All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 62
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Expert Briefing
Sleepless nights
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Contact Nicholas Carding in confidence here.
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News
‘Realism’ urged over pensions tax rule reform
The NHS must be “realistic” about how far the government will be able to go when changing pensions tax rules in the forthcoming Budget, NHS Providers has warned, in anticipation of the Treasury confirming a partial solution this week.
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Hand gels supply to NHS providers being ‘rationed’
A national procurement body is limiting the supply of certain hand sanitisers to the health service as coronavirus covid-19 continues to squeeze the global supply chain.
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Expert Briefing
More power to the Treasury
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Medical students and new doctors could be drafted in to fight coronavirus
Final year medical students could be drafted in to work in hospitals and first year doctors have their responsibilities extended if the NHS comes under severe pressure from increasing coronavirus cases, the chief medical officer has said.
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Expert Briefing
A leap into the dark
Welcome to HSJ’s Performance Watch expert briefing. Our fortnightly newsletter on the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders. Contact me in confidence here.
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NHSE/I: Too high doctors’ pay will hamper long-term plan delivery
NHS chiefs have backed a 2 per cent pay rise for doctors — but warned anything higher would hinder the ability to deliver on long-term plan commitments.
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National incident over coronavirus allows NHSE to command local resources
NHS bosses have declared coronavirus as a “level 4 incident” — a move which allows NHS England to take command of all NHS resources across England.
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Landmark FT merger goes back to competition regulator
Two Dorset foundation trusts have welcomed the launch of the latest regulatory investigation into their proposed merger, which was infamously blocked seven years ago.
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HSJ Local
Director makes cash plea over ‘inequitable’ service
A director of maternity services at a financially struggling trust have issued a plea to their board for investment amid reports their department is losing patients and staff due to inequitable service provision.
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Hancock: CCGs’ power to determine IVF cycles should be removed
Matt Hancock has said it is “absurd” that NHS leaders in some parts of England are able to decide to commission lower levels of IVF, rather than having it determined nationally.
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GMC: Red tape impeding overseas doctors’ recruitment
The General Medical Council has called for urgent action to “cut the red tape” around the recruitment of overseas doctors.
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NAO head: NHS lending was ‘seriously bad’ financial management
Parliament’s head auditor has criticised the financial management of the NHS, saying lending to struggling trusts was “debilitating” while consequences of cash incentives meant to improve performance were “essentially unacceptable”.
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NHS collecting coronavirus data from 111 calls
The NHS nationally is collecting data from 111 calls related to coronavirus to inform the national response, it has confirmed.
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Only six of 200 NHS private units signed up to complaints watchdog
Just six of the NHS’ more than 200 private patient units are signed up to the independent complaints adjudicator, HSJ has learned.
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£20bn construction framework set to deliver ‘40 new hospitals’
Billions of pounds of NHS capital is set to flow through a new national framework as part of the government’s drive to deliver “40 new hospitals” by 2030.
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Comment
How Jeremy Hunt should lead the Commons’ health committee
A senior and engaged committee chair who knows the policy area well and has the experience to run a body of MPs has the potential to do much good, and examine a lot of big questions, writes Eliot Wilson
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Exclusive: Hancock told People Plan falls short on staff numbers
The government has been warned that current NHS People Plan proposals will not solve serious problems in cancer care because they don’t go far enough in making commitments to growing staff numbers, HSJ has learned.
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Trust chiefs decry ‘concentration on targets’ at DHSC
NHS chief executives have cautioned against a “too one-sided concentration” on targets by the Department of Health and Social Care, after HSJ reported government had challenged NHS England over its plans for improving workforce retention.
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Efficiency scheme chief to stay on for 18 months
The chief executive of a flagship efficiency scheme will stay on until at least the end of September 2021, HSJ has learned.