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NewsToo much emphasis placed on CEO ‘success or failure’ says new chief
A chief executive of a major acute trust has said much of the ‘emphasis’ placed on CEOs represents an ‘outdated model of leadership’.
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News'Tougher ambition' for cancer diagnoses set by NHSE
A ‘tougher ambition’ to increase the proportion of patients getting a cancer diagnosis within 28 days of referral will be introduced in 2025, NHS England has announced today.
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NewsStaff ‘let down by leaders’ as ‘chaotic’ service gets double downgrade
A teaching trust has had its maternity services downgraded to ‘inadequate’ after inspectors found stillbirths and massive haemorrhages were not being treated as ‘serious incidents’.
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News‘Warts and all’ references for NHS leaders ‘may be attacked’
NHS England could have gone further to insist that errors and failures by senior NHS leaders are disclosed to future employers, according to the leading barrister who reviewed the NHS’s fit and proper person test.
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NewsNHSE chief officer takes role in Singapore
The NHS’s first chief sustainability officer Nick Watts has stepped back from the role after nearly three years, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHSE reveals ‘two tier’ intervention regime for ICSs
Failing integrated care boards can commit to improving before NHS England formally intervenes, according to new ‘enforcement guidance’ set out by the regulator.
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NewsMinisters name 30 trusts receiving share of £250m fund
Ministers have named the 30 trusts which will receive a share of a £250m fund to increase urgent and emergency care capacity.
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NewsExclusive: Hancock denies political motive for inclusion of ‘Red Wall’ project in new hospital programme
A building project in a marginal constituency was added to the government’s ‘40 new hospitals’ programme despite not being on the longlist of schemes proposed by NHS England.
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NewsUS firm gets green light for £1.2bn takeover of UK GP tech giant
American health giant UnitedHealth has provisionally been given the go-ahead to buy UK-based firm EMIS – the leading supplier of GP IT systems – by the Competition and Markets Authority in a deal worth £1.2bn.
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NewsMost cancer targets set to be scrapped
NHS England is expected to confirm plans consulted on last year to cut several cancer targets, including the two-week target for urgent appointments.
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NewsTrusts still seeking compensation a year after cyber attack
Two trusts remain in discussions with a tech firm over financial compensation a year after a cyber attack left them without access to patient records for months.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in June 2023, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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News‘Very targeted’ redundancies planned at NHS England
NHS England has said any further voluntary redundancies as part of its restructure will be offered in a “very targeted way”, as it has already seen many departures and needs to “protect public money and keep people in employment”.
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NewsHSJ Awards shortlist revealed
The shortlist for the 2023 HSJ Awards – including the six providers vying to be “trust of the year” – was announced today.
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NewsStrike exemption requests not approved despite staffing concerns
Updated: Several trusts’ requests for exemptions from junior doctors’ strike actions — citing difficulties securing enough shifts to safely staff services — were not approved, and in one case withdrawn by the British Medical Association.
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NewsTrust takeover of practices is ‘giving GPs more time’
A management takeover of nine general practices by a hospital trust has freed up GPs’ time so they are “seeing more patients than before”, a clinical leader has said, but also warned it would not work as a “blanket approach”.
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NewsTrust CEO to retire after four decades in the NHS
A long-serving trust chief executive has announced she will retire in April after 41 years in the NHS.
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NewsTrust sacks seven staff over ‘sexual behaviour’
An ambulance trust saw a sharp rise in complaints – and has dismissed seven staff – after overhauling its complaints process, and encouraging people to speak up about sexual behaviour.
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NewsTrust’s claim against councils thrown out by judge
A judge has sided with three councils and dismissed an acute trust’s legal challenge in a row over payments to offset demand pressure from thousands of new homes.
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NewsICSs warned over free drug deals
Integrated care systems have been warned against signing deals with pharma companies offering medicines free-of-charge in order to access the market before they are properly assessed or commissioned.