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NewsMinisters take powers to overrule ‘unresponsive ICBs’
The government is taking a raft of new powers over the NHS – including one that will enable them to direct integrated care boards on virtually any of their functions – in its new Health Bill, published on Thursday.
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Expert BriefingOn Call: The big gamble in DHSC’s new structure
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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NewsNHS churned through 48 ministers in 11 years
Forty-eight people have served as ministers in the Department of Health and Social Care in the 11 years since the 2015 general election, with an average tenure of just 487 days, according to analysis by HSJ.
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NewsNew health minister appointed
Britain’s first female Sikh MP has been appointed as a health minister.
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NewsHealth minister resigns
Zubir Ahmed has become the first health minister to quit in the current batch of resignations, saying his decision was guided by surgical principles.
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NewsExclusive: Govt debating jobs freeze on admin roles which can be done by AI
The government is considering recommending that trusts “embrace automation” by freezing recruitment and decommissioning training places, HSJ has learned.
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Expert BriefingImPatient: 10 tips for Wes
Patient (Lived Experience) Leadership is about those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability who want to influence change through being equal partners in decision making. In this monthly expert briefing, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the ...
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NewsStreeting intervenes over energy price shock
The health secretary has urged hospital chief executives to sign up to a national energy procurement scheme to cushion themselves from energy price shocks caused by the war in Iran.
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NewsExclusive: No 10 sets new GP access target
A new target for improving patients’ experience of making GP appointments is among three top NHS priorities identified by the prime minister for this year, HSJ has learned.
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NewsGPs to withhold patient data in contract dispute
GP practices should take “collective action” in protest against their contract by cutting back on sharing patient data, the British Medical Association’s GP committee has said.
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News3,000 staff exiting NHSE
More than 700 staff have left NHS England this year through voluntary exit and redundancy schemes and another 2,300 are due to depart by next April, national leaders have said.
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NewsDHSC paying £1.8m for advice on ‘culture and pay’
The Department of Health and Social Care is paying a management consultancy £1.8m to help it “create and drive the right target culture” – and to advise on “pay strategy” – as it absorbs NHS England.
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NewsDHSC hires firm to help with wave of private finance deals
The Department of Health and Social Care has commissioned a “technical adviser” to develop the public-private partnership model for neighbourhood health centres.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE home birth proposals spark major safety fears
NHS England is considering allowing midwives to “withdraw” services from women deemed to be giving birth at home against professional advice, HSJ has learned.
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NewsRevealed: Huge variation in NHSE regional job cuts
The level of job cuts across the NHS England regional teams is set to vary significantly, with London’s headcount reduced by around half but another region facing a cut of around just 15 per cent, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsFamilies want top medic removed from key taskforce
Bereaved families impacted by the Nottingham maternity scandal have called on Wes Streeting to remove a senior medic from a national taskforce whose appointment they said was “deeply distressing”.
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CommentSaying ‘no’ to referrals is the morally right thing to do
The NHS cannot meet rising elective demand within its current resources. Introducing referral thresholds is no longer a theoretical option, but a practical necessity to protect patients with the most serious conditions
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NewsCovid fraud tsar to chair national body
A former trust boss who led government efforts to claw back taxpayers’ money lost to covid scammers has been appointed chair of the NHS Counter Fraud Authority, it has been announced.
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NewsNHSE whistleblowing takeover ‘will have chilling effect’
NHS England’s plan to take over a key whistleblowing initiative will have a “chilling effect” on staff wishing to speak up, experts have warned.