All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 24
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CQC probes bullying allegations at national NHS agency
Bullying and harassment allegations made against leaders of the organisation that supplies blood to the NHS have prompted a Care Quality Commission review, with staff claiming poor culture has exacerbated the crisis around low blood stocks.
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Barclay calls urgent ‘hackathons’ over ambulance crisis
The new health and social care secretary has asked officials to hastily organise several “hackathons” to try to address the crisis in ambulance performance.
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Leak reveals 1,300 confirmed cancer patients still waiting after 104 days
More than 1,000 people are still waiting for cancer treatment 104 days after referral, despite having received a confirmed cancer diagnosis and having been referred with ‘urgent suspected cancer’, leaked data shows.
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ICS chief agrees to pay back covid bonus
The chief executive of an integrated care board will return a bonus paid for her ‘response and management’ of the pandemic, following enquiries by HSJ about the payment.
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Expert Briefing
The Ward Round: Fight, or walk
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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CEOs could get £30,000 bonus for joining troubled trusts
Senior managers could be paid one-off bonuses to take over the most troubled NHS organisations, according to draft proposals being considered by government and NHS England.
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‘Final straw’ as band 8 and 9 staff get ‘disgusting’ pay rise
WORKFORCE ‘Final straw’ as band 8 and 9 staff get ‘disgusting’ pay riseWORKFORCE ‘Final straw’ as band 8 and 9 staff get ‘disgusting’ pay rise Senior NHS staff on Agenda for Change pay bands 8 and 9 will receive much lower pay rises than those given to the majority of ...
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NHS ‘shouting into the void’ with covid concerns
NHS leaders have sometimes been “shouting into the void” about their fears of the health service being overwhelmed by covid because of the absence of a single national command centre for the pandemic response, a new report argues.
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Government U-turns on pay for top managers
Very senior NHS managers will receive a 3 per cent pay increase after the government accepted the recommendations of the senior salaries review board, which found “well-founded concerns about possible loss of leadership capacity”.
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Exclusive: Department of Health pays £2.2m for covid inquiry legal advice
The Department of Health and Social Care has brought in external legal support to help it prepare for the independent public inquiry into the covid pandemic.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: ‘Extremely worrying’ trend on ‘do not resuscitate’ orders
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by correspondent Emily Townsend — contact me in confidence.
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Comment
Government must fully fund the imminent pay award for NHS staff
Miriam Deakin emphasises the need for the government to fund the imminent pay award for NHS staff so that trusts can continue to deliver quality care and tackle workforce shortages
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Exclusive: Minister misled MPs over ambulance crisis
A health minister incorrectly told the Commons on Wednesday that additional surge capacity for the struggling ambulance service was in place to help deal with the pressures created by the heatwave, despite the contract to procure the extra resources not having been finalised, HSJ has learned.
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No GP contract ‘big bang’ needed, says new NHSE director
NHS England’s new director of primary care has said workforce shortages are standing in the way of continuity of care, rather than issues with the GP contract.
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New single IT system to manage billions in procurement spend
Funding has been secured for a single software platform to potentially manage all NHS procurement activities, which could equate to around £30bn of spending across 80,000 suppliers.
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HSJ Interactive
How can the NHS most effectively build resilience to a major cyberattack?
Before the pandemic, the NHS faced a widespread emergency in the form of the WannaCry cyberattack. The verdict then was that another such attack was not a matter of if, but when. So how can the NHS build resilience and defences? Claire Read reports from a recent HSJ webinar
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New minister appointed at DHSC
A new junior health minister has been appointed, following Sajid Javid and Edward Argar’s resignations last week.
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‘New hospitals’ trusts lack cash for planned rebuilds
Half of the trusts in the government’s flagship hospital building programme are ‘not confident’ their funding allocations will be enough to deliver their projects, a new poll of NHS executives has suggested.
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Health minister among latest to resign
Health minister Edward Argar resigned last night, one day after health secretary Sajid Javid.
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Hundreds of products out of stock amid ‘unprecedented’ supply chain problems
NHS trusts are finding hundreds of clinical and non-clinical products are out of stock with the national supply chain agency, leaving procurement teams scrambling to find alternatives and avoid gaps in supply.