All Health Service Journal articles in September 2021 – Page 3
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News
‘Nightmare’ fuel shortages hit care of vulnerable patients
Community and mental health service providers have warned the ongoing fuel crisis and other traffic disruption is starting to impact the care of vulnerable patients.
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HSJ Partners
Listen: Exploring the use of data to transform healthcare from an international perspective
Sponsored by Exploring the use of data to transform healthcare from an international perspective. In this podcast, Dr Debbie Phillips, CCIO of Milton Keynes Hospital in the UK, and Dr Ahmed AbuSalah, healthcare intelligence and informatics officer at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in ...
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News
Daily Insight: Make your mind up time
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Social distancing and covid testing relaxed to ‘help hospitals treat patients more quickly’
Covid infection control rules for health services have been relaxed in what national officials say will help the service ‘treat more patients more quickly’.
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News
Trusts and ICS miss out on millions after NHSE shifted goalposts
Trusts and commissioners have confirmed they lost out on millions of pounds after NHS England changed funding rules three months into the financial year, angering local leaders.
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News
‘Patients at risk’ as ministers take two years to decide on reconfiguration
A Tory councillor has criticised successive health secretaries for risking patients’ outcomes by taking two years to decide on a regional centralisation of critical health services.
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News
Public satisfaction with A&E plummeting, suggests new research
Patient satisfaction levels in emergency departments have collapsed across England, according to new research.
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HSJ Partners
Providing trusted and flexible digital healthcare
Digital transformation and innovation will be key for facilitating a flexible healthcare model, but it is crucial that we go about adopting new technologies carefully and compliantly. By Hugo Stephenson
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News
Trusts struggle with growing backlog of uninvestigated incidents
The backlog of serious clinical incidents that need investigating is building up throughout the NHS, due to the impact of coronavirus and emergency service pressures.
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Comment
The Primer: The government’s fate is in the hands of the NHS
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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HSJ Interactive
HSJ webinar discussed in current times, how can the NHS best support honesty when things go wrong?
The duty of candour is a central to patient safety – the idea that, when things go wrong, healthcare professionals should be open and honest about this with patients and colleagues.
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News
Daily Insight: Tough times, hard choices
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Comment
Julian Patterson: The Lego NHS reconstruction set
Lego and the Department of Health and Social Care promise to help us rediscover the joys of bricking it at scale says Julian Patterson
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News
Region aims to clear all two-year waiters by March
An NHS region is aiming to have no patients waiting more than two years on its waiting lists by the end of March.
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News
Trust taken out of special measures after four years
Isle of Wight Trust has been moved out of special measures and rated “good” by regulators, four years after it was declared “inadequate”.
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Staff unsupported, COO wanted, chemo restricted
Your essential update on health for the week.
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News
‘Horrendous’ patient death after staff mistake physical injuries for mental health condition
A patient died from a serious spinal injury after emergency staff incorrectly attributed his physical condition to his mental health issues, an inquest heard.
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Hospitals consider ‘risky’ dilution of ICU nursing ratios
NHS trusts in London are looking to dilute their intensive care nurse-to-patient ratios due to workforce shortages, according to a leading critical care nurse.
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Daily Insight: A truly ‘career-defining experience’
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: Why NHS services are collapsing
On this week’s podcast, we discuss the knock-on impact covid has had on staffing and services, after medical consultants at a major acute trust warned its leadership that specialist staff shortages are causing services to become unsafe.