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Trust considers tough line on promoting minority staff
An ambulance trust may require managers to justify to its CEO each time they promote someone else ahead of a colleague with a minority ethnic background to a senior role.
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Revealed: the scale of the squeeze on primary care capital funding
Primary care has been subjected to the biggest squeeze in government capital spending in recent years, according to figures behind a major report into the state of the NHS.
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Ministers pressing Treasury to fund ‘a lot of prevention projects’
The Department of Health and Social Care is fighting for funding for ‘a lot of public health projects’ in the upcoming government spending review, a minister has said.
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NHS has ‘thrown money’ at unproductive hospitals
Too much money is being “thrown” at hospitals where productivity “has substantially fallen” and not enough is being spent in the community, a major review of NHS performance has concluded.
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Darzi: NHS ‘unlikely’ to meet performance targets in five years
Labour is “unlikely” to meet its flagship manifesto commitment to restore the NHS’s constitutional waiting times during this parliamentary term, Lord Darzi has warned.
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Shrink the centre to boost local management, Darzi concludes
The NHS needs to urgently reconfigure the “balance of its management resources”, says Lord Darzi’s report into the state of the NHS.
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Trust told to re-run flawed contract award
A trust has been advised to re-run a contract competition after a losing provider complained the process was unfair.
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Child spent 44 days in A&E waiting for care placement
A child spent more than a month ‘stuck in a room with the lights on’ in an accident and emergency department, a trust has revealed.
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National bodies ‘failed to help staff with rationing care during covid’
Covid inquiry research finds “room for improvement” for national bodies and regulators Staff report being unable to escalate patients due to bed and workforce shortages NHS England’s representative urges inquiry to consider potential harms from counterfactuals Six in ten healthcare professionals said they lacked support from national bodies ...
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11,000 patients may have been given wrong test result
Up to 11,000 patients may have received incorrect test results – including being misdiagnosed as diabetic – due to an equipment error at a trust, HSJ has learned.
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Council boss made senior DHSC mandarin
A city council chief executive who once sought to run NHS England has been appointed as the second permanent secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care.
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Doctor worked in NHS for six months despite sexual harassment allegations
A trust is reviewing its procedures after employing a senior surgeon as a locum registrar without knowing he had been sacked from a previous role over sexual harassment allegations.
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Trust chair withdraws before starting role
A lay member of the embattled Nursing Midwifery Council, who had been appointed by NHS England to chair a mental health trust, has decided not to take up the new role, HSJ has learned.
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‘Unrealistic’ new targets set for cancer tests
New activity targets set for community diagnostic centres this month will not be met on current staffing levels, experts have warned.
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ICB ‘a hindrance’ to improving services after Grenfell
An integrated care board has faced significant criticism that it ‘to this day’ refuses to listen to the Grenfell Tower survivors and has been a ‘hindrance’ to improving services
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Former NHSE director to chair cash-strapped ICB
A former NHS England director who has also led adult social care for a council has been appointed chair of an integrated care board.
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Provider investigating ‘racism and bullying’ complaints
A community services provider has launched an investigation into its staff culture, following concerns including racism and bullying.
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Turbulent ICB appoints first permanent CEO in two years
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board has appointed its first substantive CEO in two years.
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NHSE admits ‘urgent’ ambulance target will be missed in capital
NHS England has agreed ambulance trusts can meet ‘realistic’ response times for ‘urgent’ ambulance calls including some heart attacks and stroke this winter, citing ‘service pressures, resources and demand’.
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Exclusive: Darzi will highlight underinvestment in NHS managers
The imminent review of NHS performance by Lord Ara Darzi will highlight the need to invest more in NHS management and leadership, HSJ understands.