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NewsTwo ‘neighbourhood’ contracts proposed
Two new types of primary care contract are set to be used to roll out neighbourhood health – and will sometimes involve trusts and other large-scale providers taking over struggling GP practices.
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NewsPatients with long-term conditions have worse experience
Patients with long-term conditions and those from a minority ethnic background have a significantly worse experience of NHS care, according to polling shared exclusively with HSJ.
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News‘Robustly manage’ staff who ‘lack compassion and openness’, NHSE tells trusts
Trust chief executives have been told to “robustly manage” staff who repeatedly “demonstrate a lack of compassion or openness” over failings in maternity care.
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NewsExclusive: Deaths linked to new crisis care policy
Coroners have issued multiple warnings about deaths linked to police refusing to respond to people in mental health crisis, prompting fresh concerns about “gaps in support”.
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NewsPatients to decide hospital payments under 10-year plan proposals
Patients will be able to decide whether hospitals get the full payment for their treatment under proposals in drafts of the 10-Year Health Plan, HSJ understands.
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NewsRevealed: The 10-Year Plan vision for FTs and ICBs
A new operating model proposed by the government’s 10-Year Health Plan will radically reform the role and governance of foundation trusts and integrated care boards.
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LeaderWe have seen the government’s 10-Year Health Plan: it is a mess
The latest draft of the government’s 10-Year Health Plan is based on weak assertions about funding, and fails to address the practicality of reform, says HSJ editor Alastair McLellan.
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NewsDHSC staffing spend up under Labour
Spending on staff at the Department of Health and Social Care and seven other central agencies has increased by more than 10 per cent since Labour came to power, analysis shows.
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NewsUp to ten trusts face ‘national maternity investigation’
Wes Streeting today announced a “national investigation” into maternity care at up to 10 trusts which will report by Christmas.
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NewsExclusive: Failing trusts will pay for new intervention regime
NHS England’s new “provider improvement programme” is expected to cover about 15 trusts which will have to pay for NHSE’s interventions themselves, HSJ has learned.
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NewsManage ADHD like diabetes, says NHSE taskforce
An inability to access NHS attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) services has resulted in a “significant growth” in the use of unregulated private providers, according to a report from a national taskforce.
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NewsManager pay rise must wait for new performance scores
Trusts and integrated care boards must withhold this year’s pay rise for senior managers until their performance segment under NHS England’s new assessment framework is published.
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NewsNo private finance for hospitals, says Treasury
Private finance will only be used to fund public sector infrastructure in “very limited circumstances”, the Treasury has confirmed.
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NewsTrust’s leaders ‘focused on new hospital, not safety’, finds CQC
Leaders at a trust with “inadequate” maternity services were focused on plans for a new hospital “to the detriment of current service challenges”, the care regulator has said.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE orders trusts to halt ‘safety risk’ AI projects
NHS England has been forced to warn trusts and GPs against adopting “non-compliant” AI technology which “risks clinical safety, data protection breaches [and] financial exposure”.
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NewsTrust accused of ‘highly inappropriate’ physician associates policy
A union has criticised a hospital trust for “jeopardising patient safety” by issuing “highly inappropriate” instructions for resident doctors to approve prescription requests from physician associates.
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NewsHackers took down high-secure hospital’s security system
A cyber attack disabled alarm systems used by staff at a high-security psychiatric hospital, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHS Providers launches bid to prevent resident doctor strikes
NHS Providers wants to lead a redesign of resident doctor employment structures to bring back “elements of ‘the Firm’” approach, its new CEO has said.
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NewsICBs urged to ‘be brave’ and cut numbers further
Integrated care board leaders should “be brave” and cut the number of commissioners further than the currently proposed 27, the new NHS Providers CEO has said.
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NewsMerging ICBs to ‘keep two partnership boards’
Two merging integrated care boards are planning to keep separate “integrated care partnership” committees, in order to retain “an independent focus” on each area’s population health.