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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Will the new funding package spell the end of parity?
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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HSJ PartnersUniversity College London Hospital, Moorfields and Great Ormond Street, to form the capital’s largest medical collaborative staff bank, comprising 10 London trusts part of the North Central London STP
North Central London STP is implementing a cloud-based collaborative bank solution to share individual medical bank pools across 10 trusts which will allow hospitals to access a larger bank, writes Dr Nicholas Andreau.
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NewsPrivate provider’s takeover of urgent service sparks union opposition
A private organisation’s takeover of a hospital’s urgent treatment centre has sparked opposition from staff and trade unions.
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NewsNearly half of hospital trusts hit ‘unsafe’ occupancy levels
The number of acute trusts running at very high bed occupancy hit a new peak last week, with nearly half of acute trusts over NHS England’s 92 per cent benchmark, analysis shows.
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NewsHospital trust makes chief permanent after two years
England’s most high-profile hospital trust has appointed its interim chief executive on a permanent basis after two years.
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NewsCCG closes private firm's GP practice in remote area
Nine thousand patients in an isolated part of Kent have been given two months to find a new GP surgery after the clinical commissioning group did not renew a contract with the existing practice – despite the area being short of GPs.
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HSJ LocalTrust appoints permanent CEO after year of interim leadership
An acute trust in the Midlands has made its interim chief executive a permanent appointment.
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CommentThe media must support, not criticise, GPs
Professor Martin Marshall, chair of the Royal College of GPs, argues that coverage of concerns about remote GP appointments is undermining confidence, while many patients are being assessed effectively and safely.
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NewsNICE chief executive to retire after 18 months
The chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is to retire.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The cost of a system leader
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsGovernment plans mandatory covid and flu vaccinations for NHS staff
The government has launched a consultation on making coronavirus and flu vaccinations compulsory for frontline NHS staff and social care workers in England.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Forgetting the war that’s still happening
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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CommentUnpaid carers’ rights are overlooked in hospital discharge
The discharge to assess model, rapidly extended during covid and still in place, has in many cases failed family members looking after loved ones at home, omitting carers from the discharge process, says Helen Walker of Carers UK.
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NewsRevealed: The best and worst trusts to be a junior doctor
HSJ analysis of data from the latest General Medical Council national training survey has revealed the top and bottom trusts for overall experience for junior doctors.
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HSJ LocalFormer BBC executive to chair hospital trust
The former chief finance and chief operating officer for the BBC has been appointed chair of the Countess of Chester Hospital Foundation Trust.
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NewsTrust unfairly dismissed consultant acquitted of fraud
A hospital trust unfairly dismissed a consultant radiologist it had accused of fraud, an employment tribunal has decided.
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NewsNHS sets plan for ‘earlier and greater’ children’s ICU demand
The NHS has drawn up contingency plans to substantially dilute specialist nursing in paediatric intensive care, in the event of exceptional increases in serious respiratory illness in coming months.
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NewsDHSC hires new deputy chief medical officer
Jeanelle de Gruchy, Association of Directors of Public Health president, is expected to be named as a new deputy chief medical officer later today.
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NewsHealth union brings in QC to review serious culture and harassment allegations
A union which is facing sexual harassment allegations has appointed a leading QC to undertake a wide-reaching, independent review into its culture.
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NewsChief executive to run two trusts
Two trusts in the North West will share a chief executive and work in partnership to help secure “fragile” services.