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  1. News Article
    The director of the Modernisation Agency in the early 2000s is returning to lead a new national service improvement drive, NHS England has announced, while asking systems and providers to “baseline” their improvement needs and capability. NHSE is establishing a “national improvement board” to oversee a new improvement programme called NHS Impact, as recommended by a review last year of the current infrastructure. NHSE announced the board will be chaired by David Fillingham, who was director of the NHS Modernisation Agency from 2001-2004 where, NHSE said, “he focused on developing new practices and fostering leadership development”. The national improvement board will choose a small number of improvement priorities to be followed across national bodies and the wider health service. It will “set the direction of system wide improvement” through “collaboration and co-design,” NHSE said. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 19 July 2023
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    This policy paper from the Department of Health and Social Care sets out the Government’s response to the recommendations of the Independent Investigation into East Kent Maternity services.
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    A trust has been accused of presiding over the deterioration of a key service amid communication problems between senior leaders and a ‘worrying series of resignations’ which has left the department with ‘no doctors’. The British Association of Dermatologists wrote to Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust on 13 July to request an urgent meeting with the provider’s management to discuss the matter. The letter, seen by HSJ, outlines fundamental patient safety and staffing concerns about the trust’s dermatology service and accuses the trust of putting “continued communication barriers” between clinicians and management. The letter, signed by BAD president Mabs Chowdhury, says there are now “no doctors in the department” after two consultants and a locum consultant resigned “due to apparent unhappiness with the running of services [and in] a continuation of a worrying series of resignations”. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 19 July 2023
  4. Content Article
    The health needs of the population are changing, and many people need more co-ordinated care across primary, community, social and hospital services. More co-ordinated care requires organisations and staff to collaborate well across organisational and professional boundaries,
  5. News Article
    A cut to the NHS tech budget, revealed by HSJ, has been described as “pretty outrageous” by a former government adviser and eminent medical leader. Sir John Bell, an immunologist and geneticist and regius chair of medicine at Oxford University, made the comments in a talk at the Tony Blair Institute’s Future of Britain conference. NHSE’s cut to its tech budget was attributed to having to divert the money to fund spending growth, and some other inflationary costs, without receiving extra from government. At the time, NHSE said the service “remains firmly committed to our digital strategy from supporting hospitals to adopt electronic patient record systems to transforming how patients access NHS services through the NHS App”. But Sir John said: “The NHS is a technology averse healthcare system.” He said NHS spending on medicines was “much lower than peers and if you look at our access to technology – like MRI and CR scanners – we’re right at the back. We just don’t do it.” He added that rapid tech development and adoption was needed particularly to enable mass early diagnosis of diseases, and new treatment therapies. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 18 July 2023
  6. News Article
    The government is on track to break a key election promise from Boris Johnson to build 40 new hospitals in England by the end of the decade, a damning report by the public spending watchdog has found. Delays to projects mean the target is unlikely to be met, with work on buildings in the second cohort of the scheme yet to have started as of May, according to the National Audit Office. The approach to achieving objectives at the lowest possible cost could also result in hospitals that are too small, the watchdog warned, as modelling assumptions may be unrealistic about the extent to which care in future will be provided outside hospitals. The government failed to achieve good value for money, with the scheme having cost £1.1bn by March this year, and progress has been slower than expected, the report concluded. The claim will ignite concerns that the new hospitals would struggle to cope in the event of another pandemic, given England already has one of the highest rates of hospital bed occupancy among countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Read full story Source: The Guardian, 17 July 2023
  7. Content Article
    All the public and preliminary hearings from the Covid 19 Inquiry can be found here.
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    “Crisis,” “collapse,” “catastrophe” — these are common descriptors from recent headlines about the NHS in the UK. In 2022, the NHS was supposed to begin its recovery from being perceived as a Covid-and-emergencies-only service during parts of 2020 and 2021. Throughout the year, however, doctors warned of a coming crisis in the winter of 2022 to 2023. The crisis duly arrived. In this New England Journal of Medicine article, David Hunter gives his perspective on the current state of the NHS.
  9. Content Article
    There are signs that some US healthcare organisations are scoring some successes in addressing the worker morale and retention crisis. But data from Press Ganey surveys shows that there is a widening gap between the most- and least-successful organisations. This article draws lessons from the former. It discusses three key elements needed to engage workers, make them more resilient, and make them feel more aligned with their leaders.
