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NewsPHE forced to issue urgent guidance to combat covid spread in ambulances
Rotating clinicians and keeping ventilation running are among Public Health England’s recommendations for how to avoid spreading covid while looking after patients in the back of ambulances outside emergency departments.
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How we cut waits for a bed by sharing covid test data
Efficient access to patient testing data upon admission is making a big difference, says Richard Ewins
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Revealed: Tests on staff to track how well covid vaccines are working
Vaccinated health and care staff who are asymptomatic will continue to be routinely tested for covid-19 under plans to measure vaccine effectiveness, HSJ has learned.
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Cowper’s Cut: Why, according to Matt Hancock, vaccines are like Range Rovers
Andy Cowper on the latest developments with regards to the coronavirus vaccine
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HSJ’s 10 most read workforce stories of 2020
The importance of NHS staff was underlined during the pandemic, but many were strained like never before – here is a rundown of HSJ ’s most read workforce stories for this year
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Why has the government gone quiet on prevention when we need it most?
The government has gone quiet on prevention, but it could save the NHS, boost the economy and level up the country, writes Chris Thomas
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PHE's abolition is an 'opportunity for councils to take the lead'
An enhanced sector-led improvement approach, where councils are responsible for their own performance and are held accountable locally, not nationally, would be a cost-effective way to boost public health, argues Cllr Ian Hudspeth
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CEOs frustrated by ‘discriminatory’ approach to vaccine prioritisation
Chief executives of mental health trusts have expressed their frustration at the government’s failure to include people with learning disabilities higher up the priority list for covid vaccines.
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Doctors claim major infection control ‘deficiencies’ at region’s hospitals
Research by a group of doctors has found ‘major deficiencies’ around infection control within hospitals in the North West region.
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Exclusive: Huge covid death rate among vulnerable patients who have to travel to hospital
Dialysis patients who must travel to hospital are nearly four times as likely to die of covid than those aged over 80, but so far have not been prioritised for receiving vaccination, HSJ has learned.
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NHSE: Ethnicity and co-morbidities ‘could’ be considered for covid vaccine priority
NHS England has advised GP groups they “could consider” prioritising based on co-morbidities and ethnicity if they have more people who are over 80 than they can cover with their first batch of covid vaccine.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: Get health checks back on track
HSJ’ s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence .
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The 2020 spending review: Protecting the NHS during a storm
The Treasury has, perhaps, predictably chosen to continue on a path of protecting the NHS first whilst leaving the public health and social care systems exposed, notes Richard Sloggett
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Expert Briefing
The Download: Grin and share it
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by digital services correspondent Jasmine Rapson.
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Hospital staff likely to get covid vaccine first
Hospital trusts have been put on notice that the challenging storage requirements of the first covid vaccines are likely to mean the vaccination of their staff will have to form the vanguard of the planned roll-out next month due.
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Exclusive: NHS setting up dozens of mass covid vaccination centres and seeking 40,000 staff
The health service is setting up more than 40 mass vaccination centres, and working on recruiting tens of thousands of staff for the huge covid-19 vaccination effort, HSJ has learned.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: The desperate need for a major settlement
HSJ’ s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence .
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Exclusive: Thousands still being denied PPE for procedures with ‘high covid risk’
Thousands of frontline workers delivering treatments where the risk of transmitting coronavirus is heightened are still being denied personal protective equipment, according to multiple unions and professional bodies.
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Hospital trust tightens covid measures and sounds alarm over growing pressure
A hospital trust has warned it is facing ‘huge pressure’ as it must convert more wards to covid-only, and has more than 100 ‘medically fit’ patients who have not been discharged.
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Director of beleaguered Test and Trace replaced by trust CEO
A director of the beleaguered coronavirus test and trace programme has been replaced by a trust chief executive, HSJ has learned.
