Policy and Regulation – Page 3
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Doing more to fix general practice
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsRevealed: The worst hospital food in England
New data has revealed the latest trusts with the best and worst scores for food and cleanliness, according to assessments by staff and patients.
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NewsTrust director resigns over ‘dishonesty’
The strategy director of an acute trust has resigned after being suspended by the Nursing and Midwifery Council for dishonesty over a “repeated period of time”.
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NewsNew director ‘competency’ requirements unveiled by NHSE
NHS board members must speak up against discrimination, challenge others constructively and help foster a safe culture, under a new NHS England assessment framework.
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NewsTop earners to pay less into NHS pension from April
Top earners will soon pay less into their NHS pension each year, the government has confirmed.
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CommentA positive lack of clarity
Technical problems prevented livestreaming of the latest meeting of the Blithering Integrated Care Board. Fortunately, Julian Patterson was there to capture highlights of the proceedings
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Why the NHS is cutting pooled budgets
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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CommentSaving the NHS: the Blithering Health Commission
The Blithering patient participation group, members of the integrated care board, experts by celebrity and the health and leisure editor of the Blithering Times & Argus have come together for a once-in-a-lunchtime conversation about the future of the NHS. Julian Patterson reports on the findings of the first Blithering Health ...
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News‘Untenable stalemate’ is halting GP practice upgrades, say ICBs
An “untenable stalemate” in funding has virtually halted GP practice building work, despite national commitments to expand primary care, multiple NHS organisations are warning.
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CommentMore NHS leaders should move beyond hospitals
The failure to move to community-based system is one of the health and care’s greatest failures, says Beccy Baird. But a total focus — perhaps requiring leaders to work in community and primary care — would make the difference.
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NewsNHSE seeks to ease key elective target
NHS England is in negotiations with ministers to formally push back the target to eliminate 65-week waiters, HSJ has learned.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: What the DHSC restructure means
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsCQC to train staff in ‘relaying distressing news’, following headteacher’s death
The Care Quality Commission is rolling out extra training for inspectors in how to spot signs of distress after a coroner ruled that an Ofsted inspection contributed to the death of a teacher.
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NewsExclusive: National agency ‘decimated’ in DHSC restructure
Ministers have “effectively dismantled” England’s national public health unit less than three years after creating it, sparking criticism from a former Tory health minister and sector leaders, HSJ has learned.
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NewsLargest 78-week backlog to be wiped out by reporting change
The trust with by far the largest backlog of 18-month waiters will see almost all the cases wiped off its main elective waiting list under a change to national reporting rules, HSJ has learned.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Revamping ICB ratings
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Expert BriefingImPatient: Directors and their clout
Patient (Lived Experience) Leadership is about those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability who want to influence change through being equal partners in decision-making. In this monthly ‘expert briefing’, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the NHS.
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CommentOne minute to midnight in the ICB boardroom
With NHS Blithering ICB under imminent threat of attack by NHS England, Sir Trevor Longstay could go off at any moment. In a rare display of unity, the executive team works together to defuse the situation. Julian Patterson reports from the scene
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HSJ LocalLeak reveals trust omitting two-year waits from reported figures
A hospital trust has been breaching national guidance by excluding some long waiters from its reported waiting list figures, in a move experts warned could put patient safety at serious risk.
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CommentWhy NHS trusts should employ ‘corporate psychologists’
Behavioural and cognitive issues lie at the heart of many problems facing hospital NHS trusts, whether they relate to patient care or staff wellbeing. These issues can best be managed if each major hospital trust has dedicated corporate psychologists assigned to these two domains, writes Narinder Kapur