All Health Service Journal articles in September 2021
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HSJ Interactive
HSJ webinar discussed could technology ever replace clinicians?
The pandemic has accentuated the importance of the NHS investing in digital capabilities, changing digitisation into a strategic imperative as opposed to a ’nice to have’. Meanwhile, many stories have been written in recent years suggesting that the likes of clinical decision support systems, artificial intelligence and big data analytics ...
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HSJ Interactive
HSJ webinar discussed improving IT services to cope with the pandemic and beyond
While there is hope that the continuing vaccine programme will drive down the numbers of covid-19 patients over the longer term, the reality is that caring for such patients will remain a priority for the foreseeable future.
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HSJ Interactive
Clinical procurement: Cost-saving opportunities for the NHS
An HSJ immersive feature explores how an innovative clinician-led procurement model for cardiology devices was deployed and achieved cost savings of £1.3m per year. By Jennifer Trueland
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News
Revealed: Healthcare’s most influential minority ethnic leaders
The vital contribution of effective and admirable leaders from minority ethnic backgrounds to the UK’s health and care services is slowly gaining more and more visibility, writes Alastair McLellan
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HSJ Interactive
HSJ webinar discussed shared care records – reviewing the progress and planning next step
The government target was for all areas of England to have a shared health and social care record in place by September 2021. Such setups – which make it possible for professionals across organisations to see the same information about a patient – become particularly important in the context of ...
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Comment
How ICSs can avoid becoming SHAs 2.0
How can the pursuit of integrated care be maintained during recovery, and ICSs prevented from becoming strategic health authorities 2.0, writes Sir John Oldham
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HSJ Local
CEO of major acute trust steps down after contracting covid
The chief executive of a major acute trust has stepped down from her role after being off sick with covid since July.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: We know you’re tired, but…
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News
The Primer: The price of money
The Primer provides a rapid guide to the most interesting comment and analysis on the English health and care sector that has not (usually) appeared in HSJ.
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Comment
The Health and Care Bill must combat alcohol harm
The Health and Care Bill offers an opportunity to bring the rules on alcohol advertising in line with those of all other ‘less healthy food and drink’. By Professor Sir Ian Gilmore
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Comment
Julian Patterson: GP shortage worsens as panic-booking continues
GPs consider retraining as HGV drivers as RCGP promises to restore supplies of unleaded pencils
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: Another winter nightmare?
On the podcast this week, we look ahead to winter and ask whether NHS England’s 10-point accident and emergency action plan could prevent a crisis.
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News
NHSE switches activity targets to reward ‘clock stops’
NHS England has lowered the elective activity target which trusts have to meet to win incentive payments from a £1bn fund.
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News
Trusts must ‘stabilise’ waiting lists and eliminate two-year waiters by March
Trusts have been told to hold the line on elective performance, keeping year-plus waiters at current levels, and eliminate two-year waiters by the end of March.
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News
Trust efficiency target lower than feared
Efficiency targets for the second half of the financial year will be lower than providers were told to plan for, NHS guidance published today reveals.
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News
NHSE: Trusts must report performance by deprivation and ethnicity
All NHS trusts are now expected to include performance reporting by deprivation and ethnicity in papers to their boards, NHS England has said.
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Comment
The true cost of cancer nursing shortages
When the pandemic hit, an already short-staffed cancer workforce was depleted even further. The nursing workforce are struggling to cope with high vacancy rates and extreme workload pressures. By Steven McIntosh
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News
Trust CEO to leave for Welsh health board
The chief executive of a South Eastern trust is leaving to run one of the largest NHS organisations in Wales.
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HSJ Local
ICS sets ‘maturity’ test for its ‘places’ to access budgets
Nine areas within a large integrated care system are to be assessed in terms of their ‘maturity’ — with the most developed potentially taking on delegated budgets and decision-making from April next year.