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NewsAmbulance trust delayed 750 safeguarding referrals
A computer problem meant an ambulance trust failed to pass on 750 safeguarding referrals to local authorities for up to 17 days.
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NewsDaily Insight: The long covid goodbye
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsStaff on prolonged leave with long covid could be dismissed, says NHSE
Staff on prolonged sick leave due to long covid could be dismissed if ‘redeployment is not an option’ and they are unable to fulfil their contract, new NHS England guidance says.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in December 2021, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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HSJ Local‘Methodical and respectful’ CEO appointed by troubled acute trust
The second largest trust in the North West has appointed James Sumner as its new chief executive.
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NewsNHSE must allow councillors to sit on integrated care boards, says government
The government has said NHS England must change draft guidance to allow councillors to be members of NHS integrated care boards, but it remains unclear if they will be permitted to chair the new organisations.
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NewsSoaring trolley waits spark warnings A&E pressures getting ‘worse and worse’
The number of 12-hour waits in accident and emergency departments rose by 27 per cent in one month to reach record levels in January amid warnings overcrowding is harming an increasing number of patients.
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NewsRole of NHS national and regional teams under review as ICSs develop, says Confed chief
The role of the centre and region of NHS England is under review because trusts will increasingly be accountable to and challenged by their integrated care systems, the NHS Confederation chief executive has said.
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NewsEx-NHS chief to lead new ‘Office of the Prime Minister’
The Prime Minister’s senior health adviser Samantha Jones has been appointed interim permanent secretary and chief operating officer of the new Office of the Prime Minister, as Boris Johnson continues his attempts to recover from the partygate scandal.
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NewsLeak reveals management consultants’ role in recovery plans
Consultants will set strategy, provide analytics and help lead the creation of integrated care systems’ elective recovery plans, a leaked document reveals.
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NewsDaily Insight: Cancel those leaving drinks
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsICSs must devolve ‘significant’ budget to ‘place’, says government
Integrated care systems must put a single person in charge of health and social care in each of their constituent ‘places’ by April next year, and let them manage a ‘significant’ chunk of the budget, government has said.
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NewsUnvaccinated staff should be welcomed back, urges NHSE
Trusts could offer to bring back staff who resigned over the government’s covid vaccine mandate and are urged by NHS England to contact individuals who did ‘as soon as practicable’.
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NewsDaily Insight: Chairing is sharing
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Doctors’ bonus pay talks collapse after two years
Medical trade unions have voted to reject proposed reforms to bonus payments for senior doctors, after two years of negotiations broke down.
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NewsFormer NHS England chief appointed chair of four trusts
Former NHS England deputy chief executive Matthew Swindells has been appointed chair of all north west London’s acute trusts.
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NewsRecovery plan expects two more years of waiting list growth
The government’s NHS recovery plan says elective waiting lists are likely to continue growing until March 2024.
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NewsRevealed: How NHSE’s new transformation directorate will operate
Six directors will lead the different units of NHS England’s new transformation directorate created by merging NHS Digital and NHSX into the organisation.
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NewsTwenty trusts in region now sharing chairs and CEOs
Nearly two-thirds of London trusts will soon be sharing a chair and/or chief executive, after a pair of mental health providers agreed to appoint a joint chair.