All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 28
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NewsGPs to be paid to seek consultant opinion before referring
New payments for GPs to incentivise a significant reduction in referrals are among a range of measures being announced by the prime minister in a “radical” new plan to slash the elective waiting list.
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NewsNext year's elective target revealed
NHS England is set to commit to treating 65 per cent of elective patients within 18 weeks by next March, as a staging post to meeting the 92 per cent constitutional target by 2029, under plans to be unveiled next week.
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NewsHSJ’s 10 most read stories of 2024
As another year draws to a close, we take a look back at HSJ’s 10 most read articles of 2024
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NewsThe NHS in 2024, told through 11 charts
From continuing strike action to long waits in emergency departments and the community, there’s been plenty to write about in the NHS in 2024. But sometimes words don’t tell the story quite as vividly as a picture. Here are 11 charts which visualise the year that was 2024 for the health service.
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NewsStreeting seeks ‘unfiltered’ reform ideas from DHSC staff
The health and social care secretary has asked his department’s civil servants to submit innovative policy ideas, saying he will read them all and they will not be filtered by line managers.
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News‘Further delays’ to new hospitals
The New Hospital Programme has formally told schemes to pause work while a major government review is ongoing, prompting warnings about fresh delays, HSJ has learnt.
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Comment'How' the NHS changes is just as important as 'what'
The NHS struggles with centralisation and devolution, leading to inefficiencies. Despite rhetoric, a clear theory of change is lacking, hindering progress and perpetuating ineffective cycles of structural reorganisation, writes Nigel Edwards
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NewsNo big increase in waiting list work next year, says NHSE
The NHS will carry out a similar level of elective activity next year as it has this year, despite government ambitions to significantly reduce waiting times, under plans agreed with ministers.
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‘Punishment beatings’ cause NHS leaders to hide problems, says Streeting
A political culture “geared around sparing reputations” rather than being honest about the NHS’s failings has led to “backside covering” by senior managers trying to avoid “punishment beatings”, the health and care secretary has said.
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NewsCost-of-living crisis poses ‘high risk’ to NHS pension scheme
The cost-of-living crisis is creating a “high risk” to the NHS Pension Scheme, government advisers have warned.
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NewsExclusive: Hundreds of mothers diverted while in labour
Nearly 1,000 women were diverted to other NHS trusts or units while in labour within a six-month period this year, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsStevens moves to force ministers to protect mental health spend
The former chief executive of NHS England has launched a parliamentary bid to safeguard mental health from budget cuts.
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NewsPay deal could extend waiting list and ‘make day job even harder’, says NHSE
A pay rise of more than the 2.8 per cent budgeted for next year would slow down the NHS’s waiting list recovery, and make “the day-to-day job of NHS staff even harder”, NHS England has claimed.
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NewsCost and safety concerns hamper crisis care
Most integrated care boards report a lack of funding is hampering the NHS’s efforts to better respond to mental health crisis incidents, rather than requiring a police response.
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News‘No pay rise’ for senior managers who don’t balance budgets
Senior NHS managers who “persistently fail to provide decent care or fail to manage their finances” will not receive annual pay uplifts, the Department of Health and Social Care has said in its evidence to pay review bodies.
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NewsStreeting ‘shocked’ by his lack of ‘oversight’ of social care
Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has said he is “shocked” by his lack of oversight of adult social care and said he is “determined to improve this” in a call with local leaders this morning.
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NewsExclusive: 10-year plan digital advisers revealed
HSJ can reveal the 17 members of the digital, data and technology working group which is helping to shape the government’s 10-year health plan, who include six local NHS leaders.
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NewsFinance directors told to ‘be realistic’ in 2025-26 planning
NHS England’s chief financial officer Julian Kelly has called for greater realism from local leaders in next year’s financial planning round, warning they must urgently make “difficult” choices about what they can deliver with what will “feel like a real terms cut”.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Managers’ regulation long overdue but watch out for unintended consequences
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
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NewsStarmer rejects the need for trade-offs to hit elective care target
Making the recovery of elective care a priority does not give the NHS “permission” to allow “everything else [to] suffer”, prime minister Sir Keir Starmer has warned.