All articles by Jack Serle – Page 10
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NewsLondon struggling to catch up on covid vaccine uptake
London has failed to make up ground with the rest of England on covid-19 vaccine uptake among eligible groups in recent weeks, despite the programme seeking to focus on reducing variation.
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HSJ LocalA dozen hospitals to share single patient record system
The four acute providers in a London health and care system will use the same patient record system making the information available to clinicians across their 12 hospital sites.
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NewsPHE’s emeritus medical director dies
Public Health England’s emeritus medical director has died four years after being diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer.
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NewsRevealed: Areas with highest second dose uptake
Fifteen health systems have given at least one in 10 of their fifty-plus population two covid-19 vaccine doses, according to the latest figures from NHS England.
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NewsOnly one in three of trust’s black Caribbean staff vaccinated
Just over a third of black Caribbean staff have been vaccinated at one of the London acutes most heavily impacted by the pandemic, new data has revealed.
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NewsDHSC hires government immigration chief to lead finance and ops
The Department of Health and Social Care has appointed a senior official from the Home Office to take over the role of overseeing finance and operations.
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NewsNew health promotion unit to use Singapore-style rewards to prompt people to be healthier
The new unit for national health improvement and promotion will use Singapore-style incentive schemes involving the private sector to encourage people to eat healthily and exercise more, HSJ understands.
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NewsTrusts drop business rates battle against councils
Eleven NHS trusts have dropped a long-running bid to pay business rates at a discount usually reserved for charities, according to the Local Government Association.
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NewsNHSE launches new intervention regime for struggling providers and health systems
The NHS will divide providers, commissioners and health systems into one of four ‘segments’ that determine the level of scrutiny and intervention they receive from regional and national teams under a proposed new oversight framework.
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NewsTreasury demands ICSs achieve financial balance for first time
The government has included a new requirement around the financial performance of integrated care systems in its key demands of the NHS for 2021-22.
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NewsPHE staff to be split between DHSC and new health security agency
The government today said Public Health England’s health improvement functions will be folded into the Department of Health and Social Care while the health protection elements form part of a new government agency.
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NewsPrivate providers fear unfair treatment under new NHS financial regime
Private providers have warned they face unfair treatment under new financial rules unless the NHS distributes additional funding for covid in an ‘equitable and transparent’ way.
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News‘Very boring discussions’ about ICS could quash system working, warns top trust chief
Fixating on the bureaucracy of integrated care systems will cause agile health systems forged during the pandemic to come to a ‘grinding halt’, warns the outgoing chief executive of a major London acute.
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NewsFunding negotiations end with extra £6.6bn for NHS England
Matt Hancock has said the NHS will get an additional £6.6bn on top of the funding envelope set out in the Budget earlier this month.
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News‘Smoking ruin’ DHSC could not lead vaccine procurement says Dominic Cummings
Downing Street took covid vaccine procurement out of the ‘smoking ruin’ of the Department of Health and Social Care in the early stages of the pandemic, according to Dominic Cummings the former chief advisor to the Prime Minister.
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NewsCapital budgets could be cut in areas that lose control of finances, NHSE warns
Health systems that fail to show robust monitoring and control of their capital budget could see their allocation cut in subsequent years, regulators have warned.
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NewsTest and Trace cuts 8,000 posts
The government’s Test and Trace service is cutting around 8,000 workers as covid cases continue to decline from the January peak, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNew lead for ‘priority’ digital programme as deadline missed
The NHS has replaced the senior official in charge of the digital transformation of England’s ageing cancer screening IT infrastructure, which missed a target completion date amid the pandemic.
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NewsCandidates given a week to apply for chair’s role at new National Institute for Health Protection
The government has given candidates just a week to apply to become the chair of its new National Institute for Health Protection, and has said the successful applicant must have ‘an understanding of the pivotal role [of] NHS Test and Trace’.
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News‘Urgent need’ to secure extra funding beyond Budget allocation, says Stevens
The chief executive of NHS England has told MPs there is an ‘urgent need’ to secure additional funding beyond what was announced in last week’s budget, and that he expects this to be agreed by the Treasury.