HSJ Health Check returns this week, just as NHS England unveils new performance rankings for every trust in England.We unpick how the league table is drawn up, ask who exactly it is aimed at, and whether it will have any meaningful impact on performance and transparency. Also, more on the cost of the latest doctors’ strikes and the financial asks facing trusts this year.We are sorry for the poor quality audio at some points in this week’s podcast - we encountered problems with the platform we use to record it. We tried to clean it up as much as possible as we wanted to publish the discussion rather than scrap it all together this week.
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Deficits are cancelled
This week on the last HSJ podcast before the summer recess, we cover what is going on with more than £2bn that NHS England wants to take off overspending trusts. Henry Anderson and Dave West dig into this, and Wes Streeting’s promise to move some of this money into deprived areas – asking if this will actually work.Also an update on plans for manager regulation after the government published its proposals earlier this week.Â
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Mackey vs the BMA
This week the HSJ team looks at the upcoming resident doctors' strike, plus how satisfied the public is primary care. Bureau chief Ben Clover, standing in for Annabelle Collins is joined by workforce correspondent Nick Kituno to talk about the BMA's latest strike action following the dramatic policy intervention made by NHSE Boss Sir Jim Mackey earlier in the week. Ben and primary care correspondent Caitlin Tilley then go through what the latest data shows about the public's impression of primary care services, and progress towards making the NHS App the service's front door.
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Spending too much on safety
Penny Dash's long-awaited review into safety and quality came out this week and put cost-effectiveness at the heart of implementing future recommendations from reviews and inquires. We cover the biggest changes - including the scrapping of Healthwatch - and whether yet more upheaval will be worth it. Also this week an update on the government's neighbourhood health plans as the next bit of the strategy is revealed.
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A profound disappointment
The 10-Year Health Plan has been published, so this week Alastair McLellan and Dave West cover what really matters in the 150-page document, and why it's such a disappointment. Also, what happened to the last chapter on delivery?Â
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