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NewsThe 50 most influential Black, Asian and minority ethnic people in health: The judges
The judges for 2024’s list of healthcare’s 50 most influential Black and minority ethnic leaders
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NewsWinter pressures funding leads to ‘panic buying,’ says CEO
Last-minute national funding to ease winter pressures often leads to “panic buying” and is “not always well spent”, a trust chief executive has said.
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NewsGlobal majority leaders are now part of the NHS establishment
What will strike readers first about the 2024 HSJ list of the most influential people in health policy and the NHS with a global majority background is how unsurprising it is.
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NewsThe 50 most influential Black, Asian and minority ethnic people in health: Full list
The top 50 most influential Black, Asian and minority ethnic leaders in English health and care – listed alphabetically
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NewsCEO appointed to run three trusts
Three hospital trusts in the South West have appointed a joint chief executive as part of a move to a “group model”.
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NewsCentral support ‘set to be withdrawn’ from maternity scandal trust
A trust at the centre of a maternity scandal is expected to come out of NHS England’s maternity support programme early next year – despite concerns raised by a parent whose child died under its care.
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NewsICB accused of ‘attacking patient choice’
An integrated care system has been accused of “attacking patient choice” by allegedly “pressuring” eye care providers to refer more work within the NHS – amid moves nationally to bring more ophthalmology services in-house.
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NewsFinance chief seconded from NHSE to lead two trusts
An NHS England finance director recently appointed chief executive of a North West acute trust will now also take over at a neighbouring community provider.
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NewsAppointing trust leaders as ICB chiefs ‘essential’ to region’s success
The large size of integrated care systems in the North East and Yorkshire region — and the ex-trust CEO leaders they attracted — has underpinned their relatively strong performance, a new report suggests.
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HSJ LocalTwo ICBs to share the same chair
Two very different integrated care boards are to share the same chair.
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NewsNHS estates backlog rises 20% to record high
The cost of eradicating the estates maintenance backlog for NHS trusts rose around 20 per cent to a new record high of nearly £14bn year on year, according to new provisional data.
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NewsRevealed: £18bn bid to complete promised ‘40 new hospitals’
The new hospitals programme has told ministers it needs nearly £6bn annual capital funding for three years to press ahead with building all promised schemes as fast as possible.
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NewsNHS England chair resigns
The NHS England chair has announced he will step down in March after discussions with Wes Streeting.
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NewsTrust in financial dispute with two ICBs
An ambulance trust has warned it may miss financial targets because it has failed to finalise some commissioning contracts halfway through the year.
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NewsICB faces second lawsuit for patient transport procurement
A health system broke procurement rules when it awarded a patient transport contract to a firm that went bust less than a month after it began providing the service, according to a legal claim brought in the High Court.
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NewsFunding electives over A&E a big risk, says NHS chief
Ministers should consider “how it [will] look to the public” if any new funding for the service is restricted to boosting elective work, in the face of winter pressures destabilising urgent and emergency care.
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NewsTrust eliminated year-long waits ‘by employing an administrator’
A community trust cut waiting times for one of its children’s services from a year to seven weeks, in large part by employing a dedicated administrator, it has said.
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NewsMore than 500 staff given £100k payouts in NHS restructures
NHS commissioning bodies are to spend more than £200m on redundancy payments over a three-year period following a series of restructures and headcount reduction exercises, NHS England’s latest accounts show.
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NewsTrust chief and cancer leader retiring after 40 years
The chief executive of two specialist trusts has announced her retirement less than a year after taking up the second of the roles.