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NewsGovernment promises GP appointments within two weeks
The new health and social care secretary will set out her NHS “plan” today, which will promise patients non-urgent GP appointments within two weeks, with urgent needs “seen within the same day”.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Paying the consultants
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsNo mental health data taken in cyber attack, NHSE confirms
No patient data held by mental health trusts was taken following a cyber attack this summer, NHS England has confirmed.
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NewsNew CEO for trust beset by national controversy
One of the country’s most high-profile mental health trusts has appointed its new chief executive, four months after its existing CEO announced he was retiring.
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NewsNew national deadline to eliminate two-year waiters
NHS England has issued a new deadline to treat patients who have been waiting more than two years for treatment, a month after saying it had ‘virtually eliminated’ the longest waits, it has emerged.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: A proxy war
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Trust could be split after crucial CQC inspection, sources warn
An imminent inspection of a special measures trust’s leadership could prompt the provider to be broken up, senior figures have warned.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Simple tech slashes lists
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Written by senior correspondent Nick Carding. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsCampaigning MP to chair foundation trust
A long-serving Labour MP is leaving the Commons after 17 years and will join a mental health trust as its chair, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsLawyers warned trust that staff could ‘pick and choose’ documents for coroners
An ambulance trust accused of withholding key evidence from coroners was previously warned its staff needed training to ‘understand the real risk of committing criminal offences’ in relation to inquests into patient deaths.
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NewsBMA ‘acting like football agents’ inflating extra shift pay, say trust chiefs
A row has broken out between trust bosses and the British Medical Association over the doctors’ union’s campaign to drive up consultants’ hourly pay rates for extra shifts, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNew lead for DHSC’s MedTech directorate
The procurement lead from a major London acute will lead the Department of Health and Social Care’s new medical technology directorate, HSJ has learned.
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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: New hospitals, nuisance needles and wallet-busting bills
Your essential update on health for the week.
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NewsCovid admissions rise sharply in the South West
The number of covid positive patients admitted to hospitals in the South and East of England has stopped falling and, in some areas, is rising steeply.
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NewsTrust earned £39m from Middle Eastern country in one year
A leading hospital trust earned nearly one-tenth of its income during a single year doing private work for a small Middle Eastern state, it has been revealed.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The NHS’s £18bn rainy day fund
NHS trusts have more than £18bn in covid cash reserves, but how helpful is this extra money?
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Pointed remarks
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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HSJ InteractiveWebinar: What needs to happen if remote monitoring is to truly enhance patient outcomes and system efficiencies?
in association with WEBINAR: What needs to happen if remote monitoring is to truly enhance patient outcomes and system efficiencies? Tuesday 18 October 2022 – 10.30am-11.15am Remote monitoring of patients quickly accelerated during the first phases of the pandemic, most notably via pulse ...
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HSJ LocalCity braced for ‘Winterbourne View’-level scandal
Police are braced to investigate a ‘Winterbourne View’-level scandal in Greater Manchester, with a TV documentary expected to include allegations of serious patient abuse.
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NewsUpdated: Rollout of omicron vaccine threatened by ‘flimsy needles’
NHS staff have warned that needles supplied with a covid vaccine which targets the omicron strain are “not fit for purpose” and could place vaccinators and members of the public at risk.