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NewsNHS failing to prioritise those in most need, says departing ICB chief
The NHS should better track patients with the greatest clinical need so they can move to the front of the queue for treatment, a former government waiting list tsar has said.
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News‘Outstanding’ hospital CEO to leave after 18 months
An acute trust chief executive is retiring next spring after a year-and-a-half in post.
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NewsNHSE tells GPs they’re ‘breaching contract’ by denying record access
NHS England has taken the unusual move of warning multiple GP practices they are breaching their contract by refusing to give people automatic access to future entries in their record.
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NewsGP at Hand ‘financial turbulence’ is history, says new owner
The NHS’s largest GP practice, which has previously been plagued by money problems, is no longer struggling financially, its new owner has told HSJ.
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NewsSome managers get no training or support, warns Pritchard
Training and development of managers is inadequate and patchy, the NHS England chief executive has warned, arguing that introducing statutory regulation would improve it.
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NewsLabour will give GPs ‘obligation’ to offer choice, says Streeting
The shadow health and care secretary would give GPs a stronger “obligation” to offer patients choice of provider at the point of referral, which they are not currently doing, he said.
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HSJ LocalHeadcount rise of 4,000 ‘not readily explainable’ by troubled ICS
The hiring of several thousand staff in a financially troubled health system was found to be ‘not readily explainable’ and well beyond the increases reported by similar areas.
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NewsFresh delay to NHS capital strategy revealed
Government has said a long-promised NHS capital strategy will not be published until next summer, although there are hopes some further funding will be announced in next week’s autumn statement.
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NewsWard staff ‘must accept extra workload to help A&E’
Hospitals are being prevented from adopting models which spread risk away from emergency departments because other teams refuse to take on the extra work, according to a top accident and emergency doctor.
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NewsPritchard defends NHS productivity levels
The NHS is doing ‘far more’ than it was pre-covid but this is not being reflected in standard measures of productivity, NHS England’s chief executive told MPs today.
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NewsThree patients died after ambulance transfer delays from private hospital
Three patients died after delayed transfers from a private hospital within a nine-month period, coroner’s findings reveal.
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NewsTory leadership candidate appointed health minister
Two new ministers have been appointed to the Department of Health and Social Care in Rishi Sunak’s reshuffle.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in September 2023, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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News‘Turbulence and pressure’ leading to higher turnover of CEOs, says Hartley
The morale of staff and quality of services are being impacted by a higher turnover of trust leaders caused by an environment ‘more pressured and turbulent than it’s ever been’, says the chief executive of NHS Providers.
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HSJ LocalNew CEO appointed at struggling ICB
One of England’s most challenged integrated care systems has appointed a new chief executive.
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NewsWidespread ‘toxic culture’ is forcing us out, say staff
Large numbers of midwives report being left feeling undervalued and afraid to speak up due to bullying and widespread staffing shortages, which some say is putting mothers’ and babies’ lives at risk, according to a new publication shared with HSJ.
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NewsAtkins appointed health and care secretary
Victoria Atkins has been named as health and social care secretary, replacing Steve Barclay.
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NewsNHSE director to leave next month
NHS England’s director for clinical integration has announced she is leaving the national commissioner in December.
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NewsNational agency CEO told: ‘Resign or be sacked’
An employment tribunal claim has been brought against a national NHS agency by its former chief executive, who says she was effectively sacked on the basis of anonymous and uninvestigated allegations of bullying.
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News‘Design compromise’ for new-build hospitals due to funding shortfalls
Trusts in the ‘new hospital programme’ will have to make significant compromises to their projects unless the Treasury can be persuaded to release billions more in funding, sources have told HSJ.