All Policy articles – Page 24
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NewsSunak: Covid elective cancellations are to blame for long waiting lists
Rishi Sunak has appeared to suggest the NHS should not have cancelled so much elective activity during the pandemic and attributed the service’s ‘huge waiting list’ to the extent of the hiatus.
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CommentOne million managers: some predictions for 2023
Here are the highlights for 2023, by Jon Restell, CEO of Managers in Partnership
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CommentThe 12 step programme for clinical transformation
An alternative look at the fate of most clinically-led transformation programmes. By a former national clinical lead.
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NewsCQC delays ‘targeted’ inspection overhaul after staff protest
The Care Quality Commission has delayed rolling out its new approach to inspections by almost a year, following concern from its staff and a need to give ‘providers time to prepare’.
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NewsBuilding ‘40 new hospitals’ requires doubling of construction capacity
Hospital building chiefs have estimated England’s construction market needs to double its capacity to achieve the government’s flagship health infrastructure programme.
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NewsICS has ‘strained and challenging’ relationships, review finds
Relationships between commissioners, providers and the local authority in a troubled integrated care system are ‘strained and challenging’, according to an external review it commissioned.
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CommentThe return of PbR threatens innovation
NHS management cannot just be about managing during ‘normal times’. It must be adaptive and capable of meeting future challenges, writes Louella Vaughan
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: The unsexy topic on Barclay’s radar (you’ve been warned)
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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NewsRevealed: Members of government’s new ‘elective taskforce’
Ministers have set up a new taskforce to ‘focus on how the NHS can [better] utilise independent sector to cut the backlog’ and boost overall elective activity, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced.
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NewsGovernment reveals pension changes but no change to tax allowances
No direct changes to either annual or lifetime allowance have been revealed in the government’s announcement on pension proposals today, despite these issues having previously been blamed for forcing clinicians to reduce hours or leave the health service.
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CommentThe pointless leader
Beverly ‘Bev’ Heaver is NHS Blithering’s head transformationalist and director of the New Perspectives Unit. Here she sets out her vision of perpetual change. As channeled by Julian Patterson
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NewsPritchard admits NHS behind on elective catch up
NHS England’s chief executive has admitted the service is behind on its commitment to increase elective activity to 130 per cent of pre-covid levels by 2025, saying the recovery would need to be ‘reprofiled’ to catch up after this year.
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NewsTransfer of multi-billion pound fund to ICSs delayed until 2024
NHS England is set to delay delegating commissioning budgets worth billions of pounds to integrated care systems until 2024 amid concerns about financial risk and destabilising services, HSJ understands.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Why the Hewitt review matters
Former Labour health secretary Patricia Hewitt has been charged with reviewing the role of integrated care systems by Jeremy Hunt.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Why NHSE’s attempt to scrap 4-hour target has failed
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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NewsNHSE tells trusts: ‘be robust’ with GP referrals
An NHS England director says trusts should use ‘as robust triage as you can possibly do’ when deciding whether to accept referrals from GPs.
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NewsNHS needs OBR-style staffing forecasts, says Pritchard
The NHS’s forthcoming workforce plan will have to be updated with regular forecasts after it has been published to ensure it stays “credible”, Amanda Pritchard said today.
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NewsFamilies blame ‘chaotic, splenetic mess of a government’ for compensation hold-up
Families whose loved ones’ bodies were sexually abused in a hospital mortuary have yet to receive any compensation, because the Department of Health and Social Care has not signed off a proposed framework.
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NewsNHS will get extra funding to help with inflation, Barclay indicates
Health and social care secretary Steve Barclay has strongly indicated the NHS will receive more funding in tomorrow’s autumn statement, and said that reports he argued to the Chancellor that the NHS ‘did not need any more money’ were incorrect.
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NewsBarclay: DHSC and NHSE must ‘work closely’ to tackle worst performers
Steve Barclay will today ’emphasise the importance of close working between the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England’ in trying to tackle waiting times in areas which are lagging.