  10. News Article
    NHS waiting lists in England have climbed to a record level, according to new figures that show 7.47 million patients were waiting to start routine hospital treatment at the end of May, up from 7.42 million at the end of April. The growing list includes 416,000 children waiting to start treatment – up 9.7% in just one month, and including 21,282 who have been waiting more than a year. Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health president Camilla Kingdon said it is “unacceptable” and “unfathomable” to have so many children waiting so long. However, hospital leaders warned on Thursday they are not confident they will hit key NHS targets to reduce the waiting list in 2024 and 2025. The figures come during a five-day junior doctors’ strike during which tens of thousands of operations and appointments are expected to be cancelled and ahead of NHS consultants’ strikes where the major of planned care is expected to be paused. Read full story Source: The Independent, 13 July 2023
  11. Content Article
    The Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety review set out the devastating impact on people’s lives when patients’ voices go unheard. Recommendation 2 from the review was the appointment of an independent Patient Safety Commissioner to promote the safety of medicines and medical devices and to amplify the voices and views of patients and the public so that future harm is avoided. The Patient Safety Commissioner (PSC) was appointed on 13 July 2022 and took up her post officially on 12 September 2022. Here is the first Patient Safety Commissioner's first annual report.
  12. Content Article
    This article provides an overview of a Parliamentary reception, hosted by Carolyn Harris MP, as part of the Safety for All campaign. The event was attended by over 50 guests including MPs, Peers, frontline healthcare professionals, patients and representatives from NHS organisations, regulators, charities, unions and industry.
  13. News Article
    Acute trust leaders have expressed ‘extreme concern’ over their ability to maintain safe services in the upcoming junior doctor and consultant strikes. Leaders at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust are “extremely concerned about the impact on patients… as well as on the health and wellbeing of staff”, according to its latest CEO report to the board, Junior doctors are striking between 7am on Thursday 13 July and 7am on Tuesday 18 July. The report warned this would result in “complete withdrawal of labour, with no exemptions to cover emergency and critical services”. The report said: “Junior doctors may only be recalled to work in the event of a mass casualty incident… Although other staff can cover for junior doctors they are becoming exhausted and increasingly reluctant to do so. “We are therefore extremely concerned about our ability to maintain safe services.” Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 12 July 2023
  14. News Article
    NHS England has reduced its elective activity target for the service because of the impact of junior doctors’ strike, and acknowledged the service may not hit the prime minister’s pledge to reduce waiting lists before the next general election if the industrial action continues. NHSE has agreed a deal with ministers which will see the “value based” elective activity target set for the service reduced for 2023-24 from 107 per cent of pre-pandemic levels to 105 per cent (See explainer box on value-based targets below). Trust finance bosses were briefed by NHSE chief finance officer Julian Kelly this morning (Wednesday 12 July) on the eve of junior doctors’ longest strike action to date. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 12 July 2023
  15. Content Article
    In this report, Patient Safety Learning considers the roles and responsibilities of Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) in relation to patient safety, and how this fits in with the wider patient safety landscape in England. This article contains a summary of the report, which can be read in full here or from downloading the attachment below.
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    HSJ brought together a panel of trust chief executives drawn from its annual list of the NHS’s Top 50 CEOs. Their discussion explored how trusts will cope with the renewed financial challenge and what values-based leadership means to them. Many of the CEOs at the roundtable complained there no longer seemed to be any reward for good financial performance now that the health of system finances trumped those at individual organisations.
  17. Content Article
    As the NHS turns 75, the Chief Executives of The Health Foundation, Nuffield Trust and The King’s Fund have written to the leaders of the three largest political parties in England, calling on them to make the upcoming general election a decisive break point by ending years of short termism in NHS policy-making.   The joint letter highlights four key areas where long-term policies coupled with considered investment would help chart a path back to a stronger health service:   Invest in the physical resources the NHS needs to do its job including equipment, beds, buildings and new technology.  Deliver long overdue reform of adult social care  Commit to a cross-government strategy over the course of the next parliament to improve the underlying social and economic conditions that shape the health of the nation  Build on the recently published NHS long term workforce plan with sustained commitment to providing the resources it needs to succeed
  18. Content Article
    The Safe Care at Home Review is an important reminder that people with care and support needs may experience abuse and neglect, sometimes under the guise of ‘care’. Older people, or people with disabilities, may be particularly vulnerable to harm because of their dependence on others and the complexity of their care needs. They might rely on other people for physical, mental or financial support, and may face difficulties recognising or reporting harm. The review draws on a range of evidence, including the Home Office funded Vulnerability Knowledge and Practice Programme, which has highlighted that one in six domestic homicides involved people who were cared for by, or caring for, the suspect.
