News – Page 191
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NewsTrusts spending £1m+ a year on settlement deals with gagging clauses
Trusts are still spending at least £1m a year on settlement agreements with staff containing ‘gagging clauses’, despite a crackdown on these conditions in recent years, HSJ research reveals.
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NewsGovernment seeks ‘critical friend’ chair to hold NHS England accountable
The government is seeking a new chair for NHS England who will be a ‘critical friend’, hold the organisation to account, and nurture links with the pharma industry.
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NewsThe Primer: New entrepreneurial structures
The Primer provides a rapid guide to the most interesting comment and analysis on the English health and care sector that has not (usually) appeared in HSJ.
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NewsNHS Providers conference moves online
The annual NHS Providers conference will no longer take place in person and will be held online instead, the organisation has said.
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NewsThree trusts fall back into ‘improvement programme’
Three trusts whose struggling maternity departments were supported and supposedly improved by a national safety programme have since fallen back into the scheme.
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NewsICS chief nurse appointed as trust CEO
An acute trust in London has appointed the region’s chief nursing officer as its new chief executive.
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NewsRevealed: ICSs which had the biggest rises in face-to-face GP appointments
There was an increase in the share of GP appointments conducted face to face in September, according to new NHS Digital figures.
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NewsChildren’s intensive care at near full national occupancy amid rising RSV
A senior doctor has warned that paediatric intensive care units are ‘as pressured as I can ever recall’ – despite the absence of cold weather, which typically leads to higher demand levels.
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NewsDaily Insight: Now IC you, now I don’t
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsTrust’s CEO moves to national improvement role
Isle of Wight Trust’s chief executive is moving to a new national post to support other NHS organisations with their improvement journeys.
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NewsNHSE is ‘pussyfooting around’ race strategy amid ‘wokery media storm’, says lead
NHS England is ‘pussyfooting’ around the release of a new workforce race equality strategy amid a “media storm around ‘wokery’,” the lead of the programme has said.
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NewsUnaccredited IAPT practitioners carrying out thousands of counselling sessions
Tens of thousands of NHS-funded counselling sessions are still being carried out by practitioners who have not done accredited training courses, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsPatients ‘pushed and laughed at’ by staff at ‘inadequate’ hospital
Two private hospitals can no longer admit patients without permission from regulators, after inspectors flagged multiple instances of poor care, including patients being pushed and laughed at by staff.
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NewsICSs ‘may cease to exist’ after setting up strong provider groups
Integrated care systems may develop strong provider groups and afterwards choose for their role become ‘tiny’ or ‘cease to exist’, it has been suggested.
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NewsDaily Insight: Ambulance pressures move to the next level
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsTreasury leaves NHS waiting on crucial staffing budgets
Government has failed to confirm education and training budgets for next year, despite repeated warnings by officials of the potential damage to delivering key asks, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalAcute chief moves to head up neighbouring trust
A West Yorkshire acute trust has appointed a new chief executive, who will join from a neighbouring organisation after its previous leader left to head up a large hospital group.
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NewsNHSE tells trusts to ‘immediately stop all ambulance handover delays’
Trusts and integrated care systems are being told by NHS England to take urgent action to ‘immediately stop all delays’ to ambulance handovers, which will require ‘difficult choices’.
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NewsTrust hopes to cut bill for private care by buying rehabilitation centre
A mental health trust is hoping to buy a former rehabilitation centre for injured soldiers to provide extra capacity and avoid sending patients into the private sector.
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NewsOwnership of hundreds of primary care buildings is uncertain, national estates chief warns
A national estates chief says the government must find a new ownership model for hundreds of primary care centres that are currently run in partnership with the private sector.