All Health Service Journal articles in September 2019 – Page 5
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News
Trust pursuing subsidiary plan amid unions’ opposition
A foundation trust is pursuing plans to set up a wholly-owned subsidiary company following concerns unions are spreading “misinformation“ among staff.
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News
Safety alerts to be reformed to reduce trust burden
All safety alerts issued by national bodies are to be standardised under a single template in an effort to eradicate confusion and reduce the burden on NHS organisations.
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HSJ Local
Special measures trust to ban GMC concern medics
A rural trust is rowing back on hiring locum doctors with General Medical Council restrictions, after a non-executive director questioned the “high number” of such staff being employed.
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Comment
The coming era of predictive medicine
The NHS could be well-placed to realise the benefits of AI in healthcare, writes Google Health’s Michael Macdonnell.
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News
NHSE: ‘Blurred lines’ in NHS structure may pose fraud risk
Structural changes to NHS organisations and GPs’ involvement in primary care commissioning may have increased the risk of financial fraud, an NHS England report has warned.
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Weekly Catch Up: Cookie cutter CCGs, flexible pension choices and a £93m safety fund
Your essential update on health for the week.
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News
Queen’s Speech may include new powers for fining trusts
The Queen’s Speech could cover new patient safety legislation, including giving the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch extensive new powers, such as the ability to fine trusts and seize equipment.
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Comment
Mental wellbeing of NHS staff is at a tipping point
Improving mental wellbeing in the workplace has to be implemented from the top-down, with NHS leaders making it a priority and not just a promise. By Paul Farmer
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News
Daily Insight: In for a penny, in for £93m
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ Local
Trust appoints seventh CEO in four years
A small acute trust in the north west has appointed its seventh chief executive in four years.
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News
Exclusive: Region ordered to hold back ‘risk reserve’ of almost £100m
Providers and commissioners in the East of England will have their income and allocations top-sliced by the region’s NHS England and Improvement board to create a risk reserve.
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News
NHSI appoints new commercial chief
NHS Improvement has appointed a new director of procurement transformation and commercial delivery, HSJ understands.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Chairs around the clockface
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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News
Trusts can keep clinicians’ unused pension contributions
Trusts will be allowed to determine whether they will pay or keep the contributions they would be required to pay into doctors’ pension funds if their clinicians opt for one of the government’s proposed pension tax workarounds.
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Comment
‘Short-termism at its worst’: why managers must be included in pension reforms
The government’s pension reforms are welcome, but they unfairly discriminate against many NHS staff. By Finn O’Dwyer-Cunliffe
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News
Daily Insight: Calling the pension shots
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Comment
A just culture for both staff and patients
If we truly believe in a just culture and the benefits this can bring for patient safety, it has to give equal importance to being fair to patients and families as well as to staff. By James Titcombe, Peter Walsh and Cicely Cunningham
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News
Four CCGs plan merger next year
Four clinical commissioning groups are consulting on plans to create a single organisation covering an integrated care system.
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News
Trust’s management blasted by outgoing director
An acute trust’s outgoing director of infection prevention and control has warned infection control was “not driven from the centre of the organisation” and that a lack of engagement from managers, and the medical and nursing establishment went “under the radar”.
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HSJ Local
Fifth standalone community trust rated ‘outstanding’
A fifth standalone community trust has been rated “outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission.