News – Page 27
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NewsSeven-hospital ‘group’ to split in two
Two large hospital trusts are scrapping their joint chair and CEO arrangement, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHSE desire to please govt forcing finance chiefs to agree undeliverable plans
One of the NHS’s foremost finance figures has joined the chorus of senior healthcare leaders raising serious concerns about the damaging effect of the way the service’s annual planning round is conducted.
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HSJ LocalTrust accused of imposing ‘badly disguised pay cut’ on doctors
University Hospitals Birmingham has become locked in a row with the British Medical Association over its plans to stop paying premium rates for medical bank staff.
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NewsFormer minister steps down from trust job
The chair of a leading mental health trust who served as a minister in the coalition government is stepping down.
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NewsRevealed: the ongoing impact of delays to ‘new hospital’ schemes
Infrastructure failings have led to over 1,000 operations being cancelled in the past two years at just 14 trusts, whose rebuilding plans have been placed under review by the new government, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsICB cuts income of pioneering provider by up to 10%
A leading large-scale GP provider has seen its annual income cut by up to 10 per cent.
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NewsAlert over steep rise in handover delays
An ambulance trust is warning that delays handing patients over to hospitals have “significantly deteriorated” in the past two months, with one waiting nearly 20 hours.
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NewsFresh £900m raid on capital revealed in Budget small print
Close to £1bn has been raided from health capital funding this year to meet day-to-day pressures in tech and pay, documents published alongside the Budget reveal.
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NewsNew chair appointed at ‘requires improvement’ trust
A new chair has been appointed to an ambulance trust that had its overall CQC rating downgraded to “requires improvement” last year due to concerns over its care and leadership.
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News‘Urgent’ questions over NHS Budget deal
The Chancellor has announced above-inflation increases to NHS funding, although no agreement has yet been reached on what service levels must be achieved in exchange.
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NewsNew £100m pot for building upgrades announced
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced a new £100m pot to fund upgrades to GP premises as part of a multibillion pound increase to the NHS’s capital expenditure in the government’s Budget.
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NewsNHSE commercial chief steps down
NHS England’s chief commercial officer will step down at the end of this year, she has announced.
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NewsHuge cyber attack caused minimal patient harm, ICB claims
A cyber attack which crippled a region’s pathology system for three months caused only five cases of “moderate” harm and no significant harm, the NHS has claimed.
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NewsCity’s five trusts to form £2bn ‘group’
A city’s five acute and specialist trusts have agreed to form a major £2bn hospital “group”.
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HSJ LocalICS with ‘decade-old deficit’ drops to worst financial tier
An integrated care board has been relegated to the lowest tier of NHS England’s financial management regime.
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NewsExclusive: No new funding for key Labour pledge, says NHSE document
Labour’s manifesto pledge to deliver 700,000 extra dental appointments is to be funded from within existing budgets in the current financial year, correspondence seen by HSJ suggests.
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News‘Significant concerns’ raised over joint chair process
Two acute trusts are planning to move to a group model with a shared chief executive – but one board has raised concerns around proposals for open recruitment for a joint chair.
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NewsICS told it’s ‘top down’ and ‘lacks effective leadership’
An under-pressure integrated care system has been told it lacks “effective leadership” and is “too centralised and top-down” in a survey of partner organisations.
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NewsNHS given £1.5bn capital to boost elective recovery
The NHS will be given an additional £1.5bn in capital funding next year to spend on new surgical hubs and scanners, the Treasury has announced ahead of Wednesday’s budget.
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News‘Wholesale change’ for NHS IT suppliers under new law
The government is proposing new legislation to bring “wholesale change” to the “fragmented IT vendor market” in healthcare, which is ”hindering” information sharing.