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HSJ InteractiveHow to tackle the backlog of patients with mental health needs
A recent HSJ webinar, run in association with Ethypharm Digital Therapy, explored how people with depression are currently supported, and the potential for digital therapy in increasing capacity across ICSs
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HSJ PartnersHow decision intelligence can help the NHS do more with less
Faculty’s decision intelligence is a new field of technology designed to use data for better decision making, reduce spending, and improve patient outcomes.
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NewsExclusive: RCN agrees more strike exemptions after CNO pressure
The Royal College of Nursing has agreed to staff some of the most high-risk mental health and community services during its upcoming strikes, following pressure from the UK’s four chief nursing officers, a letter leaked to HSJ reveals.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Dropped target = longer waits
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsUrgent call for help as ambulance trust faces relying on ‘first aiders’ during strikes
Medics and nurses have been urgently called upon to support London Ambulance Service during next week’s strike action, as it will otherwise have to rely on staff only able to provide ‘first aid’.
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NewsAll new hospitals must have single rooms only, government rules
All new hospitals built in England must have only single patient rooms, health infrastructure chiefs have confirmed, requiring an overhaul of many trusts’ current proposals.
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NewsEvery ambulance trust on highest alert level
All ambulance services have declared the highest level of alert due to ‘extreme pressures’ facing the urgent and emergency care system.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: How virtual outpatients saves lives
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Written by senior correspondent Nick Carding. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsMidwives will not strike, after ballot falls short
The Royal College of Midwives has not met thresholds required to strike in its vote in England, it announced today, but physiotherapy staff are set to strike at more than 100 trusts in their first ever action ballot over pay.
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NewsBuilding firm agrees £100m settlement for hospital ‘defects’
A construction firm has agreed to pay around £100m to an NHS trust after structural defects were found at one of its hospitals, HSJ understands.
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NewsNHSE estimates mortality rate for autistic people is 51pc higher
Autistic people in England who do not also have a learning disability are approximately 51 per cent more likely to die in a single year compared to the general population, according to a leaked document which estimates the mortality rate for the first time.
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CommentSocial care staff must provide more healthcare
The third in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. Chief nurse for Adult Social Care, Deborah Sturdy, examines delegated healthcare in a post-pandemic world
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CommentHow to work with care providers to improve hospital discharge
The second in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. Here’s a list of things to help social care providers step up and create a dependable discharge process that has people, not systems, at its ...
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NewsNew theatres seven years late after trust ends novel device supplier deal
A hospital trust faces a long delay to a major capital project after pulling out of an unusual partnership with a medical device supplier.
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NewsWaiting times got worse at trusts that dropped A&E target
Trusts trialling NHS England’s new A&E metrics reported worse average waiting times for admitted patients than those which stayed on the four-hour target, an HSJ analysis suggests.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Back-office staff are frontline fraud fighters
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ LocalEx-NHSE director to take charge of scandal-hit trust
A former NHS England director has been placed in temporary charge of a scandal-hit mental health trust.
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Expert BriefingImPatient: Patient leadership, not partnership, is what the NHS needs
Patient (Lived Experience) Leadership is about those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability who want to influence change through being equal partners in decision-making. In this new monthly ‘expert briefing’, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the ...
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NewsNeighbouring trusts placed in ‘special measures’
NHS England has moved two Devon trusts into its successor for the special measures regime, meaning all of the county’s acute trusts are now in the bottom tier of the oversight framework.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in October 2022, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.