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News
Exclusive: 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, two leading think tanks 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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News
No 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 Briefing
The 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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NHS 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.
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Expert Briefing
The Download: Shared Blair record
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 Ben Clover and Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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HSJ Partners
Unlocking the power of end-to-end digital solutions in healthcare: Global insights for the NHS
As the NHS faces ever-increasing demand, persistent staffing shortages, and an expanding backlog of care, all eyes are on digital solutions.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: Deficits are cancelled
This week, we cover what is happening with the more than £2bn that NHS England wants to take off overspending trusts.
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Expert Briefing
The Download: With no delivery plan, decision paralysis reigns
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 Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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News
Mackey ‘risking safety’ with tough line on strikes, says BMA
NHS England’s instruction not to cancel planned care during the upcoming resident doctors strike risks harming patient safety, the British Medical Association has warned.
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News
Managers will be barred for misconduct and 'silencing whistleblowers'
NHS directors who commit serious misconduct will be barred from taking up other senior roles, under the government’s manager regulation proposals.
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News
Five systems lose £100m deficit support
Five integrated care systems have had their deficit support funding withheld as a result of overspending or failing to deliver savings, NHS England has revealed.
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Expert Briefing
On Call: How to stop the strikes
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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News
Behaviour of NHS leaders toward whistleblowers ‘shocking’, says Francis
NHS leaders continue to exhibit “shocking” behaviour when confronted with concerns raised by whisteblowers, according to Sir Robert Francis.
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Expert Briefing
The Download: Write back at you
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
Second Streeting adviser joins NHSE board
One of the leading figures behind the government’s 10-Year Health Plan is to join NHS England’s board as a non-executive director, HSJ has discovered.
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News
Streeting’s delayed decision on A&E downgrade sparks concern
The alarm has been raised over the length of time Wes Streeting is taking to reject or support a planned A&E downgrade.
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Comment
Politicians must stop their unthinking defence of hospital care
To fulfil the 10-Year Health Plan’s vision of a community-centric service, politicians and local leaders will need to align their actions and engage collectively with the communities for whom this matters, writes Helen Buckingham
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News
NHS diversity initiatives are not 'deadweight', claims Streeting
The NHS must transform its approach to diversity and equality to concentrate on outcomes and not “workshops and posters” the health care secretary has told MPs.