All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 19
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NewsFirst ICB mergers approved
Seven new integrated care board footprints will come into effect next spring, the government has announced.
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NewsRegional CEOs to ‘manage’ health systems, says NHSE
The CEOs of seven reformed NHS regions are to be made directly responsible for “the success of the health system they manage”, according to the new “blueprint” for their future.
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NewsTrusts’ ‘league table’ rankings revealed
NHS England has revealed its new “league table” rankings for every NHS trust, with hospitals in London scoring best and East of England the worst.
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NewsExclusive: Spending freeze imposed after NHSE identifies £300m budget hole
The government has ordered a spending freeze and told the NHS to absorb the £300m cost of the most recent resident doctors’ strikes from existing budgets, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMinisters pressed for promised ‘independent workforce plan’
Government must deliver on its manifesto commitment to “regular, independent workforce planning” for health and social care, royal colleges and others warned Wes Streeting today.
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NewsExclusive: Govt could agree multi-year pay deal for resident doctors
A multi-year pay deal for resident doctors could be agreed by government in a bid to end the deadlock around industrial action.
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NewsICBs set to miss government cost-cutting target
A series of integrated care boards have said they will not be able to meet the deadline to cut staffing costs by the end of 2025, due to a lack of central funding for redundancies, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTargets revealed for £40m bonus fund
NHS England has published the criteria trusts must meet to secure a share of a £40m elective incentives pot.
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News‘Integration is not enough’, NHSE demands ‘credible, affordable’ local plans
New five-year plans to be drawn up by all NHS organisations this autumn must be “credible, deliverable and affordable”, and boards must actively challenge them rather than them “simply endorsing the final version”, NHS England has said.
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NewsExclusive: Full cost of federated data platform to exceed £1bn
The full cost of the national federated data platform programme is set to exceed £1bn over its first seven years, HSJ can reveal for the first time.
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NewsFormer CEO returns home as trust chair
The chair of a trust whose specialist services have been the subject of intense scrutiny and national debate in recent years has stepped down, as it prepares to merge with a neighbour.
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Expert BriefingOn Call: Nurses get tough
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 HSJ workforce correspondent Nick Kituno.
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NewsExclusive: Ministers using ‘misleading indicator’ to champion waiting list reduction
The recent reduction in the waiting list repeatedly cited by ministers as evidence of the NHS’s recovery has given a “misleading” impression to the public about the service’s underlying performance, leading policy experts have warned.
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News10-Year Plan author seconded to Downing Street
One of the main authors of the 10-Year Health Plan is temporarily moving from his role at NHS England to one at Number 10, HSJ has learned.
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News£174k offered for top DHSC jobs
Three new director general posts have been advertised by the Department of Health and Social Care structure, each commanding a salary of up to £174,000.
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CommentMackey’s subco plan is risky and unnecessary
Now is not the time to subject low-paid workers to morale-sapping outsourcing, says Unison general secretary Christina McAnea
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News‘Extra appointments’ celebrated by govt deliver ‘modest impact’ on waiting lists
The “4.6 million extra NHS appointments” championed by the prime minister and health secretary have only had a “modest impact” on reducing waiting list clock stops, a vital part of cutting the NHS’s elective care backlog, according to new analysis shared exclusively with HSJ.
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NewsNHS must be seen as just one part of health ‘ecosystem’, says Milburn
The “big change” ushered in by the 10-Year Health Plan will be to shift the view that healthcare in England is synonymous with “a single institution we happen to call the National Health Service”, according to government adviser and former health secretary Alan Milburn.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Freedom in theory, not in practice
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
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NewsICB predicts 400 staff will get £100k redundancy payouts
Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board has proposed shedding up to 400 posts via a voluntary redundancy scheme costing more than £40m.