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Daily InsightDaily Insight: ‘A deadly strike’
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsGP funding formula set for change, says NHSE director
NHS England’s medical director for primary care has promised reform of GP funding allocations as part of contract renegotiations.
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HSJ LocalNew ICS chief: ‘I’m being managed in a straitjacket’
A new system leader has said she has felt like she is ‘in a straitjacket’ since being in the post, and asked for greater acknowledgement that ‘I might actually know what I’m doing’.
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CommentElective waiting times worsen in April
The number of 104 week waiters improved, but overall things are getting worse with elective waits.
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NewsSpending on regulation has ‘gone too far’, says NHSE chief
Sir David Sloman has said the proportion of the NHS budget being spent on regulation has ‘gone too far’ and needs to be shifted to frontline services.
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NewsTrust rows back on ‘too tall or too short’ dismissal threat
Staff risk being sacked because they are too short or too tall to drive a van-conversion ambulance, union officials have warned.
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NewsRail strikes ‘will kill people’, warns NHS leader
Next week’s rail strikes will “probably end up killing people” as they will prevent staff working for already struggling ambulance trusts from getting to work, a senior NHS leader has told HSJ.
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NewsICS leader: We’re still facing short-sighted trusts
An integrated care system chair has said systems will still face ’short-sighted’ competitive behaviour from trusts, citing a trust chair who didn’t want his staff to take part in a system-wide executive development programme.
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HSJ LocalRetiring CEO: Other industries would think how we chair boards is mad
The outgoing CEO of an acute trust has called for better support for healthcare leaders, particularly when it comes to the relationship between chiefs and chairs, as she prepares to retire.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: The two-year waiter slayers
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsJavid wants top leaders to leave ‘walled gardens’ and take over struggling trusts
Sajid Javid has said ‘underperforming’ trusts could be forced to join ‘reform partnerships’ designed to spread the NHS’s best leaders across areas which are struggling.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: 12 great expectations
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsRevealed: The top-performing ICSs defying deprivation challenges
A cluster of integrated care systems across the North of England has bucked the trend to deliver successful integration schemes and better patient outcomes despite high levels of deprivation, new analysis has found.
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NewsNHS England reviewing bed capacity
The NHS has a low bed base, and NHS England is reviewing ‘how we right-size our capacity’ across hospital, community and ‘virtual’ services, Amanda Pritchard has said.
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News‘Don’t stand in way of integration if clinicians want it’, says CEO
A trust chief executive says leaders ‘should not stand in the way’ of controversial plans for further integration with a neighbouring provider if that is the direction being set by clinicians.
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HSJ LocalTrust branded ‘inadequate’ for leadership and maternity
One of the trusts worst affected by coronavirus has been issued with two warning notices and rated ‘inadequate’ for leadership, following a Care Quality Commission inspection.
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HSJ LocalTrust chief: Manager ‘bootcamps’ helped eliminate two-year waiters
The chief executive of one of the first teaching trusts in the country to have eliminated two-year waiters for elective care has said there is ‘no magic to it’ and it can be replicated elsewhere.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Awkward
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Government launches new NHS data strategy
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by senior correspondent Nick Carding.
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CommentCovid brought community pharmacists in from the cold, let's build on that
Reena Barai highlights how the integration of primary care networks and local pharmacies have led to inclusive healthcare at the local level