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NewsRadiographers warn next strike could hit 100 trusts
The Society of Radiographers is considering reballoting members in an effort to significantly increase the scope of its industrial action, the union’s director of industrial strategy has told HSJ.
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NewsRevealed: The trusts offering ‘BMA rates’ to doctors covering strikes
Around a quarter of acute trusts paid consultants premium rates to provide strike cover during the first two junior doctors’ walkouts, broadly matching the pay levels demanded by the British Medical Association’s ‘rate card’, HSJ research has found.
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NewsTrusts to award £500m pathology contract after legal challenge dropped
A pharma and diagnostics firm has dropped its bid to reverse a decision by three acute trusts to award a multimillion pound pathology contract to a competitor.
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NewsThree trusts taken to High Court in £475m contract row
A private provider has accused three acute trusts of breaking procurement rules over how they handled bids for a contract worth up to £475m to supply them with managed pathology services.
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NewsTrust gives in on consultant overtime rates
The third biggest trust in the NHS has agreed to increase consultant overtime rates ahead of next week’s junior doctors strike, despite a regional attempt to hold the line, citing patient safety and the need to treat cancer patients, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsExclusive: 800 consultants refuse to cover juniors strike without extra pay
More than 800 consultants in London have signed a letter saying they will not cover the junior doctors’ strike next week unless their trusts agree to pay a higher overtime rate set by the British Medical Association.
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News‘National improvement board’ to be set up by NHS England
NHS England has launched a new framework for quality improvement and delivery, including a national board that will pick a ‘small number of shared national priorities’.
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NewsNHSE ploughed ahead with PbR return despite major trusts’ objections
NHS England pressed ahead with a controversial return to payment by results despite strong opposition from some of the service’s largest trusts, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ PartnersDoes digital transformation hold the answer to improving patient outcomes?
At HSJ’s recent Digital Transformation Summit, board representatives from ICS and provider organisations came together to debate the most pressing issues confronting digital health leaders
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: When ‘no strategy’ is best
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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News‘Local management’ harder in ‘enormous’ trusts, says new NHS Providers chief
The new chief executive of NHS Providers has told HSJ he will champion the development of provider collaboratives in the role, and stressed there is no ‘schism’ between them and integrated care systems.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Julian Hartley on collaboration, reform and why he became NHS Providers’ CEO
Fresh from starting work as NHS Providers’ new chief executive, Sir Julian Hartley joins HSJ Health Check to talk about collaboration, strikes, reform and more.
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NewsTeaching trust names medic as new chief executive
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust has named Phil Wood as its new chief executive.
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NewsBuilding firm to pay £5m over ‘defects’ at major cancer centre
A construction firm has been ordered to pay £5m after fire and electrical safety defects were found at one of the NHS’s largest cancer centres.
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NewsTrust CEO appointed as new NHS Providers chief
The chief executive of one of the largest hospital trusts has been appointed to lead NHS Providers.
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NewsGovernment plans ‘single set of management standards’ for the NHS
A government review of health and care leadership has recommended a single set of ‘core leadership and management standards’ for NHS managers.
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NewsStaff shortages leaving women in ‘barbaric’ pain
Patient safety campaigners have said ‘too many women’ are still not being offered a general anaesthetic for a diagnostic test because of staff shortages, leaving them in severe pain.
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NewsMay, Powis and Hartley given top Jubilee honours
NHS England’s national medical director and chief nurse are among the health service staff who have been recognised for their services in the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Honours List.
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NewsFears of delay to flagship ‘new hospitals’ after funding cut
Several of the ‘40 new hospitals’ promised by government face further delay and disruption because the trusts are receiving less cash than needed for crucial planning work this year, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsTrusts failing on waiting list ask told to ‘get act together’
Trusts have been told to ‘get their act together’ on health inequalities, after HSJ research suggested only a small minority have so far published data on disparities in waiting times between different patient groups.