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NewsMackey: We’ll reduce our reliance on resident doctors in response to strikes
The NHS will accelerate work to design clinical models less reliant on resident doctors in response to continuing strike action by medics, NHS England chief executive Sir Jim Mackey has told HSJ.
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NewsEx-CEO’s £300k payout should be investigated, says MP
A £300,000 exit payment given to a former integrated care board CEO should be investigated, a senior Labour MP has told HSJ.
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NewsMackey: Prepare for ‘long period’ of strike action
The health service is set for a “long distance” run of industrial action following resident doctors announcing another strike, NHS England’s CEO has warned.
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NewsCEOs of struggling trusts are worth their salaries, says health secretary
Wes Streeting has defended the salaries paid to chief executives of struggling trusts, arguing they could earn “a lot more” if they chose.
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NewsStreeting: ICBs should ‘take a bit longer’ to get reorganisation right
The health secretary has admitted the rationalising and refocusing of integrated care boards has not gone smoothly, and that “taking a bit longer to get it right [is] a good thing” where required.
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NewsStreeting: Failing NHS bosses being ‘quietly moved on’
Under-performing NHS bosses are being “quietly moved on” rather than being “named and shamed”, Wes Streeting has said.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Much-needed taskforce inspires cautious optimism for change
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
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NewsMaternity taskforce ‘missing integral expertise’
“Integral” expertise is missing from Wes Streeting’s new maternity taskforce, a royal college has said, after no anaesthetists were included in the core group set up to tackle ongoing failures in care.
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NewsJust 3% of NHSE staff say change is managed well
Just 3 per cent of NHS England staff think that the organisation manages change well, according to its latest internal survey.
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NewsStreeting admits another cut to mental health spend share
The proportion of the NHS budget spent on mental healthcare will be cut for the third year in a row, the health secretary has admitted.
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NewsCQC considered bypassing ministers to hire new chief
The Care Quality Commission considered recruiting a replacement for Sir Julian Hartley without government approval because of a four-month delay in getting it signed off, one of its non-executive directors told a board meeting.
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NewsTrust-commissioned maternity review cancelled by Streeting
A review commissioned by Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust to investigate its perinatal mortality rate has been cancelled following an intervention by the health secretary, HSJ understands.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Baroness Amos’ interim report sparks a sense of déjà vu
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
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NewsStreeting hires adviser to combat staff anger over pay
Wes Streeting has hired an experienced trade union official to help him deal with growing industrial unrest throughout the NHS workforce.
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NewsNHS has ‘hollowed out’ community care, says government adviser
The NHS has “hollowed out” community and primary care and become a “national hospital service”, according to the influential lead of a government review of social care.
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Expert BriefingOn Call: The big NHSE-DHSC pay divide
Essential insights into the latest workforce challenges facing NHS staff. Analysis on the key questions around recruitment and retention, staff wellbeing, and equality, diversity and inclusion. By HSJ workforce correspondent Nick Kituno.
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NewsMinister undergoing cancer treatment to stand down
The health minister who led on the government’s new cancer plan has stepped down, as she undergoes chemotherapy.
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NewsHuge drop in confidence in DHSC leaders
There has been a huge drop in the Department of Health and Social Care staff who feel their “senior leaders have a clear vision for the future of the organisation” – making it the lowest in Whitehall.
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NewsMerging watchdog into CQC will ‘destroy’ independence
The influential MP who first proposed setting up a safety investigations watchdog for the NHS has warned health and social care secretary Wes Streeting that merging the body into the Care Quality Commission would be “fundamentally wrong”.
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LeaderThe Streeting/Milburn era must end to give the NHS a fresh start
It has now been exactly a year since Labour began its reform of the NHS, and the succeeding months have proved a poor advert for its central idea of giving government more control over the service.