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NewsLong-standing Confed network chief to chair trust
NHS Confederation’s mental health network’s long-standing chief executive is leaving to chair a mental health trust.
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NewsTwo more ICBs sued over procurement by NHS trusts
An NHS trust and two social enterprises are taking legal action over a £300m procurement for children’s community health services which they say raises ‘significant concerns about safety’.
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HSJ PartnersCan remote care-at-home help the NHS tackle the challenges facing urgent and emergency care services?
Croydon Health Services Trust pioneers virtual ward services, leveraging technology to ease NHS emergency care demands and optimise patient outcomes and comfort.
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NewsHalf trust’s staff told CQC they had ‘no confidence’ in its leaders
More than half of a trust’s staff told the Care Quality Commission they did not have confidence in its executive leadership, with just 16 per cent saying they did, the regulator has reported.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Humiliating accusations
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsTwo trusts in city with ‘hospital for every part of body’ to merge CEO role
The city with five separate specialist trusts will see two of its trusts share a single chief executive from early next year.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: 12-hour trolley waits an ‘acceptable compromise’
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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CommentLet local people decide on the public health measures the NHS should invest in
Jessica Studdert explains how community-driven health initiatives in deprived areas, funded by the Big Local programme, not only demonstrate significant preventive benefits but also reduce demand on NHS services.
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NewsThirteen trusts write off £1.3m in overpayments to staff
Thirteen trusts were responsible for just over half of £2.6m overpayments to staff written off by NHS providers last year, data obtained by HSJ reveals.
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NewsJunior doctors being subjected to ‘public humiliation’, says trust boss
A hospital chief has warned colleagues of ‘significant behavioural concerns’ reported by junior doctors, including ‘undermining by public humiliation’.
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NewsBe ‘more directive’, providers tell NHSE
Urgent community response services must become an investment priority – and be given national targets for expansion – to tackle large variation, trust leaders have said.
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HSJ LocalICB sued by trust over £500m deal
A company part-run by an NHS trust has launched a legal challenge against a neighbouring integrated care board over a £500m pathology contract.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Beds progress takes a nap
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE crackdown on 10-hour ambulance delays
NHS England has launched a new crackdown on trusts it says have a ‘management strategy’ to hold patients in the back of ambulances to cope with emergency pressures inside their hospitals, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCore bed numbers fall in seven systems, despite NHSE plan
The number of ‘core’ acute beds has fallen in seven health systems since the summer, according to official sitrep data.
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NewsTrust appoints CEO after two years as interim
An ‘outstanding’ mental health trust has made its long-term interim chief executive substantive, it has announced.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in October 2023, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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News56% of staff leave ‘relentless’ jobs within a year
A trust has found that more than half its new call handlers quit within a year of starting, and a third within six months — with ‘health’ being given as the main reason.
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NewsCommunity services need new national funding bid, says outgoing NHS England director
The national clinical director for older people has announced he is leaving NHS England and said a major government funding settlement will be needed to maintain progress and take community services to the ‘next stage’.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: The NHS should stop asking for bailouts
What the NHS needs is not more winter bailouts but a more consistent and sustained plan to tackle its underlying problems, writes Steve Black