All articles by Jack Serle
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News£114k performance bonus for new DHSC commercial director
The Department of Health and Social Care’s new director general for commercial and growth could receive annual remuneration of £342,000 if they are awarded their full bonus.
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NewsDHSC seeks £120m saving from 'unwarranted price variation'
The Department of Health and Social Care is recruiting expert advisers to help update the list of prescribable products in community settings in a bid to save up to £120m.
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NewsScanner procurement cancelled under threat of legal challenge
A leading specialist cancer trust has had to cancel and re-run the procurement of a cutting-edge scanner to stave off the threat of a legal challenge..
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NewsNHSE launches programme to enable ‘patient power payments’
Work has begun to create a new national feedback system to support the government’s proposed “patient power payments”, which would see individual members of the public able to affect how much money providers and commissioners receive for treating them.
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NewsNHS manager facing bribery charge found dead
An NHS manager at a prestigious London teaching hospital was found dead by police after bribery charges were brought against him.
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NewsOut of court settlement in £4.4bn procurement challenge
The NHS has settled a £4.4bn procurement challenge out of court, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHSE-DHSC merger halts small business grants
An NHS-backed grant agency cannot give small businesses early-stage funding for healthtech innovations this year because of the merger of NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care.
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NewsTrusts ‘stumbling into legal challenge’ with botched procurements
The government is intervening to try to improve NHS contracting of diagnostic services, after being warned about a series of delayed and bungled procurements by trusts.
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NewsICB and tech supplier reach last-minute legal settlement
An integrated care board and technology supplier have agreed to settle a legal dispute just minutes before the trial was due to start in the High Court in London.
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NewsResearch posts must be protected from cuts, orders NHSE
NHS trusts should continue to recruit staff to undertake clinical trials as they provide “vital income” for the service, NHS England has declared.
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NewsTrust’s contract management ‘poor or non-existent’
A teaching trust’s contract management was “poor or non-existent”, thanks to a fractured relationship with its own subsidiary, a review has found.
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NewsDHSC brings in business chiefs to help NHS ‘get more value’
Government has appointed four business leaders to help build closer connections with the most important NHS suppliers.
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NewsNHSE urged not to scrap training scheme
Local leaders have urged NHS England to rethink its plans to scrap a training programme for procurement staff launched less than six months ago, HSJ has learned.
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NewsSupplier suing trust after rival’s ‘lucrative proposal’
An acute provider is being sued after telling one of its suppliers its contract would not be extended due to a “lucrative proposal” from a rival.
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NewsTrust told it could not exclude race row firm from tender
An NHS trust was given legal advice that it could not exclude an IT firm whose owner made racist remarks about an MP from a procurement process which the firm eventually won.
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NewsNHSE director leaves to run FT’s subco
A senior procurement director at NHS England is leaving this summer to run the wholly-owned subsidiary of a large London acute trust.
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NewsNHSE innovation leader steps down
A senior director in NHS England’s transformation directorate is stepping down in the summer, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHSE slows progress on national procurement strategy
NHS England is scaling back its ambitions for NHS procurement less than 18 months after it published a major new strategy intended to give the NHS a “a globally renowned” healthcare procurement operation.
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HSJ LocalExec leaves £3bn trust to run regulator
A major London acute will see both its chief executive and deputy chief executive leave post this year, as the latter has been named the new boss of a regulator.
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NewsJudge clears way for major national logistics contract award
NHS Supply Chain has been given the green light to award a £4.4bn logistics contract to its preferred supplier after a judge lifted suspensions applied to the procurement during a legal challenge.