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CommentThe NHS' system for paying nurses needs an overhaul
Research shows that the seven-year public-sector pay cap over the last decade saw nurses’ earnings fall significantly, by 5 per cent after we factor in consumer price inflation, writes Nihar Shembavnekar
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News
Routine NHS care may have ‘adverse effect’ on Black and Asian babies
NHS equality experts have ordered a review of neonatal care over concerns that babies from Black and Asian backgrounds are ‘adversely affected’ by routine methods.
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Comment
Staff redeployed to combat covid must be able to 'find closure'
A key component of the NHS response to the pandemic has been to reinforce acute and critical care capacity. This led in many cases to an unprecedented re-deployment of personnel from different care pathways into covid wards. A research project is now gathering evidence of the impact of working in ...
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Comment
Up the game on diagnostics for greater cancer survival
Community diagnostic hubs would prove critical in advancing rapid diagnostic pathways for people with suspected cancer, bringing key diagnostic services together into community settings and closer to patients. By Michelle Mitchell
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Comment
Service specialisation and digital technologies can offer real patient improvements
Carl Shoben and John Underwood write about a new poll on the NHS which points out the public’s top two priorities are tackling the waiting lists that have built up during covid and greater investment in the health service
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News
Minister-backed trial struggling to recruit trusts due to lack of vital test
A government-promoted clinical trial aimed at preventing ‘life-threatening infections in newborn babies’ is struggling to recruit trusts, as many do not offer the £11 laboratory test required to participate.
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News
Talk to patients about end of life care and save £500m, NHS told
The NHS could save more than £500m a year if patients and clinicians had better quality conversations about care plans, a major review has found.
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Comment
NHS knowledge specialists have never been more vital
The vital role NHS Knowledge and Library Services play in informing key decision making was brought into a sharper focus than ever during the pandemic, writes Sue Lacey Bryant
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Comment
‘University’ hospitals should be expected to raise their game on clinical trials
Matthew Swindells and Dr Harpreet Sood highlight four interventions that together could contribute in creating an innovative and progressive economic landscape for life sciences
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Comment
NHS Digital boss: Why our delayed patient data sharing plan must go on
Simon Bolton, interim chief executive of NHS Digital, explains why its controversial new GP data sharing scheme is the right thing to do, and why it has now been delayed by two months.
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Comment
Dissent is too often mistaken for disloyalty in the NHS
System leadership teams will need to build a culture where dissent is not only welcomed but is regarded as an obligation and where everything is up for constructive challenge, writes John Coutts
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HSJ Partners
As hospital waiting lists surge, now is the time to utilise digital treatments
Asif Dewan on the way technology has helped treat conditions such as osteoarthritis more effectively than routine care
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HSJ Local
Trust chair accused of ‘misleading’ staff over critical report
The chair of a prominent cancer trust has sent a ‘misleading’ message to staff about the extent to which a critical draft report was significantly softened before being finalised.
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HSJ Local
Critical report on leading trust watered down ‘on an industrial scale’
Findings included in a draft report which were strongly critical of a prominent cancer trust were extensively deleted or softened before publication, HSJ has discovered.
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Comment
New regulation will balance safety and innovation
If the UK is to maintain its position as a champion of life sciences, its new regulatory regime must find the middle ground between safety and innovation, notes Lord Ara Darzi
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News
CCG vows action over ‘unequal opportunity’ and ‘inappropriate behaviours’
A clinical commissioning group has vowed to take action after a report found a ‘robust perception’ of unequal opportunity among staff from minority ethnic backgrounds, and ‘inappropriate language and behaviours’ from some managers.
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Comment
We need a more productive and sustainable relationship between the NHS and the life sciences industry
The relationship between the life sciences industry and its health system partners is sub optimal because the ambitions, constraints and risk appetites of the organisations involved in it are not sufficiently aligned. Change is needed to ensure that innovative new technologies get to patients quickly, argue Andrew Dillon and colleagues ...
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HSJ Local
Multiple failings in trust’s handling of £20m Roche deal, leak reveals
Multiple failings have been identified in how a leading cancer trust entered into a £20m research partnership with a large pharmaceutical company, and how bosses then reacted to concerns raised by staff.
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News
Major concerns over quality of care for those dying at home
A lack of face-to-face appointments during the coronavirus pandemic has significantly worsened the palliative care being provided to people at the end of their life, according to a survey of specialists.
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HSJ Interactive
How can the NHS use data to better meet patient needs as it responds and recovers from the covid crisis?
An HSJ webinar, in association with PA Consulting, explored the progress the NHS has made in its use of data and how better data could help it restore and reset services
