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NewsRevealed: Ten-fold increase in children waiting too long for specialist care
The number of children and young people waiting longer than recommended for admission to a mental health bed has increased nearly ten-fold since last summer, according to figures from one NHS region seen by HSJ.
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NewsDaily Insight: Race and the NHS
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsDeaths of covid hospital patients hit record low
The deaths of covid positive patients in English hospitals has hit a record low.
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NewsLeaked report reveals trust failings over ‘racially aggravated attack’
A hospital trust’s management has apologised, after being heavily criticised by an independent review for ‘letting down’ a staff member who reported suffering a racially aggravated attack while on duty.
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NewsRacial ‘disparity ratios’ created for each trust to root out ‘racist practice’ in NHS systems
‘Disparity ratios’ highlighting how staff with minority ethnic backgrounds are represented at different levels in each trust have been created by the national workforce race equality standard programme to help tackle ‘racist practice’ in the NHS.
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NewsDaily Insight: How to face the fourth wave
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsRevealed: the London trusts yet to vaccinate a quarter of their staff
There is a gap of around 30 percentage points in staff uptake of the covid-19 vaccination between different London trusts, according to figures seen by HSJ.
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NewsTory MP: No business in the world would treat their staff like the NHS
The NHS must significantly improve its training offer to staff, or risk losing many of them according to two Conservative MPs who are also clinicians.
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NewsExclusive: NHS plans to keep electives at 80pc in next covid surge
NHS England has asked hospitals to prepare for a potential further surge of covid cases reaching around half the level of first wave of the virus last year – and to seek to deliver 80 per cent of normal elective activity throughout it, HSJ has learned.
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NewsGPs should not switch off online consultations, NHSE says
GP practices should not switch off their online consultation systems outside of core hours as it will ‘reduce patient satisfaction’, according to NHS England.
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NewsHospital chief to retire after nearly 20 years in post
A long-serving chief executive has announced his retirement after almost two decades in the job.
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NewsQuarantine for overseas doctors risks ‘devastating impact’ on staffing
Ministers should exempt doctors from ‘red-listed’ countries from paying ‘prohibitive’ hotel quarantine charges or risk a ‘devastating impact’ on the NHS, the British Medical Association has said.
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NewsExclusive: NHS warned multiple times that imaging shortages may kill
Coroners have warned the NHS nearly a dozen times in recent years that a lack of imaging capacity could lead to more deaths, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHS England covid comms control was ‘truly dreadful’, claims health system leader
A leader of Greater Manchester’s health and care system has claimed NHS England’s approach to communications is “truly dreadful” – a claim which has been rejected by the national body’s medical director as “obviously not correct”.
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NewsDaily Insight: Governance grief
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsProvider blames staffing difficulties for closure of specialist unit
A private provider is shutting its specialist unit, with its last patient expected to leave today, sparking warnings about a lack of generic mental health beds.
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NewsNorth West covid admissions climb as English hospital deaths near record low
Admissions of covid positive patients to hospitals in the North West are edging up, while continuing to fall in most other parts of England.
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HSJ LocalTrust ordered to pay £20,000 in case where there were ‘significant issues’ with CEO’s evidence
A major acute trust has been ordered to pay £20,000 in costs amid a long-running employment dispute with a whistleblower.
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HSJ LocalTrust acts after 'inappropriate' payments to board members
An acute trust is taking “remedial action” after an external investigation found thousands of pounds had been “incorrectly” paid to board members, HSJ can reveal.