All Reconfiguration articles – Page 2
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CommentThe NHS is getting better thanks to its leaders
NHS improvement depends less on restructuring and more on courageous leadership tackling inequality, workforce pressures, and service performance
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NewsGovernment will be ‘incredibly lucky’ if current elective care plan works
The government and NHS England is wrong to think that improvements in productivity, and not increased funding, will result in shorter elective waiting lists, the leader of the NHS Alliance has claimed.
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CommentPolitical whim should not drive NHS restructures
As Parliament debates the Health Bill, the focus should be on not only new structures, but on whether repeated NHS reorganisations deliver meaningful change
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NewsInfluential DHSC panel leader resigns
The chair of a panel responsible for advising ministers on contested NHS service changes has resigned after six years in the job.
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NewsSenior churn stifling hospital group, warns leading CEO
A trust “alliance” that includes England’s top-rated general acute provider has been stifled by leadership churn and a shift in national policy, but will now develop an ambitious joint clinical strategy, it has revealed.
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NewsNeighbourhood plans ‘in danger’, says top five trust leader
The government’s neighbourhood health agenda is “in danger of not happening” amid a lack of clarity over governance structures and funding, the chair of England’s fourth-largest trust has claimed.
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News‘Central pressure’ forcing ICBs to cut reform investment
Integrated care boards are struggling to protect funds to deliver neighbourhood health and other 10-Year Health Plan proposals this year – with one cluster forced to withdraw a £33m fund days after launching it.
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CommentTavistock merger endangers a century of mental health innovation
The merger may preserve structures, but risks weakening the intellectual and clinical culture that made Tavistock a global leader in mental health
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NewsRevealed: Huge variation in NHSE regional job cuts
The level of job cuts across the NHS England regional teams is set to vary significantly, with London’s headcount reduced by around half but another region facing a cut of around just 15 per cent, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsGP upgrades ‘stuck in layers of approval’
A string of bureaucratic barriers are still holding up development of buildings for primary and community care, multiple NHS and industry organisations have warned.
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HSJ PartnersA prevention policy without a delivery plan is a promise the NHS cannot keep
Across the NHS, clinicians have been calling for progress on osteoporosis for years. Yet nearly two years on from a clear national commitment, there is still no plan for delivery – and no progress.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Women’s health ambitions and mental health realities reveal an NHS under pressure
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
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NewsNHS ‘a cat’s whisker’ from hitting headline targets
The NHS was within touching distance of its headline urgent and emergency care targets in March – falling just short of the key asks in A&E and ambulance wait times.
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CommentDon’t sideline women’s health
Shifting care into communities will only succeed if women’s health is prioritised, properly funded, and designed to close persistent gender health inequalities
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News33 trusts promised funding for urgent care units
The government has revealed the locations of 40 new and expanded urgent care centres and same-day emergency care units.
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NewsLeaders face ‘unrealistic expectations’ at failing trusts, says CEO
The chief executive of the NHS’s biggest hospital group has warned that the speed national leaders expect improvement from failing organisations – and how they go about it – is often unrealistic.
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NewsNearly half of 999 patients don’t need major A&E treatment
Nearly half of patients who arrive at hospital in ambulances are being discharged without needing major care, according to data obtained by HSJ.
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News‘Plan ahead’ to avoid EPR delays, says veteran tech lead
Trusts need to “plan ahead” to avoid “interventions from NHS England” when launching electronic patient record systems, according to a leading tech chief.
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NewsNHSE names chairs to lead ‘more important’ regional teams
NHS England CEO Sir Jim Mackey has announced the names of seven chairs for NHS regional teams, ahead of the service moving to its new “operating model” next month.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The remaking – or breaking – of the ‘local state’
Leading ICB and council CEOs join HSJ Health Check to talk about the earthquake that is shaking relationships between local government and the NHS.