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NewsHospitals to cut 800 jobs
A pair of hospital trusts has outlined plans to reduce its workforce by 7 per cent in 2025-26, in order to cut costs.
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News£150m ‘wasted’ planning for ‘paused’ new hospitals
More than £150m spent planning “new hospital” projects which are now in the long grass may need to be written off, according to estimates seen by HSJ.
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NewsUnion standoff with Mackey over subcos expansion
NHS England’s chief executive has said new NHS subsidiary companies must pay NHS terms and conditions for current and future staff – while Unison has written to trusts to try to prevent the expansion of subcos.
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NewsLast-minute ICS bailouts ‘fuel distrust with NHSE’
Integrated care systems across the country have received last-minute bailouts to improve their financial positions at the end of 2024-25, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTrust CEO off work after clash with chair
An NHS trust chief executive is on leave from the role following a row with their chair, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTrust told it could not exclude race row firm from tender
An NHS trust was given legal advice that it could not exclude an IT firm whose owner made racist remarks about an MP from a procurement process which the firm eventually won.
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NewsProvider’s board clearout sparks ‘real shock’
One of the NHS’s largest private hospital providers has cleared out its board, with its CEO, finance chief and other key figures all leaving the business in recent weeks.
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NewsDon’t call NHSE ‘the biggest quango in the world’, says new chair
NHS England’s new chair has “called out” the language used over NHS England’s abolition, including terms used by the prime minister and health and social care secretary.
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NewsCap on elective care funding to be scrapped
NHS England is scrapping plans to cap how much trusts can earn from elective work in 2025-26.
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NewsRevealed: The ICB staff targeted for redundancy
Staff working in assurance, regulatory, performance management, communications and engagement roles should be prioritised for redundancy by integrated care boards, NHS England has indicated.
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NewsCQC tells trust to move care of sick babies
A trust has moved the care of some sick babies out of one of its neonatal units at the Care Quality Commission’s request.
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NewsDeparting NHSE boss ‘calls out’ A&E variation
NHS England’s outgoing chief operating officer has claimed there is too much unwarranted variation in the service’s emergency care performance.
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NewsMackey: I will stick up for the NHS
The new chief of NHS England has said he will fight the service’s corner if he has policy disagreements with ministers, but that his organisation was a “complication” the government could no longer “justify” preserving.
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News‘Big consolidation’ of ICBs coming, says new NHSE chief exec
A “big consolidation” of integrated care boards is being planned, according to new NHS England chief executive Sir Jim Mackey.
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NewsElon Musk offers Streeting help on NHS cuts
The director of the US Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk, is keen to provide advice on how to achieve the widespread cuts to NHS manager numbers announced last month.
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NewsNHSE reveals new digital chief to ‘maintain stability’
NHS England has appointed Ming Tang as interim chief digital and information officer.
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NewsNHS ‘should give councils more grief’ on health
The 10-Year Plan’s focus on the NHS risks sidelining the need for more effective action by national and local government on prevention, public health directors are warning.
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NewsICS accused of ‘systemic culture of revising plans’
The integrated care system with the biggest overspend in 2024-25 has been told it has a “systemic culture of revising plans”, in NHS England’s latest attempt at intervention.
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HSJ LocalCancer patients missed chance for treatment due to 100-day waits, trust admits
Lung cancer patients at a major trust were on a waiting list for so long that their disease progressed to a stage where it was no longer treatable.
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NewsRevealed: ICBs spending the most and least on staffing
New figures shared with HSJ reveal how much each integrated care board spends on its staffing, with a two-fold variation per head of population.