News – Page 244
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News‘Wasted opportunity’: Government rejects NHS pension reform calls
The government has rejected extensive calls to reform the NHS Pension Scheme, saying measures brought in during last March’s Budget have stopped doctors incurring high tax bills when working overtime.
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NewsMerging trusts seek digital investment with ‘40 new hospitals’ funds
Two acute and community trusts are considering spending part of their government-funded estates cash on a major digital transformation project, amid plans to merge into one organisation.
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NewsDaily Insight: A sticking plaster for pensions
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsNHS Digital staff working ‘extreme hours’ under ‘a lot of stress’ says CEO
Staff at NHS Digital are working ‘extreme hours’ and suffering from burnout after being asked to deliver programmes beyond their capacity during the pandemic, says its chief executive.
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NewsRevealed: The local health systems leading the vaccination race
London is ahead of other regions in the delivery of covid vaccines to people aged between 70 and 74, but is still lagging significantly behind in older cohorts.
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NewsDaily Insight: The CCG strikes back
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News‘Medically fit’ patients caught covid while waiting for discharge, trust admits
A hospital trust has admitted that ‘medically fit’ patients caught covid on its wards while waiting to be discharged, with some of the cases under investigation.
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NewsCCG blasts NHS England’s ‘significant lack of insight’ in legislation plan
A clinical commissioning group has told NHS England its proposal to abolish CCGs shows a “significant lack of insight” and could “distract from, rather than support, the other changes and progress which are needed”.
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NewsDaily Insight: Snipers take aim at system
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsRevealed: The 17 trusts still at 200pc or more of intensive care capacity
At least 17 hospital trusts still have at least twice the number of critical care patients than their total capacity last winter, with some falling very slowly, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsSix month delay to government’s new health protection agency
England’s new health protection agency will not be ‘fully staffed and up and running’ until October, the executive chair of NHS Test and Trace revealed today, despite the government’s plan for it to be ‘established and fully operational by Spring 2021’.
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NewsScandal-hit trust moved to change auditor when accounts were challenged, report suggests
A major acute trust at the heart of an “unprecedented” financial breakdown moved to change its external auditor after the firm challenged its accounting practices, a new report suggests.
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NewsICS criticised for ‘poor relationships’ and NHS leaders ‘jumping to Stevens’ commands’
A review of a health system deemed to be among the most advanced in terms of partnership working has discovered poor relationships and a lack of trust between partners.
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NewsExclusive: Capital’s GP leaders challenge NHSE over mass vaccination centres
GP leaders in London have complained to NHS England about their ‘inadequate’ covid-19 vaccine supplies, and expressed fears that these are being diverted to prioritise mass vaccination sites.
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NewsDaily Insight: Red light flashes over ambulance trust
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsExclusive: Multiple whistleblowers flag ‘heartbreaking’ incidents at major trust
Clinicians within a major teaching hospital’s cancer services have raised multiple concerns over patient safety, which they believe have resulted from badly planned service changes in response to the covid crisis.
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NewsNHSE ‘should publish real-time data on staff vaccine uptake by ethnicity’
“Live, real-time” data on covid-19 vaccine uptake by ethnicity — including about NHS staff — should be published, the director of a new race observatory has said.
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NewsCQC intervenes at trust hardest hit by covid
The Care Quality Commission has issued a warning notice over emergency care delays — particularly ambulance handovers — to one of the trusts hardest hit by coronavirus pressures in recent months.
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NewsTrusts could get new CQC ratings without inspection
The Care Quality Commission could regularly change its ratings of health and care providers without inspectors visiting them, under new plans from the watchdog.
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NewsRevealed: £35m government plan for covid mortuaries
The government’s expected spend on mortuary capacity for people who have died with covid-19 has increased more than 50 per cent since September.