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NewsCancer waiting list has almost doubled, leak reveals
The waiting list for cancer patients has almost doubled over the last seven months, according to internal NHS data which has never been made public.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: A deep dive into the IT behind covid-19 vaccinations
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by senior correspondent Nick Carding.
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CommentGovernment must stop household mixing this Christmas: a joint call by The BMJ and HSJ
Since the UK’s first lockdown in March, the government has had one (perhaps only one) consistent message — protect the NHS, write Alastair McLellan of HSJ and Fiona Godlee of The BMJ.
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CommentReferral-to-treatment waiting time targets have reached the end of the road
The focus this winter should be reducing risk for clinical priority patients, argues Rob Findlay
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HSJ LocalTrusts to share chair after NHSE ordered 'rapid' move to group model
Two trusts have agreed to appoint a joint chair amid efforts to form a group model across their sustainability and transformation partnership.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Infection inspection
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ AwardsFinalists of the 2021 HSJ Partnership Awards announced
HSJ today reveals which organisations have made the final of its partnership awards, following a year in which team effort has never been more essential in delivering the best care to NHS patients.
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HSJ InteractiveDeveloping shared local understanding of covid pressures
The panellists explored the value of a shared understanding of which pressures and caseloads exist in an area and consider how digital technologies might play a role here
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HSJ PartnersSwitch directory functionality saves junior hospital-based doctor hours
Research held by Induction Switch reveals the average switchboard wait time plus the number of calls being made per day.
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NewsExclusive: CQC to ramp up inspections of trusts’ infection control
Trusts’ infection control measures will be put under greater scrutiny by the Care Quality Commission, HSJ has been told.
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HSJ InteractiveWhat now constitutes effective performance on elective care?
An HSJ webinar, run in association with Acumentice, brought together a small panel to consider how the context of a continuing pandemic – and the suspension of elective activity during its first wave – has affected approaches to managing waits. By Claire Read
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HSJ InteractiveWhy some clinicians are now at the centre of waiting list management
With waiting lists swelling in the face of the pandemic, a recent HSJ webinar heard how some trusts are putting clinicians at the heart of their approach to addressing the backlog
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NewsNHSE director: government has ‘absolute duty’ to hold public inquiry into handling of covid
‘Scared’ health and care staff who ‘put themselves on the line’ during the covid pandemic are owed a ‘duty’ by government to hold a public inquiry into how it was handled, a senior NHS England director has declared.
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NewsCovid hospital admissions begin to rise again in the North as South explodes
Covid hospital admissions are now rising again in both the north west and north east and Yorkshire regions.
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HSJ LocalICS lead announces retirement
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire integrated care system’s executive lead is to retire in March after 36 years of working in the NHS.
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NewsBoard go-ahead for merger to create UK’s largest trust
The merger of two foundation trusts to create the UK’s largest healthcare provider was approved.
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NewsHospital acquired covid infections hit record high
The number of covid-19 infections likely to have been acquired in hospital are rising again for the first time in three weeks and their proportion of all cases has reached record levels for the second wave, HSJ can reveal.
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News10 new hospital vaccine sites revealed
Ten more hospitals are to start giving the Pfizer covid vaccine, including two in coronavirus ‘hot spots’.
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Spending falls short, vaccines prove fraught, electives face halt
Your essential update on health for the week.