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NewsEmergency performance slumps again as covid hits
Emergency care performance has again plunged to near-record lows, despite demand falling compared to the previous month.
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NewsExclusive: Minister misled MPs over ambulance crisis
A health minister incorrectly told the Commons on Wednesday that additional surge capacity for the struggling ambulance service was in place to help deal with the pressures created by the heatwave, despite the contract to procure the extra resources not having been finalised, HSJ has learned.
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NewsRehab services ‘very bizarre’ in some places, says NHSE director
NHS England’s director of community health has said a new strategy for rehabilitation care is needed, because present coverage is sometimes ‘bizarre’, with other services ‘masquerading’ as rehab.
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NewsNHSE to ‘restrict’ spending at five deficit ICSs
Five health systems have said they cannot submit a balanced financial plan for 2022-23, and are set to face ‘additional restrictions’ on spending from NHS England.
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NewsTrust boss joins ‘service failures’ private provider
A former NHS chief executive has taken up a senior executive role for a large independent provider whose NHS-funded services have seen major quality failures.
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NewsNo GP contract ‘big bang’ needed, says new NHSE director
NHS England’s new director of primary care has said workforce shortages are standing in the way of continuity of care, rather than issues with the GP contract.
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NewsNew single IT system to manage billions in procurement spend
Funding has been secured for a single software platform to potentially manage all NHS procurement activities, which could equate to around £30bn of spending across 80,000 suppliers.
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NewsNHSE lead: ‘Hard legislation’ needed to join up NHS IT
‘Hard legislation’ is needed to push suppliers to make the IT systems used by the NHS interoperable, an NHS England clinical lead has said.
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News24 hour ambulance handover on ‘worst night ever’
All ambulance services are now understood to be on the highest level of alert due to ‘extreme pressures’ caused by the hot weather and covid absences among staff.
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HSJ Local‘Commercial barriers’ stop ICS buying private hospital
A health system has dropped a bid to buy a private hospital in its area, saying there were ‘commercial barriers’ to the deal.
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NewsNew minister appointed at DHSC
A new junior health minister has been appointed, following Sajid Javid and Edward Argar’s resignations last week.
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NewsChair appointed across two hospital trusts
A joint chair has been appointed across two acute trusts in London.
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NewsNHSE chief visits trust to ‘learn lessons’ from troubled IT project
The go-live of a new electronic patient record at two hospitals has led to operational problems and a visit from an NHS England board director to ‘learn lessons’ for future roll-outs.
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NewsNHS ‘not doing a very good job’ on children’s mental health
The NHS’s approach to tackling children’s mental health is ‘threatening to overwhelm the social care system’, the president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services has warned.
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NewsTrust chiefs resist ‘pressure’ to treat patients in corridors
Hospital leaders say they have been pressured to deliver more ‘corridor care’ as a result of efforts to ease the ambulance handover crisis.
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NewsThree regions see covid hospital patients double in a fortnight
The number of patients in English hospitals who have tested positive for covid has increased by 86 per cent during the last two weeks.
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NewsCQC criticises outstanding-rated trust for ‘unsafe’ staffing
An ‘outstanding’ rated mental health trust has been criticised by the Care Quality Commission for ‘unsafe’ levels of staffing and inadequate monitoring of vulnerable patients.
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News‘New hospitals’ trusts lack cash for planned rebuilds
Half of the trusts in the government’s flagship hospital building programme are ‘not confident’ their funding allocations will be enough to deliver their projects, a new poll of NHS executives has suggested.
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NewsCancer and primary care investment face cuts due to pay bill, NHSE warns
NHS England has warned of ‘cuts’ to services and investment in cancer and primary care if it is not given extra funding for staff pay-rises above 3 per cent.
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News6,000-plus jobs to be cut at ‘new NHS England’
Thousands of jobs – amounting to around 30-40 per cent of posts across NHS England, Health Education England and NHS Digital – will be cut over the next year as the organisations are merged, it was announced today.