All articles by Dave West – Page 6
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New NHSE director to oversee 'challenged' trusts
NHS England has hired a senior director from Health Education England to lead its work with particularly struggling trusts and systems.
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Majority of providers in some ICSs to be performance managed by NHSE
Some integrated care boards will not hold the lead performance management role for a majority of their member trusts, under the centre’s new rules for regulating the service.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Could NHSE ‘throw in the towel’?
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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‘Two week GP appointment’ policy delayed, despite Coffey pledge
NHS England has delayed a measure encouraging GP practices to see patients within two weeks – in contrast to ministers’ announcement last week trumpeting a new ‘expectation’ they would do so for all patients.
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The Integrator: Therese’s NHS short-term plan
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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Government promises GP appointments within two weeks
The new health and social care secretary will set out her NHS “plan” today, which will promise patients non-urgent GP appointments within two weeks, with urgent needs “seen within the same day”.
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Two more ministers join DHSC
A former senior policy adviser and a paediatrician have been appointed as junior ministers at the Department for Health and Social Care.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Will ‘ICS first’ survive the Coffey era?
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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Trust chief leaves NHSE role
A provider chief also serving as an NHS England director is returning to his trust full time, with another NHSE director taking over his responsibilities.
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NHSE director who delivered huge savings to step down
NHS England director Blake Dark, whose negotiations with the pharma industry are credited with saving the NHS large sums of money on expensive drugs, will leave in November.
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The Integrator: Provider-led ‘place’ perfection
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 director to run London Zoo
A senior NHS England director has taken a new job heading up The Zoological Society of London, which runs London Zoo, it has been reported.
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Revealed: CEO and exec turnover at each acute trust
Some acute trusts have kept more than half of their executive directors over a five-year period – whereas others have seen all of them change, according to HSJ analysis of top-level managerial stability.
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Government examines surge in ‘potentially preventable’ deaths
Department of Health and Social Care officials are concerned that many more people are dying than expected in recent months – particularly older working-age people – with NHS care delays and interruptions a likely cause.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: The terrifying non-acute backlog
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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Barclay calls urgent ‘hackathons’ over ambulance crisis
The new health and social care secretary has asked officials to hastily organise several “hackathons” to try to address the crisis in ambulance performance.
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‘Arrogance and bullying’ persist from ‘less understanding’ regulators, say trusts
NHS England and the Care Quality Commission are becoming less understanding of the pressures on trusts, their leaders report, with one CEO complaining “the arrogance and bullying continues to get worse”.
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NHS ‘shouting into the void’ with covid concerns
NHS leaders have sometimes been “shouting into the void” about their fears of the health service being overwhelmed by covid because of the absence of a single national command centre for the pandemic response, a new report argues.
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The Integrator: Council/NHS rows flare
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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6,000-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.