NHSE appoints to key recovery role after nine-month wait
NHS England has appointed a substantive chief dental officer after filling the post in an interim capacity for almost a year, it has announced. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 22, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Block on data sharing contributed to death
A failure to share medical information between IT systems contributed to the death of a man in prison custody, a coroner has concluded. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 22, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
A&E problem trusts targeted for tech investment
Some of the worst-performing trusts for emergency care performance are set to get funding from NHS England to help manage patient flow through hospital. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 22, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Trust ordered to cut 600 posts
A major acute trust has been ordered to cut 600 whole-time equivalent posts, its chief executive has said. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 22, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
The mythbuster: The poverty of positive thinking
The NHS England’s penchant for positive spin on performance belies a deeper need for honesty and hope, crucial for organisational turnaround, writes Steve Black (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 22, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Two more trusts get ‘mandated intensive support’ over deficits
Two large hospital trusts have been put into NHS England’s “recovery support programme” and placed on the lowest rung of its oversight ratings. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 22, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
£200k fine 'reminds trusts to provide safe care'
A trust has been told to pay more than £200k for care failings related to two patients’ deaths. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 20, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
£200k fine ‘reminds trusts to provide safe care’
A trust has been told to pay more than £200k for care failings related to two patients’ deaths. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 20, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
North by North West: Patient safety or administrative convenience?
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 20, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Prime Minister should focus on the NHS, not demonise those too sick to work
Commenting on the Prime Minister’s proposals on welfare reform today (Friday), UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said:
“The Prime Minister has promised and failed to cut NHS waiting lists.
“Worse still, his government has damaged the public services people were once able to rely upon to get better and stay healthy.
“Lengthy waits for NHS operations and treatment have left people languishing at home, too sick or injured to work. That’s a personal tragedy for them and terrible for the economy too.
“Instead of hostile rhetoric on benefits, ministers should be recruiting to fill the huge...
Source: UNISON Health care news - April 19, 2024 Category: UK Health Authors: Fatima Ayad Tags: News Press release Christina McAnea NHS Source Type: news
NHSE director lined up for trust with worst A&E problems
An NHS England director is set to be appointed to the board of a trust with some of the worst A&E problems in recent years, including the most hours lost to ambulance handover delays last year. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 19, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: One-year waiters, two-year contracts and 100-post redundancies
Your essential update on health for the week. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 19, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
New executive joins national agency to lead ongoing reforms
NHS Supply Chain has appointed a new chief commercial executive director to lead ongoing reforms to the agency as well as delivery of day-to-day commercial operations. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 19, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Scotland Pauses Gender Medications for Minors
The change followed a sweeping review by England ’s National Health Service that found “remarkably weak” evidence for youth gender treatments. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Azeen Ghorayshi Tags: National Health Service Scotland England Youth Teenagers and Adolescence Gender Medicine and Health Health Insurance and Managed Care Hormones Transgender your-feed-healthcare Source Type: news
Scotland Pauses Prescribing Puberty Blockers to Under-18s
Scotland’s only gender clinic for young people has paused prescribing puberty blockers for new patients under 18 years old after the National Health Service (NHS) in England banned children from receiving the gender treatment last month.
Puberty blockers are used to delay puberty changes by stopping the body from making sex hormones including testosterone and estrogen. They can be prescribed to treat gender dysphoria, the clinical term for psychological distress that results from an incongruence between one’s sex assigned at birth and one’s gender identity.
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Source: TIME: Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mallory Moench Tags: Uncategorized News Desk Source Type: news
