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NewsICSs told to prepare ‘nuclear’ service cuts as NHSE plays ‘hardball’
Health systems are still struggling to meet their financial plans, despite hundreds of millions being raided from investment budgets to help balance the books.
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NewsUS firm awarded £330m national data contract
Palantir, the controversial US firm, has been awarded the £330m-plus contract to provide the national federated data platform to the NHS for up to seven years.
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NewsExclusive: Dozens of new ambulances delayed after supplier goes bust
The delivery of more than 100 new ambulances to the NHS could be delayed ahead of winter after the company paid to supply them went into administration, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTrust admits errors over dispute with chair
A hospital trust whose chair quit after publicly raising serious concerns about the chief executive has admitted shortcomings in how it handled the situation.
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NewsFormer college president made interim trust chief
England’s first ambulance trust chief paramedic and quality officer has been appointed as the interim chief executive at South Western Ambulance Service Foundation Trust.
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NewsExclusive: Minority of trusts declare benefits as NHSE presses on with £480m data service contract
Only eight of 36 NHS trusts said to be piloting NHS England’s controversial new data platform have been willing to cite any specific benefits from it, HSJ has found.
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NewsChair had ‘no hint of objectivity’ when judging sacked CEO’s behaviour
NHS Blood and Transplant’s chair has been heavily criticised by an employment tribunal over the unfair dismissal of its former chief executive.
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NewsNHSE seeks chair with ‘strong commercial’ skills to adjudicate on contract disputes
NHS England wants a healthcare insider to lead scrutiny of contentious decisions made under new commissioning rules, as well as to adjudicate on complaints the NHS has not provided patients with sufficient choice.
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NewsExclusive: National tech budget slashed by £350m to plug deficits
The health service in England is cutting more than £300m from central tech budgets to fill local financial gaps at trusts and commissioners, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCharity which gave just 10% of income to NHS found guilty of ‘serious breaches’
A charity which claimed it was raising money for the NHS has been found to be in serious breach of the sector’s fundraising code of conduct.
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NewsNational team in £600k senior management recruitment drive
NHS England’s commercial directorate is bringing in six new directors and senior managers with a combined salary package of at least £600,000 to help it deliver £1.5bn in savings over the next five years.
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NewsDemand for ICB job cuts ‘wasteful, in every sense’ says Streeting
The shadow health secretary has criticised the “wasteful” way in which integrated care boards were set up and hit with cuts shortly afterwards.
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NewsAutistic patient trapped in hospital ward for four months due to system failures
Two young people facing mental health crises were left on paediatric wards for months while different agencies across a health system struggled to find appropriate placements.
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NewsNHS failing to prioritise those in most need, says departing ICB chief
The NHS should better track patients with the greatest clinical need so they can move to the front of the queue for treatment, a former government waiting list tsar has said.
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News‘Outstanding’ hospital CEO to leave after 18 months
An acute trust chief executive is retiring next spring after a year-and-a-half in post.
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NewsSome managers get no training or support, warns Pritchard
Training and development of managers is inadequate and patchy, the NHS England chief executive has warned, arguing that introducing statutory regulation would improve it.
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HSJ LocalHeadcount rise of 4,000 ‘not readily explainable’ by troubled ICS
The hiring of several thousand staff in a financially troubled health system was found to be ‘not readily explainable’ and well beyond the increases reported by similar areas.
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NewsFresh delay to NHS capital strategy revealed
Government has said a long-promised NHS capital strategy will not be published until next summer, although there are hopes some further funding will be announced in next week’s autumn statement.
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NewsWard staff ‘must accept extra workload to help A&E’
Hospitals are being prevented from adopting models which spread risk away from emergency departments because other teams refuse to take on the extra work, according to a top accident and emergency doctor.
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NewsPritchard defends NHS productivity levels
The NHS is doing ‘far more’ than it was pre-covid but this is not being reflected in standard measures of productivity, NHS England’s chief executive told MPs today.