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NewsRevealed: NHSE top team clear-out cost more than £800k
NHS England spent more than £800,000 on payouts for six directors last year as it cleared out its top team, it has been revealed.
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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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CommentThe NHS is dismantling AHP leadership
As ICBs slash senior allied health professional roles to save costs, the NHS risks losing the very leadership needed to deliver its shift toward community care and long-term prevention
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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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NewsLeading joint health and care deal falls foul of financial pressures
NHS financial pressures and reforms have brought about the end of one of the largest local joint health and social care funding arrangements.
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NewsICB with 30-fold increase in neurodiversity spend now paying 42 private providers
An integrated care board which has seen the amount it spends on autism and ADHD care increase 30-fold in three years is set to bust its budget again.
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NewsICBs must retain some responsibility for trust performance, says CEO
Integrated care boards must continue to be involved in improving the performance of provider trusts, an ICB chief executive has claimed.
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CommentRelationships matter, but so do data and incentives
Strategic commissioning works when relationships and systems are built together. West and North London is investing in both, and this is what that looks like in practice
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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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CommentICBs are about to expose difficult truths
James Sanderson, chief executive of palliative care and bereavement charity Sue Ryder, weighs up the challenges for integrated care boards being asked to prioritise palliative and end-of-life care and how hospices need to respond
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NewsTrusts face £900m bill to end zero-hours contracts, employers warn
Government attempts to crack down on “exploitative” zero-hours contracts could adversely affect bank staff and cost the NHS £900m a year, the body representing NHS workforce leaders has claimed.
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CommentWe need a single electronic record for our buildings
The Southampton hospital fire exposed what estate teams already know – infrastructure failures are costing the NHS thousands of clinical hours every year, yet the data to prevent them exists and is going unused
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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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NewsRevealed: The trusts that failed to sign up to NHSE’s financial plans
Ten trusts and one integrated care board had still not provided financially compliant plans for 2026-27 by the end of the first quarter, according to NHS England’s latest data.
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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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NewsProbe into hospital AI safety launched
AI tools that are already being rolled out across the NHS face an investigation by the national safety body.
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News159 sites to get £343m for ‘A&Es’ and health centres
The government has named the 159 provisional sites for new mental health emergency departments and community centres, which will share £343m of capital.
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NewsCEOs agree new targets to cut waits
A new set of targets has been agreed between NHS England and mental health chief executives in a bid to boost the sector’s reputation within government.
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CommentBlocking referrals to private providers is a false economy
With more than a million people awaiting assessment, reform is needed to deliver faster, fairer neurodevelopmental care across England
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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.