All News articles – Page 163
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NewsTrust fined £2.5m after deaths of two patients
An acute trust has been fined £2.5m after pleading guilty to charges of failing to provide safe care after the deaths of two patients.
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NewsNew rules for ICS boards spark serious concerns
The government is being warned that a new rule governing who can sit on integrated care system boards could have damaging ‘unintended consequences’.
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NewsRevealed: HSJ awards ICS of the year
West Yorkshire and Harrogate has won integrated care system of the year at the HSJ Awards 2021.
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NewsRevealed: Winners of HSJ Awards 2021
Source: HSJ HSJ Awards ceremony 2021, Evolution London Around 1,600 people converged on London’s Evolution centre last night as the HSJ Awards marked the incredible contribution of NHS staff in the health service’s toughest year ever.
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NewsExclusive: Watchdog says new hospital building programme is ‘unachievable’
A government infrastructure watchdog has raised serious concerns about the lack of progress made to build ‘40 new hospitals’ by 2030, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHSE pushing for four-hour target to be scrapped in April
System leaders are pushing for their new bundle of urgent and emergency standards to replace the four-hour target from April, HSJ has learned
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NewsGovernment drops requirement to publish GP pay
The government has further delayed a requirement for publication of the NHS earnings of individual GPs, citing winter pressures, HSJ has been told.
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NewsTrust spent £2.1m on extra covid beds plan axed after two weeks
A trust had to pay £2.1m to a company it had hired to set up temporary beds at the peak of the first covid wave, despite cancelling the order two weeks later. East London trust pays £2.1m to company after extra covid beds plan scrapped London’s barely used Nightingale ...
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NewsJavid: Structure of NHS digital leadership ‘odd’
Sajid Javid has described the way digital technology is led in the NHS as ‘odd’, as the health service awaits the publication of a long-delayed review on the topic.
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NewsNHS to pay for care staff bonuses this winter
Clinical commissioning groups in Staffordshire have announced they will put almost £3m into recruiting and retaining care staff over winter, including retention bonuses.
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NewsExclusive: Health Education England to be merged into NHSE
Health Education England is to be incorporated into NHS England by April 2023, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTrust plans to directly employ 500 outsourced staff
Around 500 outsourced staff are to be directly employed by an ambulance trust in a bid to integrate them with crews.
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NewsTrusts face uncosted £4m rise in energy bills
Some NHS trusts are reporting huge hikes to their gas and electricity bills, with finance chiefs expecting increases of up to £4m in this financial year.
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NewsAnother ambulance service declares critical incident after IT outage
An ambulance provider has declared a critical incident after suffering significant IT issues – the second ambulance trust to have done so in as many weeks.
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NewsChief investigator announces retirement
The first chief investigator of the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch has announced his retirement.
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NewsNHS trouble-shooter appointed chair of trust where governors are resisting merger
One of England’s smallest trusts – which is in dispute with its governors over an impending merger – has appointed a new chair.
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NewsRevealed: the ICSs given the highest and lowest ratings by NHS England
Only one integrated care system, but 32 provider trusts, have been deemed ‘consistently high performing’ by NHS England under its new regulatory regime.
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NewsMessenger review could ‘set NHS leaders up to fail’, Javid warned
A government-commissioned review of NHS management could turn into a ‘blame game’ with leaders ‘set up to fail [against] unrealistic expectations’, NHS Providers chief Chris Hopson has warned.
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NewsTrusts with huge drops in A&E performance cite ‘aged’ and ‘outdated’ hospitals
Several hospital trusts whose A&E performance was in the top half of trusts last summer have seen the biggest drops this year, with some of them citing out-of-date buildings as a major reason.
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News160,000 risk harm each year from ambulance handover delays
Ambulance handover delays could harm 160,000 patients a year, 12,000 of them severely, according to a structured clinical review of cases by service bosses earlier this year.