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CommentComing clean about dental rationing
NHS dentistry requires a shift from repeated contract tinkering towards explicit choices about rationing, equity and capacity, supported by a carefully sequenced package of reforms
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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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NewsDigital fund worth £670m less than thought
The confirmed budget of NHS England’s flagship tech investment programme is £670m less than estimates given in the spring, HSJ can reveal.
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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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NewsFlagship digital programme ‘a shambles’
Trust leaders have branded a national tech investment programme “a shambles” and questioned whether cash will be released before the end of its first year.
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NewsAlarm raised over impact of management cuts on NHS productivity
“Politically attractive” cuts to managers could harm the NHS’s productivity, a major NHS commission has warned.
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HSJ LocalWe’re providing ‘pretty awful’ care, says CEO
A hospital trust is providing a “pretty awful” standard of care, its interim chief executive has declared.
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NewsGP leaders seek end to ‘hostilities’
The British Medical Association’s GP committee has voted against escalating its “collective action”, in a bid to “reset” its relationship with government and NHS England.
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NewsSix ‘neighbourhoods’ seek investors to ‘derisk’ expansion
Six “neighbourhood health” projects are being pump-primed by government to secure millions of pounds of private investment.
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NewsPrivate providers face tougher rules on payment
A major government review into the prevalence of mental illness and neurodivergence is set to call for a mandatory tariff and specification to tackle huge variation in price and quality in ADHD and autism services, HSJ understands.
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News£2.5bn tech programme dubbed ‘unachievable’
Successful delivery of NHS England’s £2.5bn Frontline Productivity programme “appears to be unachievable” due to governance failures and political uncertainty, according to a government review.
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NewsNHSE increases value of ‘tiger teams’ EPR contract
A consultancy firm will net an additional £6.4m over the next six months from its “tiger teams” contract with NHS England.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Is NHSE wrong to blame striking docs for financial woes?
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By senior correspondent Zoe Tidman.
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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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CommentA more robust approach to GP registration for overseas visitors is needed
Optional identity verification and free care for short-term overseas visitors leave general practice vulnerable to serious information governance failures and rising taxpayer costs
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NewsMajor trust freed after nine years of NHSE intervention
One of England’s largest hospital trusts has been freed from NHS England enforcement action that ran for almost a decade.
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NewsUK’s largest private hospital group sold in £1bn deal
One of the NHS’s largest private providers, Spire Healthcare Group, has agreed to a £1bn takeover by a group of investment firms.
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NewsICB plan says trust must cut staff by 15%
An acute trust would have to cut its workforce by almost 15 per cent and its costs by 26 per cent under a draft five-year plan set by its integrated care board.