All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 7
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Expert BriefingOn Call: How to stop the strikes
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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NewsNHSE admits ‘really poor’ management and HR
Persistently poor management and HR processes have been reported to NHS England’s board today.
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NewsSecond Streeting adviser joins NHSE board
One of the leading figures behind the government’s 10-Year Health Plan is to join NHS England’s board as a non-executive director, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsStreeting’s delayed decision on A&E downgrade sparks concern
The alarm has been raised over the length of time Wes Streeting is taking to reject or support a planned A&E downgrade.
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NewsNational primary care boss shifts to new role
The Department of Health and Social Care’s primary care lead is being seconded to an NHS agency, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Trusts will decide what work gets done on strike days, not BMA
Trusts, with the support of NHS England, will determine what care is delivered during the impending five-day resident doctors strike – not the British Medical Association, Sir Jim Mackey has told HSJ.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Spending too much on safety
This week Penny Dash’s long-awaited review into safety and quality put cost-effectiveness at the heart of implementing future recommendations from reviews and inquiries.
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NewsNHSE workforce chief departs
NHS England’s chief workforce, training and education officer is leaving this summer, ahead of the appointment of a new director for “people” in the health department.
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NewsTrusts ‘stumbling into legal challenge’ with botched procurements
The government is intervening to try to improve NHS contracting of diagnostic services, after being warned about a series of delayed and bungled procurements by trusts.
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HSJ LocalFormer civil servant to lead trust
An acute trust has appointed a former government chief of staff and civil servant to replace its CEO of seven years.
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NewsForty-two areas to pioneer neighbourhood health
The government and NHS England will select 42 places to lead the rollout of neighbourhood health and shape how it will be operationalised.
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NewsResident doctors vote for strike action
Resident doctors in England have voted in favour of industrial action and urged the health and social care secretary to negotiate a new pay deal, the British Medical Association has announced.
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HSJ PartnersNHS Professionals National Bank™ offers innovative workforce solution to health leaders to reduce agency spend
A government focus on supporting trusts to eradicate agency spend and put funding back into patient care has given health leaders a workforce challenge. NHS Professionals’ service director of National Bank™, Rebecca Stark, writes here about a flexible workforce solution to support NHS organisations to meet these new targets.
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NewsDHSC board will block unfunded safety recommendations
A “revamped, revitalised and reinforced” National Quality Board will decide what safety and quality recommendations the NHS will adopt, with an eye to their cost-effectiveness, the long-awaited Dash Review has said.
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HSJ Local£100m hospital improvements in doubt ‘due to new government’
A trust has not received £100m of capital it was promised for hospital improvements and government is refusing to say whether it will honour the pledge, HSJ can reveal.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: A profound disappointment
In the wake of yesterday’s 10-Year Health Plan, Alastair McLellan and Dave West cover what really matters in the 150-page document – and HSJ’s editor argues it disappoints on key tests.
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News‘Irrelevant’ training will stop next year, vows 10-Year Plan
The government’s 10-Year Health Plan has vowed to stop “repetitive” and “irrelevant” training that takes up NHS staff time.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Streeting ends deficits
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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LeaderCSUs are dead, long live the SSU
The commissioning support unit (CSU) has had a strange history – it has also lasted much longer than your average non-hospital NHS organisation.
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NewsA&E funding overhaul plan revealed
Around half of funding for emergency care would depend on cutting wait times and shifting care out of hospital, under detailed plans seen by HSJ.