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NewsExclusive: NHSE cuts elective targets and admits PM’s waiting list pledge under threat
Stop with this we are giving TrustsNHS England has reduced its elective activity target for the service because of the impact of junior doctors’ strike, and acknowledged the service may not hit the prime minister’s pledge to reduce waiting lists before the next general election if the industrial action continues.
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HSJ LocalTop CEO leaves to run Gibraltar health system
A leading trust chief executive has announced he is stepping down from the NHS and has accepted a three-year role with Gibraltar Health Authority.
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HSJ LocalFirst-time CEO picked by trust
North West Anglia Foundation Trust has recruited Mid and South Essex FT’s acting chief executive as its new permanent CEO.
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NewsTrust withheld key details of deaths, review finds
An ambulance service has pledged to overhaul how it makes disclosures to coroners after a review found that details of care failings were withheld in a number of cases.
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NewsNational rollout for triage scheme which cut ambulance journeys
A scheme in which ‘category 2’ 999 calls are validated by clinicians will be extended nationally after reducing journeys by 4 per cent in a pilot, with no adverse incidents, NHS England has told HSJ.
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NewsBullying and safety concerns raised by ‘outstanding’ hospital’s juniors
An inspection of an ‘outstanding’ hospital has revealed concerns about unsafe staffing, as well as bullying and undermining behaviour.
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NewsPrivate income boost set to cover £16.5m gap in trust’s finance plan
Great Ormond Street is planning to increase its private income by more than half this financial year to plug half of a projected £32.5m gap in its finances.
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NewsNHS England comms chief to join TikTok
NHS England communications director James Lyons will leave this summer, HSJ understands.
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News‘Big four’ consultancy gets £9m deal to fix NHS procurement systems
The national procurement and logistics agency has signed a £9m contract with Deloitte to replace the ageing, complex and inflexible systems trusts use to order products.
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HSJ LocalSenior trust CEO takes on top job at second major trust
East Suffolk and North East Essex Foundation Trust chief executive Nick Hulme has been appointed interim chief at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals FT, the trusts have announced.
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NewsBarclay: I’m fighting doctors’ pay demands for the sake of NHS staff
The government is resisting what it believes are inflationary pay demands from junior doctors for the sake of NHS staff, health and social care secretary Steve Barclay has told HSJ.
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News‘Outstanding’ trust names interim chief
East London Foundation Trust has named an interim chief executive, following the departure of her predecessor to lead its neighbour.
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NewsHospital threatened with loss of junior doctors over safety concerns
A struggling trust has been warned by regulators that it could see its junior doctors moved, after concerns about clinical supervision and safety at a hospital whose A&E closes at night.
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News‘Beginnings of safety culture’ emerging at ‘cover-up’ trust
An ambulance trust at the centre of an inquiry into alleged cover-ups has shown signs of improvement, according to the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsTrust CEOs decry ‘undeliverable’ and damaging financial plans
NHS trusts have committed to financial plans for 2023-34 without properly considering their consequences – with finance directors turning a blind eye to unrealistic forecasts under pressure from NHS England – some of the country’s top NHS chief executives have warned.
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News‘Insulting’ cut to staff support services confirmed by NHSE
NHS England has issued a ‘tokenistic’ and ‘insulting’ funding settlement for staff mental health and wellbeing hubs this year, which is not enough to provide proper support, HSJ has been told.
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NewsRedundancy pay cap ‘would hit ICB and national staff’, union warns
Integrated care board and national agency staff could be hit by government plans to cap redundancy payments at £100,000, as they are required to cut running costs, a union has warned.
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News‘No more hard-nosed landlord behaviour’, says PropCo chief
The chief executive of NHS Property Services has accepted it may still need to win some people over as it moves forward from its historic issues.
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NewsTrusts to award £500m pathology contract after legal challenge dropped
A pharma and diagnostics firm has dropped its bid to reverse a decision by three acute trusts to award a multimillion pound pathology contract to a competitor.
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NewsNHSE appoints two new directors
NHS England has appointed an interim chief dental officer, while a big pharma executive has been hired as its new commercial medicines director, it has announced.