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NewsNHS management 'seen as slow and inward looking', David Nicholson warns
Former NHS chief Sir David Nicholson says NHS management needs to be ‘a bit more creative’ to rebuild despite covid-19, and to disprove government perceptions that it is ‘slow and inward looking’.
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NewsDischarge rates slowing as providers face ‘perfect storm’
Providers are beginning to see a slowing in the rate of patient discharges, in what would be another element of the ‘perfect storm’ they face this winter, leaders have warned.
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NewsGovernment launches ‘competition’ for eight new hospitals
Ministers will invite local leaders to bid for eight ‘new hospitals’, as part of the government’s NHS building plan.
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NewsHold national bodies to same leadership standards as trusts, says CQC report
The leaders of NHS England and the Care Quality Commission should have their own performance subjected to the same assessment process they require for local providers, a report has said.
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NewsFourth senior departure from NHS procurement body
The chief commercial officer of NHS Supply Chain has stood down as part of an organisational restructure, making him the fourth departure to be confirmed from the top of the agency inside two weeks.
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News‘Radical’ expansion of diagnostic capacity urgently needed, claims NHSE report
The NHS must make ‘radical changes’ to transform its diagnostics capacity, which was close to ‘tipping point’ even before the pandemic, a major report has found.
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NewsChairs have ‘high moral values’ but struggle with ‘disruptive’ directors, claims landmark study
Nearly half of trust chairs fail to “effectively deal with non-performing board members” according to a major study of the role of NHS non-executive directors seen by HSJ.
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HSJ LocalTeaching trust reopens five years of accounts after £50m ‘discrepancy’
A teaching trust has had to adjust five years’ worth of financial accounts after an error which meant one of its hospitals was undervalued by £50m.
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NewsNHS to become ‘world’s first carbon net zero national health system’
The NHS has been set a target of becoming carbon net zero by 2040 and cutting harmful emission reductions by 80 per cent over the next 12 years.
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NewsBrexit and covid restrictions pose ‘public disorder’ threat for NHS this winter
An ambulance trust is warning of the risk of public disorder affecting its staff this winter.
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NewsSome trusts are gaming race equality targets, says retiring NHSE lead
The NHS’ race equality measures must be reviewed as some of them are being gamed by trusts, according to the NHS England director who oversaw them until earlier this year.
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NewsDamning CQC report finds ‘bullying and predatory behaviour’ concerns at trust
An ambulance service could be put in special measures after a damning report criticised poor leadership for fostering bullying and not acting decisively on allegations of predatory sexual behaviour towards patients.
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HSJ LocalCovid hospital deaths climb steeply in the North West, but plateau elsewhere
The number of coronavirus deaths in North West hospitals has started to climb steeply, following weeks of high infection rates in the community.
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HSJ LocalTrust faces prosecution after string of inpatient deaths
A mental health trust in Essex faces prosecution by the Health and Safety Executive after a string of inpatient deaths that began 16 years ago.
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NewsDeath of HSJ freelancer and campaigner
Daloni Carlisle, who has died aged 56, was a talented journalist who wrote for HSJ and other media, and became a campaigner for better awareness of women’s cancers.
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HSJ LocalEight-way CCG merger blocked by local opposition
GPs in north west London have blocked plans to merge the system’s eight clinical commissioning groups into one, flying in the face of regional and national objectives.
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NewsExclusive: Ex-Sainsbury’s boss to join beleaguered Test and Trace as NHS chief returns to trust
The former chief executive of Sainsbury’s is to take over as testing director at NHS Test and Trace, while the hospital chief executive currently running it will leave at the end of October, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Leaked data gives first view of growing cancer waiting list post covid peak
Official data from mid-September shows that nearly 6,400 people had waited more than 100 days following a referral to cancer services.
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NewsNHSI appointed sacked trust CEO as improvement director then dismissed him after receiving ‘undisclosed information’
A hospital chief executive dismissed after a disciplinary process was sacked again last week after NHS Improvement ‘received previously undisclosed information’.
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NewsStevens: 2021 legislation must give integrated care systems ‘a legal form’
NHS England is expecting new legislation ‘in the first half of 2021’ which will create a ‘legal form’ for integrated care systems, Sir Simon Stevens has told HSJ.