News – Page 192
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NewsTrust CEOs vent frustration at being unable to warn about threat posed by 19 July unlock
Three trust chief executives have told HSJ that NHS England has refused to let them discuss the lifting of covid restrictions on 19 July in the national media.
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NewsDaily Insight: Building expectations
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsNHS hospital building chief to leave after 15 months
NHS England’s director for the ‘40 new hospitals’ programme will leave his position at the end of this year, 15 months after being appointed.
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NewsShake-up of ‘new hospitals’ project after construction capacity concerns
The official leading the government’s flagship hospital building programme has admitted ‘the brakes have come on’ for some of the frontrunner projects, with some having to revisit their designs due to new requirements.
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NewsDaily Insight: Care conversations are key
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsTrust lost more than £360k over cancelled music festival
An NHS trust lost more than £360,000 after a music festival organised through a company owned by the trust was cancelled due to poor ticket sales.
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NewsAcute trust forced to cancel electives after covid surge
A major trust in the North East has started cancelling elective operations after a surge in covid and other urgent and emergency patients.
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NewsTrust bids for settlement in landmark NHS employment case
A high-profile employment case has been postponed as the trust and staff members involved try to reach a settlement.
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News'Inappropriate behaviour' toward trainees contributes to decision to cut education funds
An ambulance trust has lost funding for hundreds of trainees after a watchdog found it had been slow in addressing safety concerns and inappropriate behaviour.
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NewsTalk to patients about end of life care and save £500m, NHS told
The NHS could save more than £500m a year if patients and clinicians had better quality conversations about care plans, a major review has found.
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News‘I've never had a conversation like this in 30 years as an NHS CEO’
A dozen NHS trust chief executives came together to explore how leading a trust through the NHS’ greatest emergency had affected them on a personal level. By Alastair McLellan
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NewsDaily Insight: The big (m)ask
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsCovid vaccine centres nearly empty as young people shun jab
Covid vaccinations centres across the country are operating at around 30 per cent capacity as fewer young people are coming forward for their jab, according to a chief nursing officer.
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NewsTrusts to remind public they must wear masks after 19 July
Multiple trusts are planning to tell the public they must comply with current covid infection control measures, such as mask wearing, beyond 19 July when they visit NHS premises, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsHospitals allowing staff to avoid self-isolation instructions from app
Trusts in the North East region have told staff identified as close contacts of positive covid-19 cases they can continue working if they take daily tests.
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NewsPast and present NHS cancer leads at odds over progress on early diagnosis
The NHS’s former cancer tsar has disagreed with the claim of the incumbent national clinical lead that the service is on track to meet its goal of significantly improving earlier diagnosis of the condition in the next seven years.
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NewsNightingale deaths lead to warning over ‘confusion’ around ventilator equipment
Two patients died while being treated at London’s Nightingale Hospital amid what a coroner has described as ‘widespread confusion’ around some of the equipment used for ventilation machines.
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NewsDaily Insight: Taking the pitch
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsExclusive: Children six times more likely to be restrained than adults
Children in mental health units are almost six times more likely to be restrained compared to adults, according to the findings of an unpublished NHS England review.
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NewsNHSE accused of shifting ‘the entire pitch’ on elective care recovery funding
Local systems will need to carry out more planned procedures to receive cash from the elective recovery fund following NHS England and Improvement’s decision to increase the activity thresholds required.