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NewsThe deadlines and targets in the 10-Year Plan
A private funding business case for health centres, and publishing minimum employment standards, are among the first dated objectives in the 10-Year Health Plan.
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NewsTrusts to be monitored on local recruitment
Trusts will be monitored on how many staff they recruit who live locally and are unemployed, under 10-Year Health Plan proposals.
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NewsThe local services praised in the 10-Year Plan
The 10-Year Health Plan highlights more than a dozen local examples of work showing where government wants to take the NHS, and eight from overseas.
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News‘Irrelevant’ training will stop next year, vows 10-Year Plan
The government’s 10-Year Health Plan has vowed to stop “repetitive” and “irrelevant” training that takes up NHS staff time.
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News10-Year Plan: Key policies revealed
The key new policies revealed in today’s 10-Year Health Plan – across finance, performance, tech, workforce, innovation and care quality.
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NewsNational virtual ward system promised in 10-Year Plan
The government will procure a single virtual ward system to underpin its promised “neighbourhood health service”, the 10-Year Health Plan has said.
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NewsExclusive: 10-Year Plan published without delivery chapter
The government’s 10-Year Health Plan has been published without a planned chapter on how the changes it proposes will be delivered.
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NewsMackey: Multiple ACO-style providers to be ‘created next year’
Sir Jim Mackey expects several of the NHS’s first “integrated health organisations” to be created next year.
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NewsEight in ten trusts more likely to appoint white staff to jobs
Eight in 10 trusts are significantly more likely to appoint white applicants than applicants from minority ethnic backgrounds after shortlisting, new NHS England data has revealed.
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NewsExclusive: NICE to remove approval from scores of drugs for first time
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence will withdraw its backing for a large number of drugs and other interventions which now offer poor value for money in an unprecedented move set to be revealed in tomorrow’s 10-Year Health Plan, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTrust’s new chair ‘displayed bullying behaviour’ in past role
An ambulance trust has appointed a new chair, who a panel found had displayed “bullying behaviour” in a previous role as a police and crime commissioner.
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NewsNHSE declares £1.5bn of ‘risk’ in financial plans
A large number of local trust and commissioner financial plans are still “high risk”, NHS England has said.
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NewsICB told to re-run £82m contract award
An integrated care board has been told to reconsider its award of a contract worth £82m after making a string of errors in the process, including failing to properly assess value for money.
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NewsEx-leaders of Letby trust arrested
Three former senior leaders of the trust where babies were murdered by Lucy Letby have been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.
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LeaderCSUs are dead, long live the SSU
The commissioning support unit (CSU) has had a strange history – it has also lasted much longer than your average non-hospital NHS organisation.
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NewsCharity CEO to replace trust’s chair of 12 years
The CEO of a road safety charity has been appointed chair of a major teaching trust.
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NewsICBs exempt from performance regime
Integrated care boards will not be put into performance “segments” in 2025-26, while they go through major reorganisation and job cuts, NHS England has decided.
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NewsStaff will have to ‘see more patients’ to justify tech funding
Services will have to change clinicians’ job plans to increase productivity, in order to receive national tech funding, an NHS England director has suggested.
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NewsNon-acutes ‘will get more tech funding’
Community and mental health trusts will receive a larger share of national technology funding to enable the move to neighbourhood teams, an NHS England director has said.
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NewsCSUs and swathe of patient watchdogs axed
Government is announcing the scrapping of several national patient watchdogs, commissioning support units, and 150 local Healthwatch organisations.