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CEO of struggling teaching trust quits for regional role
University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust’s chief executive, David Rosser is stepping down.
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Revealed: Ambulance waits quadruple in handover hotspots
Ambulance waiting times for stroke and suspected heart attacks have quadrupled in four parts of England since before covid-19 – whereas others have only grown by half – underlining the severe impact of long accident and emergency handovers.
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Winners of HSJ Awards 2022 revealed
The prestigious HSJ Awards celebrated stars of the NHS last night at Evolution London, with celebrity author, comedian and Britain’s Got Talent judge David Walliams hosting.
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Government wants new NHS cyber security chief
Government is looking to hire a new cyber security chief for the NHS and Department of Health and Social Care, at a time of heigtened risk of cyber attacks against the health service.
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NHS England gets half of funding it warned could be needed
The chancellor has announced the NHS will receive an additional £3.3bn in each of the next two years, raising the overall budget by 2 per cent in real terms.
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Ministers order review to free ICSs from micromanagement
Former Labour health secretary Patricia Hewitt has been asked by the government to review the role and powers of integrated care systems with a view to giving them greater autonomy.
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Review launched into ‘inaccurate’ ambulance data
An independent review has been launched into London’s ambulance response times after the introduction of a new computer system revealed it may have been underreporting them for several years.
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Exclusive: ICSs may be breaching patient confidentiality, watchdog warns
The health service’s independent data watchdog has issued a warning to local NHS bodies over concerns confidential patient information is being shared unlawfully with third parties, including for ‘population health’ analysis.
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Supply chain exec quits after U-turn on major reforms
The national director in charge of implementing NHS Supply Chain’s new operating model has announced his departure less than a week after it was revealed the procurement agency is dramatically changing its plans for the reforms.
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NHS needs OBR-style staffing forecasts, says Pritchard
The NHS’s forthcoming workforce plan will have to be updated with regular forecasts after it has been published to ensure it stays “credible”, Amanda Pritchard said today.
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Families blame ‘chaotic, splenetic mess of a government’ for compensation hold-up
Families whose loved ones’ bodies were sexually abused in a hospital mortuary have yet to receive any compensation, because the Department of Health and Social Care has not signed off a proposed framework.
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NHS will get extra funding to help with inflation, Barclay indicates
Health and social care secretary Steve Barclay has strongly indicated the NHS will receive more funding in tomorrow’s autumn statement, and said that reports he argued to the Chancellor that the NHS ‘did not need any more money’ were incorrect.
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NHSE names new emergency care chief and deputy COO
NHS England has hired a hospital chief executive as its new national director of urgent and emergency care and deputy chief operating officer.
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A&E staff ordered to receive ambulances ‘in all instances’
Directors of a major hospital have ordered their accident and emergency staff to continue receiving ambulance patients into their department “in all instances”, following angry exchanges with paramedics.
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Barclay: DHSC and NHSE must ‘work closely’ to tackle worst performers
Steve Barclay will today ’emphasise the importance of close working between the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England’ in trying to tackle waiting times in areas which are lagging.
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NHSE director ‘shocked’ by lack of weekend working
The national director for mental health has said she was shocked to discover how many ward managers do not work at weekends, adding this could contribute to abuse and poor care going undetected.
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‘Money became king’ under special measures regime, trust leaders claim
An acute trust was forced to try to balance its books, while operating with too few staff and being unable to reassure itself on quality due to a ‘non-existent’ governance system, its current leaders have claimed – as they warned that when organisations are put under financial pressure ‘quality suffers’.
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Webinar: How the government will tackle the crisis in the NHS
In this specially recorded webinar for HSJ Insight subscribers, HSJ editor Alastair McLellan talks to two seasoned observers about the relationship between the NHS and government.
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Trust bosses fear fallout of co-ordinated strikes
Trust leaders have raised concerns about other major unions striking on the same dates as the Royal College of Nursing in co-ordinated action, which would make avoiding disruption and harm ‘more hairy’.
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Trusts lose interim CEO three months into role
The interim chief executive of a hospital ‘group’ in the Midlands is moving to a neighbouring trust, leaving the leadership of his current organisation uncertain.