, as more laboratories report concerns over diabetes tests, HSJ understands.
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NewsNHSE board members face regulation under government proposals
A major consultation on introducing professional regulation of NHS managers and leaders proposes applying the measures to NHS England board members.
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CommentGeneric weight loss medicines will place new demands on the NHS
Mark Samuels explores how the UK government is leveraging weight loss medications as a strategy to combat obesity and stimulate economic growth, addressing the significant burden on the NHS
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Fantasy and reality in the capital
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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News‘Heroic leadership’ has prevented action on staff violence, says CEO
A “heroic” model of leadership has meant the NHS hasn’t made enough progress in tackling violence and aggression against staff and promoting sexual safety, a trust chief has said.
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NewsMinisters risk ‘screwing’ mental health, warns Stevens
The former chief executive of NHS England has warned mental health services will be “screwed” if the government does not renew its commitment to the mental health investment standard.
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News‘I acted in good faith’ says Letby trust CEO
A former trust chief executive at the centre of the Lucy Letby scandal has defended his actions, stating both he and other executives were “acting in good faith”.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: A question of candour
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsICB chief to retire after decade leading county’s commissioning
A long-serving NHS system chief is set to retire next year, amid high CEO turnover in the patch.
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NewsCompany drops legal action after ICB files defence
A private provider has dropped its legal claim against an integrated care board after the ICB filed its defence in the High Court.