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NewsBabylon ‘administration’ move will not impact NHS services, claims firm
Babylon has said its planned financial ‘restructuring and recapitalisation’, which would see the company return to private ownership, will not impact its NHS services.
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HSJ LocalEx-CEO sues trust and accuses chair of ‘bullying’
An acute trust is being sued for unfair dismissal by its former chief executive.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in January 2023, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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HSJ LocalICS sets balanced budget to avoid NHS England sanctions
System leaders in Yorkshire have said their decision to set a balanced financial plan instead of a deficit was shaped by the ‘tactics’ of engaging with NHS England, including the threat of potential sanctions.
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HSJ LocalTrust leadership censured for ‘negative impact’ of focus on ‘reputation management’
The leadership rating of one of the NHS’s best known specialist trusts has been downgraded from ‘outstanding’ to ‘requires improvement’, despite inspectors praising the work of its medical director, nursing director and chief operating officer.
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HSJ Local‘Outstanding’ trust drops to ‘requires improvement’ after staff ‘let down by senior leaders’
An “outstanding” trust’s Care Quality Commission rating has been dropped to “requires improvement”, after inspectors found potential safety risks and a disconnect between board and ward.
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HSJ Local‘Mac the Knife’ to retire after nearly 50 years in health service
An integrated care board chief executive who has spent nearly five decades working in the health service has announced his retirement.
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NewsWaiting list hits new record high as attention shifts to 65-week breaches
The NHS waiting list hit a record 7.3 million incomplete pathways in March, according to new official data, as trust bosses gear up to clear the circa 95,000 patients who have waited over 65 weeks.
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NewsTrusts to share joint chief ahead of breakup
Two trusts in the south of England have named a joint chief executive as part of a major reorganisation.
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NewsTech firm accuses NHSE of ‘bias’ in £5.5m tender dispute
A technology firm is taking NHS England and an ambulance trust to court over alleged bias in a tender.
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HSJ LocalTrust CEO named as interim ICB chief
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board has appointed its third chief executive, and second interim, since it was established last July.
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HSJ LocalICS already admitting it will miss March 2024 elective waiting time target
One of the country’s most challenged integrated care systems has told NHS England it expects to significantly miss the March 2024 target to end elective waits of 65 weeks or longer.
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HSJ LocalRegulator clears trust to bring back junior doctors
Up to 10 junior doctor posts will be reinstated at a small district general hospital after regulators agreed it had improved its learning environment.
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HSJ LocalFinance chief who ‘eradicated trust’s deficit’ is made CEO
A trust has appointed a chief executive whose track record as finance director includes work towards eliminating its underlying deficit.
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NewsRevealed: the tenfold regional difference in access to GP records
Fewer than one in 10 GP practices offers patients access to their records in several areas of England, with significant variation across England, six months ahead of a new deadline.
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NewsRevealed: The integrated care partnerships with no public meetings or minutes
Six integrated care systems have not held any public meetings of their ‘partnership’ boards – and nine have not published any ICP meetings or papers – nearly a year after they were set up.
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HSJ LocalCEO who took trust out of special measures to step down
An acute trust CEO has announced he is stepping down from full-time work next year, after a 42-year stint in the NHS.
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NewsNew target for huge NHS App expansion in general practice
The vast majority of GP practices should allow patients to manage their care through the NHS App in less than a year, according to the primary care recovery plan published by government and NHS England today.
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NewsBarclay refusing to approve diagnostic centres that cannot be opened this year
Steve Barclay has refused to approve about 30 proposed community diagnostic centres – designed to speed up cancer treatment – unless they can be delivered in 2023, HSJ has learned.
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NewsElective recovery drive at risk from product shortages, warns NHS Supply Chain
Long-running supply issues with blood collection equipment risk delaying the elective recovery, according to an internal NHS Supply Chain communication seen by HSJ.