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CommentHow the NHS Assembly used its soft power to effect change
Created in 2019, the NHS Assembly united diverse perspectives from across health and care to support NHS England’s leadership and long-term vision
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CommentSorry – but we need to restructure the NHS again
The NHS is fast approaching a fork in the road which many in the service, knee-deep in change, may not yet have considered – whether to embrace devolution or explain exceptionalism. This choice will help determine our future role in public service delivery and the potential end state of the ...
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Why the expected acute takeover is not happening
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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NewsRevealed: Home monitoring operating under lowest level of regulation
Several technologies in use in the NHS are operating under the lowest level of medical device regulation, despite being advertised for remote monitoring of patients’ vital signs, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsHospitals will ‘narrowly miss elective target’ to save the bottom line
Hospitals will hit financial targets this year but fall “slightly short” of their waiting-list objectives – as they were “explicitly” told that reducing deficits was “more important” – the NHS Providers’ CEO has predicted.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The ‘completely detached’ commissioning framework
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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NewsTrusts ‘need help to cut through AI noise’
NHS Providers and IBM have set up an AI productivity centre to help trusts save money when adopting new technology.
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NewsPrepare for ‘very unpleasant abuse’ if you want to be a CEO, warns retiring boss
Aspiring hospital leaders should be prepared for “very unpleasant, personal abuse”, especially when they take the “courageous decisions” to cut spending, according to a trust boss retiring after 15 years as a chief executive.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: What’s the ambition for IHOs and neighbourhoods?
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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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