News – Page 149
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HSJ LocalGPs reject joining trust in favour of ‘John Lewis’ model
A GP surgery is believed to have become the first practice in England to switch to a ‘John Lewis’ ownership model after rejecting the prospect of joining its local integrated NHS trust.
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NewsLeak reveals 1,300 confirmed cancer patients still waiting after 104 days
More than 1,000 people are still waiting for cancer treatment 104 days after referral, despite having received a confirmed cancer diagnosis and having been referred with ‘urgent suspected cancer’, leaked data shows.
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News‘Arrogance and bullying’ persist from ‘less understanding’ regulators, say trusts
NHS England and the Care Quality Commission are becoming less understanding of the pressures on trusts, their leaders report, with one CEO complaining “the arrogance and bullying continues to get worse”.
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NewsRevealed: Best and worst areas for GP patient satisfaction
Analysis of a major patient survey suggests wide variation between GP services in different health systems.
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News‘Command and control’ leadership still ‘has a place’, say top trust CEOs
A command and control leadership style still has its place in an NHS focused on working as a system, the service’s leading provider chief executives have declared.
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NewsLong-standing NHS England director to step down
One of the NHS England’s longest serving senior leaders is set to stand down after seven years in post.
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NewsAmbulance trust to hand back key NHS 111 contract
An ambulance trust which took on running NHS 111 services to provide consistent care quality is handing back a major contract for the service.
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NewsNHSE director accuses Sunak and Truss of ‘silence’ on mental health waits
NHS England’s national director for mental health has warned the “silence is deafening” from Conservative leadership candidates over the treatment backlog for mental healthcare.
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NewsTurnaround CEO quits trust to join health tech firm
A chief executive who led one of the country’s most challenged trusts out of special measures is leaving to join a health technology company.
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NewsPritchard’s NHSE different in ‘tone, intent and accessibility’, say top CEOs
NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard has been praised for transforming the organisation’s relationship with local leaders by the NHS’s most highly regarded chief executives.
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News‘Don’t try to do our jobs’, trust CEOs warn ICSs
The NHS’s leading provider chief executives have cautioned newly established integrated care systems against over-reaching themselves.
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NewsNHS England ‘hasn’t got long’ to develop ‘operating model’ for system working
NHS England and local leaders must urgently develop a coherent ‘operating model’ for the era of integrated care systems or see the reforms fail, leading trust chief executives have told HSJ.
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News‘We are presiding over a failing NHS,’ say leading trust CEOs
A lack of accountability is causing the quality of NHS services to crumble, according to some of the most respected trust chief executives.
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HSJ LocalFormer NHSE chief made chair of two trusts
Two acute trusts in the Black Country are to share a former NHS England chief executive as their joint chair.
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HSJ LocalTrust declares its cancer waiting list ‘unmanageable’
One of the NHS’s biggest hospital trusts has declared its cancer waiting list is now at an ‘unmanageable size’.
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NewsICS chief agrees to pay back covid bonus
The chief executive of an integrated care board will return a bonus paid for her ‘response and management’ of the pandemic, following enquiries by HSJ about the payment.
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NewsTrust's IT still down days after heatwave crash
IT systems at England’s biggest trust are still down, two days after extreme heat caused a shut-down in its servers.
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NewsTrust chief steps down after 17 years
One of England’s longest-serving ambulance chief executives is to step down next year.
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NewsTrust defends research work after 'half hospital, half science lab’ claims
The medical director of a prestigious teaching hospital has said innovation must not come at the cost of safe care, after an external review highlighted concerns about the trust’s research culture.
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NewsCEOs could get £30,000 bonus for joining troubled trusts
Senior managers could be paid one-off bonuses to take over the most troubled NHS organisations, according to draft proposals being considered by government and NHS England.