All Social care articles – Page 10
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Bracing times and the vaccination bounce
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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CommentThe three pandemics
We need the contribution of millions of people as volunteers and supporters to handle the crises in the NHS, writes Patricia Hewitt
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CommentLetter from Scotland: Honesty on NHS responsibility for care home deaths
In his regular dispatch from north of the border Henry Anderson discusses Scotland’s care home deaths during the coronavirus pandemic
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Exit Sir Simon Stevens
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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HSJ InteractiveHow the NHS can get back on track after covid
As the NHS tackles the backlog of elective referrals and emergency attendances, an HSJ webinar sponsored by Four Eyes Insight and Prism Improvement looked at how to make the best use of existing staff and facilities – and drive up productivity. Alison Moore reports
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NewsCCGs to be absorbed into integrated care systems by autumn, says NHSE
Most clinical commissioning group teams at ‘sub-ICS level’ should not be operating by October, as they are effectively subsumed by integrated care systems, new NHS England guidance says.
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HSJ PartnersDigital service helps link health and social care as response to the pandemic
The Dorset Intelligence and Insight Service (DiiS) works by bringing together millions of data records made widely accessible via interactive digital dashboards.
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CommentWorkforce planning is complexity squared
We need a twin track approach in workforce planning – one for the medium-term and other for the long-term. By Rob Smith
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Kick the can
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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CommentThe chancellor’s spending squeeze signals a long period of austerity
While the chancellor is going big on the rescue phase of covid, the Budget was silent on how to recover health and social care after the pandemic, writes Anita Charlesworth
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CommentBudget lacks clear direction of travel for health and social care
The chancellor’s “whatever it takes” pledge must include the resources to tackle the long-term ramifications of the pandemic, argues Eleanor Roy
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CommentLetter from Scotland: What can England learn from integration north of the border?
The English NHS can draw lessons from Scotland’s experience of integrating health and social care, which has been challenging so far, notes Henry Anderson in the first of a monthly column.
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PodcastHSJ podcast special: The ‘secretive’ firm at the heart of the covid response
In this one-off HSJ podcast we talk to the UK head of the controversial firm Palantir, whose development and operation of an NHS covid-19 data store has been one of the pandemic’s apparent success stories.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: So long NHSX
HSJ revealed this week NHSX — the tech agency set up by Matt Hancock not quite two years ago — is set to merge into a new NHS England transformation directorate.
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CommentRisks lie in wait as government reforms NHS legislation
Nigel Edwards outlines four risks that may lie in wait as government embarks on legislative reform of the NHS and social care, as proposed in its recent white paper.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: What the new white paper means for the NHS
This week the HSJ Health Check team debate what the government’s health and care white paper – proposing the biggest NHS legislation in nearly a decade — will really mean.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Scandal in the Midlands
This week we look at Rebecca Thomas’ investigation into “heartbreaking” patient safety incidents in University Hospitals Birmingham FT’s haematology services. HSJ’s involvement began after Rebecca was contacted by more whistleblowers than had ever got in touch with her previously about any subject.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Giving Hancock his due
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week
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PodcastHSJ podcast: When ‘just in time’ does not work
“Resilience requires buffer and buffer can look wasteful until the moment that it isn’t,” Simon Stevens told MPs at a committee hearing in Parliament this week. We discuss how the pandemic made the NHS’ approach to running everything to optimum, just-in-time efficiency fell apart.
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News
Target date for care home vaccinations missed
The NHS has missed its first deadline for giving an initial dose of vaccine to all older people’s care home residents and staff, and is now working to do so by the end of the month.