All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 17
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NewsNHSE’s improvement teams axed
NHS England’s elective, emergency care and mental health improvement support teams are being axed – and their staff and functions merged into the Getting it Right First Time programme, HSJ has learned.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Distraction, not devolution
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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NewsGovernment to review ‘outdated’ funding formula
The review of the system used to allocate funding to GP practices announced yesterday will begin immediately and aim to conclude within six months, the Department for Health and Social Care has told HSJ.
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NewsDiagnostics performance slides despite NHSE hailing ‘record summer’
Performance on the NHS’s main diagnostic target has dropped back a year despite efforts to increase capacity and ramp up activity, figures published on Thursday show.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The NHS’s ugly baby
This week we take a look at two of the hottest topics in the NHS – productivity and technology.
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NewsNHSE delays radical changes to payment system
Radical changes proposed to the health service’s internal financial wiring will not take place in 2026-27, HSJ has learned.
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NewsComparing trusts on new productivity metric is misleading, experts warn
Recent productivity improvements will be hard to sustain in future years, experts have warned, as they said newly published NHS England data fails to show which trusts are the most productive.
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NewsDHSC GP adviser steps down
Wes Streeting’s neighbourhood health and primary care lead is stepping down, after less than a year in the role and having recently launched an implementation programme.
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NewsExclusive: National tech chief revealed
A former consultancy boss has been hired as the new interim director general for technology, digital and data at the Department of Health and Social Care, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsStreeting hires delivery adviser with no health experience
Wes Streeting is drafting in an education expert as his senior adviser on delivery, despite disagreements in his department about the role.
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NewsCuts to centre stopped under Labour
Two years of cuts to NHS England’s workforce came to an end under the first 12 months of the Labour government, despite ministers’ plans to cut the centre, figures show.
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News13 trusts trial procurement process designed to ‘save billions’
Thirteen trusts are piloting a procurement system that places less emphasis on price.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: What Ian Dodge learned about legislation
The HSJ Health Check podcast is tracking development of the government’s planned Health Bill. This week, we talk to Ian Dodge, who shaped several major pieces of NHS legislation as long-serving policy lead at NHS England and the Department of Health.
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NewsGovernment must remember ‘it’s not 2001’, cautions DHSC chief
The government must remember “it’s not 2001” as it puts increasing focus on the performance of individual NHS providers, one of the Department of Health and Social Care’s most senior figures has warned.
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News‘No rush’ to transfer NHSE staff as abolition faces delay
There is no longer a “rush” to transfer the employment of NHS England staff to the Department of Health and Social Care, Sir Jim Mackey has told them.
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NewsGovernment to put ‘realistic’ price on NHS data
The government has hired a consultancy to make a “realistic” estimate of the value of NHS data to industry, researchers and academics.
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NewsChair lambasts ‘regrettable’ plans to remove FT governors
The removal of governors is a “regrettable” proposal that is generating “concern and anxiety” among foundation trusts, a trust chair has warned.
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News‘Philosophical intent’ will guide new NHS workforce plan
The government’s 10-Year Workforce Plan will focus on “a philosophical intent of what roles we need” rather than “prescriptive numbers” on staffing requirements, a health minister has said.
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NewsExclusive: Report delivers damning verdict on Labour’s ‘muddy’ health policy
The government’s health policy is incoherent, lacking in detail and under-resourced, a highly critical report by a leading think tank on Labour’s first year in power has concluded.
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NewsExclusive: Mackey’s trust gets league table upgrade after last-minute data correction
The trust led by NHS England chief executive Sir Jim Mackey was promoted from the third to the second “segment” of the new provider league table following a last-minute correction to one of the data points which underpin the rankings, HSJ can reveal.