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NewsNew strikes planned across five ambulance trusts
The major ambulance service union, Unison, has announced a further strike date, with ten days’ notice.
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NewsConsultants asked: ‘Are you prepared to strike?’
Consultants across England will be asked if they would be willing to take industrial action, the British Medical Association has announced.
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NewsRevealed: New elective activity targets for each ICS
NHS England has set new elective targets for each integrated care system in 2023-24, ranging from 3 per cent to 14 per cent above pre-pandemic levels.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Clearing up the beds number confusion
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsBMA issues ‘unaffordable’ medical locum rate card
The British Medical Association has issued a locum pay rate card for junior doctors, which trust bosses have described as ‘unaffordable’ and ‘unilateral’.
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HSJ LocalSystem’s trusts failing to tackle ‘completely unjust’ health inequalities
All three acute trusts in an integrated care system are failing to meet national requirements to tackle health inequalities after being overwhelmed by emergency and elective care pressures.
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NewsTrusts ‘coping better with strikes’ and on track to eliminate 78-week waits, says NHSE director
Trusts are getting better at coping with industrial action and are still on track to hit the national target of eliminating the backlog of 78-week waiters, an NHS England director has told staff.
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Expert BriefingWest Country Chronicle: Not another nightmare year
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsNHSE launches new intervention regime for worst A&E performers
NHS England has revealed a new intervention regime, as it seeks to deliver on its new urgent and emergency care recovery plan.
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News4,000 temporary beds to be made permanent under NHSE recovery plan
NHS England plans to shift about 4,000 temporary hospital beds from inappropriate areas into new wards next year, and open around 1,000 additional staffed beds, as part of new urgent and emergency recovery proposals set out today.
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NewsMedicines blackout threatens ICS prevention target
The government’s target for England to become smoke-free by 2030 – which integrated care systems are expected to pursue – is being undermined by the unavailability of two smoking cessation medicines.
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HSJ PartnersCaring for people with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: learning from best practice
There’s a clear need for a national IBD strategy to improve outcomes and experiences for people living with IBD.
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Daily InsightThe Primer: Needing a miracle
The Primer provides a rapid guide to the most interesting comment and analysis on the English health and care sector that has not (usually) appeared in HSJ.
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NewsTrust receives record fine for maternity care failure
An acute trust has been fined a record sum by the Care Quality Commission for failing to provide safe maternity care, which resulted in the death of a baby after 23 minutes.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Putting things right when they go wrong
Following Jeremy Hunt’s appointment as chancellor, HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch trustee James Titcombe.
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NewsGovernment delays ‘partial retirement’ pension reform
Ministers have been accused of scoring a ‘massive own goal’ by delaying a proposed NHS pension reform – seeking to reduce tax hits on high-earners – by six months.
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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Tailored targets, pilloried payoffs and missing mail
Your essential update on health for the week.
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CommentThe NHS can lead the UK’s green economy
With innovative treatments powered by renewable energy, and with digitally enabled services connecting us with patients wherever they are, we can grow the healthcare economy and high skill jobs using a fraction of the carbon, writes Luke O’Shea
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CommentExclusive: the Steve Barclay diaries
There’s only one Steve with the qualities to sort out the country’s ailing health system. As told to Julian Patterson
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HSJ LocalTrust underplayed ‘catastrophic’ IT outage
A major London trust has been criticised for ‘underplaying’ the problems caused by a ‘catastrophic’ IT outage, a new report has revealed.