Emily Townsend

I'm a correspondent at specialist national news title Health Service Journal, passionate about achieving parity of esteem for mental health and giving a voice to the voiceless. I was previously a reporter at Archant’s Investigations Unit.

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HSJ Podcast: The CQC's latest crisis

And with staff pride at a record low at the Care Quality Commission, according to its latest internal survey, we cover what will be in the in-tray of its new CEO and why the regulator wants to find someone with “clear political licence”.  On Thursday evening, following the recording of this podcast, East Kent Hospitals Trust issued a statement stating Ms Doherty was stepping down so that the organisation could “appoint a chair who can focus exclusively on leading East Kent through the next phas...
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HSJ Podcast: Has Baroness Amos been set up to fail?

NHS maternity care continues to be under the spotlight, so on this week’s episode we unpick the web of different national reviews and how trusts could be asked to improve services.We cover Baroness Amos’ interim report … NHS maternity care continues to be under the spotlight, so on this week’s episode we unpick the web of different national reviews and how trusts could be asked to improve services.We cover Baroness Amos’ interim report …
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Inquiries - who are they for?

Guest host Ben Clover is joined by Emily Townsend and Zoe Tidman to look at the first weeks of the Thirlwall inquiry into the management response neonatal deaths at the Countess of Chester, the Lampard inquiry into the d… Guest host Ben Clover is joined by Emily Townsend and Zoe Tidman to look at the first weeks of the Thirlwall inquiry into the management response neonatal deaths at the Countess of Chester, the Lampard inquiry into the d…
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Chairs in the hot seat

Emily Townsend, HSJ’s care quality correspondent takes us through the CQC’s most recent patient satisfaction data and the team discuss the sometimes counterintuitive results. Workforce reporter Nick Kituno goes into some of the detail and background to his recent story on whether only the “super wealthy” can now afford to chair an NHS trust or ICS board. Send views and questions to guest host ben.clover@hsj.co.uk You can listen to HSJ Health Check on this page, or subscribe on Spotify, Apple...
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Carrying the can for corridor care

This week's HSJ podcast looks at the latest development in Shropshire's troubled health system and hospitals, and NHS England's move to ramp up the rollout of the federated data platform. https://www.hsj.co.uk/shrewsbury-and-telford-hospital-nhs-trust/ceo-who-led-trust-through-scandals-announces-departure/7037595.article https://www.hsj.co.uk/technology-and-innovation/nhse-u-turn-mandates-trust-use-of-the-fdp/7037578.article
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The latest safety crisis for maternity care

On this episode we discuss the quality of maternity services in the NHS, which have remained firmly in the spotlight. We cover a recent HSJ investigation into delayed inductions of labour and cover the broader challenges facing maternity services amid multiple inquiries and more 'inadequate' CQC ratings. Also more on why families whose babies died in the East Kent maternity scandal are still having to prove legal liability to get any compensation.
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Who’s to blame for the latest A&E crisis?

On this week’s episode we get into the debate sparked by comments made by a senior NHS director who called for an “absolute solution”. Also this week, the results are in on which integrated care systems are the most digitally mature. But did the NHS need to pay McKinsey £7m to tell them? Featuring Emily Townsend and Joe Talora and hosted by Annabelle Collins. You can listen to HSJ Health Check on this page, or subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and all the other popular podcas
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21 days stuck in A&E

We discuss data revealing the true scale of long A&E waits for mental health patients and what acute trusts are trying to do about it without any extra national funding. Also: most GP practices are still using old-fashioned paper records, despite a commitment four years ago to get rid of them. We discuss whether it’s worth GPs’ time and money to make the switch. With Annabelle Collins, Joe Talora and Emily Townsend.
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Overwhelmed hospitals failing to treat patients in emergencies

On this week’s episode Alastair reveals why NHS England’s elective recovery director Jim Mackey is replacing David Sloman as national operations lead later this year. We also discuss why Tim Ferris was the right man for the national transformation job, but arrived at the wrong time. Also this week: what’s next for the Agenda for Change pay deal and concerns raised about the poor care experienced by eating disorder patients in acute hospitals.
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Everything you need to know about the NHS staff survey

This year’s NHS staff survey results have landed, so on this episode, we bring you the need-to-know findings and insights into how the NHS workforce are feeling. Our team is joined by Chris Graham, the chief executive of the Picker Institute – the charity that organises the survey – and we discuss everything from the worrying drop in staff feeling safe to report clinical errors, to the shocking results once again reported by ambulance trusts. Also with Annabelle Collins, Alison Moore and Emily T
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HSJ Podcast: Should police have a role in healthcare?

We also discuss the battle in the NHS over how involved the police should be in managing community patients, and look at the state of mental health services more generally in a week when they have come under scrutiny from the National Audit Office. You can listen to HSJ Health Check on this page, or subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and all the other popular podcast platforms. Send feedback and questions for our journalists to annabelle.collins@hsj.co.uk.
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Still early days for scandal trust to turn a corner

The debate over single patient rooms has raged for many years, but emerging news from Liverpool’s new hospital suggests it could be a game-changer for cutting patients’ length of stay. We discuss the impact of the much-maligned city trust’s new hospital on patient flow.Also this week – we hear about the growing frustration in Manchester over the delay to the New Hospitals Programme, and we analyse our exclusive interview with the CEO of scandal-hit Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust. Featurin
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