All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 45
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NHSE ‘should publish real-time data on staff vaccine uptake by ethnicity’
“Live, real-time” data on covid-19 vaccine uptake by ethnicity — including about NHS staff — should be published, the director of a new race observatory has said.
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Retail boss takes over as Test and Trace COO
NHS Test and Trace has appointed a former supermarket director as its new chief operating officer.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: Giving Hancock his due
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week
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NHSE refers ex trust CEO and CFO for ‘fit and proper person’ review over £46m accounting failure
The former chief executive and chief financial officer of a major acute trust have been referred to the Care Quality Commission under the ‘fit and proper person’ process, after an ‘unprecedented’ failure to provide true and fair accounts.
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CCG mergers will still go ahead in April, says NHS England
Clinical commissioning groups planning to merge in April can still do so, despite the demands the pandemic has placed on their systems, NHS England has said.
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North West's vaccine supply cut by a third
The supply of covid vaccine to the North West region is set to be cut by around a third in February, seemingly due to national shortages and the need for other regions to catch up with vaccinating their priority groups.
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High-earning doctors could face ‘large and unexpected’ tax bills because of covid work
NHS doctors are at risk of being hit with “large and unexpected” pension tax bills due to changes to their work patterns during the pandemic, experts are warning.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: Beyond The Big Suck
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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Revealed: Nightingale hospitals to cost half a billion pounds in total
England’s Nightingale hospitals have been forecast to cost more than half a billion, according to the latest government projections.
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Treasury agrees ‘limited’ funding to ease discharge blocks
The Treasury has agreed to fund “time-limited” insurance cover to encourage care providers to accept covid patients from hospitals — although some have questioned whether the measure goes far enough to help ease the NHS capacity crisis.
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Ambulance crews running out of oxygen amid supply problems
Ambulance crews in parts of the country hard hit by covid-19 have run very low on oxygen — or out of it entirely — on several occasions in the last month, HSJ has learnt.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Treasury’s ‘reluctance’ is worsening NHS crisis
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior integration correspondent, Sharon Brennan.
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NHS England told to cancel ‘tone-deaf’ fines on elective performance
NHS England has been criticised for its ‘tone-deaf’ attempts to maintain financial incentives on elective care, even as the service deals with extreme pressures from coronavirus.
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Revealed: Tests on staff to track how well covid vaccines are working
Vaccinated health and care staff who are asymptomatic will continue to be routinely tested for covid-19 under plans to measure vaccine effectiveness, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ’s 10 most read finance and efficiency stories of 2020
With 2020 down to its final days, it’s time to take a look back at HSJ’s most read finance and efficiency stories of the year.
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Hospices and community hospitals can ease covid discharge pressure, says NHSE
NHS England has told local NHS leaders to “strengthen leadership and oversight” of hospital discharge, and to make full use of funded capacity in hospices and NHS community hospitals for covid patients.
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‘Emergency’ measures giving NHSE control over commissioning extended to end of March
NHS England’s control over clinical commissioning groups has been extended to enable it to ‘commission healthcare from independent sector providers’ during the ongoing covid pandemic.
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CCG accused of ‘colluding’ to evict charity at centre of PFI dispute
A clinical commissioning group has been accused of ‘colluding’ with an NHS facilities company to evict a children’s centre.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: Rhetorical diarrhoea and distraction
Andy Cowper on the worsening developments regarding the coronavirus
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Exclusive: Hancock demands “affordability” must determine size of NHS covid pay rise
The health and social care secretary has repeatedly emphasised the need for “affordability” when determing the size of the promised pay rise for over one million NHS staff in instructions sent to the independent pay review body this week. DHSC starts Agenda for Change staff pay review process Health ...