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NewsNHSE: We’ve not done enough to engage trusts in plans for £360m data store
NHS England has failed to adequately engage trusts in plans for a controversial new £360m data-sharing project, its data chief has admitted - though she said procurement rules were partly to blame.
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News£300m reconfiguration gets go-ahead after decade delay
Plans for a much-delayed service overhaul in one of the country’s most troubled systems have won national approval, though questions remain over how crucial service improvements will be funded.
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HSJ LocalWomen wait days for induced labour in troubled maternity service
A troubled acute trust has been sent a further warning notice after inspectors found severe shortages of midwives were causing dangerous delays to labour inductions.
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News‘Complete’ recruitment freeze ordered at NHSE and CQC
The health secretary has told NHS England, the Care Quality Commission, and other national agencies to implement a freeze on almost all recruitment.
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NewsTrust CEOs lead judging panel for HSJ supplier awards
Two of the NHS’s foremost trust chief executives lead the 50-strong judging panel in this year’s HSJ Partnership Awards.
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HSJ LocalTop CEO announces retirement
The chief executive of Gateshead Health Foundation Trust, Yvonne Ormston, has announced her retirement.
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NewsPatients fit for discharge stuck in hospital for up to nine months
Medically fit patients are waiting up to nine months to be discharged from some NHS hospitals as increasing numbers of working age people develop more complex conditions amid ongoing social care shortages.
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News‘Emergency’ pension rule changes extended to help NHS cope with winter
The government is planning to extend measures introduced during the coronavirus pandemic which relaxed the pension rules for staff who ‘retire and return’.
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News‘Cut consultancy spend’ Barclay tells NHSE
Ministers have told NHS England and other national bodies to urgently cut their spending on management consultancy services by at least a fifth.
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NewsRevealed: Only two ICSs seeing more elective inpatient activity than pre-covid
Providers in just two integrated care systems carried out more inpatient elective procedures in the first quarter of this year than before the covid pandemic, HSJ analysis of official data has revealed.
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HSJ LocalTrust forced to ‘phone around’ to find cots for premature babies
Staff at a trust in the South West have had to spend hours “phoning around hospitals” to find suitable cots for premature babies, in the face of “increasing difficulty” in accessing appropriate care locally.
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NewsStaff shortages force most trusts to suspend NHSE maternity care model
More than two-thirds of trusts have been forced to suspend or pause a high-profile service improvement aimed at reducing neonatal and maternal deaths, because of widespread staffing shortages.
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NewsFormer chief inspector set to chair safety watchdog
The former chief inspector of hospitals has been named the government’s preferred candidate to chair the Health Services Safety Investigations Body.
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NewsLeaked report shows ‘long-standing’ bullying and discrimination within national agency
Internal documents show significant evidence of bullying and discrimination within NHS Blood and Transplant which dates back at least eight years, when the organisation was led by the current chief executive of the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsNHS scraps plan to merge national HR and finance systems
The NHS has tendered a £1.7bn contract for a new national workforce management system, in what amounts to a downgrading of previous ambitious plans to create a new HR and finance platform.
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NewsTrusts must ‘exercise judgement’ on covid testing after routine swabs scrapped
Scrapping routine covid tests in hospitals ahead of autumn boosters could downplay how serious the disease still is, NHS leaders have warned as they said trusts would exercise their own judgement on testing.
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NewsGovt to add trusts with unsafe roofs to ‘40 new hospitals’ programme
Several trusts with dangerous structural planks are set to be selected for the government’s flagship hospital building programme, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTrust criticised for ‘extreme positivity’ and drops two ratings to ‘inadequate’
Senior leaders of an ambulance trust have been told their ‘extreme positivity’ has made them appear ‘out of touch’ as the Care Quality Commission downgraded the organisation’s rating to ‘inadequate’.
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HSJ LocalPlans to improve urgent care and ambulance handovers £8m short
Portsmouth Hospitals University Trust is facing an £8m gap in its finances after funding it had anticipated it would receive for improving urgent care and ambulance handovers has not materialised.
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HSJ LocalLack of ‘psychological safety’ at trust with ‘acceptance of poor behaviours’
An acute trust has “palpable” cultural problems and staff “at all levels” have described an acceptance of “poor behaviours”, according to the Care Quality Commission.