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NewsRevealed: The 35 trusts looking to replace their electronic patient records
Nearly 40 trusts are considering launching procurements for new electronic patient records amid a national push to improve trusts’ digital maturity.
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NewsTrust chief leaves NHSE role
A provider chief also serving as an NHS England director is returning to his trust full time, with another NHSE director taking over his responsibilities.
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News‘Life threatening’ risk to clinically vulnerable after firms disconnect energy supply, warns NHS chief
A senior NHS leader has warned of a “life-threatening” situation in which clinically vulnerable people are being admitted to hospital after having their energy supplies disconnected.
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NewsControversial trust merger abandoned
A planned merger between a South Coast mega trust and its much smaller neighbour has been abandoned.
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NewsExclusive: Government extends pension tax bills deadline
The government is extending the deadline for NHS staff to apply for their pension tax bills to be taken out of their pension fund as opposed to paying it upfront, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTrust aims to move on from governance failures and ‘massive societal tension’
Leaders of a mental health trust say they are making progress to address multiple concerns over corporate governance, and moving on from the ‘massive societal tension’ around one of their key services.
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NewsHospital CEOs will get ‘fair’ treatment over ambulance delays, says Barclay
Health secretary Steve Barclay says trust chief executives should be held accountable for ambulance handover delays in a ‘fair’ way that recognises factors outside their control.
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News£300m reconfiguration gets go-ahead after decade delay
Plans for a much-delayed service overhaul in one of the country’s most troubled systems have won national approval, though questions remain over how crucial service improvements will be funded.
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News‘Complete’ recruitment freeze ordered at NHSE and CQC
The health secretary has told NHS England, the Care Quality Commission, and other national agencies to implement a freeze on almost all recruitment.
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NewsNHSE: We’ve not done enough to engage trusts in plans for £360m data store
NHS England has failed to adequately engage trusts in plans for a controversial new £360m data-sharing project, its data chief has admitted - though she said procurement rules were partly to blame.
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NewsTrust CEOs lead judging panel for HSJ supplier awards
Two of the NHS’s foremost trust chief executives lead the 50-strong judging panel in this year’s HSJ Partnership Awards.
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NewsPatients fit for discharge stuck in hospital for up to nine months
Medically fit patients are waiting up to nine months to be discharged from some NHS hospitals as increasing numbers of working age people develop more complex conditions amid ongoing social care shortages.
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News‘Emergency’ pension rule changes extended to help NHS cope with winter
The government is planning to extend measures introduced during the coronavirus pandemic which relaxed the pension rules for staff who ‘retire and return’.
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NewsRevealed: Only two ICSs seeing more elective inpatient activity than pre-covid
Providers in just two integrated care systems carried out more inpatient elective procedures in the first quarter of this year than before the covid pandemic, HSJ analysis of official data has revealed.
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NewsStaff shortages force most trusts to suspend NHSE maternity care model
More than two-thirds of trusts have been forced to suspend or pause a high-profile service improvement aimed at reducing neonatal and maternal deaths, because of widespread staffing shortages.
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News‘Cut consultancy spend’ Barclay tells NHSE
Ministers have told NHS England and other national bodies to urgently cut their spending on management consultancy services by at least a fifth.
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NewsLeaked report shows ‘long-standing’ bullying and discrimination within national agency
Internal documents show significant evidence of bullying and discrimination within NHS Blood and Transplant which dates back at least eight years, when the organisation was led by the current chief executive of the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsNHS scraps plan to merge national HR and finance systems
The NHS has tendered a £1.7bn contract for a new national workforce management system, in what amounts to a downgrading of previous ambitious plans to create a new HR and finance platform.
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NewsFormer chief inspector set to chair safety watchdog
The former chief inspector of hospitals has been named the government’s preferred candidate to chair the Health Services Safety Investigations Body.
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NewsGovt to add trusts with unsafe roofs to ‘40 new hospitals’ programme
Several trusts with dangerous structural planks are set to be selected for the government’s flagship hospital building programme, HSJ has learned.