All Winter pressures articles – Page 6
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HSJ PartnersNot ‘just another winter’: how leaders will build back better
Danny Silk, consulting manager at Carnall Farrar, explains how health and care leaders are shifting their approach to balance winter pressures, covid-19 waves and elective activity.
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NewsNHS seeks £10bn covid deal with private hospitals
Private providers have been asked to apply to a new procurement framework worth up to £10bn, from which NHS organisations will purchase additional capacity for up to four years.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: ‘Covid critical’ Liverpool abandons its restoration
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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Comment10 pc of elective patients treated in August had waited 10 months or more
More and more waiting lists are disappearing into the 52-week-plus category, notes Rob Findlay
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Liberating local leaders for wave two
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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NewsDischarge rates slowing as providers face ‘perfect storm’
Providers are beginning to see a slowing in the rate of patient discharges, in what would be another element of the ‘perfect storm’ they face this winter, leaders have warned.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Rally the troops
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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CommentA sticking plaster for adult social care as winter approaches
To help social care services cope with covid-19 over winter, it needs more than just a plan, by Hugh Alderwick and Lucinda Allen
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News‘Long covid’ clinics still not operating despite Hancock claim
The government and NHS England appear unable to identify units set up to treat ‘long covid’, contrary to a claim by Matt Hancock in Parliament that the NHS had ‘set up clinics and announced them in July’.
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NewsOvercrowded A&Es ‘much more dangerous now because of covid’
Emergency departments across England are suffering ‘dangerous’ overcrowding comparable with pre-covid levels - and are struggling to maintain social distancing.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: What constitutes a successful winter this year?
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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NewsExclusive: Plans for 150 new diagnostic hubs to cut rising waits
Plans for up to 150 new community diagnostic hubs to tackle the NHS’ ballooning diagnostic waiting lists are included in NHS England ‘blue print plans’ leaked to HSJ.
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NewsNHS Confed: Suspend routine CQC inspections over winter
NHS leaders are calling for routine inspections of hospitals and other providers to be paused until after winter so services can focus on treatment backlogs and exhausted staff.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Social care ‘Nightingales’ - or not?
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by integration senior correspondent, Sharon Brennan.
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HSJ LocalGetting shielded staff back before winter key priority, says hospital CEO
A teaching hospital which had over a thousand staff shielding or working from home at the peak of the covid outbreak has made getting these employees safely back on site a top priority before winter, its chief executive has told HSJ.
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NewsRegion predicts it needs 1,000 more beds to meet winter demand
NHS leaders in the West Midlands claim 1,000 new hospital beds are needed to meet expected demand over the coming winter.
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Revealed: the trusts getting a share of the £300m winter pressures fund
Over one hundred trusts will share a £300m capital fund to support coronavirus-related upgrades to emergency departments ahead of winter, the prime minister has announced today.
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NewsNew A&E targets ‘to be rolled out before winter’
NHS England is planning to roll out new emergency care standards, designed to replace the four-hour A&E target, before winter, according to plans published today.
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NewsNHS England urged to bring in new A&E targets before winter
The NHS should begin implementing a new emergency care performance regime — which is set to replace the four-hour target — before winter, the Royal College of Emergency president has told HSJ.
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NewsNew committees take over from Cobra for covid ‘battle plan’
Matt Hancock says new cabinet committees have been formed to manage the government’s response to coronavirus, including a “battle plan” for the coming winter.