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NHSE budget cuts hit maternity, children and prevention
Maternity, prevention, mental health, and children’s services are the national budgets seeing the biggest cuts after government and NHS England decided to slash ringfenced allocations, HSJ analysis reveals.
Director who helped force out CEO resigns from trust
A trust chief people officer who was heavily criticised in an employment tribunal ruling has resigned from her role.
Which ICBs are heading for merger?
There is still fury and consternation about the decision to cut the running costs of integrated care boards in half, but plans to consolidate the number of ICBs from 42 to between 23 and 28 are well advanced.
ICB picks provider for £1.8bn contract
A trust is set to provide services for around two million people after winning all six lots in a £1.8bn procurement.
3% NHS pay rise proposed
The NHS Pay Review Body has recommended a pay rise of about 3 per cent for Agenda for Change staff for 2025‑26, according to reports.
Revealed: Trusts spending millions on B&B rooms
Mental health trusts spent £2m on “bed and breakfast” accommodation in order to discharge patients last year, highlighting big gaps in appropriate housing, HSJ can reveal.
‘Immobile’ patient dies after discharge with no care package
An “immobile” patient was found dead after a trust discharged him to his home with no care and support, a coroner has found.
CEO tells staff ‘silence is complicity’ after record sexual misconduct reports
An ambulance trust has dismissed “multiple staff” for sexual misconduct offences this year following its “highest year ever for reported sexual safety incidents” in 2024, HSJ has learned.
We’re ‘fundamental’ to future ICBs, say pharmacists
Medicines management teams should not be targeted by imminent cost cuts and must remain a “fundamental component” of the new model for integrated care boards, NHS England has been told.
Hospital sends GPs 15,000 letters in a single day
A “technical failure” caused a hospital trust to send 15-20,000 discharge letters to local GP practices on the day before the Easter bank holiday weekend, some of which dated back four months.
CEO leaves ‘recovery support’ trust after eight years
The chief executive of a trust in NHS England’s “recovery support” regime is stepping down after eight years in the role, HSJ can reveal.
Trusts cut use of private ambulances despite performance woes
Two ambulance trusts with some of the worst performance on a key response time target are reducing the use of private ambulance firms.
‘Unaffordable’ care spending driven by rush to clear hospital beds
The rush from acute hospitals to “free up beds” is probably behind an “unaffordable” rise in an integrated care board’s social care spending, it has been told.
ICB points to lack of government support after teenager’s suicide
Long waits for autism diagnosis and treatment – implicated in the suicide of a 17-year-old – will continue unless addressing them is given greater priority by government, an integrated care board has said.
CEO steps down from system with £305m budget hole
The chief executive of one of the country’s most financially challenged systems is stepping down after three years in the role.
£5m spent on deaths inquiry still years from completion
An inquiry into deaths linked to a mental health trust is not expected to report for another two years and has already cost more than £5m, HSJ can reveal.
Paramedics told to listen to podcasts while queuing for A&E handovers
Paramedics have complained of a “disrespectful” instruction to listen to podcasts while queuing to hand over patients to A&E, HSJ has learned.
Pharma chief to chair trust
High-flyers from the pharma and retail sectors have been appointed to chair two NHS trusts.
Flagship NHSE tech policy creating ‘patient safety risks’, claim analysts
Patient safety risks are being created by central demands that NHS organisations adopt the new federated data platform and “close down” existing systems, according to the body representing the service’s analysts.
Mental health sidelined in key waiting list policy
GPs should be incentivised to get advice and guidance from specialist mental health teams to help “drive down waiting lists”, the new director of the NHS Confederation’s mental health network has said.
Sacked CEO treated ‘unreasonably’ by NHS agency
Revealed: The systems still reliant on agency staff
Ex-hospital chief confirmed as head of DHSC
Hospital group appoints first CEO
Seven trusts still to set maximum ambulance handover times
Trust orders review into breast cancer services
Revealed: Best and worst trusts to work at, according to bank staff
ICBs told to get tighter grip on GP referrals
Trusts must cover ‘new hospital’ redundancy costs
Details of new cap on ICB staff spend revealed
Trust’s A&E service jumps from inadequate to good after site move
NHSE director sent into consultant-revolt trust
Mental health A&E programme ‘not far away’
Retired CEO to chair specialist trust
Crucial emergency care system to be scrapped by NHSE within months
Streeting accused of prematurely hailing success of elective scheme
Key recovery target hit
Mapped: RTT waiting times
ICBs to impose ‘minimum waiting times’ for services
Revealed: ICBs divided on ‘neighbourhood teams’
Target date for NHSE abolition revealed
NHSE chiefs think A&E recovery plan ‘lacks ambition’
ICB told to re-run tender after rule breaches
ICB seeks first GP and dentist integration
Revealed: The systems set to gain and lose hundreds of millions
Trust must pay £256k to director accused of ‘playing race card’
NHSE urged not to scrap training scheme
High-profile trust to merge with neighbour
Social care must stay ‘distinct’ from NHS, says Streeting
Exclusive: Former hospital chief set to run DHSC
Chris Hopson to leave NHSE
‘Hasty’ hospital closure plan criticised by ICB-commissioned report
Streeting greenlights eight reconfigurations
Push for national deal on doctors’ overtime pay
ICB cuts could fund ‘neighbourhood development’
£6bn underlying deficit ‘could derail 10-Year Plan’
Streeting adviser to join NHSE as strategy chief
Group trust names two acting CEOs
Supplier suing trust after rival’s ‘lucrative proposal’
Hospitals to cut 800 jobs