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NewsStevens intervenes to force transparency on funding amid fears of service cuts
Lord Simon Stevens has proposed amendments to the Health and Care Bill which would force the government to be transparent about levels of mental health funding.
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NewsThe 16 trusts where covid patients occupy one in five beds
Sixteen hospital trusts had a fifth or more of their general beds occupied by covid patients on 4 January, the latest figures show, including three outside London and the South East.
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NewsTrusts fall far short of NHSE discharge target
NHS trusts have been unable to get anywhere close to the target for reducing delayed discharges set by NHS England last month ahead of the omicron wave.
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News‘Patients at risk’ from ‘hastily rolled out virtual wards’
NHS England’s plans to rapidly expand virtual wards are being ‘hastily rolled out’ and could put patients at risk while taking up significant staffing capacity, leading clinicians have warned.
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NewsExclusive: Absences hit 120,000 as military sends 200 staff to help hospitals
Staff absences from NHS trusts hit nearly 120,000 on Wednesday after another increase, HSJ has learned, as the government deployed 200 military staff to plug gaps.
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NewsOccupational health staff told not to get involved in decisions on mandatory covid vaccination
Occupational health professionals should avoid employment and management matters related to unvaccinated NHS staff, new guidance has warned.
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NewsNHS to begin move to dismiss staff who refuse covid vaccine or redeployment
Trusts will be told next week how they should go about dismissing potentially thousands of NHS staff who have decided not to be vaccinated against covid, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCommunity staff diverted to inpatient care as absences bite
Mental health chiefs are ‘juggling’ staff supervision and spiralling patient backlogs as more trusts start redeploying their workforce amid soaring absence rates caused by covid-19.
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NewsTrust appoints integrated care director as acting CEO
A mental health and community trust has appointed its executive director for integrated care as acting chief executive.
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NewsOmicron blocks thousands of overseas doctors joining NHS
Thousands of overseas-qualified doctors wanting to work in the UK will be delayed after the General Medical Council cancelled exams due to the surge in covid cases.
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NewsA quarter of inpatients at mental health trust have covid
More than one in four inpatients at one of England’s largest mental health trusts were reported as covid-positive this week, according to data seen by HSJ.
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News‘Outdated’ infection control rules ‘crippling’ hospitals, government told
Officials are under pressure to relax national guidance which is ‘crippling healthcare’ by taking large numbers of beds out of action and blocking patient flow, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNew NHS contract sets ‘realistic’ watered-down targets
NHS England’s proposed new standard contract confirms a watering down of several waiting-time targets, following the big deterioration in performance accelerated by covid.
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NewsMinister intervenes over heart attack patients told to get a lift to hospital
NHS England has been asked to look at an ambulance trust which has been asking patients with heart attacks and strokes to get a lift to hospital.
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NewsTrust seeks £30m for hot/cold split of orthopaedic services
An acute trust is seeking £30m in national funding to build a new elective care centre which it says would cut outsourcing costs and increase activity across its integrated care system.
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NewsGovernment hires management consultant to review number of regulators
The government has ordered an external review of whether the number of professional healthcare regulators should be reduced to ‘simplify’ the system.
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HSJ LocalCEO of 19 years named chair of challenged trust
Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has appointed a highly experienced former NHS executive leader, who spent almost 20 years in charge of an acute trust, as its new chair.
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NewsData suggests first signs of potential slowing in omicron hospitalisation surge
Covid admissions have fallen in London hospitals for the first time in over a month, while the growth rate of the national total rate has also dropped, according to official data.
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News‘Get a lift to hospital,’ ambulance trust tells patients with suspected heart attacks
Ambulance trusts have begun asking patients with heart attacks and strokes to get a lift to hospital with family or friends instead of waiting for an ambulance, because of high covid absences and ‘unprecedented’ surges in demand, HSJ has learned.
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NewsHealthcare leader asked to tackle data debacle made a dame
The woman brought in by government to help sort out the latest controversy over the sharing of NHS data has been made a dame in the New Year’s Honours list.