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HSJ Local‘Commercial barriers’ stop ICS buying private hospital
A health system has dropped a bid to buy a private hospital in its area, saying there were ‘commercial barriers’ to the deal.
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NewsNew minister appointed at DHSC
A new junior health minister has been appointed, following Sajid Javid and Edward Argar’s resignations last week.
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NewsNHSE chief visits trust to ‘learn lessons’ from troubled IT project
The go-live of a new electronic patient record at two hospitals has led to operational problems and a visit from an NHS England board director to ‘learn lessons’ for future roll-outs.
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NewsTrust chiefs resist ‘pressure’ to treat patients in corridors
Hospital leaders say they have been pressured to deliver more ‘corridor care’ as a result of efforts to ease the ambulance handover crisis.
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NewsThree regions see covid hospital patients double in a fortnight
The number of patients in English hospitals who have tested positive for covid has increased by 86 per cent during the last two weeks.
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News‘New hospitals’ trusts lack cash for planned rebuilds
Half of the trusts in the government’s flagship hospital building programme are ‘not confident’ their funding allocations will be enough to deliver their projects, a new poll of NHS executives has suggested.
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NewsCancer and primary care investment face cuts due to pay bill, NHSE warns
NHS England has warned of ‘cuts’ to services and investment in cancer and primary care if it is not given extra funding for staff pay-rises above 3 per cent.
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News6,000-plus jobs to be cut at ‘new NHS England’
Thousands of jobs – amounting to around 30-40 per cent of posts across NHS England, Health Education England and NHS Digital – will be cut over the next year as the organisations are merged, it was announced today.
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NewsHealth minister among latest to resign
Health minister Edward Argar resigned last night, one day after health secretary Sajid Javid.
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NewsMiddle-class patients to wait longer for care under health inequalities project
Dozens of NHS trusts are looking to adopt new software which can take health inequalities into account when prioritising patients for elective care.
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NewsHundreds of products out of stock amid ‘unprecedented’ supply chain problems
NHS trusts are finding hundreds of clinical and non-clinical products are out of stock with the national supply chain agency, leaving procurement teams scrambling to find alternatives and avoid gaps in supply.
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NewsNHSE looks to give up on key elective requirement
NHS England is looking to change the rules around its flagship elective fund, amid concern that disappointing activity levels will trigger widespread financial penalties, HSJ has been told.
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NewsNew health secretary named
Sajid Javid has resigned and been replaced by Steve Barclay as health and social care secretary.
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NewsNHSE sets trusts ‘100-day challenge’ to reduce delayed discharges
NHS England has set trusts and systems a ‘100-day challenge’ to discharge more patients from hospital and free up beds before winter.
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NewsRevealed: The trusts where at least one in 20 suspected cancer patients have waited three months
More than 5 per cent of patients with suspected cancer have been waiting more than 104 days at 14 trusts, data leaked to HSJ reveals.
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NewsExclusive: High covid rates spark blood supply ‘crisis’
The organisation which supplies blood to hospitals is in ‘crisis mode’ due to its stock falling to severely low levels, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMajor trust appoints hospital CEO
A major trust has appointed a permanent chief executive to one of its largest hospitals.
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NewsExclusive: Drive to reduce hospital waiting lists endangered as trusts struggle to raise activity
Elective activity levels are still significantly below those achieved before the pandemic, despite the high profile and government-led drive to recover services.
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NewsCovid hospital patients double in a month
The number of covid positive patients in English hospitals more than doubled in June.
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NewsNon-executive directors took over aspects of running struggling trust, review finds
A trust’s executive and non-executive roles were ‘confused’ and board members behaved in a way which was ‘not aligned” with trust values, an external review has found.