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NewsAmbulance trust to hand back key NHS 111 contract
An ambulance trust which took on running NHS 111 services to provide consistent care quality is handing back a major contract for the service.
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NewsNHSE director accuses Sunak and Truss of ‘silence’ on mental health waits
NHS England’s national director for mental health has warned the “silence is deafening” from Conservative leadership candidates over the treatment backlog for mental healthcare.
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NewsTurnaround CEO quits trust to join health tech firm
A chief executive who led one of the country’s most challenged trusts out of special measures is leaving to join a health technology company.
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NewsPritchard’s NHSE different in ‘tone, intent and accessibility’, say top CEOs
NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard has been praised for transforming the organisation’s relationship with local leaders by the NHS’s most highly regarded chief executives.
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News‘Don’t try to do our jobs’, trust CEOs warn ICSs
The NHS’s leading provider chief executives have cautioned newly established integrated care systems against over-reaching themselves.
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NewsNHS England ‘hasn’t got long’ to develop ‘operating model’ for system working
NHS England and local leaders must urgently develop a coherent ‘operating model’ for the era of integrated care systems or see the reforms fail, leading trust chief executives have told HSJ.
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News‘We are presiding over a failing NHS,’ say leading trust CEOs
A lack of accountability is causing the quality of NHS services to crumble, according to some of the most respected trust chief executives.
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NewsICS chief agrees to pay back covid bonus
The chief executive of an integrated care board will return a bonus paid for her ‘response and management’ of the pandemic, following enquiries by HSJ about the payment.
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NewsTrust's IT still down days after heatwave crash
IT systems at England’s biggest trust are still down, two days after extreme heat caused a shut-down in its servers.
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NewsTrust chief steps down after 17 years
One of England’s longest-serving ambulance chief executives is to step down next year.
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NewsTrust defends research work after 'half hospital, half science lab’ claims
The medical director of a prestigious teaching hospital has said innovation must not come at the cost of safe care, after an external review highlighted concerns about the trust’s research culture.
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NewsCEOs could get £30,000 bonus for joining troubled trusts
Senior managers could be paid one-off bonuses to take over the most troubled NHS organisations, according to draft proposals being considered by government and NHS England.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE appoints joint equality lead
NHS England has appointed a major trust’s chief people officer as its new joint director of equality, diversity and inclusion, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHSE tries to put £2.3bn cap on agency staff spend
NHS England is introducing a new ceiling on the amount spent within each integrated care system on agency staff — cutting it by at least 10 per cent in each area in one year — as part of a drive to find further savings across the health service.
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NewsRevealed: The trusts with toughest challenge to hit next elective target
The NHS will struggle to meet its pledge to eliminate 78-week breaches by March 2023, senior figures have warned, as an HSJ analysis lays bare the challenge of delivering the service’s next major elective recovery milestone.
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News‘Final straw’ as band 8 and 9 staff get ‘disgusting’ pay rise
WORKFORCE ‘Final straw’ as band 8 and 9 staff get ‘disgusting’ pay riseWORKFORCE ‘Final straw’ as band 8 and 9 staff get ‘disgusting’ pay rise Senior NHS staff on Agenda for Change pay bands 8 and 9 will receive much lower pay rises than those given to the majority of ...
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NewsNHS ‘shouting into the void’ with covid concerns
NHS leaders have sometimes been “shouting into the void” about their fears of the health service being overwhelmed by covid because of the absence of a single national command centre for the pandemic response, a new report argues.
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NewsGovernment U-turns on pay for top managers
Very senior NHS managers will receive a 3 per cent pay increase after the government accepted the recommendations of the senior salaries review board, which found “well-founded concerns about possible loss of leadership capacity”.
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NewsUpdated: NHSE confirms £2bn extra pay bill will dent investment
Investment in diagnostics and new technology will be hit by the government’s decision to increase NHS pay above the 3 per cent budgeted for 2022-23, NHS England has said.
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NewsExclusive: Department of Health pays £2.2m for covid inquiry legal advice
The Department of Health and Social Care has brought in external legal support to help it prepare for the independent public inquiry into the covid pandemic.