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NewsUse your ‘operational muscle’ to improve performance urges NHSE director
Commissioners and providers must get back their “operational process muscle” and use it to drive improvements to care, NHS England’s emergency care lead has told HSJ.
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News40% of funding targeted at improving emergency care goes unspent
Fourty per cent of the £150m capital funding pot NHS England made available to incentivise urgent and emergency care improvements was not distributed, data shown to HSJ reveals.
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News‘Outstanding’ trust appoints new CEO
East London Foundation Trust has announced that Lorraine Sunduza will be its new chief executive.
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NewsFirst test of new rules on competition finds against the NHS
The Independent Patient Choice and Procurement Panel has told the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board that it should re-start efforts to procure a mental health service as it has contravened new commissioning regulations.
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NewsDon’t sack CEOs over long A&E waits, warns NHSE deputy chair
The government should not seek to dismiss chief executives whose trusts fail to tackle long A&E waits.
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NewsNHSE reveals 10% productivity drop
Bosses at NHS England have suggested reduced discretionary efforts from staff could have contributed to hospitals being a tenth less productive than they were before the pandemic.
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NewsNHSE declares rationalisation is over after cutting 7,000 posts
NHS England has completed its restructure, reducing its workforce by 30 per cent, in what it says is “one of the largest public sector transformations in the UK”.
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NewsGPs to vote on ‘immediate’ industrial action
GPs will limit the number of appointments a day and refuse to carry out additional work if a ballot announced today by the British Medical Association is successful.
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NewsGovernment and junior doctors explore mediation to break ‘logjam’
Ministers and junior doctors have agreed to explore mediation in a move that could end months of strike action over pay.
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News‘Dangerous’ to rely on ringfenced inequalities funding, NHSE director warns
An NHS England lead has warned against ringfencing funding meant for systems to tackle health inequalities and has said it is “dangerous” for the NHS to get into a position where leaders only do something when told.
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NewsICSs where staffing has grown by a quarter revealed
The NHS increased its substantive workforce by around 18 per cent over the past four years, which was almost double the rate of increase over the previous period.
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News‘Decomposing bodies’ discovered at multiple hospitals
Bodies are being left to deteriorate and in some cases decompose in hospital mortuaries, often because of a lack of freezer space, HSJ has found.
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NewsEPR causing errors and delays two years after go-live
A trust is experiencing severe problems with its electronic patient record system two years after it was installed, HSJ research has revealed.
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NewsNurse wins staff shortages whistleblowing case
An NHS trust has lost an employment tribunal case against a nurse who had his shifts cancelled after whistleblowing when a patient was put in seclusion because of staff shortages.
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NewsNew crackdown on ICSs that ‘discourage’ referrals to private hospitals
NHS England will begin monitoring and benchmarking systems on the extent to which patients are given the option to be treated by a private provider.
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NewsLeaked NHSE review warns of ‘severe’ lack of nurses with digital skills
A leaked NHS England review has warned of a “severe shortage” of nurses and midwives with digital skills despite an ambition to deliver tech-enabled healthcare.
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NewsInterim hired after trust's sudden CEO departure
An interim chief executive has been appointed to run an acute trust whose previous CEO left suddenly in March.
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NewsA&Es not being overwhelmed by ‘low acuity’ patients, NHSE review finds
An NHS England review has found the proportion of ‘low acuity’ patients attending emergency departments is far smaller than expected.
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NewsSouth East gets biggest share of new trainees
Ministers have announced the locations of 350 additional medical training places for 2025–26, with the largest share going to the South East region.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in March 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.