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NewsExclusive: Lack of surgery capacity adding to risk for babies and mothers
A lack of surgery capacity at dozens of maternity units is adding to the risk of serious harm to mothers and newborn babies, HSJ has found.
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NewsTurnover down £160m for agency staffing firm
Turnover and profits are down at the NHS’s biggest supplier of agency staff.
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NewsCFO departed trust after senior staff and ICB ‘lost confidence’
A trust’s chief financial officer left the role shortly after senior staff told the chief executive they had “lost confidence” in the CFO, in an apparent row over planned cuts to clinical staff, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsICB admits defeat on key September target
An East of England integrated care board expects to miss both the main national elective recovery target of eliminating 65-week breaches by September and a top diagnostic target, according to board papers.
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NewsGP industrial action may hit all services, ICBs and trusts warned
Integrated care boards and trusts should develop plans to deal with potential “whole system” impact of GP “collective action” from next week, NHS England has warned.
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HSJ LocalICB chair and long-serving NHS chief to retire
An integrated care board chair and previously long-serving NHS chief executive is retiring after five decades in the health service.
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NewsNew 10-year health plan due next spring
The government is aiming to complete its 10-year plan for health services around next spring, HSJ understands.
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NewsNHS England awards £40m consultancy contract for commercial advice
A contract worth up to £40m to advise NHS England on strategic and productivity matters has been awarded to a consortium led by PA Consulting, HSJ has learned.
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NewsIT outage still disrupting services after region declared ‘critical incident’
Disruption to GP services is expected to continue this week, while London had to declare a “critical incident” over the Microsoft outage.
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NewsAI could solve ‘disgraceful’ structural problems, says minister
Artificial intelligence could be used to figure out the causes of “disgraceful” structural problems like the higher rates of maternal mortality for black women, a minister told a conference yesterday.
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NewsIT outages hit thousands of services
Thousands of GP practices – and some other localised services – are without their IT systems today, due to global outages also affecting banking, media and aviation.
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HSJ LocalReview finds 418 ‘unnatural, unexpected deaths’ linked to troubled trust
A troubled mental health trust’s internal mortality review has concluded 418 of an estimated 12,503 patient deaths over a four-and-a-half year period were “unexpected and unnatural”.
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NewsCEO appointed for £2bn hospital group
Two city acute trusts have announced a joint chief executive.
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NewsNHSE asks systems to eliminate longest-waiters by next year
NHS England has tasked systems and providers with ending or significantly reducing 104-week waits for community mental health services by March 2025, following worsening performance.
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News‘Significant disruption’ as struggling ICB extends restructure
A struggling integrated care board is reporting more “freedom to speak up” reports and “significant disruption” to staff, as it goes through a major restructure, it has warned.
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NewsCapital budgets cut at trusts with largest repair backlogs
Hospitals with some of the biggest maintenance backlogs have had their budgets for repairs slashed as a result of new NHS finance rules, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHS and social care ‘tripping over each other’ on staffing
The NHS should help social care recruit and retain nurses, including with better pay and conditions, particularly for new service models where care staff take on more health tasks.
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NewsThird of services rated ‘red’ for baby deaths
The proportion of trusts with maternity services “red rated” for neonatal mortality rose from around a quarter in 2021 to a third in 2022, according to the latest national audit.
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HSJ LocalICB reprimanded for not ‘holding FTs to account’
One of the largest integrated care systems has been accused of a “failure” of financial management, as NHS England issued a formal notice requiring urgent improvements across leadership, performance and care quality.
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NewsRepairs backlog leaps 60% at trust rejected for rebuild
A trust’s maintenance backlog has risen by 60 per cent in a single year – more than four times the typical annual increase – after its bid for national funding to rebuild its main hospital was turned down.