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NewsExclusive: Urgent safety measure took three years to implement
A key national policy change recommended by the inquest which led to the East Kent maternity inquiry will not be implemented until next February – more than three years after it was called for by a coroner.
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News‘Urgent’ patients waiting up to 14 weeks to be seen
Epilepsy patients needing to be seen urgently are waiting up to 14 weeks – against guidance to see such patients within a fortnight – at a trust with a backlog of neurology referrals.
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NewsParamedics in ‘Mexican standoff’ with A&E staff after ‘unprecedented’ rule change
Angry exchanges between paramedics and A&E staff in Liverpool have broken out after new measures were deployed to hold and treat patients in the back of ambulances.
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NewsTrusts need hundreds of millions to stop hospitals’ roofs collapsing
Trusts need hundreds of millions of pounds to remediate dangerous roofs.
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NewsLeading teaching trust cut from national research programme
Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust has said it is ‘extremely disappointing’ it will lose a flagship research centre worth tens of millions of pounds, after failing an application process.
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NewsHunt: Tax will need to rise to fund health and care
Jeremy Hunt believes spending on the NHS will have to rise and that the increase should be funded through higher taxation.
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NewsCuts would cause ‘significant damage’, warns departing mental health leader
Slashing mental health funding when 9.6 million people are either waiting for treatment or at risk of developing more serious problems would be ‘extremely concerning’, Mind’s outgoing chief has told HSJ.
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News‘The money is a f**king nightmare’, says NHS England chief executive
Amanda Pritchard has told local NHS leaders the financial situation facing the health service is a ‘f**king nightmare’, but that it was being tackled at a national level and should not prevent them from improving performance.
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NewsNHS maintenance backlog tops £10bn
Spending on the NHS estate has increased at the fastest-rate since the service began collecting detailed data, new figures show.
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NewsNHS Digital leader to chair trust
NHS Digital’s chair has been appointed to the same role at a specialist trust.
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NewsMajority of providers in some ICSs to be performance managed by NHSE
Some integrated care boards will not hold the lead performance management role for a majority of their member trusts, under the centre’s new rules for regulating the service.
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NewsDeaths inquiry will exclude dozens of concerning cases, says whistleblower
An inquiry into alleged efforts to cover up care failings at an ambulance trust has been criticised by a key whistleblower for being too limited in scope.
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NewsTrust mergers need not deliver ‘step change’, says NHSE
NHS England has dropped plans to impose a strict test for trust mergers that would have required organisations to demonstrate a ‘step change’ in quality.
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News12-hour A&E waits soar to new record as waiting list hits 7m
Long waits in emergency departments spiralled to a new record high as the elective waiting list continued to grow, NHS England’s monthly performance data published today revealed.
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NewsHospitals to begin cancelling operations due to blood supply crisis
Operations are set to be cancelled after the first ever ‘amber alert’ was issued by the organisation that supplies blood to the NHS, according to internal messages seen by HSJ.
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NewsNHSE: Trusts pay ‘unwarranted price variations’ for energy
NHS England’s central commercial function is developing a “coherent category strategy for energy” to standardise trusts’ approach to energy and manage cost pressures in the face of continuing gas and electricity inflation.
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NewsFinance veteran swaps Bermuda for ICS in the red
A veteran finance leader is to return to the NHS next month, after a five-year stint working as chief finance officer of Bermuda’s hospital board.
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NewsNHSE plans 24-hour target for new hospital discharge service
NHS England is developing plans for a new universal ‘community recovery service’’ with a 24-hour target to provide ‘step down care’ once a patient is deemed ready to leave hospital, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsUpdated: IT failure disrupts patient care ‘at number of trusts’
An IT failure left clinicians at ‘a number of trusts’ which use the Cerner Millennium system unable to access patient records on Tuesday but was fixed overnight.