All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 9
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News
Delayed discharges ‘shunted onto community services’
Efforts to reduce delayed discharges in acute hospitals with more step-down care may have been shunting problems onto community services, data suggests.
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News
Updated: Latest talks were ‘pointless’, say junior doctors
Junior doctors have said the “informal” talks requested by the government earlier this week were “pointless”, because they were unwilling to discuss pay.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: What the PM’s latest review means for trusts
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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HSJ Interactive
How can trusts can find extra capacity to tackle the backlog in elective care?
A recent HSJ webinar, in association with 18 Week Support, explored the complex issues contributing to patient backlogs and the collaborative and innovative approaches available to trusts seeking extra capacity. Alison Moore reports
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News
Information on directors’ fitness to lead will be added to staff record by October
NHS board directors have less than two months to challenge the information that will be gathered on their fitness to hold a leadership position and then stored on their employer’s electronic staff record as part of the overhaul of the fit and proper person test.
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Podcast: Under the skin of the strikes
This week we assess the damage after one of the toughest weeks of NHS strike action, with junior doctors and consultants both taking action.
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News
ICSs miss financial plans by £340m after two months
Health systems missed their combined financial plans by more than £300m after just two months of the year, according to a report to NHS England’s board.
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Comment
A middle manager's view of the junior doctors strike
Dr Raihan Mohammed empathises on how strikes disrupt the delicate balance of financial stability, national targets, staff morale, and clinical care, while also advocating that industrial action is the only effective way to enact change for junior doctors, staff and patients
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News
English band 8 and 9 staff now paid 12pc less than Scottish peers
Band 8 and 9 staff are typically being paid at least 11-13 per cent more in Scotland than in England, after several recent Agenda for Change pay deals have resulted in the gap significantly widening for senior staff, it has emerged.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: Leaders fearing ‘punitive’ reviews
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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News
Trust chiefs sacked ‘only in extreme circumstances’, says government
The government has admitted that many ‘vulnerable’ hospitals ‘suffer with a lack of permanence of leadership’, but said that chiefs are only sacked by NHS England ‘in extreme and exceptional circumstances’.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: Who’s to blame for the latest A&E crisis?
A ‘shocking’ volume of mental health patients are attending A&E but whose fault is it – and what is the solution?
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News
Workforce plan will force ministers to spend more on the NHS, warns watchdog
The new NHS workforce plan is likely to force governments to give the service real terms funding increases beyond 3 per cent a year, the government’s budget watchdog has warned.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: The race to the neighbourhood NHS
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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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Rebuilding the trauma centre
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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News
CQC needs to ‘call out’ domineering trusts, says Hewitt
The Care Quality Commission should ‘call out’ integrated care systems where acute trusts are ‘dominating’ decision making and funding conversations to ensure other sectors are not sidelined, the author of a major review on ICSs has said.
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News
Seven trusts inexplicably removed from ‘40 new hospitals’ pledge
Seven trusts were removed from a list used to choose the ‘40 new hospitals’ with no documentation to explain why, a watchdog has found.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: Missing Sunak’s pledge
This week bureau chief Ben Clover is joined by colleagues to discuss some of the biggest stories ahead of the junior doctors’ strike.
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News
Senior managers get 5pc pay rise to recognise ‘strained environment’
Senior NHS managers will receive a 5 per cent pay rise, after the independent review body called for an uplift to ‘take account of the enormous demands that are being made of NHS leadership’.
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News
DHSC ordered to fund pay rise with ‘reprioritisation and greater efficiency’
The Department of Health and Social Care will be asked to make another round of savings and reprioritise existing budgets to fund a pay rise for doctors, the government has confirmed.