All Health Service Journal articles in October 2023 – Page 3
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CommentThe NHS is forgetting stroke survivors
To meet rising demand, enhance recovery, reduce costs, and ensure every survivor thrives, the UK needs equitable, personalized, and accessible life after stroke services
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NewsNHS backlogs push cancer firm past £100m revenue
NHS cancer backlogs drove an increase in patients going private, an Australian-owned provider has revealed as it announced continued revenue growth.
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HSJ Partners‘Clean hands are within reach’ this Global Handwashing Day
Following this year’s Global Handwashing Day, Dyson highlights the critical importance of a regularly overlooked yet vital step in maintaining hygiene standards
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CommentAn idiot with a laptop's solution to follow up appointments
Patient initiated follow up and remote clinical reviews show promise in alleviating capacity issues and ensuring timely care, with positive patient feedback and early intervention benefits
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NewsMajor incident unit faces possible closure
The future of a specialist ambulance unit responsible for responding to major incidents such as terrorist attacks is in question following ongoing delay in putting its new contract out to tender.
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NewsWhistleblower raises alarm over ‘inadequate’ investigation into 60 suicides
A trust pressured into commissioning an external review of dozens of suicides faces fresh criticism and questions about the probe’s credibility after it emerged the investigation will not investigate each case but instead look to ‘identify themes’.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Road to recovery goes via independent sector
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Trust backed into corner as strikes escalate
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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CommentThe critical role of NHS finance directors in patient safety
There are challenging misconceptions about NHS finance directors that highlight their vital role in enhancing patient safety and healthcare value, writes Emma Knowles
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HSJ LocalTrust pauses EPR go live amid roll out problems
A large teaching trust has delayed the launch of its new electronic patient record system, with no new date yet set.
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NewsFinance directors ‘incensed’ at comments by safety watchdog
The Health Services Safety Investigation Branch has been accused of taking ‘divisive potshots’ at NHS finance directors.
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HSJ PartnersVirtual Wards: Getting the model right - A Perspective for NHS Leaders
NHS Virtual Ward models are a necessary solution for today’s challenges and the right investment for the future. The decisions trust and ICB leaders must make today can turn pioneering home care options into permanent operational improvements to the NHS hospital experience
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NewsCommissioners need only use competitive tenders in rare cases say new rules
New regulations have significantly narrowed the circumstances under which commissioners must use a competitive process to choose suppliers of healthcare services.
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NewsReliance on private hospitals being ‘hard wired’ into NHS elective care
The drive to cut NHS waiting lists is becoming ‘disproportionately reliant’ on the private sector, experts have warned, as new data suggests rapid growth in the elective activity carried out by non-NHS providers.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Management regulation is all fur coat and no knickers
The post-Letby verdict debate on NHS manager regulation underscores the necessity for substantial leadership and management development, revealing the shortcomings of performative regulatory solutions
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NewsHospitals close areas after discovering RAAC planks
More hospitals have closed parts of their site after discovering potentially unsafe concrete had been used in the building structures, HSJ has learned.
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LeaderBarclay has crossed the line this time
In writing directly to NHS organisations effectively instructing them to stop recruiting to equality, diversity and inclusion roles Steve Barclay has taken a step which is as unacceptable as it is unwise.
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HSJ PartnersPay is important, but the NHS shouldn’t ignore drivers of retention that they can fix
Amidst the NHS staff retention crisis, worsened by recent strikes, ImproveWell suggests cost-effective strategies to enhance workforce retention, with a focus on involving staff
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HSJ PartnersMobilising Health and Social Care Data to Reduce Health Inequalities
The April 2023 publication of the Hewitt review, an independent, government-commissioned review of integrated care systems in the UK, revealed staggering statistics relating to the financial and social impact of health inequalities. Defined by the NHS as “unfair and avoidable differences in health across the population, and between different groups ...
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ Webinar discussed using data to tackle health inequalities
In association with An on-demand version of this webinar is available. Reducing health inequalities is one of the key tasks of integrated care boards with a statutory duty to “have regard” to reducing health inequalities. Many will be focused on the Core20PLUS5 approach adopted ...