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NewsUpdated: NHSE suspends planned consultant contract to fix NHS board performance
NHS England has suspended a planned contract to spend £15.6m on management consultants to create an NHS board improvement programme to build capability and iron out variable performance across local organisations.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: The path to ‘digital by default’ is now clearer
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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NewsNHSE picks seven trusts for £5bn investment
NHS England has announced the seven trusts it intends to award contracts totalling £5bn to run the NHS Genomic Medicine Service over the next decade.
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NewsJoint NHSE-DHSC leadership team revealed
NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care have set out how the service will be jointly led by the two organisations until their formal merger is complete sometime in 2027.
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NewsEx-tabloid editor to review ‘integration’ of DHSC and NHSE media teams
Wes Streeting has hired a former newspaper editor to review the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England’s “media and digital work”.
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NewsLocal systems must ‘comply’ with new medicines access policy
NHS England wants to standardise local drug formulary teams and operations while it develops a single national formulary over the next two years, HSJ has learned.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Windows on the world
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The patient cost of ICB cuts
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by correspondent Mimi Launder.
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CommentWe need a national end-of-life delivery plan
As leaders of the UK’s largest palliative care charities, the chief executives of Marie Curie and Sue Ryder set out how the hospice sector must evolve
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NewsOverall CQC ratings to be reintroduced
The Care Quality Commission is proposing to reintroduce overall care quality ratings for trusts, and put more weight on “expert professional judgement”, in an overhaul of its assessments.
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CommentPharma is working to boost drug availability, not prices
Victoria Jordan, director of value and access policy at the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), explores how medicine pricing affects patient access, research investment, and the sustainability of the UK health system
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Expert BriefingThe Download: A risk too far
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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HSJ PartnersPlant-rich diets: A prescription for patient health and NHS sustainability
Evidence of the health benefits of plant-rich diets is abundant, and the dangers of overconsuming meat are well-documented.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Distraction, not devolution
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Sunset of the EPRs?
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Ben Clover, Joe Talora and Ella Devereux. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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CommentBecoming a strategic commissioner means treating patients as partners
The pandemic exposed how trust in the NHS had “fallen off a cliff”, particularly among excluded communities. A North West London Integrated Care Board leader argues that genuine co-production – not tick box engagement – is essential for rebuilding relationships and improving health outcomes
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Paying for AVT
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Ben Clover, Joe Talora and Ella Devereux. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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News‘Wild West’ of AI suppliers face new NHSE checks
A new national registry for ambient voice technology providers to combat the “Wild West” of suppliers is due to launch this week, England’s national chief clinical information officer has announced.
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NewsComparing trusts on new productivity metric is misleading, experts warn
Recent productivity improvements will be hard to sustain in future years, experts have warned, as they said newly published NHS England data fails to show which trusts are the most productive.
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CommentThe neighbourhood health service risks becoming a conceptual muddle
The government’s ambition to establish a neighbourhood health service will fail to move from rhetoric to reality without a clearer clarity of purpose and measures for success, writes Matthew Taylor