All Health Service Journal articles in April 2024 – Page 7
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NewsICBs to get new ‘capability’ ratings
Integrated care boards would be rated on their capability — as “excelling”, “achieving”, “progressing” or making “insufficient progress” — under draft NHS England proposals for a new assessment process.
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NewsTrust names former social care director as CEO
A community trust has appointed a director with a background in social care and the third sector to be its new chief executive.
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HSJ LocalCEO threatened with sack after ICS’s financial meltdown
A local system chief executive who warned integrated care boards lacked the power to hold trusts to account has effectively been threatened with being sacked because of poor performance by providers.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Who gets to mark the homework?
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE targeting 50% cut to waiting list
NHS England is floating proposals to cut the elective waiting list by nearly 50 per cent to under 4 million over the next five years, HSJ can reveal.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Are you going to lose your job?
This year sets the NHS one of its toughest financial challenges as pandemic cash dries up and funding shortfalls deepen.
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CommentBlithering shafted
New CFO Simon Shaft delivers a financial bombshell - the NHS Blithering deficit appears to have been wiped out. Has Sir Trevor Longstay made a terrible mistake? Julian Patterson reports
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NewsFTs and ICBs want me to abolish each other, says Streeting
Wes Streeting would seek to resolve the “tension” between foundation trusts and integrated care boards if he becomes health and social care secretary, he has said.
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Comment'Don't be captured by the CEO': the secrets of being a good chair
Ken Jarrold writes about key insights learned during his tenure as an NHS chair, emphasising stakeholder prioritisation, executive independence, and value embodiment
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HSJ LocalNew £2bn hospital group appoints chair
Two trusts which are forming a hospital group have appointed a new chair.
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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Job cuts, reignited mergers and unaccounted for beds
Your essential update on health for the week.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Trusts are to blame for the need to cut staff, not NHSE
NHS staffing cuts have sparked alarm, but budget mismanagement may be the real issue, not NHS England’s cost-saving demands
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LeaderPoliticians beware: The NHS will never again meet the four-hour A&E target
The English NHS as a whole will never again achieve the target contained in the NHS constitution to admit or discharge 95 per cent of A&E attendees within four hours. In an election year, politicians of all colours, as well as NHS leaders, need to be overtly honest about this.
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NewsPharma exec named chair of high-performing trust
A new chair has been appointed at one of England’s best performing trusts.
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NewsTrust CEO ‘must apologise’ over covid work demands
An employment tribunal has said a hospital chief executive should apologise to a surgeon whose mental health was affected by the way it handled his shielding during covid.
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Expert BriefingWest Country Chronicle: How an ICB became the best place to work (again)
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Mission impossible’s more realistic sequel
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsICB hires overseas CEO for new £1.5bn commissioning job
An integrated care board has brought in a senior executive from overseas to lead the commissioning of £1.5bn worth of delegated specialised services for the East of England.
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NewsTrusts with ‘distressing’ mixed-sex ward breaches blame poor estates
The trusts with the worst breach rates of mixed-sex ward rules in hospitals are revealed today by HSJ analysis after national levels hit a record high in 2023-24.
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HSJ PartnersBuilding strong and robust NHS partnerships
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