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LeaderWhy Claire Murdoch quit
It is to the former national director for mental health Claire Murdoch’s credit that she stuck with her role for more than a year under the current government.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE director resigns, claiming politicians wanted ‘change at the top’
Claire Murdoch, NHS England’s national mental health director for the last nine years, has today resigned “with immediate effect”.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: How to win the (NHS) league
The HSJ Health Check podcast returns this week, just as NHS England unveils new performance rankings for every trust in England.
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NewsTrusts’ ‘league table’ rankings revealed
NHS England has revealed its new “league table” rankings for every NHS trust, with hospitals in London scoring best and East of England the worst.
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CommentHow politicians took back control of the NHS, Part 1
In its first year in charge of the NHS after more than a decade on the sidelines, Labour triggered a revolution in how the service is run. Dave West asked insiders what drove the new government’s thinking, and what comes next. Part one of two.
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NewsExclusive: Spending freeze imposed after NHSE identifies £300m budget hole
The government has ordered a spending freeze and told the NHS to absorb the £300m cost of the most recent resident doctors’ strikes from existing budgets, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMinisters pressed for promised ‘independent workforce plan’
Government must deliver on its manifesto commitment to “regular, independent workforce planning” for health and social care, royal colleges and others warned Wes Streeting today.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Restructure hits deadlock in many ICBs
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by correspondent Mimi Launder.
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NewsStop letting down resident doctors, NHSE tells trusts
Trusts are to have new responsibilities for improving resident doctors’ working lives under a plan unveiled by NHS England today.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Details of maternity investigation revealed and ‘corridor care’ scrutinised
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
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CommentFlawed league tables risk confusion and harm
A flawed approach to the government’s new league tables for trusts risks rewarding the wrong things, say the chief executives of NHS Providers and the NHS Confederation
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HSJ LocalInquiry delay ‘making CEOs look silly’
The lack of information given to trusts likely to be involved in a national maternity investigation due to complete this year is making leaders “look silly” in front of staff, a major trust chief executive has said.
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CommentAn NHS-only neighbourhood health service would be ruinously expensive
Community-led eye care is primed to be a much-needed win for the 10-Year Health Plan – so long as we are sensible about what we mean by “community”, writes Adam Sampson, CEO of the Association of Optometrists
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Expert BriefingOn Call: Nurses get tough
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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NewsExclusive: Ministers using ‘misleading indicator’ to champion waiting list reduction
The recent reduction in the waiting list repeatedly cited by ministers as evidence of the NHS’s recovery has given a “misleading” impression to the public about the service’s underlying performance, leading policy experts have warned.
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News£174k offered for top DHSC jobs
Three new director general posts have been advertised by the Department of Health and Social Care structure, each commanding a salary of up to £174,000.
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NewsNo resident doctors strikes in August, says Streeting
The British Medical Association has agreed to pause strike action for the “month of August”, according to the health secretary.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: SPR of the moment
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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News‘Extra appointments’ celebrated by govt deliver ‘modest impact’ on waiting lists
The “4.6 million extra NHS appointments” championed by the prime minister and health secretary have only had a “modest impact” on reducing waiting list clock stops, a vital part of cutting the NHS’s elective care backlog, according to new analysis shared exclusively with HSJ.
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NewsNHS must be seen as just one part of health ‘ecosystem’, says Milburn
The “big change” ushered in by the 10-Year Health Plan will be to shift the view that healthcare in England is synonymous with “a single institution we happen to call the National Health Service”, according to government adviser and former health secretary Alan Milburn.