All Simon Stevens articles – Page 22
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CommentBrexit could turn the digital talent tide back towards Europe – how can we keep Britain innovating?
Can London keep the global digital health crown post-Brexit and rise to Simon Stevens’ rallying cry for “further, faster” digital progress in the NHS? Dr Felix Jackson has some suggestions
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The brown stuff and the bulletproof
Once nobody in NHS management is bulletproof anymore, everybody in NHS management is bulletproof. By Andy Cowper
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CommentChris Hopson: The NHS is caught in an impossible trap
As everyone waits with bated breath for the upcoming autumn budget, Chris Hopson outlines three key priorities for NHS leaders to help bring the hobbled health service back to its feet
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NewsExclusive: NHS England leaders' decisions not 'consistent with values'
NHS England’s annual staff survey, which has been obtained by HSJ, reveals significant concerns that decisions made by leaders are not consistent with its values.
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CommentConsolidation does not guarantee better care coordination
The drive to merge independent NHS organisations might have potential benefits but could end up making the health service less responsive to patient needs, opine Bill Morgan, Andrew Taylor and John Bennett
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CommentCowper's Cut: Productivity and pressure
With Jeremy Hunt saying that future pay rises might be partly linked to productivity improvements, Andy Cowper points out that measuring productivity in healthcare is hard, even as the pressure increases cheating instances
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Simon says move the goalposts?
This is HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector Feedback and comments are welcome, so please feel free to email me in confidence.
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NewsMore funding needed to lift pay cap, warn Stevens and Mackey
The government will need to provide the extra cash needed to lift the public sector pay cap in the NHS, Simon Stevens and Jim Mackey told MPs.
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NewsHSJ Live 10.10.17: Simon Stevens and Jim Mackey face MPs
Live coverage as the NHS England and NHS Improvement chiefs face the Commons health committee
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NewsExclusive: Government threatens to intervene over DTOCs performance
Ministers are set to issue a fresh warning to councils deemed to have made insufficient progress tackling delayed transfers of care, amid a bitter row over the withholding of funding.
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CommentCowper's Cut – Now is the autumn of our discontent
With the budget approaching, austerity still biting and the deficit not shifting, the NHS is not the only institution fearing a tough end to the year
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NewsStevens: NHS will be forced to open extra beds if DTOCs aren't cut
The NHS will have to open more beds – but would struggle to staff them – if there are not sufficient reductions in delayed transfers of care ahead of winter, Simon Stevens has said.
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NewsNHS leaders chant 'we can do this' at A&E improvement summit
NHS chief executives were led in a chant of ‘we can do this’ at a nationally convened meeting about the need to improve emergency performance, HSJ has been told.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Making the NHS sweat is a dangerous game
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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NewsExclusive: Hospital seeks 'joyful' merger with teaching trust
Bedford Hospital Trust is seeking a formal merger with Luton and Dunstable University Hospital Foundation Trust, HSJ has learnt.
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NewsSimon Stevens: Cut DTOCs to prepare for possible flu outbreak
Freeing up delayed transfer of care beds will be vital to ensuring the NHS has enough capacity to manage winter pressures and a possible flu outbreak, Simon Stevens has warned.
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CommentThe Better Care Fund is now part of the problem. We need a better solution
The removal of the Better Care Fund’s ‘temporary sticking plaster’ may be painful, but it forces us to think differently, writes Richard Humphries
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NewsNHS England urged to improve physical healthcare in mental health units
A coroner has urged NHS England to improve physical healthcare support for patients in mental health units following the death of a new mother with post-partum psychosis in an inpatient unit.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The Inverse Scare Law – helping politicians ignore the NHS
Andy Cowper on what he calls ’the Campaign for NHS defunding