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NewsNHSE reviewing patient transport contracting after string of failures
NHS England has ordered a review into the cost of patient transport services and the way they are commissioned, following a string of market failures.
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Revealed: Government preparing for nurse funding U-turn
The government is gearing up to announce reforms of financial support for NHS student nurses – likely to include a major reversal in funding policy – to boost applications.
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Revealed: 275 jobs to go as NHS England and Improvement cut costs
NHS England and NHS Improvement will shed 654 posts under cost reduction plans revealed this morning.
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Expert Briefing
‘About that bus…?’: The NHS’ biggest no-deal Brexit threat
Welcome to the ‘ About that bus…?’ weekly newsletter – giving you the inside track on how the fallout from Brexit is affecting the NHS at national and local level, edited by James Illman Contact me in confidence.
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Stevens: NHS will assume training budget will keep growing
The NHS will assume that education and training budgets will increase in the next four years as it “shapes” its long-awaited workforce plan, according to chief executive Simon Stevens.
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Investing in healthcare students’ education is essential
Following the plea from Simon Stevens to better support healthcare students, Danny Mortimer of NHS Employers considers the impact of education funding policy changes and identifies the priorities in supporting qualified staff to meet the needs of the long-term plan.
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Long-term neglect meets short-term politics
The new government may take short term steps to try to show “front line” improvement in the NHS, writes Dave West.
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Start work on realistic workforce planning
Workforce culture at the NHS requires a seismic shift at every level, note Ben Gershlick, Billy Palmer and Suzzie Bailey.
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Stevens: Lawyers get in the way of doctors learning
Lawyers sometimes get in the way of doctors learning from patient safety incidents, says Simon Stevens.
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Expert Briefing
Following the Money: Rent is optional
HSJ ’s weekly email briefing on NHS finances, savings, and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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Stevens: Nursing bursary question ‘clearly back in play’
Simon Stevens has said the debate over reintroducing a nursing bursary is “back in play” because the NHS needs a bigger pipeline of newly qualified nurses.
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Exclusive: Government overruled concerns with 999 IT system
Patients have died after the government overruled multiple safety concerns raised about an IT system used to triage 16 million NHS patients a year.
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Directors of nursing to be paid directly for clinical placements
Thousands more clinical placements will be delivered via money being paid directly to directors of nursing rather than via commissioning contracts, England’s chief nursing officer has announced.
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Stevens: Government must re-boot ‘no-deal’ Brexit plan ‘within weeks’
Ministers must act “very, very soon” to re-boot contingency plans for a no deal Brexit if the NHS and suppliers are to be ready for the UK to crash out of the EU on 31 October, NHS England’s chief executive has warned.
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NHSE plans new controls on expansion of ‘Uber-GP’ service
NHS England is proposing changes in GP funding and regulation to control the expansion of Babylon’s controversial digital-first GP at Hand service, Simon Stevens has said.
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Simon Stevens at meeting which decided not to publish controversial cancer report
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens was present at a meeting where a decision was taken not to publish a 2015 report which exposed concerns about children’s cancer care in London, minutes newly released to HSJ show.
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MPs back most of NHS England’s proposed reforms
The Commons health and social care committee has said it “welcomes” the thrust of NHS England’s proposals for legal change , but raised queries and objections on some important points.
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NHS ‘needs more acute beds’ after decade of reduction
Acute trusts will need to increase their bed base during the next five years according to NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens, which would reverse a long trend of bed reductions in the NHS.
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Turning leadership on its head
To build a workforce and culture fit for the future, the NHS needs to let go of its “looking upwards” tendency and build its leadership culture ground-up from the frontline, says Halima Khan
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Expert Briefing
Performance watch: Opaque A&E trial won’t wash
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