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Diagnostics performance slides despite NHSE hailing ‘record summer’
Performance on the NHS’s main diagnostic target has dropped back a year despite efforts to increase capacity and ramp up activity, figures published on Thursday show.
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NHSE director steps down to chair care scandal trust
An NHS England national director is stepping down to become chair of a mental health trust at the centre of a public inquiry.
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Top 10 trust served warning notice as quality ‘declines significantly’
A trust ranked in the top 10 of the government’s new provider league table for the mental health and community sector has been served with a warning notice after a Care Quality Commission inspection found multiple breaches of regulations.
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‘Let go of your egos’, national tech director tells NHS leaders
The “egos” of NHS leaders are slowing the service’s adoption of new technology, according to an NHS England director.
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NHSE delays radical changes to payment system
Radical changes proposed to the health service’s internal financial wiring will not take place in 2026-27, HSJ has learned.
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‘Wild West’ of AI suppliers face new NHSE checks
A new national registry for ambient voice technology providers to combat the “Wild West” of suppliers is due to launch this week, England’s national chief clinical information officer has announced.
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Comparing trusts on new productivity metric is misleading, experts warn
Recent productivity improvements will be hard to sustain in future years, experts have warned, as they said newly published NHS England data fails to show which trusts are the most productive.
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DHSC GP adviser steps down
Wes Streeting’s neighbourhood health and primary care lead is stepping down, after less than a year in the role and having recently launched an implementation programme.
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New head for innovation network
Ben Bridgewater has been appointed executive chair of the Health Innovation Network, the umbrella body for the 15 regional health innovation groups.
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Exclusive: National tech chief revealed
A former consultancy boss has been hired as the new interim director general for technology, digital and data at the Department of Health and Social Care, HSJ can reveal.
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Children’s unit to close over staffing and CQC concerns
A children’s mental health unit struggling with short staffing has been forced to close for several months, in the wake of a Care Quality Commission inspection.
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Streeting hires delivery adviser with no health experience
Wes Streeting is drafting in an education expert as his senior adviser on delivery, despite disagreements in his department about the role.
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Cuts to centre stopped under Labour
Two years of cuts to NHS England’s workforce came to an end under the first 12 months of the Labour government, despite ministers’ plans to cut the centre, figures show.
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13 trusts trial procurement process designed to ‘save billions’
Thirteen trusts are piloting a procurement system that places less emphasis on price.
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Confed and Providers agree merger
The boards of NHS Providers and the NHS Confederation have agreed “provisionally” to merge in April next year.
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Maternity units disrupted for nine months by IT fault
An IT fault has prevented several major maternity units in South London from properly storing foetal heart monitoring records for more than nine months, HSJ has learned.
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Former NHSE director to chair health alliance
Former NHS England chair Richard Meddings has been appointed to the same post at Birmingham Health Partners, an alliance of six of the city’s NHS trusts, two of its universities and the local health innovation network.
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Trust pays millions to settle dispute with property firm
A hospital trust has paid up to £34m to settle a long-standing property dispute with an asset management company registered in Guernsey.
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‘Informality’ among execs undermined ‘basic’ governance at trust
A trust with “an informality” among senior leadership has been criticised over “significant weaknesses” in management controls, including weak approvals for creating new senior posts.
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Government must remember ‘it’s not 2001’, cautions DHSC chief
The government must remember “it’s not 2001” as it puts increasing focus on the performance of individual NHS providers, one of the Department of Health and Social Care’s most senior figures has warned.