All Health Service Journal articles in October 2020
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HSJ Interactive
Using data in the post-covid world
How the NHS can use data to better meet patient needs as it responds and recovers after covid
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HSJ Interactive
Mind the gap
If leaders are to use data to understand the experience and outcomes of healthcare services, some notable gaps will need to be addressed
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HSJ Interactive
How can the NHS use data to make informed decisions about where to go from here?
Data has become ever-more prominent during the covid pandemic. But ensuring easy access – and understanding what statistics can and cannot do – remains a challenge, as a recent HSJ webinar discussed
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News
GPs given wearable ‘mood monitoring’ devices in wellbeing drive
Wearable devices will monitor the mood of all 70 staff at a large GP practice, in a trial aimed at improving employee health and wellbeing.
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News
Senior medics urge trusts to protect electives by boosting post-op care
Senior medics urge trusts to protect electives by boosting post-op careospitals are being urged to set up enhanced post-operative care services to free up critical care beds and protect electives in the face of a covid winter surge.
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Expert Briefing
Daily Insight: Staring at the peak
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
ICSs should have ‘accountability’ for public health, says new national lead
Responsibility for some public health services should sit with ‘integrated care systems’ once they are given a statutory basis, says the new chief executive of NHS Clinical Commissioners.
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HSJ Interactive
How the apprenticeship levy can help support and develop NHS managers
The NHS is missing out on an estimated £170m a year of funding for staff training and development, because it does not make full use of the money available to it through the apprenticeship levy. But it need not be like that. An HSJ webinar looked at how organisations can ...
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Expert Briefing
Daily Insight: When lessons go unlearned
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Trust ‘could have avoided four never events’ if it had acted on alert
A trust which had four ‘never events’ where patients were connected to air rather than an oxygen supply could have avoided them if it had been more proactive when a national patient safety alert was sent out several years earlier, a report has found.
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News
Exclusive: Watchdog investigating national rise in stillbirths during covid first wave
A national review has been launched by safety investigators because of an increased number of stillbirths during the first wave of covid, HSJ can reveal.
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News
Revealed: Eight hospital trusts with more covid patients than in the spring
Eight hospital trusts have surpassed the level of covid-19 patients in general acute beds which they recorded in the spring peak, according to HSJ’s analysis of NHS England data.
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Expert Briefing
Daily Insight: ‘Small p’ politics
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert Briefing
The Download: Trusts defy Hancock’s tech vision
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by senior correspondent, Nick Carding.
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Care, contracts and covid under scrutiny
Your essential update on health for the week.
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HSJ Partners
The missing link – housing, health and care
Safe, quality housing is essential to maintain independence: keeping people safe and well at home, enabling as much choice and control in their lives as possible, writes David Pearson.
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News
McKinsey review of national structure to cost nearly £1m
Consultants McKinsey have had their contract to help review national leadership of technology in the NHS extended, with the total cost approaching £1m, HSJ has learned.
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Expert Briefing
Daily Insight: Cygnet scrutiny intensifies
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: Doctors accuse trust of caving to political pressure to reopen ‘unsafe’ A&E
Senior clinicians say their trust board has caved into political pressure by making an ‘unsafe’ decision to re-open a small emergency department — having previously suggested this would not happen if there was a second wave of coronavirus.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: Hospitals are still neglecting mental health
Acute hospitals are still not taking mental health patients seriously enough, argues HSJ’s Rebecca Thomas in this week’s Health Check podcast. We also get an update on covid pressures on the health system.