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NewsGovernment dilutes public health priorities to deliver shorter NHS mandate
The government has downgraded the importance of improving public health in its annual ‘mandate’ to the NHS.
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NewsTwo trusts added to NHSE list of providers at ‘high risk’
Two trusts have been added to NHS England’s list of those identified as needing the most support meeting cancer and elective targets.
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HSJ LocalTeaching hospital CEO leaving to take NHSE role
The chief executive of Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Foundation Trust is leaving the provider to take on a senior role at NHS England.
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NewsGovernment refuses to commit to key Hewitt recommendations
The government has rejected or refused to commit to many of the cornerstone recommendations made in Patricia Hewitt’s review of the autonomy and accountability exercised by integrated care systems.
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NewsPritchard: We need to be ‘really thoughtful’ about intervening with ICSs
NHS England needs to be ‘really thoughtful’ about how and when it intervenes as powers are devolved from the centre to integrated care systems, NHSE’s chief executive has said.
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News‘Catastrophic’ fall in managers linked to slump in NHS productivity
A “chronic” lack of managers sits at the heart of the fall in NHS productivity, a report from the Institute of Fiscal Studies has claimed.
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News‘First’ single EPR across ICS planned
An integrated care system is planning on launching what it believes is the ‘first’ single electronic patient record across acute, mental health and community providers.
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NewsNew triage policy implicated in 44-year-old’s death
An ambulance service says it has sped up clinical review of lower-priority calls, after a coroner said the new triage process — introduced in response to recent waiting time pressures — ‘will lead to further deaths’.
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NewsLondon gives way on consultant strike cover pay
London trusts have been told they can pay almost triple the usual rate for consultant cover during this week’s junior doctors’ strike.
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HSJ LocalTrust insists ‘our data is correct’ despite waiting list ‘grip’ concerns
An external review of waiting list management at a large acute trust has found several serious problems – including ‘pop-up’ patients and thousands of cancelled appointments each week – but concluded they were no worse than would be found at ‘most NHS trusts’.
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NewsMedic who stood to be MP appointed hospital CEO
A trust has appointed a new hospital site ‘chief executive’, whose predecessor stood down after less than two years.
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NewsHitting elective target ‘not in NHS’s control’, Sunak warned
The NHS Confederation chief says he will this week demand clarity about Rishi Sunak’s flagship waiting list reduction target, warning it may not be ‘the most sensible target [or] within the service’s control’.
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HSJ LocalRebuilding DGH will now cost ‘more than £600m’, says chief
The forecast cost for a small acute trust’s new hospital has increased from a previous estimate of £600m, its chief executive has told HSJ, as inflation piles pressure on the government’s New Hospitals Programme.
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NewsICB and seven trusts put in ‘recovery’ after refusing to submit balanced financial plan
An integrated care board and all seven of its member trusts have been placed into the ‘recovery support programmes’ – formerly known as special measures – by NHS England, after declaring a deficit plan for 2023-24.
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NewsPolice examining ‘medical malpractice’ at teaching hospital
Police are looking into a number of patient deaths at a leading tertiary centre, HSJ has learned.
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News‘Abuse’ at NHS unit subject to police investigation
A police investigation is under way into allegations of abuse at an NHS-run home for men with severe learning disabilities and autism, it has emerged.
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NewsTrust cuts a fifth of exec team amid leadership concerns
One of the NHS’s biggest trusts is cutting 20 per cent of its executive board roles, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTech firms may be asked to fund NHS ‘academy’
NHS England is turning to the private sector to fund training for new data and analytics experts in a bid to boost the workforce and bridge a growing skills gap.
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NewsAll NHS board members to get equality objectives
Trusts and systems must draw up plans to improve the diversity of their executive and senior leadership teams over the next 12 months, and evidence progress against them by summer 2025, NHS England has announced.
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HSJ LocalTrusts adopt ‘group model’
NHS leaders in Lincolnshire have committed to bringing two of the county’s three trusts together in a “group” model.