  19. News Article
    The government is resisting what it believes are inflationary pay demands from junior doctors for the sake of NHS staff, health and social care secretary Steve Barclay has told HSJ. In a wide-ranging interview, Mr Barclay also: Rejected the idea that it would be impossible to hit the prime minister’s waiting times pledge without settling the junior doctors strike; Defined what he believed was the difference between good and bad management; Refused to apologise to the 123 trusts whose bids for “new hospital programme” funding were rejected. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 10 July 2023
  20. News Article
    NHS trusts have committed to financial plans without properly considering their consequences, with finance directors turning a blind eye to unrealistic forecasts under pressure from NHS England, some of the country’s top NHS chief executives have warned. Many of the senior trust leaders speaking at HSJ’s Top CEOs roundtable admitted they had gone further than they wanted to in agreeing to higher levels of planned savings. At the roundtable event, University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust CEO David Probert said there were “definite challenges to the professionalism of some of our fantastic finance leaders”, who were “being asked to put in place plans that [they] may not fully agree are deliverable or are highly risky.” Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 7 July 2023
  21. News Article
    The Welsh Government is facing criticism after refusing to appoint an independent Patient Safety Commissioner – a role established in England last year and currently being legislated for in Scotland. The moves in England and Scotland follow publication of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review in 2020, which investigated a series of scandals where patients suffered because of negligence and inaction. The review recommended the establishment of a Patient Safety Commissioner in England, and last September Dr Henrietta Hughes became the first such commissioner. The Scottish Parliament is currently legislating to introduce a Patient Safety Commissioner. A Welsh Government spokesman said: “The situation here is different to the other devolved nations. We’ve recently introduced our own legislation and other measures to improve patient safety. “We strengthened the powers of the Public Service Ombudsman for Wales to undertake their own investigations and introduced new duties of quality, including safety, and candour for NHS bodies. We have created [the body] Llais to give a stronger voice to people in all parts of Wales on their health and social care services. It has a specific remit to consider patient safety and has the power to make representations to NHS bodies and local authorities and undertake work on a nationwide basis. “Our view is that introducing a Patient Safety Commissioner in Wales at this time would create considerable complexity and confusion. Also one of the main roles of the proposed commissioner is in relation to medicines and medical devices, which are not devolved to Wales.” Read full story Source: Nation Cymru, 6 July 2023
  22. News Article
    Northern Ireland's health system cannot expect its staff to "step up time and time again" to provide patient care and ensure their safety. That is according to the head of Northern Ireland's Confederation for Health and Social Care, which is marking the NHS's 75th anniversary. A long-term funding plan, political leadership and transformation are all overdue, Michael Bloomfield said. "There is a clear vision for what needs to happen, the leaders across the health and social care system know what needs to happen - we just need political leadership to make sure it happens," he told BBC News NI. Amid all the celebrations, there are mixed feelings about the current condition and future of health and social care. The director of the Royal College of Nursing NI, Rita Devlin, described the idea of not having an NHS as "unthinkable". "We need to make sure that the environment that we are asking our nurses to work in is one that values the work that they do and fairly pays and rewards them for what they do," she said. Other issues that need addressing, she added, were career pathways, training and ensuring that "when a nurse wants to stay at the bedside, that that is valued equally as the nurses who want to go into management". Read full story Source: BBC News, 5 July 2023
  23. News Article
    The quality of care that the NHS provides has got worse in many key areas and patients’ long waits to access treatment could become even more common, research has found. The coalition government’s austerity programme in the early 2010s led to the heath service no longer being able to meet key waiting time targets, the Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation said. Austerity ushered in “really concerning deterioration across the board” in the overall quality of NHS care, as judged by patients’ experience and prevention of ill-health, not just speed of access. Analysis by the two thinktanks’ joint Quality Watch programme, which monitors more than 150 indicators of care quality over time, found that in England: Fewer people with long-term heath conditions such as cancer, diabetes and depression, are getting enough help to manage their condition. Breast cancer screening rates for women aged 53-74 have fallen. It has become harder for patients to see a named GP. Only 6% of midwives think their maternity unit has enough staff to do its job properly. Read full story Source: The Guardian, 5 July 2023
  24. News Article
    The NHS must undergo radical change or it will continue to decline and lose public support, Tony Blair has argued on the service’s 75th anniversary. It must embrace a revolution in technology to reshape its relationship with patients and make much more use of private healthcare providers to cut waiting times, the former Labour prime minister says. The prevalence of chronic health conditions, long waiting times, the NHS’s stretched workforce and tight public finances in the years ahead mean the service must transform how it operates, he said. “The NHS now requires fundamental reform or, eventually, support for it will diminish. As in the 1990s, the NHS must either change or decline,” he writes in the foreword to a new report from his Tony Blair Institute thinktank, which sets out ideas for safeguarding the NHS’s future. He adds: “Change is never easy and requires brave political leadership. If we do not act, the NHS will continue down a path of decline, to the detriment of our people and our economy.” Read full story Source: The Guardian, 5 July 2023
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