All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 43
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: A stop-gap with questionable ethics
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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News‘Complete’ recruitment freeze ordered at NHSE and CQC
The health secretary has told NHS England, the Care Quality Commission, and other national agencies to implement a freeze on almost all recruitment.
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News‘Emergency’ pension rule changes extended to help NHS cope with winter
The government is planning to extend measures introduced during the coronavirus pandemic which relaxed the pension rules for staff who ‘retire and return’.
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News‘Cut consultancy spend’ Barclay tells NHSE
Ministers have told NHS England and other national bodies to urgently cut their spending on management consultancy services by at least a fifth.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The NHS’s most dangerous buildings
This week HSJ revealed the final trusts added to the ‘new hospital’ programme, which are also thought to have some of the most dangerous estates in the NHS.
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NewsNHS scraps plan to merge national HR and finance systems
The NHS has tendered a £1.7bn contract for a new national workforce management system, in what amounts to a downgrading of previous ambitious plans to create a new HR and finance platform.
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NewsTrusts must ‘exercise judgement’ on covid testing after routine swabs scrapped
Scrapping routine covid tests in hospitals ahead of autumn boosters could downplay how serious the disease still is, NHS leaders have warned as they said trusts would exercise their own judgement on testing.
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NewsExclusive: Barclay summons six hospital chiefs over ambulance delays
Health and social care secretary Steve Barclay today called in chief executives of the six worst-performing trusts for ambulance handover delays to ‘ensure accountability’ for addressing the issue, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsCentre rationing hundreds of medical consumables and products
Hundreds of items of medical equipment and consumables ranging from dressings to tracheotomy tubes are under strict demand management by NHS Supply Chain, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHSE director to run London Zoo
A senior NHS England director has taken a new job heading up The Zoological Society of London, which runs London Zoo, it has been reported.
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NewsCovid death payments unavailable for staff who died in most recent waves
The families of any NHS and social care staff who died from covid in the most recent waves will not be eligible for the covid death assurance scheme launched at the start of the pandemic, it has emerged.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: ICSs - 1 Trusts - nil
Significant tensions between a mental health trust and an ICS have prompted the trust’s chief executive to resign.
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NewsBehan made full member of NHS England board
Former Care Quality Commission chief Sir David Behan has been appointed as a full member of NHS England’s board.
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NewsGovernment examines surge in ‘potentially preventable’ deaths
Department of Health and Social Care officials are concerned that many more people are dying than expected in recent months – particularly older working-age people – with NHS care delays and interruptions a likely cause.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Vulnerable mothers falling through the cracks
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by correspondent Emily Townsend — contact me in confidence.
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NewsCovid redeployment ‘wrong’ and ‘will never be repeated’
Redeployment of community staff to other services – meaning visits for babies and parents were missed – was the “wrong decision” and would “never be repeated”, a provider has stated.
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NewsNew NHSE national director role advertised
NHS England is advertising for a new deputy chief operating officer and national director of urgent and emergency care.
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NewsCEO of national NHS agency resigns ahead of CQC report
NHS Blood and Transplant’s chief executive has resigned ahead of the release of a Care Quality Commission report into the agency’s leadership.
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News‘Super September’ to boost elective recovery declared by NHSE
NHS England is encouraging trusts to deliver a “Super September” of accelerated elective recovery plans, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMultiple reporting systems undermine patient safety, says watchdog
A single system to report patient safety concerns would “keep people safer”, a newly appointed NHS watchdog has told HSJ.