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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The cash crisis coming to a head
On this episode, we discuss an HSJ investigation revealing that an increasing number of trusts are facing cash shortages, leading to late payments to suppliers. We explore why this is a symptom of a wider problem and what it tells us about the financial pressures providers are under this year.
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Expert BriefingOn Call: AfC pay reforms reach the crunch point
Essential insights into the latest workforce challenges facing NHS staff. Analysis on the key questions around recruitment and retention, staff wellbeing, and equality, diversity and inclusion. By senior HSJ workforce correspondent Nick Kituno.
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HSJ Local‘My mind is blown’: MP reacts to CEO’s admission
The new leadership of a troubled NHS trust has been accused of losing focus and “struggling” to improve the provider’s performance by one of its local MPs.
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NewsNHSE abolition on the cusp of being delayed
The abolition of NHS England will have to be formally delayed beyond April 2027 unless decisions about future national structures are made within days, HSJ understands.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: How to assess the benefits of tech – and how not to
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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News1,000 CSU staff still in limbo
Around 1,000 commissioning support unit staff still have no clarity on whether their jobs will be moved to another part of the NHS or cut, less than six months from their employers being abolished, HSJ has learned.
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NewsStevens: Health Bill risks Trumpian politicisation of appointments
A former NHS England chief executive has criticised the government’s Health Bill for risking a US-style politicisation of local NHS appointments.
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NewsGovernment accused of ‘suppressing’ concerning maternity report
Leading campaigners have accused ministers of “suppressing” a report that is understood to set out significant concerns raised by families harmed by their experiences of maternity care investigations.
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NewsWatchdog clashes with Palantir over threat to health data
The National Data Guardian has warned that public concern about the federated data platform may undermine the quality of health data – prompting Palantir to accuse her of being “captured by campaign groups”.
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NewsNHSE-DHSC salary gap revealed
NHS England pay packages are, on average, more than 15 per cent, or £9,500, higher than in the Department of Health and Social Care, an analysis by HSJ has found.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The Right to Choose rip-off?
This week we discuss the final report of a major government review into prevalence and support for mental health conditions, ADHD and autism, including its criticism of the quality and cost of assessments done by independent providers.
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NewsICBs in the dark about quality of private care, warns government review
A government-commissioned review has expressed “strong concerns” over the consistency and quality of ADHD and autism assessments carried out by private providers.
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NewsAt least 20% of baby deaths ‘potentially avoidable’
At least a fifth of baby deaths last year may have been preventable, with this estimate considered “a minimum”, an analysis of thousands of care reviews has concluded.
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NewsMore execs face losing pay rise under ‘punitive’ rules
Executives at a “large number” of trusts and integrated care boards could lose their annual pay rise under new oversight rules, the NHS Alliance has warned.
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NewsGovernment alert sounded over EPR cyber security risk
The “concentration” of electronic patient record systems under a relatively small number of suppliers has increased the risk of highly damaging cyber attack, a government review has concluded.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Who will fill gap as ICBs retreat from place?
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week, by senior correspondent Henry Anderson.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Labour joins in the manager bashing
This week we bring you the health highlights from the Labour Party Conference, including an ex-minister who said he would sack half of the NHS managers he has met “in a heartbeat” for not being good enough.
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NewsNHSE ‘bringing in staff without due process’
NHS England’s internal whistleblowing champions raised concerns that the organisation is bringing in staff “without due process”.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: The give and the get
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Ben Clover and Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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NewsPatients missing out on drugs due to NHS cost-cutting, claims minister
The NHS’s success in driving down the cost of drugs has meant fewer medicines are available for patients, a government minister has admitted.