All articles by Alastair McLellan – Page 2
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Recruitment rules for interim managers on £750-a-day plus tightened by NHSE
Very senior interim managers, including turnaround directors, employed on a day rate of over £750 will have to be hired through ‘on-framework’ recruitment agencies, new NHS England guidance has stated.
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‘Free’ NHS makes people ‘lazy’ says pharmacy chief
The director of a leading pharmacy chain invited to advise the prime minister on healthcare reform has claimed the NHS makes people too ‘lazy’ to take responsibility for their health.
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New number one trust CEO revealed
The overarching theme of HSJ’s 2023 ranking of the NHS’s leading provider trust chief executives is one of change. Twenty-four of the names in the top 50 are new when compared to the 2022 list, although some have appeared in the rankings during previous years. In association with ...
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Second think tank chief stands down
Richard Murray, the chief executive of the health service’s best known think tank – The King’s Fund – will step down later this year.
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Pay rises should not exceed 3.5pc next year, warns government
Giving NHS staff a pay rise of more than 3.5 per cent next year would mean cuts to the NHS’s non-pay budget or an increase in unsustainable borrowing, the government has claimed.
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Expert Briefing
Patient Safety Watch: Too many patient safety cooks
Following Jeremy Hunt’s appointment as chancellor, HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter. This week features a guest column from HSJ editor Alastair McLellan.
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Branding agency hired to help ‘cultivate new personality’ for NHSE
NHS England will attempt to ‘cultivate the right personality’ as an ‘empowering coach-like leader’ in part to ‘rebuild lost trust’ with the service.
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Nigel Edwards to stand down as Nuffield Trust CEO
Nigel Edwards, one of the most influential voices on UK healthcare policy in the 21st century, is to leave his role as chief executive of the Nuffield Trust think tank later this year.
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Revealed: How much each ICS is getting from the £200m discharge fund
Two integrated care systems are receiving over £10m each to spend on supporting hospital discharge, while 10 are getting less than £3m.
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New discharge fund risks being ‘political theatre’, warn NHS leaders
The government has ‘a week to 10 days’ to distribute the £200m it is committing to speed up hospital discharge if the initiative is to have a meaningful impact on reducing the 13,000 patients who are medically fit to leave hospital, national healthcare leaders have told HSJ.
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Leader
The year of the great distraction
That 2023 will be the fourth in a series of increasingly brutal years for the service will come as no surprise to HSJ readers.
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New nursing strikes announced as Christmas ambulance walkout is called off
Nurses will walk out for two consecutive days on Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 January, the Royal College of Nursing has announced.
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NHS leaders fear ambulance strike ‘calm’ will not last
The first NHS ambulance strike for 32 years appears not to have had any major impact so far.
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NHS leaders ‘filled with dread’ ahead of ambulance strike
National, system and trust leaders have told HSJ they fear for the safety of patients and the wellbeing of staff as the NHS experiences its first ambulance strike for 32 years.
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ICSs risk becoming ‘rebadged CCGs’ warns Hewitt
Integrated care systems could become ‘rebadged clinical commissioning groups’ or ‘another layer of performance management’, former health secretary Patricia Hewitt has warned.
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Comment
Improving the NHS’s relationship with the care sector
If there is one truth that all NHS leaders have come to understand during the last few years, it is that the service’s fate is irrevocably linked with that of the care sector.
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Leader
The Hewitt review could fundamentally change the way the NHS operates
To understand the nature and importance of Patricia Hewitt’s review of the role of integrated care systems announced last week it is necessary to understand its highly unusual genesis.
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Ministers order review to free ICSs from micromanagement
Former Labour health secretary Patricia Hewitt has been asked by the government to review the role and powers of integrated care systems with a view to giving them greater autonomy.
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Less star quality, but more influence in the 2022 ranking of minority ethnic leaders
That this year’s HSJ ranking of the 50 most powerful and influential people in the NHS and health policy from a minority ethnic background has lost a little star quality is a reality that cannot be avoided. Sponsored by This loss is not surprising given the departure of ...
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Number of covid positive hospital patients stops rising
The number of covid positive patients in English hospitals has stopped rising after 30 days.