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NewsFive systems forecast £300m overspend next year
Five systems are still forecasting they cannot meet their financial target in 2025-26, but the national gap in plans has fallen from £4.4bn to £300m in the last few weeks.
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NewsZero tolerance ‘won’t fix sexual harassment of staff’
“Cultural transformation” rather than “zero tolerance” is required to overcome widespread sexual harassment by ambulance service staff and patients, according to the person leading national efforts to make improvements.
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NewsTrusts with persistently high baby deaths revealed
Two hospital trusts have recorded high adjusted mortality rates for five of the past seven years, according to HSJ analysis of maternity safety audit findings.
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NewsNHSE vows to end ‘bombardment’ of trusts
NHS England has vowed to ”reduce duplication and prevent providers from being bombarded with conflicting instructions”, including by removing integrated care boards’ performance management role.
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NewsChair denies bullying and coercive behaviour
The outgoing chair of a hospital trust has denied that she was “bullying or coercive”, despite complaints from consultants.
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NewsTrust condemned for ‘unskilled and superficial’ response to baby’s death
A coroner has warned that the lives of future mothers and babies could be put at risk unless funding for the Maternity and Newborn Safety Investigations programme is extended, while severely criticising a trust over a baby’s death.
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NewsExclusive: Government admits cutting mental health spend share
The proportion of the NHS budget spent on mental health services is being cut for the first time in several years, the government will admit to Parliament, HSJ has learned.
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NewsSupplier fined £3m for cyber breach in ICO first
A supplier has been issued with a £3m fine by the Information Commissioner’s Office over security failings that led to a major cyber attack in 2022.
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NewsFailed CQC transformation cost £99m
The Care Quality Commission spent £99m on a transformation programme that failed to achieve most of the promised benefits, a highly critical independent report has revealed.
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NewsICB director takes on NHSE finance role
NHS England has appointed an integrated care board director as deputy chief financial officer.
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NewsNHSE admits ‘devaluing of commissioning’
NHS England hopes to tackle “a perceived devaluing of commissioning” and enhance “the skills and professional identity of commissioners”, as part of the future of integrated care boards, a leaked document reveals.
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NewsTrust appoints neighbour’s chair after 16-month search
A trust with long-standing leadership and performance problems has appointed a neighbouring provider’s chair, after 16 months of temporary arrangements.
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NewsICBs will have to merge, says ex-NHSE chief
Some integrated care boards will need to merge in order to cut their running costs in half, according to Sir David Nicholson — leaving trust groups such as the one he now chairs well placed to organise local services.
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HSJ LocalThree trusts to share chair
Three trusts are set to share a chair as part of their efforts to work more closely together under the Great North Healthcare Alliance.
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News‘Reform standstill’ threatened over ICB cuts
Service reform and “strategic commissioning” may be “brought to a standstill” by steep cuts to integrated care boards, leaders have warned.
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NewsICBs in dispute with provider over ‘ticking timebomb’ drug costs
Multiple NHS commissioners are embroiled in a legal row with a private company they say is “intensively” marketing its online weight-loss drugs service, which could cost them hundreds of millions of pounds a year.
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NewsNHSE director leaves to run FT’s subco
A senior procurement director at NHS England is leaving this summer to run the wholly-owned subsidiary of a large London acute trust.
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HSJ LocalCEO: Staff suffering ‘moral injury’ from poor estates
Staff are suffering “moral injury” as deteriorating estates disrupt their ability to provide care, a chief executive whose hospital rebuild has been delayed has warned.
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LeaderStreeting is Lansley reborn
The government’s abandonment of its stricture against a top-down reorganisation would be breathtaking if it was not so tragic.
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NewsFDP supplier eyes UK-wide data system
US technology supplier Palantir has called on the UK government to adopt a “common operating system” linking healthcare data with other sources such as the Department for Work and Pensions.