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CommentThe variable quality of senior doctors is harming patients and the NHS
Inconsistent consultant standards in the NHS risk inefficiency, higher costs, delayed discharges, and reduced patient flow – clearer national criteria is needed
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: DoFs are in the dark about deficit support
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By senior correspondents Henry Anderson and Zoe Tidman.
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CommentMental health reform is becoming urgent
Demand for mental health support is rising, particularly among young people. The next phase of NHS reform must prioritise prevention, early intervention and services that are accessible when people need them
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NewsDHSC paying £1.8m for advice on ‘culture and pay’
The Department of Health and Social Care is paying a management consultancy £1.8m to help it “create and drive the right target culture” – and to advise on “pay strategy” – as it absorbs NHS England.
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CommentGovernment must back ICBs or its reforms will fail
ICBs are ready to prove themselves as strategic commissioners. Now the government needs to hold up its end of the bargain
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HSJ PartnersWorking together to change children’s futures
For too many children in the UK, their health in childhood and long into adulthood is affected by inequality.
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CommentWhy 30 years of commissioning reforms have failed
NHS commissioning reforms repeatedly fail due to structural, financial and political barriers, raising doubts over whether latest changes can succeed
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NewsDHSC hires firm to help with wave of private finance deals
The Department of Health and Social Care has commissioned a “technical adviser” to develop the public-private partnership model for neighbourhood health centres.
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NewsTrust wasted £15m restoring unusable incinerator
“Systemic governance failures” lay behind a hospital trust wasting £15m restoring an incinerator which rapidly went out of use, a review has found.
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NewsUpdated: Trust to re-let £10m contract after ‘highly material errors’
A trust plans to restart a £10m contract award to run two urgent care centres after making a string of “highly material” errors in the procurement process.
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CommentPatient power payments risk driving defensive medicine in the NHS
Giving patients greater influence over provider payment could improve accountability, but clinicians warn it may encourage defensive practice and place further strain on NHS services
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HSJ PartnersA minimally invasive standard of care: from ambition to reality
The next step for robotic-assisted surgery
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NewsTrust settles ‘lucrative deal’ legal challenge
A south London acute trust has ended a year-long legal challenge brought by a radiology supplier after agreeing to a confidential settlement.
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NewsSpiralling cost of mental health patients stuck in acute hospitals revealed
Hospital trusts are spending millions of pounds a year on expensive temporary staff to look after mental health patients stranded in emergency departments and acute wards, HSJ has learnt.
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CommentSaying ‘no’ to referrals is the morally right thing to do
The NHS cannot meet rising elective demand within its current resources. Introducing referral thresholds is no longer a theoretical option, but a practical necessity to protect patients with the most serious conditions
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NewsNHSE rows back on controversial target
NHS England has rowed back on what was widely understood to be a new target for the proportion of patients it wanted “diverted” away from waiting lists, after accusations it was rationing care.
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NewsGP upgrades ‘stuck in layers of approval’
A string of bureaucratic barriers are still holding up development of buildings for primary and community care, multiple NHS and industry organisations have warned.
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NewsCovid fraud tsar to chair national body
A former trust boss who led government efforts to claw back taxpayers’ money lost to covid scammers has been appointed chair of the NHS Counter Fraud Authority, it has been announced.
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CommentThe NHS is embracing value-based procurement
In March, Lord Hunt suggested the NHS was too focused on cost when procuring goods and services. Not so, says NHS Supply Chain
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NewsIran war ‘could derail New Hospital Programme’
The war in the Middle East could further derail the New Hospital Programme as it has left little headroom to deal with shocks, an influential MP has warned.