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NewsFinance team at scandal trust was ‘under-staffed and unable to whistleblow’
An under-resourced finance department where staff did not feel they could blow the whistle on senior colleagues was a factor in enabling ‘intentional misstatement’ of a major acute trust’s financial position, HSJ has been told.
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NewsProcurement of PPE, diagnostics and medical devices to be in-housed by national agency
The national supply chain agency will bring management of significant areas of NHS spend in-house on a permanent basis in a major overhaul of its operating model, HSJ has been told.
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NewsGovt cuts £330m from NHS budget and gives it 13 priorities
The government has reduced the NHS revenue budget for 2022-23 by £330m, after the Treasury refused to fund the Department of Health and Social Care for additional ongoing covid costs, HSJ understands.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Inside the Shropshire maternity scandal
It’s been a sobering week for the NHS, with the long-awaited review of the NHS’s latest safety scandal and the annual Staff Survey both being published.
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NewsEvery ICS expected to break even in ‘harsh’ new regime
Every health and care system — including those carrying huge deficits going into the pandemic — will be told to deliver financial balance in 2022-23, according to draft guidance seen by HSJ.
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NewsView grows that NHS ‘must live within its means’ as satisfaction plummets
The view the NHS must deliver significant improvements within its existing budget has risen sharply, alongside a dramatic fall in public satisfaction, according to the most respected annual survey of attitudes towards the UK’s health and care services.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE pushes ‘private patient opportunities’ in leaked guidance
Official draft guidance has encouraged trusts to grow their ‘private patient opportunities’, despite facing huge backlogs of NHS work.
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NewsDischarge policy reviewed as NHSE warns ‘capacity may decrease’
Two national reviews are taking place into hospital discharge policy, it has emerged, amid major changes to funding and legislation.
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NewsChief executive of prestigious hospital loses whistleblowing case
The chief executive of one of England’s most prestigious private hospitals has lost her employment tribunal claim that she was dismissed for whistle blowing over patient safety issues.
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NewsFourth NHS agency to be led by City figure
The government agency that provides back-office business services across the NHS has appointed a former banker as its new chair.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Rishi’s big asks of the NHS
NHS spending is being scrutinised more than ever, with trusts asked to double the amount of annual efficiency savings they make.
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NewsTech spend under pressure as NHSE told to ‘cut core funding’
The government has asked NHS England to reduce core NHS funding by hundreds of millions of pounds in 2022-23, NHSE revealed today.
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NewsJust a third of New Hospitals Programme staff say it is making good progress
Only a third of staff working on the government’s New Hospitals Programme believe it is making enough progress with some criticising its ‘inconsistent and slow’ decision making, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsCCGs secure ‘significant’ payment from firm over collapsed outsourcing
A long-running legal wrangle over a failed outsourced service has been settled, with a payout to the clinical commissioning groups involved, the CCGs have said.
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News£3bn group of hospitals moves to centralise electives
North west London’s acute trusts are exploring whether to set up a new elective orthopaedic centre in the region as they seek to capitalise on the concept of ‘fast-track’ surgical hubs.
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Expert BriefingTrusts scrap long-awaited merger
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NewsTrusts locked into Russian gas contracts for another year
Several NHS trusts will remain locked into contracts with Russian energy giant Gazprom until April 2023, HSJ understands.
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News‘Unfit’ unit to be replaced with new £38m hospital
An outdated mental health unit will close next month after a new hospital was given £38m in government funding.
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NewsChancellor ‘doubles NHS efficiency target’
The government has doubled the annual efficiency expectation on the NHS, the Chancellor has said, as systems and trusts grapple with large gaps in their financial plans for 2022-23.
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Trusts told to make savings ‘never delivered before by NHS’
NHS trusts are now facing challenging savings targets as high as 5 per cent of their total costs, which many say will be impossible to deliver.