All Efficiency articles – Page 4
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News£340k remuneration deal fails to attract DHSC growth director
The Department of Health and Social Care has failed to find a substantive director general for commercial and growth, despite offering potentially the largest pay packet in the DHSC.
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NewsNHSE warns against ‘resistance’ to huge expansion of private tests
NHS England is planning to significantly increase the use of the private sector for diagnostic services, which a senior figure warned was likely to be met with “resistance” from some in the NHS, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHSE to stave off monopoly in ‘fragile’ market
NHS England is working to stop a monopoly taking hold of the “fragile” £120m-a-year home oxygen services market.
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NewsNHSE to revive 2000s-style improvement collaboratives
NHS England plans to revive compulsory “structured improvement collaboratives” for outpatients, urgent and emergency care, and frailty services – in an echo of the Modernisation Agency approach of the 2000s.
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NewsMinisters overclaimed impact of ‘crack’ elective teams
Elective activity has “barely increased” at the hospitals targeted with “crack teams” to cut waiting lists – contrary to ministers’ claims that the work has “turbocharged activity” – analysis reveals.
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CommentNone of the government’s ‘three shifts’ will reduce the cost of healthcare
Andi Orlowski argues why the NHS needs to stop chasing savings and start making explicit value choices
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NewsBiggest GP chain aims for 1m patients after profit tops £4m
England’s largest provider of GP services plans to grow to cover one million patients in the next few years, its CEO has told HSJ, while its annual EBITDA has topped £10m.
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NewsExclusive: DHSC appoints interim commercial chief
The Department of Health and Social Care has appointed an interim director general to run its commercial and growth directorate until July.
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CommentNorway provides safer AND cheaper healthcare than the UK – we need to find out why
Jeremy Hunt argues that closing the UK’s patient safety gap must become a core national priority, with new data showing tens of thousands of deaths could be prevented by matching the performance of leading health systems
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News‘Evidence-free’ mandatory training to be rationalised, says CEO
A leading trust chief executive has said mandatory staff training is an “evidence-free zone” and its impact on patient outcomes is “very difficult to work out”.
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NewsRevealed: The trusts with the highest savings targets
A dozen trusts have set efficiency plans worth 8 per cent of their allocations this year as the average savings target rose compared to 2024-25, HSJ research reveals.
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NewsNHSE launches ‘sprint’ in bid to hit waiting list target
NHS England has told trusts to begin a “sprint” exercise in a bid to hit its politically critical waiting list target by March.
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CommentThe real cause of NHS leadership burnout
Pressure is visible; disorientation is not. Until the NHS names the quiet drift pulling leaders off course, burnout will continue to be misread and mismanaged
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NewsCouncil planning disputes ‘costing trust millions’
A major trust has warned it will have to spend “millions” of pounds to address planning issues at one of its hospitals as it “struggles to find money for basic safety”.
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NewsNational agency settles two more claims against £4.4bn procurement
NHS Supply Chain has settled two linked legal claims against its procurement of a £4.4bn logistics contract that has had “virtually every aspect” of it challenged in court.
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HSJ LocalTrust plans big increase in private care ‘fuelled by limited NHS capacity’
A North West trust is planning a significant expansion to its private patient unit to cash in on rising demand “fuelled by limited NHS capacity”.
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NewsRegion seeks firm to replace ‘ageing critical infrastructure’
Six trusts in the West Midlands are letting a £290m contract to build and run a regional sterile drugs production unit, to replace current outdated facilities.
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NewsA&E handover delays worse at 21 trusts
One in six hospital trusts have seen ambulance handover times deteriorate this winter, despite a trend of national improvement and directives from NHS England.
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NewsRevealed: The trusts forecast to miss the elective target
Only around a quarter of trusts are on track to hit their original elective target for 2025-26 if they continue on their current trajectories, according to analysis shared with HSJ.
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CommentLeaders must be realistic as well as compassionate
More than a decade of training leaders in compassionate behaviours is failing under NHS pressures. A new ‘realistic leadership’ model offers clarity, presence and resilience as the internal foundation that compassion needs to survive