All Health Service Journal articles in October 2023 – Page 8
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar discussed a data strategy to enable clinical and operational transformation through data science and automation
In association with Integrated data is a vital component of the future NHS data architecture, offering the potential of more efficient operational processes and improved patient care. However, from even before vendor selection to after implementation and through attempted transformation efforts there are opportunities to ...
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News‘No alternative’ to paying more to struggling provider, ICB admits
An integrated care board has no ‘viable alternative’ to persisting with a contract for several struggling urgent treatment centres, and paying more for them to try to hire more staff, it has decided.
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HSJ PartnersNew Pilot to improve cancer outcomes and tackle inequalities launches in Dorset
NHS England InHIP programme, Dorset Integrated Care System Cancer Programme, NHS Dorset, Wessex AHSN, and Wessex Cancer Alliance partner with C the Signs to take an innovative approach to improve cancer outcomes and tackle inequalities across Dorset
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NewsHSJ intelligence congress to offer unique insight into national data strategy
NHS England’s chief data and analytics officer Ming Tang is due to give the keynote address at HSJ’s new Health and Care Intelligence Congress on 6 December.
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NewsICS salaries face eight-month wait for ministerial sign-off
Ministers took nearly four times as long to sign off integrated care board directors’ appointments as those of NHS trusts last year, HSJ has found.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: The trusts slipping the most on PM’s pledge
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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NewsPolice investigate trust for corporate manslaughter
Countess of Chester Hospital Foundation Trust is being investigated for corporate manslaughter following Lucy Letby’s conviction for murdering babies while working on its neonatal unit.
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CommentWe must remember the lessons of the pandemic and prioritise lung health
A lack of funding for lung tests is leaving people with conditions like asthma and COPD at increased risk of being hospitalised this winter, a new report reveals. Sarah Woolnough, CEO of Asthma + Lung UK, says lung disease must be treated with the same urgency as other health conditions
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HSJ LocalTrust appoints fifth CEO in as many years
Embattled Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust has appointed a new interim chief executive just a week after incumbent Stuart Richardson stood down.
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NewsNHS wastes ‘equivalent of 100,000 meals a day’
NHS England is throwing away the equivalent of 100,000 meals every day, its net zero food lead has said.
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NewsExperienced chief moves to fourth trust
An experienced chief executive who ran his system’s “gold command” covid-19 response has been named as the new boss of a teaching trust whose previous leader has moved to Gibraltar.
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NewsStrikes now endangering heart and cancer patients, NHSE warns BMA
The impact of successive doctors’ strikes is now ‘causing significant disruption and risk to patients’, including to those needing urgent heart and cancer treatment, NHS England leaders have told the BMA in their strongest warnings yet.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: The new president’s in tray
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by correspondent Emily Townsend — contact me in confidence
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NewsNHS can’t prepare for pandemic surge due to lack of staff, NHSE warns
The NHS has too few staff to prepare for a pandemic surge, while its ageing buildings and social care’s weak ‘resilience and capacity’ would also undermine its response, NHS England has warned.
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NewsFT chair takes period of absence
The chair of East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust, Niall Dickson, has taken a voluntary period of absence, with his deputy standing in, HSJ has learned.
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NewsSharp rise in opt-outs from NHS pension
The number of people opting out of the NHS pension scheme trebled last year, according to its most recent set of accounts.
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NewsGP practices get ‘shrinkingly small’ sums from housebuilders, says minister
The government is looking at ways to channel more funding contributed by housing developers into primary care estates.
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NewsTrust sent domestic abuse victim’s address to ex-partner, says regulator
A trust has been reprimanded by the Information Commissioner’s Office for exposing a domestic abuse victim to risk by disclosing their address to an ex-partner.
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HSJ LocalEx-CEO to chair trust with ‘inadequate’ leadership
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals FT has appointed its third chair in less than two years.