News – Page 85
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NewsNHS England comms chief to join TikTok
NHS England communications director James Lyons will leave this summer, HSJ understands.
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News‘Big four’ consultancy gets £9m deal to fix NHS procurement systems
The national procurement and logistics agency has signed a £9m contract with Deloitte to replace the ageing, complex and inflexible systems trusts use to order products.
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NewsBarclay: I’m fighting doctors’ pay demands for the sake of NHS staff
The government is resisting what it believes are inflationary pay demands from junior doctors for the sake of NHS staff, health and social care secretary Steve Barclay has told HSJ.
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News‘Outstanding’ trust names interim chief
East London Foundation Trust has named an interim chief executive, following the departure of her predecessor to lead its neighbour.
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NewsHospital threatened with loss of junior doctors over safety concerns
A struggling trust has been warned by regulators that it could see its junior doctors moved, after concerns about clinical supervision and safety at a hospital whose A&E closes at night.
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News‘Beginnings of safety culture’ emerging at ‘cover-up’ trust
An ambulance trust at the centre of an inquiry into alleged cover-ups has shown signs of improvement, according to the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsTrust CEOs decry ‘undeliverable’ and damaging financial plans
NHS trusts have committed to financial plans for 2023-34 without properly considering their consequences – with finance directors turning a blind eye to unrealistic forecasts under pressure from NHS England – some of the country’s top NHS chief executives have warned.
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News‘Insulting’ cut to staff support services confirmed by NHSE
NHS England has issued a ‘tokenistic’ and ‘insulting’ funding settlement for staff mental health and wellbeing hubs this year, which is not enough to provide proper support, HSJ has been told.
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NewsRedundancy pay cap ‘would hit ICB and national staff’, union warns
Integrated care board and national agency staff could be hit by government plans to cap redundancy payments at £100,000, as they are required to cut running costs, a union has warned.
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News‘No more hard-nosed landlord behaviour’, says PropCo chief
The chief executive of NHS Property Services has accepted it may still need to win some people over as it moves forward from its historic issues.
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NewsTrusts to award £500m pathology contract after legal challenge dropped
A pharma and diagnostics firm has dropped its bid to reverse a decision by three acute trusts to award a multimillion pound pathology contract to a competitor.
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NewsNHSE appoints two new directors
NHS England has appointed an interim chief dental officer, while a big pharma executive has been hired as its new commercial medicines director, it has announced.
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NewsTrust leaders using ‘aggressive tactics’ to ‘break’ strikes, BMA claims
The BMA has hit out at a trust after it emerged that striking junior doctors could ‘needlessly’ have eight days’ wages deducted from July’s pay, despite there being five days of strike action this month.
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NewsNHSE and government reprimanded for ‘selective reporting’ of cancer performance
NHS England and the government have been criticised for “selective reporting” of statistics by an influential Westminster committee.
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NewsPritchard vows action to increase trust CEO tenure
NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard said there had been higher turnover of trust chief executives during the ‘extremely hard’ recovery from the pandemic, and that actions were being taken to try to increase CEO tenure.
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NewsTwo consultancies received over £20m each from new hospitals programme
The bulk of consultancy spending by the government’s new hospitals programme has so far gone on two firms, HSJ has learned.
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NewsPatients face medicine shortages as private market buys up drugs
A critical year-long shortage of vital type 2 diabetes medicines is being driven partly by its demand as a weight loss aid, with figures suggesting more than half the prescribing for one drug is through the private market, HSJ has learned.
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News£4bn contract to run NHS logistics out to tender
The procurement for a new national logistics provider has started, with NHS Supply Chain looking to sign a deal with a firm worth up to £4.4bn and potentially running for nearly 12 years.
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NewsMinisters refuse to set target for ending maternal deaths disparity
The government has rejected calls to set a target and strategy to end ‘appalling’ disparities in maternal deaths.
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NewsNHS England seeks CEO and chair for ‘national improvement board’
NHS England has begun recruiting for leadership roles – including a chief executive – for its recently announced national improvement board.