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NewsThird health minister returns in Sunak reshuffle
A third former minister in the Department of Health and Social Care has returned to the department, as part of Rishi Sunak’s government reshuffle.
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NewsPromoting progress while pushing for more
Black, Asian, and minority ethnic leaders make an amazing contribution to health and care but, in my view, this is not recognised or celebrated enough. I was therefore delighted to be asked to chair the judging panel for HSJ’s 2022 list of the 50 most influential Black, Asian and minority ...
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NewsThe 50 most influential Black, Asian and minority ethnic people in health: The judges
The judges for 2022’s list of healthcare’s 50 most influential Black and minority ethnic leaders
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NewsThe 50 most influential Black, Asian and minority ethnic people in health: Full list
Here are the 50 Black, Asian and minority ethnic figures who will exercise the most power and/or influence in the English NHS and health policy over the next 12 months
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NewsStruggling trusts’ CEOs must ‘self certify’ to NHS England
Bosses at struggling trusts must sign new commitments to national leaders about how they are approaching the task of clearing their elective and cancer backlogs, under a new protocol drawn up by NHS England.
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NewsNHS lacks councils’ ‘financial discipline’, warns ICS chair
An integrated care partnership chair has criticised NHS England for requiring systems to work to “meaningless” indicators, adding he is worried health organisations lack financial discipline.
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NewsBarclay back as health secretary
Steve Barclay has again been appointed as health and social care secretary, after Therese Coffey was moved to another cabinet post.
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News‘People breaking’ as procurement now harder than covid peak
NHS procurement is “arguably in a worse state” than during the covid pandemic, as teams grapple with rationing of thousands of products, ballooning inflation, staff burnout and demands for further cost savings.
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NewsWinners of HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2022 revealed
More than 900 invitees converged on Manchester Central last night to find out which projects would emerge winners in the latest edition of our Patient Safety Awards.
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NewsCEOs ‘risk becoming prisoners’ in trusts with poor culture
Trust chief executives risk becoming “prisoners” of organisations with poor cultures if they do not “step back and see the bigger picture”, a former chief inspector of hospitals has said.
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NewsNHS to face unprecedented funding squeeze to 2025
The NHS in England is set to face a multiyear funding squeeze for the first time since the 1950s, new figures have revealed.
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NewsRevealed: Racism a ‘very serious problem’ at NHS agency
The troubled agency that supplies blood to the NHS has a ’very serious problem’ with racism, a staff survey has revealed.
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NewsExclusive: ‘Uncomfortable’ A&E model could be rolled out nationally
A patient flow model which involves moving A&E patients to wards “irrespective” of whether there are beds available, is under review for wider rollout by NHS England and is being endorsed by senior clinicians, despite safety fears, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England and NHS Digital merger to be brought forward, orders Coffey
NHS England’s merger with NHS Digital will be brought forward after new instructions were issued by Therese Coffey, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHSE agrees day rates of up to £1,600 for consultants and temporary managers
NHS England has approved two in three requests for trusts to bring in temporary ’very senior managers’ and consultants on daily rates of up to £1,600.
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NewsCQC taking ‘regulatory action’ against every fourth service it inspects
A quarter of high-risk services the Care Quality Commission has recently inspected required enforcement action from the regulator, its chief executive has revealed.
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NewsScandal trust leaders ‘engaged in ritual of denial’
Senior trust leaders “engaged in a repeated ritual of defence and denial” as they presided over one of the NHS’s largest ever care scandals, its chair admitted today.
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NewsNHS facing £70m tax bill after legal challenge on car parking charges fails
NHS organisations look set to lose out on £70m, after a court ruled a trust could not reclaim VAT on its car parking fees from HMRC.
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NewsNew national incident reporting system delayed amid fears of patient safety ‘disaster’
The deadline for the NHS to move to a new system for safety incident reporting has been delayed after widespread concerns the rollout could be a ‘disaster’.