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NHSE spent £75m reducing its workforce in 2022-23
NHS England agreed 951 voluntary redundancies or early retirements in 2022-23 at the cost of around £75m, as it began dramatically reducing the size of the organisation, its annual accounts show.
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ICB seeks new transport provider after discharge concerns
An integrated care board is procuring a new supplier of non-emergency patient transport services after its previous contract was cancelled early following a dispute.
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Consultants narrowly reject pay offer
Consultant doctors have narrowly rejected the pay offer from government in a ballot.
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DHSC censured for letting trusts keep extra £1bn
National leaders have been censured for allowing NHS trusts to retain £1bn of incentive funding, despite key elective care targets being missed.
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Under-pressure regions report a third of posts vacant
One in three speech and language therapy posts are unfilled in some regions, according to new findings shared with HSJ.
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NHSE reverses plan to cut beds in new hospitals
NHS England has reversed a plan to cut bed numbers in the programme to build 40 “new hospitals”, HSJ understands.
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NHSE drive on follow-ups only delivers marginal reduction
NHS England’s drive to encourage patient-initiated appointments is only having a marginal impact on reducing overall outpatient follow-ups, a major study suggests.
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Discharging patients to virtual ward led to near-doubling of costs, study finds
Researchers have found the cost impact of discharging patients to a virtual ward was almost double that of traditional inpatient care.
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Chair quits after trust admits £90m deficit
The chair of a major teaching hospital trust has quit after the organisation saw its deficit double in size.
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Exclusive: DHSC caught on ‘back foot’ by ‘confused’ visa clampdown
Department of Health and Social Care officials described the announcement of a visa clampdown for health and care workers as “confused at best” and said they were pushing the Home Office to clarify its position, internal emails show.
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ICB maternity plan risks increasing deaths, senior medics claim
The medical leaders of the maternity unit of a flagship hospital threatened with closure have written to their chief executive saying the downgrade would not be safe, HSJ has learned.
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£100m pathology contract outsourced by London acute
A north London acute is outsourcing its pathology services to a public-private partnership in a deal worth £105m.
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Trust’s leadership rating cut from ‘outstanding’ to ‘inadequate’ amid nepotism claims
A major hospital trust’s leadership rating has dropped from “outstanding” to “inadequate” after staff described a culture of “nepotism” where bullying was “commonplace”.
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NHSE ‘tiger teams’ deployed to support tech rollouts
NHS England has announced plans to procure expert “Tiger Teams” to support the delivery of electronic patient records in provider organisations in a contract worth £16m.
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Half of covid ICU kit stockpile to be auctioned off
The government hopes to sell nearly half the intensive care equipment in the strategic pandemic reserve in the next few weeks, HSJ has learned.
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Trusts ‘pause’ merger of exec teams
Two hospital trusts with a combined turnover of nearly £3bn have “paused” plans to merge their executive director teams.
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ICS says government must act on ‘crisis’ in children’s services
An integrated care system has called on government to provide adequate funding to deal with a “crisis” in children’s services.
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Regional managers ‘scapegoated’ in ‘shambolic’ handling of racism report
An NHS agency refused to publicly apologise to two managers despite widespread doubts over the accuracy of a published report that accused them of presiding over “systemic racism”.
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Theatre staff 'deliberately slow down' operations, review finds
Theatre staff at a major hospital “deliberately slowed down” to limit the number of operations that could be done each day, an NHS England review has been told.
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Managers face axe at under-pressure trust
A trust grappling with an “inadequate” rating at its high-profile high secure hospital has begun a major management restructure expected to include redundancies, HSJ has learned.