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NewsNHSE staff risk losing ‘thousands’ in redundancy payouts
Hundreds of NHS England staff who took partial retirement are in danger of receiving redundancy payments which are tens of thousands of pounds lower than they expected.
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NewsFine AI firms that harm patients, demands tech commission
The medicines regulator should be allowed to fine AI companies that put patients at risk, its chief executive has said.
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NewsMinisters to unpick Healthwatch abolition
Ministers have indicated they will amend the Health Bill in the Lords to preserve an independent local voice for patients and care users.
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NewsCQC chair nearly said no to job
The government’s chosen candidate to chair the Care Quality Commission has revealed she initially turned the opportunity down, and that the regulator’s former chair had told her it was not a “great idea”.
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NewsExclusive: ‘Landmark’ safety policy was barely tested before launch
The “Martha’s Rule for maternity services” was used just 13 times in a national pilot before being cited by government and adopted by ministers as a solution to the maternity crisis, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsSingle water contract to save NHS £5m a year
NHS England is centralising the NHS’s water contracts in a move it says could save at least £5m a year.
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NewsMajor trust freed after nine years of NHSE intervention
One of England’s largest hospital trusts has been freed from NHS England enforcement action that ran for almost a decade.
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NewsUK’s largest private hospital group sold in £1bn deal
One of the NHS’s largest private providers, Spire Healthcare Group, has agreed to a £1bn takeover by a group of investment firms.
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NewsExclusive: Hundreds sacked for snooping on patient records
More than 200 NHS staff have been sacked and around 2,000 others sanctioned for inappropriately viewing patient records over the past five years, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsICB plan says trust must cut staff by 15%
An acute trust would have to cut its workforce by almost 15 per cent and its costs by 26 per cent under a draft five-year plan set by its integrated care board.
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NewsHot summer hit trust’s finances
An ambulance service will have to make an additional £1.6m in savings due to high demand over the hot summer and has been put under intense monitoring by NHS England.
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NewsRevealed: NHSE top team clear-out cost more than £800k
NHS England spent more than £800,000 on payouts for six directors last year as it cleared out its top team, it has been revealed.
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News‘Process error’ leaves major supplier off £140m framework
A global market-leading medical device manufacturer has failed to join a key national framework worth up to £140m over four years – potentially disrupting supply and increasing costs to hospitals.
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NewsNHSE staff could be kept out of DHSC
Ministers and officials are considering whether to keep some NHS England functions and staff separate from the Department of Health and Social Care when the organisation is abolished next year, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHS ends 12 years of staffing growth
The number of NHS staff in England is in year-on-year decline for the first time since 2013, as cuts to support and back-office roles combine with a sharp slowdown in clinical recruitment.
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NewsFDP is ‘here for the long term’, says NHSE boss
NHS England has vowed to press ahead with the controversial federated data platform and has insisted it is “here for the long term”, despite mounting pressure to cancel its contract with Palantir.
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NewsMany maternity units have ‘structural difficulties’, PM admits
The prime minister has admitted “structural difficulties” similar to those faced by a rural maternity unit recently forced to close over staff shortages are widespread across the NHS.
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NewsRecognise negative impact mutual aid can have on performance, pleads trust CEO
The chief executive of a trust that has fallen 34 places in NHS England’s provider performance league table has complained that the ranking fails to take into account its efforts to help neighbours.
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HSJ LocalSecond trust’s delay telling Southport victims of data breaches was ‘appalling’
An ambulance trust waited nearly two months before informing victims of the 2024 Southport attack that their patient records may have been accessed inappropriately by staff, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsGovernment U-turns on ICB board change
The government has U-turned on Health Bill proposals to remove mandated council representation from integrated care boards.