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Trust bids for settlement in landmark NHS employment case
A high-profile employment case has been postponed as the trust and staff members involved try to reach a settlement.
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'Inappropriate behaviour' toward trainees contributes to decision to cut education funds
An ambulance trust has lost funding for hundreds of trainees after a watchdog found it had been slow in addressing safety concerns and inappropriate behaviour.
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Talk to patients about end of life care and save £500m, NHS told
The NHS could save more than £500m a year if patients and clinicians had better quality conversations about care plans, a major review has found.
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Health bill delays create ‘risks’ for NHS facing covid and winter pressures, warn leaders
Senior health leaders have said delays to the Health and Care Bill are resulting in ‘prolonged uncertainty’ for staff and will lead to significant challenges in the second half of the year.
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‘I've never had a conversation like this in 30 years as an NHS CEO’
A dozen NHS trust chief executives came together to explore how leading a trust through the NHS’ greatest emergency had affected them on a personal level. By Alastair McLellan
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Daily Insight: The big (m)ask
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Trusts to remind public they must wear masks after 19 July
Multiple trusts are planning to tell the public they must comply with current covid infection control measures, such as mask wearing, beyond 19 July when they visit NHS premises, HSJ can reveal.
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Hospitals allowing staff to avoid self-isolation instructions from app
Trusts in the North East region have told staff identified as close contacts of positive covid-19 cases they can continue working if they take daily tests.
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Past and present NHS cancer leads at odds over progress on early diagnosis
The NHS’s former cancer tsar has disagreed with the claim of the incumbent national clinical lead that the service is on track to meet its goal of significantly improving earlier diagnosis of the condition in the next seven years.
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Nightingale deaths lead to warning over ‘confusion’ around ventilator equipment
Two patients died while being treated at London’s Nightingale Hospital amid what a coroner has described as ‘widespread confusion’ around some of the equipment used for ventilation machines.
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Daily Insight: Taking the pitch
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Exclusive: Children six times more likely to be restrained than adults
Children in mental health units are almost six times more likely to be restrained compared to adults, according to the findings of an unpublished NHS England review.
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NHSE accused of shifting ‘the entire pitch’ on elective care recovery funding
Local systems will need to carry out more planned procedures to receive cash from the elective recovery fund following NHS England and Improvement’s decision to increase the activity thresholds required.
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Amazon UK boss shortlisted for NHSE CEO job
The former boss of Amazon UK has been added to the shortlist of candidates for the next chief executive of NHS England, HSJ has confirmed.
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‘Scared’ patients left ‘unable to seek timely treatment’ by trust’s charging approach
A trust has apologised after an independent review found some of its patients were left feeling “uncomfortable, scared or unable to seek timely treatment” by its approach to charging for NHS treatment.
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Mapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in May 2021, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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Daily Insight: Please check your dark side at the door…
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NHS England CEO hopefuls assessed for their ‘dark side traits’
More details of the interview process for the next NHS England chief executive have been uncovered, including the nature of the psychometric tests the three shortlisted candidates have undergone.
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New chief exec for trust with England’s worst performing A&E
One of England’s worst-performing hospital trusts is getting a new chief executive from August.
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Ambulance services fear exodus of paramedics into primary care
Ambulance trusts are concerned they will lose significant numbers of paramedics after funding was introduced for primary care networks to employ them.