All Health Service Journal articles in October 2019 – Page 9
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Expert Briefing
Performance Watch: Details of the ‘A&E Local’ model revealed
HSJ’s Performance Watch expert briefing is our fortnightly newsletter on the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders. Contact me in confidence here.
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News
Finance manager jailed for fraud must repay £220,000
A senior finance manager convicted of fraud must repay £220,000 or face another three years in jail, a judge has ruled.
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Comment
‘Hand in hand’ - NHS trusts and charities working in partnership
NHS charities have the potential to be the nation’s biggest independent supporters of health and well-being, notes Ellie Orton
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News
Daily Insight: What Jeremy did next
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Hospital fined for 13 breaches of duty of candour rules
A hospital trust has been fined a total of £16,250 for 13 separate breaches of the NHS statutory duty of candour, the Care Quality Commission has said.
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News
Jeremy Hunt launches charity to monitor patient safety
Jeremy Hunt has set up a patient safety charity which will establish data he can use to report on levels of avoidable harm in healthcare, HSJ can reveal.
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News
Stevens: Hospitals should open more beds this winter than last
Simon Stevens has urged trust bosses to “think carefully” about how many beds they have open this winter and said “ideally” there should be more in total than last year.
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Trust mulls Supreme Court appeal over landmark rest case
The Supreme Court could hear a landmark case on trainee doctors’ rest breaks, which could have “huge implications” for NHS trusts.
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News
Ex-NHSE digital chief becomes tech firm’s UK boss
A former NHS England digital chief has become UK managing director of a video GP company.
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News
Hopson: Winter will test regulators on ‘aggressive command and control’
Changing the NHS’ culture from “aggressive command and control” to “support and improvement first” will be a “clear test” for NHS England and Improvement, particularly this winter, the chief executive of NHS Providers has said.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: An inpatient care crisis
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.
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Comment
It is time to face up to the difficult questions facing the NHS
A new report reveals that 91 per cent of trust leaders are worried that unless politicians have a full, frank and open national conversation about the severe pressures facing the NHS, we risk damaging public trust and faith in the NHS
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HSJ Local
Financially-challenged CCG appoints new chief ahead of merger
Shropshire, and Telford and Wrekin clinical commissioning groups have appointed a joint accountable officer ahead of their upcoming merger in 2020.
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News
NHSE reviewing patient transport contracting after string of failures
NHS England has ordered a review into the cost of patient transport services and the way they are commissioned, following a string of market failures.
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Expert Briefing
Following the Money: At last, the ‘truth’ about NHS privatisation
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black. This week by HSJ editor Alastair McLellan.
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Comment
We need to rethink our approach to patient safety
Dr Suzette Woodward describes in her latest book a more positive approach to patient safety that seeks to learn how things normally happen in order to understand why they failed in that instance
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Weekly Catch Up: Hopson’s warning, Hunt’s next steps and a change of heart on the four-hour target
Your essential update on health for the week.
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News
Daily Insight: Moving targets
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
NHS’ chief information officer departs for tech giant
Former NHS chief information officer Will Smart has taken up a position with global firm DXC Technology.