All News articles – Page 36
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NewsNational standard needed for community services investment
The new government must ensure that community as well as primary care receives more funding if it is to honour its pledge to shift the balance of resources away from hospitals, a leading trust CEO has warned.
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NewsTrust seeks more income to shore up planned cancer centre
A trust’s £750m redevelopment project is facing an “affordability challenge”, raising questions over a proposed new cancer centre.
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NewsGPs vote overwhelmingly for collective action
GPs have voted overwhelmingly to take collective action from today following a dispute over the 2024-25 contract, the British Medical Association has announced.
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NewsStreeting orders ‘emergency measure’ to avert doctor unemployment
Concerns that many GPs completing their training this summer could be left without a job has forced government to release an extra £82m to pay for their employment.
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NewsHospitals could see 10% hike in referrals under GP action
Some areas could receive at least 10 per cent more referrals — “crippling” their attempts at elective recovery — if all GP practices stopped diverting some patients with “specialist advice and guidance”, HSJ analysis shows.
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NewsRevealed: ICSs planning the largest deficits
The integrated care systems facing the biggest planned deficits in the year ahead are today revealed by HSJ research.
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NewsNHSE U-turn mandates trust use of the FDP
NHS England has told trusts they must begin to use the national Federated Data Platform and its analytic products within two years, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsTrust nears annual deficit in three months
A hospital trust has almost reached its planned year-end deficit, within just three months of the financial year.
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NewsCEO ‘exodus’ threatens NHS, ministers told
The NHS could face an “exodus” of chief executives within the next two years due to a retirement bulge and intense operational pressure, government pay advisers have warned.
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NewsFaster pay rises for Band 8 and 9s under new framework
Band 8 and 9 NHS staff would see quicker pay growth under proposals to be considered by the NHS Staff Council.
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News‘Business as usual’ declared for new hospital programme despite ministerial review
The New Hospital Programme is in “business as usual” mode and most of its projects will not face further delays, a source close to the programme has insisted, despite a government review announced today.
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NewsSenior managers to get 5% pay rise
Senior NHS managers will receive a 5 per cent pay rise this year, while Agenda for Change staff get 5.5 per cent and doctors 6 per cent, government has announced.
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NewsJunior doctors offered 22% rise in bid to settle dispute
The government has offered junior doctors a pay uplift worth around 20 per cent over two years to end their long-running industrial action.
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NewsOne in five ambulance trips could be avoided, trust finds
One in five ambulance trips could be avoided if community services were more readily available, according to a trust which has been a national outlier for long ambulance handovers.
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NewsCity’s trusts agree to joint committee after ICB intervention
Five trusts in the city with the most separate NHS providers have agreed to form a joint committee at the request of the region’s integrated care board.
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News‘Huge emotional toll on managers’ from employment tribunal delays
Managers and staff are suffering a “huge emotional toll” — while trusts are facing extra costs — due to very long delays to hold employment tribunals, HSJ has been told.
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News‘Noticeable lack’ of NHS experience contributed to CQC failings
The Care Quality Commission’s executive team has a “noticeable lack” of NHS experience, the author of a damning review into its failings has warned.
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News‘Take CQC ratings with a pinch of salt’ says Streeting
The health and social care secretary has ordered the Care Quality Commission to urgently qualify its current ratings, and warned they should be taken with a “pinch of salt”.
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NewsCancer treatment ‘biased against ethnic minorities’
A type of cancer treatment used in the NHS appears to be biased against non white European patients, research has found.
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NewsEleven ICSs warned of ‘significant concern’ about overspending
Around three quarters of England’s 42 integrated care systems have been unable to set balanced budgets for 2024-25, NHS England has revealed.