News – Page 360
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NewsDaily Insight: Election day thoughts
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ LocalRegulator criticised system’s leaders for ‘critical incident’ response
An NHS England/Improvement regional manager has reported “serious concern” about the handling of a “critical incident”, in which an entire health economy was subjected to extreme operational pressure, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsFT fined after cancer clinical trial death
A hospital trust has been fined £45,000 following the death of a leukaemia patient who was given five times the amount of drugs she was prescribed during a clinical trial.
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NewsApprenticeship pay talks stall amid calls for reform
Negotiations over a pay deal for NHS apprentices have broken down due to a “lack of consensus” over what are considered appropriate salary levels.
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National efficiency scheme costing ‘an arm and a leg’, say trusts
Trust procurement leads have expressed serious concern over savings reports provided by a flagship efficiency model, with one saying the scheme was “costing [them] an arm and a leg”.
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NewsDaily Insight: But at what cost?
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsThird of teaching trust’s elective patients waiting more than 18 weeks
A teaching trust’s referral-to-treatment performance has slumped 20 percentage points in the last two years as demand has soared.
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HSJ LocalYorkshire trust appoints new chief
Sheffield’s mental health and community trust has appointed a new chief executive.
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NewsStaff told to leave hospital’s flats to make way for new nurses
An acute trust has given notice to staff to move out of accommodation they have used for “some years” to make way for international recruits.
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NewsDaily Insight: We need to talk about pensions
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsHSJ Weekly Catch Up: A ‘common sense decision’, an efficiency scheme under fire and a stopgap solution for pensions
Your essential update on health for the week.
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NewsClinical trial to resume after pathologist reverses decision on death
Researchers plan to restart high-dose radiotherapy in a cancer trial after refuting the outcome of a coroner’s inquest.
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NewsExclusive: Top trust chief picked to head new NHS England ‘taskforce’
An experienced trust chief executive has been chosen to lead a national taskforce group charged with improving inpatient mental health, learning disability and autism services for young people.
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NewsTrusts told to offer pensions tax deal to senior clinicians
Trusts have been given the green light to offer a stop-gap “solution” to their senior clinicians which aims to tackle the pensions crisis gripping the health service.
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NewsRegion ‘working to 40-week target’ for treatment
A group of NHS organisations have said they are “working to referral to treatment time targets of 40 weeks instead of 18 weeks”, in board papers which they are now indicating are misleading.
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NewsExclusive: New action over safety concerns at Shropshire hospitals
Inspectors have taken fresh urgent action at a severely troubled hospital trust, citing major concerns about treatment of mental health patients in its emergency department, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHS Improvement director to take up trust chief job
An NHS Improvement director has landed the top job at a recently merged foundation trust.
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HSJ LocalFT drops ‘better value for money’ IT system in £400m deal
A large NHS trust has chosen US firm Epic as its preferred bidder for an electronic patient record, despite previously suggesting a different option would give “better value for money”.
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NewsHospital trust criticised for ‘intolerable’ waits and failure to learn from deaths
An independent review into mortality has exposed serious workforce problems and a failure to learn from deaths at a hospital trust.