All News articles – Page 6
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News‘Online hospital’ to open in 2027, says PM
Plans for a new NHS “online hospital” service to deliver millions of appointments each year by “digitally connecting patients to specialist clinicians” are set to be unveiled by the prime minister today.
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NewsICB chief moves to lead neighbour
Two integrated care board chief executives have been confirmed in the South East, including one incumbent moving to lead their challenged neighbour.
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News‘Philosophical intent’ will guide new NHS workforce plan
The government’s 10-Year Workforce Plan will focus on “a philosophical intent of what roles we need” rather than “prescriptive numbers” on staffing requirements, a health minister has said.
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NewsCEO appointed at ICB cluster
An integrated care board “cluster” has named its chief executive, as decisions are finalised about leadership of the newly consolidated ICB landscape.
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NewsICB broke commissioning rules on £92m contract
An integrated care board broke commissioning regulations when trying to secure a contract for a system-wide mental health service, according to the independent oversight panel.
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NewsStreeting forces NHSE U-turn on subcos
NHS England has rowed back on its insistence that all trusts “have or use” wholly owned subsidiary companies to run ancillary services following intervention from the health and social care secretary.
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News‘Unacceptable’ cuts to bank and agency rates must be reversed, says BMA
Doctors are threatening action against coordinated moves in two areas to cut rates for extra-contractual work.
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NewsExclusive: Report delivers damning verdict on Labour’s ‘muddy’ health policy
The government’s health policy is incoherent, lacking in detail and under-resourced, a highly critical report by a leading think tank on Labour’s first year in power has concluded.
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NewsExclusive: Mackey’s trust gets league table upgrade after last-minute data correction
The trust led by NHS England chief executive Sir Jim Mackey was promoted from the third to the second “segment” of the new provider league table following a last-minute correction to one of the data points which underpin the rankings, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsGovernment steps in to ‘accelerate’ AI in the NHS
AI regulation will be clarified by a major commission to help the NHS and investors “accelerate uptake”, the government has announced.
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NewsStrikes to hit three trusts over SubCo plans
Workers at three trusts are set to strike over plans to outsource roles, with their union warning there will be national walkouts over SubCo plans.
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News‘Lack of curiosity’ contributed to stillbirths, review finds
An area with high stillbirth rates has found there were “significant” gaps in maternity care in more than one in five cases, in a newly published review.
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NewsPrototype of ‘fundamental’ national tech ‘by end of the year’
A prototype of the new single patient record (SPR) is expected by the “end of the year”, NHS England has said.
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News‘Fuzzy’ NHS management standards to be revised
The NHS’s first proposed skills framework for managers has too much “fuzzy language” and needs to be simplified, the NHS England board has decided.
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NewsExclusive: Dozens more private testing centres planned by government
The government and NHS England are gearing up to announce the opening of dozens more cancer testing centres – including a big expansion in those run outside the NHS, HSJ has learned.
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News‘Exceptionally strong personalities’ undermining trust’s board
The board of one of the country’s biggest teaching trusts has not been working as “cohesively as it should”, the care regulator has found, with concerns among senior leaders that some “exceptionally strong personalities” may have prevented robust scrutiny of decisions.
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NewsNational director: More money required to tackle ‘significant waits’
NHS England’s national director of learning disability and autism services has said more money is needed to tackle “significant” autism assessment waits.
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NewsMackey lines up ‘plan B’ for ICB restructure
The Treasury must agree funding for integrated care board redundancies within weeks or the NHS will have to turn to a “plan B”, Sir Jim Mackey has said.
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News‘Moral distress’ at trust’s ‘persistently underfunded’ neonates service
“Persistent underfunding” and staff shortages at a teaching trust’s neonatal service is likely to have harmed long-term development of newborn babies, an NHS England review has found.
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NewsTrust confirms death of its ‘remarkable’ chair
Tributes have been paid to a “remarkable” hospital trust chair following the announcement of his death.