All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 5
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NewsStaff survey results crash to five-year lows
NHS staff engagement and motivation has fallen to a historic low, with fewer than half now looking forward to going to work, new survey results show.
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CommentThe NHS does not know where it is succeeding or failing
The 10-Year Health Plan’s promise to spread best practice through greater transparency risks falling short. Many ICBs lack the basic data needed to track whether services meet national standards or identify what works best
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NewsOckenden to lead inquiry into third trust
Senior midwife Donna Ockenden has been appointed chair of the independent inquiry into maternity failures in Leeds, health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has announced.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Hospital discharge policy is stranded
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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NewsStreeting hires adviser to combat staff anger over pay
Wes Streeting has hired an experienced trade union official to help him deal with growing industrial unrest throughout the NHS workforce.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The remaking – or breaking – of the ‘local state’
Leading ICB and council CEOs join HSJ Health Check to talk about the earthquake that is shaking relationships between local government and the NHS.
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Expert BriefingOn Call: The big NHSE-DHSC pay divide
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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NewsNew health minister appointed
The government has appointed an MP who has campaigned on patient safety to be the new public health and prevention minister.
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NewsMinister undergoing cancer treatment to stand down
The health minister who led on the government’s new cancer plan has stepped down, as she undergoes chemotherapy.
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NewsGovt ditches ‘700k appointments’ manifesto pledge
The government has admitted that a manifesto pledge was badly designed and is on course to be missed, a year after telling integrated care boards to deliver it.
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NewsHuge drop in confidence in DHSC leaders
There has been a huge drop in the Department of Health and Social Care staff who feel their “senior leaders have a clear vision for the future of the organisation” – making it the lowest in Whitehall.
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NewsNHSE ‘pauses’ office working demand
NHS England has rowed back on its order for staff to rapidly increase office working, following opposition.
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NewsDash claims NHSE ‘very reluctant’ to tell local leaders what to do
The chair of NHS England has told a patient safety event that the national body is “trying to avoid” telling every part of the country how to work.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Has Baroness Amos been set up to fail?
NHS maternity care continues to be under the spotlight, so on this week’s episode, we unpick the web of different national reviews and how trusts could be asked to improve services.
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NewsMerging watchdog into CQC will ‘destroy’ independence
The influential MP who first proposed setting up a safety investigations watchdog for the NHS has warned health and social care secretary Wes Streeting that merging the body into the Care Quality Commission would be “fundamentally wrong”.
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NewsFamilies fear ‘cycle of diagnosis without delivery’ over maternity review
Poor accountability and familiar systemic failures were highlighted in the latest report from the government’s “rapid” maternity review – leading bereaved families to warn against it becoming “another cycle of diagnosis without delivery”.
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NewsNHSE declares ‘rescue plan’ to limit delayed ops
NHS England has set out a “rescue package” that it claims will help limit the number of delays to joint operations, following a major production failure at the provider which supplies more than 80 per cent of the service’s medical cement.
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NewsHospital chiefs don’t need to read policy documents, says DHSC boss
The Department of Health and Social Care’s top civil servant has claimed she “didn’t read policy documents” in her former roles as a hospital chief executive.
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NewsDHSC admits ‘substantial treatment gap’ over Nottingham killings
The trust that was responsible for caring for a man who went on to kill three people in Nottingham has warned that mental health teams’ caseloads have increased sharply in recent years.
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NewsOrtho cement shortage no excuse for not improving elective performance, warns NHSE
Trusts must not let the “disastrous” shortage of orthopaedic cement affect their elective care performance, according to new national guidance.