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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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National director leaves for exec role at teaching trust
NHS England’s director of urgent and emergency care is joining a major teaching trust as its chief operating officer.
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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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Trust appoints new chair from ICB
An acute trust in the West Midlands has appointed a new chair from its neighbouring integrated care board.
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ICS row breaks out over patients being shunted to GPs
A row has broken out between senior leaders in Norfolk and Waveney over the volume of work being passed to GPs by the acute sector.
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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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Trust bosses used racist language in interviews, says CQC
Trust bosses used racist language and created a closed culture, according to a Care Quality Commission report, which said the trust’s overall and leadership ratings had been downgraded following an inspection.
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Leak reveals trust omitting two-year waits from reported figures
A hospital trust has been breaching national guidance by excluding some long waiters from its reported waiting list figures, in a move experts warned could put patient safety at serious risk.
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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.