Ben Clover

Bureau chief at the Health Service Journal

[Ben Clover @BenClover]

@se1

[Henry Anderson @HMAnderson39]

NHS boss says the main way to improve health service cybersecurity is fixing the basics like "multi-factor authentication, out-of-support kit [and] weak passwords”.

...Not entirely reassuring

from @BenClover

https://t.co/dRSDJyg7N5

[Henry Anderson @HMAnderson39]

Nearly 50 NHS trusts that perform well on patient care have been downgraded because they are in deficit.

But analysis of NHS England's own figures shows two-thirds of those are under-funded - raising questions about the fairness of the new league tables

(link below)

[James Illman @Jamesillman]

This graph (red dots actual performance v the grey line trajectory needed to hit the government's waiting list target) shows why NHS leaders are concerned about the waiting list ambition veering off track

[Ben Clover @BenClover]

NRS Healthcare supplied wheelchairs and other medical devices to around half the country

[Benjamin Bloch @Bloch_ortho]

I can only talk from an orthopaedic standpoint & particularly from hip & knee surgery as that’s my area.

Referrals are going up. Locally MSK triage services seem overwhelmed; once patients finally get through and are referred on there is a 16w wait for an appointment with us.

[Ben Clover @BenClover]

@harrymightyatom Hi Harry, sounds like you've some specifics in mind! Email me if you think there's something we should be looking at [email protected]

[Ben Clover @BenClover]

Tough day to ask Wes for ideas to cut regulation. Day after confirmation of DHSC using public money to put private-equity owned medical equipment company NRS Healthcare on life support https://t.co/6pM56jWp3g

[Hugo Gye @HugoGye]

Cabinet meeting tomorrow will have only one item on the agenda: growth.

Rachel Reeves will demand new ideas from all ministers on how to cut regulation in their policy area.

DWP and MoD being refocussed to help drive growth.

[Ben Clover @BenClover]

@pash22 @drokane @NHSEngland @GreatOrmondSt @tortus_AI @sib313 @mancunianmedic @HSJnews @ProfNegrini hadn't seen this one Ash, interesting, cheers

[Ben Clover @BenClover]

@pash22 @drokane @NHSEngland @GreatOrmondSt @tortus_AI @sib313 @mancunianmedic @HSJnews not sure I'm allowed to bet on it Ash, but I would surmise that AVT, not necessarily this one or in every setting, will becoming a fairly commonplace part of the NHS in the next five years or so

[Ben Clover @BenClover]

@drokane @pash22 @NHSEngland @GreatOrmondSt @tortus_AI @sib313 @mancunianmedic but the magic beans worked? At least in Jack and the Beanstalk. But i take the point about there being a lot of hype out there and unanswered questions. This is the biggest study so far tho, so guess we'll see if it takes off

[Ben Clover @BenClover]

@mancunianmedic @LarcombePeter @pash22 @NHSEngland @GreatOrmondSt @tortus_AI @sib313 I remember being sat with our new baby in a maternity unit while the mum in the next bay had a very intense conversation with lady from social services

[Ben Clover @BenClover]

@MFAminGP @parthaskar @clifford0584 @sib313 they say it cut the time spent on documentation such as clinical notes by a little over half

[Ben Clover @BenClover]

Our report on the biggest trial of ambient voice technology in the NHS so far

[Health Service Journal @HSJnews]

Exclusive: AI in A&Es could save £834m, major study finds https://t.co/S6gulZc9Wj

[Ben Clover @BenClover]

@LarcombePeter @pash22 @NHSEngland @GreatOrmondSt @tortus_AI @sib313 @mancunianmedic hmm, not sure how they did it at St George's then, will ask

[Ben Clover @BenClover]

@LarcombePeter @pash22 @NHSEngland @GreatOrmondSt @tortus_AI @sib313 @mancunianmedic One of the interview subjects said the noise and language issues meant they used to dictate into after the consultation, rather than live, like you could do somewhere quieter

[Ben Clover @BenClover]

@drokane @pash22 @NHSEngland @GreatOrmondSt @tortus_AI @sib313 @mancunianmedic they calculated it off the "reduction in documentation time"

[Ben Clover @BenClover]

@parthaskar @MFAminGP @clifford0584 w/ a fair few caveats, clinicians in the qual.bit of the report seemed enthused, but yep there are a lot of AVT firms out there trying to get signed. Such that NHSE had to write to everyone to ask them to comply with what rules there are https://t.co/Mz8JW6vq2m

[Ben Clover @BenClover]

@LarcombePeter @pash22 @NHSEngland @GreatOrmondSt @tortus_AI @sib313 @mancunianmedic people did mention that as a factor in the qualitative bit

[Ben Clover @BenClover]

@MFAminGP @parthaskar @clifford0584 hopefully the powers-that-be will actually publish it

[Ben Clover @BenClover]

@MFAminGP @parthaskar @clifford0584 York Health Economics Consortium did the £-bit and note the limitation of extrapolating up from research at one ED