All articles by Dave West – Page 15
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News6,000-plus jobs to be cut at ‘new NHS England’
Thousands of jobs – amounting to around 30-40 per cent of posts across NHS England, Health Education England and NHS Digital – will be cut over the next year as the organisations are merged, it was announced today.
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NewsNHSE strategy chief pledges ‘single leadership team’ for service
NHS England’s new chief strategy officer has set out plans to establish ‘a single, aligned leadership team’ that will include local CEOs, and promised ‘more immediate tactical communication channels’ with the centre
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NewsHalf of ICSs have no ‘partnership’ chair or ‘place’ leads
Less than a month before integrated care systems take over from clinical commissioning groups, half have not selected a chair of their partnership board, and more than half have yet to appoint the executive leaders of their constituent ‘places’, HSJ research has found.
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NewsGovernment to pick ‘integration frontrunners’ to test ‘radical new approaches’
Government will pick five or six ‘integration frontrunner’ areas ‘to lead the way in developing and testing radical new approaches’ to speeding up discharge from acute hospitals.
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NewsHSJ100: Power reshapes around the new bosses
In the eight months since the 2021 HSJ100 was published, more than half the top 20 has changed.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The re-emergence of the purchaser-provider split
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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NewsICS leader: We’re still facing short-sighted trusts
An integrated care system chair has said systems will still face ’short-sighted’ competitive behaviour from trusts, citing a trust chair who didn’t want his staff to take part in a system-wide executive development programme.
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NewsNHS England reviewing bed capacity
The NHS has a low bed base, and NHS England is reviewing ‘how we right-size our capacity’ across hospital, community and ‘virtual’ services, Amanda Pritchard has said.
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NewsCEOs of covid-ravaged trusts call for more action on shared waiting lists
Coordination of waiting lists and elective treatment across health systems and regions should be ‘far more systematic’, and could have happened earlier, chief executives of some of the hardest hit trusts have told HSJ.
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NewsRevealed: The trusts hit hardest by covid
Revealing the hospital trusts hit hardest through the pandemic so far, and what their chief executives want to be learned from the experience.
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LeaderDr Fuller sets out ICSs’ inheritance, and it’s tough
Claire Fuller seeks to underline a new era for primary care under integrated care systems — and it’s going to be a difficult one.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The ‘integrated’ in ICS
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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Exclusive: Trusts and systems to be given £1.5bn to cover inflation costs
Local NHS organisations will be given an extra £1.5bn in 2022-23 to help cope with inflation and other cost pressures – and have been told to make extra savings to bring their budgets into balance, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsBig hospitals warn NHSE of dangers of ICS takeover
Moving specialised services commissioning from NHS England to integrated care systems risks fragmenting provision, creating post-code lotteries and diluting quality and expertise, a group representing some of the largest tertiary trusts has told NHS England.
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NewsTwo-year waiters fall 20pc in a month
The number of two-year waiters fell by 20 per cent in the month to 1 May, but remained above 10,000, according to provisional data.
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NewsTougher cancer target considered by ministers
Government is considering setting a tougher cancer diagnostic target as part of its declared ‘war on cancer’, HSJ has been told.
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NewsTrusts resist visiting rule after ‘Javid threatens to call CEOs’
Local clinical leaders are continuing to question pressure from government and NHS England to relax covid-19 visiting restrictions.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Unpickling primary care
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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NewsCovid discharges to care homes necessary, but DHSC failed on isolation, court finds
Discharging untested hospital patients into care homes in spring 2020 was ‘necessary to preserve the capacity of the NHS’, but the government acted illegally by failing to recommend they were isolated on admission, the High Court has ruled.
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NewsNew time limit for government to decide on reconfigurations
The government will have a time limit of six months to consider any local reconfiguration proposal it calls in, and will have to publicly justify its interference, under changes ministers have accepted to their Health and Care Bill.