All Policy articles – Page 20
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NewsUpdated: IR35 rules on NHS contractors to stay in place
UPDATE: Controversial rules governing the tax status of contractors will now remain in place, after a U-turn by government on its own September ’mini budget’.
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CommentBetter access to rehabilitation can mitigate health inequality
Addressing inadequate rehabilitation services and disparities in healthy life expectancy is long overdue, and ensuring access may just prevent further entrenching inequities. By Natasha Owusu and Rachel Newton
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Simple tech slashes lists
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Written by senior correspondent Nick Carding. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsBMA ‘acting like football agents’ inflating extra shift pay, say trust chiefs
A row has broken out between trust bosses and the British Medical Association over the doctors’ union’s campaign to drive up consultants’ hourly pay rates for extra shifts, HSJ has learned.
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CommentDo ICSs face an impossible task?
ICSs can help foster collaboration between partners to offer new solutions to entrenched problems while on the flipside they also face risks in how they respond to national asks. By Anna Charles
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NewsBillions in covid cash reserves used to balance trusts' books
NHS trusts will draw on billions of pounds of cash reserves built up during the pandemic to help fund their costs this year, while using aggressive accounting treatments to stop the spending hitting the bottom line.
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NewsTwo more ministers join DHSC
A former senior policy adviser and a paediatrician have been appointed as junior ministers at the Department for Health and Social Care.
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Expert BriefingNHSE’s federated data platform explained
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Written by senior correspondent Nick Carding. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsTruss move to cut management would ‘get in way’ of progress, says top CEO
Liz Truss’s desire to talk about cutting management in the NHS will get in the way of more important conversations about the future operating model of the health service, a respected system leader has said.
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CommentHow to close the Goldacre data analysis gap
Andi Orlowski shines light on the glaring need for the NHS to incorporate data and analysis to transform care and outcomes for patients and service users
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CommentThe NHS's approach to reducing elective waiting times is unlikely to work
Trying to eliminate cohorts of waiting list patients is too simplistic says Rob Findlay
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: PIFU progress revealed in leaked report
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the biggest 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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CommentPM Truss will demand cuts in ‘NHS bureaucracy’
We are mercifully nearly at the end. In a few days, we will know who will replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. And unless the polls are completely wrong, that person will be Liz Truss. But during what has felt a long campaign with more heat than light what might ...
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NewsStaff shortages force most trusts to suspend NHSE maternity care model
More than two-thirds of trusts have been forced to suspend or pause a high-profile service improvement aimed at reducing neonatal and maternal deaths, because of widespread staffing shortages.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Cyber attack reverberates around the NHS
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Written by senior correspondent Nick Carding. Contact me in confidence here.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Provider-led ‘place’ perfection
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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Comment‘Warm hubs’ may potentially save lives this winter
Claire Kennedy and Simon Morioka discuss the importance of bringing people together to share resources and the need to look beyond traditional planning, to control the impact of the coming winter
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CommentThe next best thing to a plan
The NHS faces the toughest winter on record. With a renewed promise of support from national leaders, integrated care systems now have even more to worry about, writes Julian Patterson
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NewsNHS England reveals six targets for ICSs this winter
NHS England today identified six key metrics it will use to monitor the performance of every integrated care system this winter.
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CommentDo you have what it takes to be a leader?
Take this simple test to find out. Score one point for every word or phrase that strikes you as nonsense in these extracts from NHS Blithering ICS board papers. Find out what your score means at the end. Key metrics by Julian Patterson