All articles by Dave West – Page 11
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Javid promises ‘fundamental and far-reaching reforms’
Health and social care secretary Sajid Javid wants 2022 to be a ‘year of reform’ for the NHS and social care.
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NHSE staff raise concerns over ‘conduct of senior leaders’
The behaviour of senior leaders and unfair recruitment practices were the most common concerns expressed by NHS England and Improvement staff who raised issues with the organisation’s freedom to speak up guardians.
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Javid may drop power to block unpopular service change
Sajid Javid is considering scrapping or watering down plans to give him power over local service changes, in response to concerns from the service, but is expected to plough on with other controversial proposals in the Health and Care Bill, HSJ has learned.
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‘Everything up for grabs’ as NHS reviews ‘long-term plan’ goals
NHS England is reviewing the commitments to improve services made in its long-term plan, with senior officials believing many of them cannot be met under last week’s funding settlement and after the damage of the pandemic, HSJ has learned.
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Nearly half of hospital trusts hit ‘unsafe’ occupancy levels
The number of acute trusts running at very high bed occupancy hit a new peak last week, with nearly half of acute trusts over NHS England’s 92 per cent benchmark, analysis shows.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: The cost of a system leader
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NHSE hires trust chief as national director
NHS England has hired a retiring trust chief as national director for learning disability and autism.
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DHSC ‘playbook’ orders trusts to describe big building projects as ‘new hospitals’
A communications ‘playbook’ for the government’s NHS building programme tells trusts that major refurbishments and new wings/units which are part of the scheme ‘must always be referred to as a new hospital’.
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Covid hospital occupancy hits new high for summer wave
The number of covid patients in English hospitals has hit a new high in this summer’s wave, leaping sharply over the weekend.
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Big surge in the most serious ambulance calls
There has been a big surge since spring in the number of immediately life-threatening incidents ambulance services have responded to, along with large numbers attending emergency departments.
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Sustained rise in long-stay patients stuck in hospital, leaked figures reveal
The number of hospital bed days occupied by people who are medically ready to be discharged has been growing steadily since the spring and is now higher than in the winter, according to data seen by HSJ.
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Exclusive: Dido Harding steps down from remaining NHS role
Baroness Dido Harding will step down from her remaining NHS role in October, she has informed the government.
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NHSE names interim chief operating officer
NHS England has appointed a former hospital chief as its interim chief operating officer, succeeding Amanda Pritchard.
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Named: the first 25 integrated care board chairs
The chairs have been chosen for 25 of the 42 NHS integrated care boards which will plan health services from April.
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Exclusive: Eight trusts now have one in 10 beds filled by covid patients
Eight hospital trusts have hit the point where one in 10 of their beds is occupied by a patient with coronavirus, figures seen by HSJ reveal, and several more are approaching it.
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Number 10 insists ICSs will go ahead next year
The government will press ahead with a sweeping health and social care bill before Parliament’s summer break, it has said, despite concerns from Sajid Javid.
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Javid warned: Drop ‘power grab’ and press on with ICS bill
If Sajid Javid delays introduction of NHS legislation, the service will lose good managers and could sacrifice a rare consensus on health policy, the NHS Confederation is warning him today.
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Comment
The 20 ‘wildcards’ the NHS’s new bosses should listen to
We’re on course for the two most directly powerful people in UK healthcare — health secretary and NHS England chief executive — to undergo a change in the space of five weeks. They could learn quickly and stay focused by getting out and speaking to our 20 ’wildcards’, chosen as ...
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New No.10 health unit will ‘intervene where delivery is slowing’
Number 10 Downing Street is setting up a new unit to oversee ‘recovery’ in the NHS and other health priorities, and ‘intervene where delivery is slowing’.
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Top trust chief to become full-time ICS leader
Rob Webster is to leave his post as chief executive of South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust to become the full-time lead of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate integrated care system.