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NewsPrivate providers’ NHS revenues booming as waiting lists increase
Two private companies used by the NHS to carry out ADHD and autism assessments have seen another huge increase in income, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHSE launches programme to enable ‘patient power payments’
Work has begun to create a new national feedback system to support the government’s proposed “patient power payments”, which would see individual members of the public able to affect how much money providers and commissioners receive for treating them.
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NewsNHS manager facing bribery charge found dead
An NHS manager at a prestigious London teaching hospital was found dead by police after bribery charges were brought against him.
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NewsAcute trust CEO to lead GP-owned provider
A retiring acute trust chief executive has been appointed the CEO of a community provider seen as a frontrunner to pioneer the government’s vision of a neighbourhood health service.
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News‘Extra appointments’ celebrated by govt deliver ‘modest impact’ on waiting lists
The “4.6 million extra NHS appointments” championed by the prime minister and health secretary have only had a “modest impact” on reducing waiting list clock stops, a vital part of cutting the NHS’s elective care backlog, according to new analysis shared exclusively with HSJ.
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NewsFirst ICB ‘pauses’ redundancy plans over funding concerns
An integrated care board says it will not progress a redundancy scheme needed to halve its operating costs in the current financial year because it cannot be sure how it will be paid for.
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NewsTroubled trust sees CEO and deputy announce departure within two weeks
One of the NHS’s largest teaching trusts has announced its deputy chief executive is moving on, just two weeks after its CEO revealed he was retiring.
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NewsLetby trust issued ‘warning notice’ after failure to improve
Countess of Chester Hospital Foundation Trust has been issued a “warning notice” by the Care Quality Commission for failing to improve its urgent and emergency services.
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NewsExclusive: Epic set to earn £3m a year from NHS use of its app
US IT giant Epic is on course to earn more than £3m a year from downloads of its MyChart app, which is included in the suite of products offered by its increasingly popular electronic patient record, HSJ research has discovered.
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NewsOut of court settlement in £4.4bn procurement challenge
The NHS has settled a £4.4bn procurement challenge out of court, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHS must be seen as just one part of health ‘ecosystem’, says Milburn
The “big change” ushered in by the 10-Year Health Plan will be to shift the view that healthcare in England is synonymous with “a single institution we happen to call the National Health Service”, according to government adviser and former health secretary Alan Milburn.
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NewsInterim CEO appointment latest in regional chain of secondments
A north east trust has seconded a chief operating officer from a neighbouring provider to be its interim CEO after the incumbent was transferred to temporarily run a third provider, following the move of its chief executive to a fourth trust, also on an interim basis.
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NewsRoyal college defends NHS treatment of Palestinian children
A royal college has defended the use of NHS facilities to treat Palestinian children evacuated from Gaza.
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NewsExclusive: ‘Unjust’ NHS ethnic pay gap to be reviewed
A long-awaited review into “unjust and unfair” pay disparities between white and minority ethnic staff across the NHS has been launched.
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NewsWe will no longer tolerate ‘negative behaviours’, pledges ICB
An integrated care board has apologised to staff and pledged to no longer tolerate a range of “negative behaviours” identified by a report into the organisation’s culture.
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NewsICB predicts 400 staff will get £100k redundancy payouts
Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board has proposed shedding up to 400 posts via a voluntary redundancy scheme costing more than £40m.
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NewsIVF postcode lottery intensifies as ICBs cut costs
At least four more integrated care boards are planning to cut IVF services in a move that would further shrink access to NHS fertility treatment across the country.
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NewsPrivate provider’s NHS income up 16%
Spire Healthcare’s NHS revenue surged by 16 per cent in the six months to June, driven by an increase in “high complexity” orthopaedic work, according to its accounts.
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NewsICBs’ bill for post-discharge care rockets to £900m
Integrated care boards’ spend on post-discharge care for patients detained under the Mental Health Act has rocketed by 42 per cent in two years to total nearly £1bn, according to figures obtained by HSJ.
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NewsAnnual bill for NHS’s most costly drug set to be slashed
The annual cost of NHS diabetes care could fall by £300m after the Supreme Court refused to consider blocking the introduction of a generic alternative to a widely used drug.