All Health Service Journal articles in September 2021 – Page 2
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Integration of IT security measures at a hardware and software level
Board level awareness of the breadth of IT security issues is increasing. How can IT teams continue to support their colleagues’ knowledge development? Claire Read reports
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Improving services through greater digital engagement with patients
Digital patient engagement has accelerated during the pandemic but sometimes in a piecemeal fashion. Now some organisations are introducing a more consolidated approach, hoping to further increase service efficiency and patient satisfaction as a result, reports Claire Read
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Making healthcare a digital self-service sector
By further enhancing digital engagement with patients, some hope it will be possible for healthcare to become as responsive as other digital-first sectors
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Healthcare services now need to develop a uniform strategy for digital patient engagement
The pandemic has demonstrated the potential for digital care. To maximise the benefits of this style of service delivery, healthcare systems will need to unite a range of tools under one strategy. By Andrea Tait
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Organisations need to find ways of addressing cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is only going to become a more complex issue, and one which is ever more closely tied to patient safety. Organisations need to find ways to address this agenda accordingly, writes Jonathan Lee
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Should cybersecurity be seen as a patient safety issue?
Increased use of technology and homeworking in light of the pandemic can present additional cybersecurity and patient safety challenges in the NHS. How can ‘cyber hygiene’ and collaboration mitigate the threat to patients? Claire Read reports
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Comment
Tackling health inequalities must be a fundamental priority for the NHS
A new report on health inequalities sets out how a supportive policy framework will help the NHS address longstanding injustice, says Saffron Cordery
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News
Consultants pass no confidence motion in chief executive
Consultants at a specialist trust which is exploring a merger with its larger neighbour have passed a vote of no confidence in its chief executive – and the planned interim chair has had to step down on health grounds.
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News
Long-standing chief executive announces retirement
A long-standing chief executive has announced her retirement after 20 years at the helm of NHS organisations.
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HSJ Local
‘Bullying’ at world-renowned heart unit leads to removal of junior doctors
Junior doctors have been removed from a ‘world-renowned’ heart surgery unit after “bullying-type behaviours” were reported following an independent investigation.
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News
Trust chief cleared by ‘fit and proper person review’
The chief executive of a major acute trust has been cleared by a fit and proper person review, HSJ has learned.
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News
Decline in covid patients beginning to slow
The decline in covid positive patients being treated in English hospitals has slowed.
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Comment
Integrated care systems and the inverse leadership rule
In 1971 GP Julian Tudor Hart proposed the idea of the inverse care law. His tongue-in-cheek provocation stated: “The availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need for it in the population served.”
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Getting basic IT infrastructure right
A BMC and Fusion immersive feature delves into how to get the crucial “backroom” IT functions in place, Jennifer Trueland writes
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HSJ Partners
What can covid testing regimes teach us about how to best approach diagnostics?
Covid has made it necessary to introduce large-scale testing regimes to identify cases of the virus and manage its further spread. So what has the health system learnt or developed that can be used in broader contexts in the years to come?
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News
Daily Insight: Missing out on millions
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
NHS needs to ‘radically simplify’ data sharing rules, says tech chief
A national tech chief has called for a ‘radical simplification’ of the way in which NHS patients can opt out of having their data shared.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: Scepticism over private hospital’s new rating
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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News
Chief of ‘outstanding’ trust announces retirement
The chief executive of an ‘outstanding’-rated mental health trust has announced his retirement.