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NewsStrikes threaten supplies disruption
Lorry drivers based at all seven NHS Supply Chain warehouses are to strike over pay from next week.
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NewsNHS bosses admit defeat on 18-week pledge
NHS chiefs have told ministers that their top health manifesto pledge - to restore the 18-week elective target by 2029 - is “not going to happen”, as a new analysis confirms the service is significantly off track.
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CommentPrescribing how to improve productivity does not work
The NHS needs fewer targets and more stability if local leaders are to make the decisions that improve productivity
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NewsICB faces potential legal battle over funding row
Three GP practices are threatening to sue their integrated care board over its plans to cut premises funding.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Axing the blocks
HSJ’s briefing covering safety, quality, performance, and finances in the mental health sector, by deputy bureau chief Annabelle Collins — contact me in confidence.
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NewsICBs face £6m legal bill as ‘complex’ contract dispute drags on
Two thirds of integrated care boards have been caught up in a multi-million-pound legal challenge brought by a waste management firm.
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NewsAccounting error forces trust to downgrade forecast by £6m
The NHS’s worst-performing mental health trust had to adjust its accounts to record a £2.9m deficit after external auditors found it had wrongly classified £6m as an efficiency saving.
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NewsICB orders all GPs to use ‘distrusted’ IT system
An integrated care board has ordered all of its 337 GP practices to use a single digital access system and is switching off five rival products to save money.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Will government abandon 18 weeks?
Elective recovery and returning the NHS to meeting the 18-week standard by 2029 is the government’s main performance priority. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress against this goal. This week by bureau chief James Illman.
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NewsLargest trust overhauls procurement practices after HSJ probe
The largest trust in the NHS has had to overhaul its procurement processes after problems with a 12-year consultancy contract were exposed by HSJ.
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NewsSingle water contract to save NHS £5m a year
NHS England is centralising the NHS’s water contracts in a move it says could save at least £5m a year.
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News‘Process error’ leaves major supplier off £140m framework
A global market-leading medical device manufacturer has failed to join a key national framework worth up to £140m over four years – potentially disrupting supply and increasing costs to hospitals.
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NewsRecognise negative impact mutual aid can have on performance, pleads trust CEO
The chief executive of a trust that has fallen 34 places in NHS England’s provider performance league table has complained that the ranking fails to take into account its efforts to help neighbours.
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NewsPM should remember ‘the North isn’t just Manchester’, says trust CEO
Andy Burnham should recognise that areas in the North of England other than Greater Manchester require more investment, the chief executive of a Tyneside trust has told HSJ.
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NewsTrust’s ‘off balance sheet’ funding plan rejected by NHSE
A trust’s proposed use of an off-balance-sheet funding model to finance the expansion of a new building project has been rejected by NHS England, forcing the cancellation of a £94m managed services contract.
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NewsSupplier boss disqualified after body parts scandal
Garry Pettigrew disqualified for nine years after clinical waste scandal Criminal charges were dropped in 2023 HSJ reported in 2018 a massive build-up of clinical waste, including body parts The boss of a firm which HSJ exposed as stockpiling hundreds of tonnes of clinical waste – including human ...
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NewsTrusts cancel joint staff service with neighbours
Three trusts have cancelled a joint occupational health service after a row over standards.
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NewsTrusts pilot schemes to cut single-use products
At least 20 NHS trusts will pilot a government scheme to cut back on single-use products and increase the use of reusable alternatives for widely used items such as tourniquets, blood pressure cuffs and sharps bins.
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NewsGlove prices surge 75% on Iran war disruption
The price of gloves is expected to rise by 75 per cent from next week due to the Iran war, NHS Supply Chain has warned trusts.
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NewsWelsh government denies English hospital’s £20m demand
A Welsh health board is refusing to pay £21m as demanded by an English hospital trust in a cross-border funding dispute.