News – Page 24
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in September 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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NewsFresh inquiry ordered into death after reports are rejected
NHS England has ordered a new independent investigation into the death of an autistic man nearly 10 years ago, after a previous report was effectively quashed.
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NewsThink tanker joins 10-year plan team
A think-tank lead who has supported phasing out the GP contract has joined the government’s team developing the 10-year plan.
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NewsC difficile rates hit 13-year high
C difficile cases rose to their highest level in more than a decade, official data published this month shows.
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NewsOperational management is ‘biggest thing missing from NHS’, says ICB chair
Operational management is the “biggest thing missing” from the NHS, an influential integrated care board chair has said.
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NewsDefence chief joins new hospital programme
A new director has joined the top team behind the major programme to build “new hospitals” across England.
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NewsFinance director replaces long-serving CEO
A trust whose long-serving chief executive left to become an NHS England regional director has appointed her successor.
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NewsLeadership diversity 'can help close child mortality gap'
The lack of diversity in NHS leadership is a contributor to ongoing higher maternal and infant mortality among some minority ethnic groups, experts have warned.
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NewsTrust abandons £65m EPR procurement after legal challenge
Trust in the North West reverses decision to award EPR contract to its preferred bidder after a legal challenge Says it abandoned the procurement rather than face cost and disruption of litigation It has yet to decide how it will proceed with procuring a new EPR An NHS ...
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NewsAcute chair and CEO take over at community provider
The chief executive and chair of a North West acute trust are taking over a neighbouring community provider, the organisations have confirmed.
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NewsHospital porters to strike over ‘diabolical’ treatment by trust
Hospital porters at an acute trust are set to strike over what a union has called “diabolical” treatment.
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NewsUnnecessary training wastes 100,000 days a year, says NHSE
Unnecessary “mandatory training” is wasting more than 100,000 days of NHS staff time every year, NHS England estimates.
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NewsThirteen ICSs now in deficit turnaround
Another integrated care system has been ordered to bring in consultants to fix its finances, meaning close to a third of the 42 systems are now in mandatory escalation over their finances.
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NewsEnd GP partnership model to help A&E waits, says NHSE lead
The NHS needs to take more “radical” steps to improve emergency care waiting times, including making primary care a salaried service, a senior national clinical lead has said.
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NewsTrusts given new target as elective milestone is missed
Trusts that missed a target to virtually eliminate 65-week elective waits by September have been given another three months, as NHS England confirmed it had failed to hit the milestone nationally.
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NewsI’ll slash targets and devolve power, says Streeting
Wes Streeting has vowed to end the NHS’s national “command and control” culture and slash targets for local NHS organisations in the next planning guidance, which he said would be “short”.
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NewsStreeting names and shames trust for ‘really poor’ care
The health and care secretary has singled out a trust for “really poor-quality care,” just moments after he said he was “not in the business of public humiliation.”
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NewsRevealed: 75% of worst trusts had leaders replaced in past two years
Three out of four of the worst-performing trusts have seen their CEO and/or chair replaced in the last two years, HSJ analysis shows, following Wes Streeting’s vow to “sack” more bad leaders.
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News‘Persistently failing managers will be sacked’, says Streeting
Wes Streeting wants NHS England to step up intervention in under-performing NHS organisations, and give greater flexibility to strong performers – including over capital investment, he will say today.
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NewsPerformance management role stripped from ICBs
NHS England — not integrated care boards — will be solely responsible for the performance management of trusts, the chief executive of NHSE has announced.