All Policy and regulation articles – Page 19
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News
Hospitals taking on two-year waiters won’t be penalised, says NHSE
Concerns that providers are not taking as many patients as they could from struggling neighbours because they feared having to add breaches to their lists have prompted NHS England to publish new mutual aid rules.
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HSJ Local
Governance scandal trust failing to manage complaints
A trust which is facing major governance issues is failing to respond to hundreds of complaints properly, with patients and families waiting more than twice as long as the NHS target for responses to their concerns, an external review has found.
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Comment
What do health inequalities mean for trust leaders?
While health inequalities are not a new product of the pandemic, Leanora Volpe explains how covid-19’s impact on marginalised communities has given impetus to a coordinated, united effort to narrow the gap in access to, experience of, and outcomes from healthcare services, and what trust leadership’s role is in this.
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HSJ Local
CQC downgrade leaves teaching trust CEO feeling ‘devastated’
A major teaching trust has been rated ‘inadequate’ for safety, after an unannounced inspection found senior leaders did not intervene quickly enough to address patient care issues.
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News
PCR tests dropped for elective patients
Patients going into hospital for planned surgeries will be asked to test for covid using a lateral flow device rather than a PCR test from Friday, NHS England has said.
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View grows that NHS ‘must live within its means’ as satisfaction plummets
The view the NHS must deliver significant improvements within its existing budget has risen sharply, alongside a dramatic fall in public satisfaction, according to the most respected annual survey of attitudes towards the UK’s health and care services.
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Discharge policy reviewed as NHSE warns ‘capacity may decrease’
Two national reviews are taking place into hospital discharge policy, it has emerged, amid major changes to funding and legislation.
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Exclusive: A&E tents ‘borderline immoral’ and ‘dangerous’, claims royal college
The use of temporary treatment areas for patients arriving via ambulance at over-crowded A&Es is ‘borderline immoral’ and ‘a danger to patient safety and dignity’, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has warned.
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Comment
The NHS is still stuck in the sixties
Despite big changes in diseases, drugs, technologies and lifespan, NHS service delivery looks trapped in its 1948 aspic. Hard questions need asking about what the NHS is delivering, given its impact on the funding of other public services, writes Norman Warner
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Expert Briefing
Trusts scrap long-awaited merger
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
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Comment
Blithering stands with Ukraine
NHS Blithering has followed HSJ’s lead and launched its own fund-raising initiative to help the people of Ukraine
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Comment
A more agile approach to regulation is needed as we embed system working
There is an opportunity to reset the dial and create a stronger, more durable system of regulation for the future which continues to recognise the primacy of public protection and safety, writes Danny Mortimer
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Comment
Next week’s budget will offer little for the NHS
The Spring Statement comes just a few weeks before the NHS and social care levy is due to be introduced. Anita Charlesworth explores its possible impacts on finance and workforce
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Comment
Is the CQC giving the NHS an easy ride?
The purpose of Care Quality Commission ratings has been a hotly contested question since the creation of the four category classifications in the last decade. With only a single trust rated inadequate, despite pandemic pressures, is the regulator now letting the service off the hook?
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Comment
New access standards need the funding to make them meaningful
Harnessing the full potential of mental health access standards to improve patient outcomes? Not without government backing, writes Adrian James, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
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Comment
What the NHS needs to hear from Javid tomorrow
Chris Hopson on the challenges created by the pandemic and the need of the hour for the NHS
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News
Javid backs report calling for GPs to be ‘directly employed’ by the NHS
Sajid Javid has backed a think tank report which calls for a radical restructuring of NHS GP services, including scrapping the General Medical Services contract within a decade.
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Comment
Javid's impossible dream
Sajid Javid recently shared his vision of digital transformation with NHS heads of IT. Julian Patterson reproduces the health secretary’s speech word for word (more or less)
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News
NHS not ‘human’ enough to get greater role in social care, says government review
The NHS should not be given greater control of social care because it is ‘hierarchical, centralised and not person-centred’, according to a government-commissioned review which is repeatedly scathing about the health service.
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HSJ Local
Long-challenged trust lifted out of special measures
A Norfolk district general hospital long viewed as among the NHS’ most challenged trusts is set to be removed from the recovery support scheme, formerly special measures, after making ‘fantastic improvements’, inspectors have announced.