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NewsRole of NHS national and regional teams under review as ICSs develop, says Confed chief
The role of the centre and region of NHS England is under review because trusts will increasingly be accountable to and challenged by their integrated care systems, the NHS Confederation chief executive has said.
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NewsSoaring trolley waits spark warnings A&E pressures getting ‘worse and worse’
The number of 12-hour waits in accident and emergency departments rose by 27 per cent in one month to reach record levels in January amid warnings overcrowding is harming an increasing number of patients.
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NewsEx-NHS chief to lead new ‘Office of the Prime Minister’
The Prime Minister’s senior health adviser Samantha Jones has been appointed interim permanent secretary and chief operating officer of the new Office of the Prime Minister, as Boris Johnson continues his attempts to recover from the partygate scandal.
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NewsLeak reveals management consultants’ role in recovery plans
Consultants will set strategy, provide analytics and help lead the creation of integrated care systems’ elective recovery plans, a leaked document reveals.
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NewsDaily Insight: Cancel those leaving drinks
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsICSs must devolve ‘significant’ budget to ‘place’, says government
Integrated care systems must put a single person in charge of health and social care in each of their constituent ‘places’ by April next year, and let them manage a ‘significant’ chunk of the budget, government has said.
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NewsUnvaccinated staff should be welcomed back, urges NHSE
Trusts could offer to bring back staff who resigned over the government’s covid vaccine mandate and are urged by NHS England to contact individuals who did ‘as soon as practicable’.
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NewsDaily Insight: Chairing is sharing
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Doctors’ bonus pay talks collapse after two years
Medical trade unions have voted to reject proposed reforms to bonus payments for senior doctors, after two years of negotiations broke down.
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NewsFormer NHS England chief appointed chair of four trusts
Former NHS England deputy chief executive Matthew Swindells has been appointed chair of all north west London’s acute trusts.
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NewsRecovery plan expects two more years of waiting list growth
The government’s NHS recovery plan says elective waiting lists are likely to continue growing until March 2024.
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NewsRevealed: How NHSE’s new transformation directorate will operate
Six directors will lead the different units of NHS England’s new transformation directorate created by merging NHS Digital and NHSX into the organisation.
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NewsTwenty trusts in region now sharing chairs and CEOs
Nearly two-thirds of London trusts will soon be sharing a chair and/or chief executive, after a pair of mental health providers agreed to appoint a joint chair.
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NewsDaily Insight: Putting the ‘ire’ in ‘hire’
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsNational chiefs tell staff covid vaccine is ‘professional responsibility’
The most senior clinical leaders in the NHS have written to staff telling them it is their professional responsibility to be vaccinated against covid-19, in the wake of the government abandoning plans to make it a legal requirement.
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NewsNHSE to spend up to £42m on management consultants for elective recovery
NHS England will fund integrated care systems to spend up to £42m on management consultancy help with their elective recovery plans this year, it has confirmed.
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NewsTrust apologises for saying patient’s sexual assault ‘didn’t happen’
A hospital trust has apologised to a mental health patient who reported being sexually assaulted in its A&E department – after it emerged in a safety review that staff wrote ‘this has not happened’ and dismissed her claims of the attack.
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News‘Galling’ move to claw back £28m of overpayments to GPs
NHS England is seeking legal advice on whether it can claw back £28m of “overpayments” that were made to GPs.
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NewsDaily Insight: Integrated chaos system
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsNHS spend on private healthcare rose 27 per cent in a year
NHS commissioners’ spending on private healthcare increased 27 per cent to more than £18bn in 2020-21, with pandemic effects causing it to rise faster than spend on NHS trusts and general practice.