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News
CQC chief admits ‘we’ve lost your trust’ and announces more inspections
The Care Quality Commission’s new chief executive has admitted the regulator “got things wrong” during the rollout of its new inspection regime and announced an increase in the number of assessments it carries out.
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Expert Briefing
Patient Safety Watch: Bold moves to address the crisis and key appointments at the top
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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Comment
Hurrah! The politcians are back in control
The NHS has issued a statement expressing support for Wes Streeting as the new health and social care secretary promises to take back control, get the NHS done and lead us to the sunlit uplands. Julian Patterson has the details
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: 48,000 hours stuck in an ambulance
This week we discuss the ongoing harm done by long ambulance handover delays and what the new government must do to address this problem.
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Long waiters increase raises fresh questions over key NHSE target
The number of 65-week elective waits has increased for consecutive months with the figure rising by more than ten per cent to around 56,000 in May, NHS England’s latest statistics show.
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Two experts join DHSC to lead 10-year reform plan
Two health policy experts are joining government to help draw up a 10-year plan for health.
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Former minister joins Streeting’s team
Two new health and social care ministers, who previously held roles in the shadow team, have been announced by the new government.
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Supermarket exec moves to DHSC
A supermarket chain executive has been named as the new chief commercial officer for the Department of Health and Social Care.
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Streeting tells NHSE and DHSC to ‘work as one team’ and air ‘competing views’
Wes Streeting has told his department and NHS England to work as “one team” to improve services – which includes relaying their “competing views and interests” to him.
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Ministers sitting on 26 requests to intervene in service reconfigurations
The Department of Health and Social Care received 26 requests to intervene in NHS service changes in the first three months of the new reconfiguration regime, and has yet to make a decision on any of them, HSJ can reveal.
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Exclusive: CQC admits it is failing to keep patients safe
The Care Quality Commission has admitted it is failing to keep patients ‘safe’ and is losing the confidence of ministers and the NHS, HSJ has discovered.
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CQC chief executive announces sudden departure
The chief executive of the Care Quality Commission has today told staff he will be leaving his role at the end of the week.
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Comment
Prepare to clear your desks
Before he takes up an important political assignment, Julian Patterson offers a shamelessly unbalanced view of the outcome of the general election and what it will mean for HSJ readers
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Comment
Changes to the NHS constitution should not be debated in secrecy
Jacob Lant, CEO of National Voices, argues that the consultation process on changing the NHS constitution needs to be made more inclusive and accessible
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Maternity services ‘overwhelmed with reporting requirements’, warns DHSC group
Government has been warned by its own advisory group that maternity services are being “overwhelmed with reporting requirements” which are hindering safety improvement work, according to documents seen by HSJ.
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ICB boss and chief nurse awarded top honours
An integrated care board chair who was previously the Department of Health’s finance lead, and a long-serving chief nurse, were among those named in the King’s birthday honours list.
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‘Burdensome’ patient safety inquiries taking up too much time, says NHSE chief
NHS England’s head of patient safety has suggested too much time and resource is being spent on “burdensome” inquiries to investigate failings in the system.
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New hospitals’ design ‘unlikely’ to deliver patient benefits, says £1bn project
Government plans to standardise designs of new hospitals will be “unlikely” to deliver any benefits to patients at one of its biggest projects, according to the teaching trust overseeing the scheme.
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Comment
Streeting should empower ICSs, not undermine them
Wes Streeting risks undermining integrated care systems, and Labour’s own promise not to restructure the NHS, if he seeks to manage elective recovery directly via trusts, says NHS Confederation CEO Matthew Taylor
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Labour U-turns on pension tax after ‘NHS exodus’ threat
Labour has U-turned on plans to reintroduce the pensions lifetime allowance, which the British Medical Association said would have triggered an “exodus” of senior clinicians.