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The feasibility of government plans to slash 45 per cent of NHS management costs in four years has been called into question by a think tank close to the Conservative Party.
The government has told primary care trusts they will “increasingly” be required to put management resources at the disposal of GP consortia while they are implemented.
The NHS collects a vast amount of data, a treasure trove with the potential to revolutionise healthcare delivery. Yet, many NHS leaders grapple with a frustrating truth: this data doesn’t always yield the potential insight held within.
NHS England has suspended a planned contract to spend £15.6m on management consultants to create an NHS board improvement programme to build capability and iron out variable performance across local organisations.
NHS England has announced the seven trusts it intends to award contracts totalling £5bn to run the NHS Genomic Medicine Service over the next decade.
NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care have set out how the service will be jointly led by the two organisations until their formal merger is complete sometime in 2027.
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