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NewsNHSE hires charity chief to create new directorate
NHS England has appointed a charity CEO to the new role of national director of patient experience.
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NewsFormer Brown spin doctor to join DHSC
A former adviser to Gordon Brown is moving with Yvette Cooper from the Foreign Office to the Department of Health and Social Care, HSJ has learned.
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NewsHealth Bill blocks top Burnham priority, warns Labour health expert
The government’s Health Bill is in danger of blocking integration with social care, an influential Labour MP has warned.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The ICB redundancy row
This week we discuss why a £300,000 exit payment to a former ICB CEO has proved so controversial, and how NHS England has tried to justify it.
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NewsTwo North West MPs made health ministers
Two new junior health ministers – both representing constituencies in the North West – have been appointed by prime minister Andy Burnham.
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NewsMore changes to DHSC ministerial team announced
An MP who called for a debate on “the revolving door of failed NHS managers” has been appointed a health minister.
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NewsMackey must justify ‘highly irregular’ redundancy payment, demands peer
NHS England’s CEO has been challenged to explain a “highly irregular” £300,000 exit payout to a former integrated care board chief executive.
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NewsTrusts that stop staff criticising Israel face legal risk
Trust chief executives have been warned they could face “significant legal exposure” if they adopt a definition of antisemitism recommended by a government-commissioned review.
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NewsNew health secretary appointed
Yvette Cooper has been appointed secretary of state for health and social care by incoming prime minister Andy Burnham.
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CommentNHS management consultants need recognition and support
New research offers the first systematic mapping of internal consulting teams operating across the NHS - and argues that, with greater visibility and investment, they could form a genuine alternative to expensive external advisers
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NewsMaternity ‘sidelined by boards and poorly understood by medical directors’
Maternity services, despite numerous scathing reviews, are still sidelined by trust boards and often poorly understood by medical directors, who view them as being outside the mainstream and delivered by “slightly odd folk”, a leading expert has told HSJ.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The doctor who’s fought maternity scandals for a decade
Now the dust has settled on two major maternity reviews, HSJ Health Check is joined by Bill Kirkup to discuss what happens next.
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NewsCQC names new CEO
A senior civil servant who has run the food safety regulator will be the new CEO of the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsRevealed: The NHSE teams losing most staff to redundancy
UPDATED: At least a quarter of staff in NHS England chief executive’s office have agreed to take voluntary redundancy, substantially higher than most other teams, figures leaked to HSJ suggest.
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NewsCQC chief faces ‘inherent conflict’
The chief executive of the Care Quality Commission is set to become responsible for deciding whether to remove “safe space” protection from whistleblowers’ information, which a former health minister has called an “inherent conflict”.
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News‘Catastrophic outcomes’ threat from ‘inappropriate’ maternity tools
Hospitals are persisting with using variable methods and tools to measure the growth of unborn babies, which experts say is leading to avoidable deaths, HSJ can reveal.
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CommentMinisters must decide between being ‘fair’ or ‘sensible’ on health spending
The NHS says it can improve efficiency and reduce inequality at the same time. In reality, every funding decision prioritises one over the other
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The new strike threat
Many breathed a sigh of relief when the resident doctors accepted the latest government pay offer, putting an end to years of strikes. However, just a week later, consultants voted for industrial action.
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NewsShift out of hospitals must be ‘realistic’, warn doctors
A royal college has added to concerns that a shift in NHS funding to expand “neighbourhood” care risks undermining “safe, sustainable hospital services”.
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NewsTrusts ‘must use’ new FDP tools, says minister
Trusts will be instructed on federated data platform tools they “must” use, a minister has said – despite ongoing questions about whether the system and its main supplier will be dropped.