News – Page 359
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NewsFive NHS Improvement directors step down
NHS Improvement has announced that five of its directors are stepping down, as the organisation combines its management with NHS England.
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NewsDaily Insight: Meet the new bosses
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsExclusive: Major incident as hospital waste collections halted
More than 20 NHS trusts must store clinical waste, including human remains, at their premises for up to a fortnight after their scandal-hit contractor stopped collecting waste last week, prompting a major incident.
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NewsMost CCGs failing to provide learning disability crisis support
New data suggests more than half of local commissioning areas are still failing to offer crisis services to patients with autism and learning disabilities, despite NHS England making this mandatory from 2019.
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NewsDaily Insight: We're gonna need a bigger storage cupboard
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsRevealed: The winners from £1bn government capital fund
The Department of Health and Social Care has confirmed the trusts and partnerships which will receive capital funding worth around £900m for building developments.
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NewsCCGs object to demand for GP at Hand payment
London commissioners have contested demands that they help pay for the escalating cost associated with GP at Hand, according to committee papers.
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NewsExclusive: Regulator may get powers to force FTs to merge
National officials are set to seek strengthened legal powers to force NHS providers to merge, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTeaching trust appoints new medical director
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed a new medical director, it has been announced.
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NewsMajor IT supplier pays out to NHS over misleading reports
England’s biggest supplier of GP IT has reached a multimillion pound settlement after the company admitted to providing misleading information about the quality of its service.
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NewsDaily Insight: We’re gonna need a bigger broom
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsPlans to change four hour target based on ‘myth’
Potential plans to ditch the four hour target for minor ailments are based on the “utter myth” that a large number of patients should be seen elsewhere, a senior emergency chief has told HSJ.
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NewsNHS England probes CCG's redundancy pay offs
NHS England has launched an independent investigation into how two clinical commissioning group managers were given redundancy payments which appear to have breached the maximum allowed.
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NewsGovernment drops proposal for secret trust investigations
There will be no safe spaces during NHS and foundation trust internal investigations, the government announced this week.
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NewsCQC: Leadership must improve at ‘dysfunctional’ heart unit
Leadership and management problems from service to trust level contributed to failures at a London teaching trust’s heart surgery unit, the Care Quality Commission said today.
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NewsReview: Major investment needed for 'worst estate in the NHS'
Mental health services are operating in some of the “worst estate the NHS has” and require major capital investment, a government review has said.
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NewsDalton calls for 'honesty' in five year plans
The chief executive of NHS Improvement has called for “honesty” and “believability” in local five year plans due in 2019, saying there needs to be a “raising of the bar” on capacity and financial planning.
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NewsDaily Insight: Wessely’s wish list
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsDalton condemns ‘blame culture’ after CQC’s ‘prosecution’ comments
The NHS Improvement chief executive has told local leaders he is against a “blame culture” and “fear of punishment”, in response to the Care Quality Commission’s new boss saying it will prosecute more providers.
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NewsCouncil quits leading ICS due to 'lack of democratic oversight'
A major council has pulled out of a leading integrated care system because of a lack of “democratic oversight”.