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NewsUnforeseen post-covid demand is driving overspending, says trust chief
A trust chief executive has said ongoing and unforeseen demand from children needing mental healthcare in the wake of the pandemic is driving overspending.
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NewsFinance directors need to do more to keep patients safe, warns watchdog
Financial directors need to take responsibility for safety, which should be at the core of how the NHS runs services, the leadership of the Health Services Safety Investigations Body said at its launch yesterday.
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NewsTrust’s £9m gift to charity reveals governance ‘weakness’
A trust donated £9m to its charity without the permission of NHS England or the Treasury.
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News‘Management bandwidth’ is slowing integration, says minister
Integration is being slowed down in some areas by a lack of ‘management bandwidth’ in systems dealing with competing pressures, a minister has said.
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CommentLabour will throw everything but money at the NHS
The shadow health minister Wes Streeting sets out a bold vision of a reformed health service not run by a Conservative government. As told to Julian Patterson
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HSJ LocalNHS ‘net zero’ push endangered by lack of funding, claims trust
A major hospital trust which was the first NHS organisation to declare a ‘climate emergency’ has said lack of national funding is undermining the ‘transformational change’ needed for the service to achieve its net zero targets
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NewsTeaching trust accused of unfair treatment by supplier
A major London teaching trust has seen its decision to award a five-year waste management contract challenged by an unsuccessful bidder.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: What backlog recovery could look like under Labour
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Death during the 'Christmas Day' strikes
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsTreasury ‘legitimately sceptical of DHSC and NHSE’, claims Streeting
The shadow health secretary has called the relationship between the Treasury, NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care ‘appalling’, adding he will address HMT’s ‘legitimate scepticism’ about health spending if Labour wins power.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: There’s no ‘reset’ for ICS finances
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
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NewsAgency profits growing due to ‘acute shortage of staff’
Two companies supplying staff to the NHS saw large growth in income and profits last year, annual accounts reveal.
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NewsNHS spends ‘an awful lot’ on management consultants, says shadow minister
A Labour shadow minister has criticised the NHS spending an ‘awful lot of money’ on management consultants, saying it is frustrating for other managers that ‘big firms’ are brought in when major problems arise.
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NewsNHS Providers boss: Tackle consultant strikes to unlock progress on juniors
Ministers should focus on resolving the consultants’ pay dispute first, and use an agreement to help facilitate a deal with the junior doctors, NHS Providers’ boss Julian Hartley has told HSJ.
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News£1.1bn for ‘around the clock’ electives promised by Labour
The Labour party today said it would fund an additional two million elective appointments a year, to take place at weekends and evenings and funded with an extra £1.1bn for overtime shifts.
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HSJ LocalICBs must pay £1.7m for competition failure
Three integrated care boards have had to pay £1.7m to a technology firm, after commissioners manipulated a procurement, new figures reveal.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: How much have strikes cost the NHS?
Less than halfway through the financial year all 42 integrated care systems are in deficit.
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CommentWe must remember the lessons of the pandemic and prioritise lung health
A lack of funding for lung tests is leaving people with conditions like asthma and COPD at increased risk of being hospitalised this winter, a new report reveals. Sarah Woolnough, CEO of Asthma + Lung UK, says lung disease must be treated with the same urgency as other health conditions
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NewsExclusive: Government and NHS in talks over £1bn funding gap
Government is in talks with national NHS leaders over how to fill an urgent funding gap of at least £1bn this financial year, HSJ has learned, as new analysis shows all 42 local integrated care systems were behind their own plans less than halfway through 2023-24.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Another maternity red flag
Nothing is more important than the process of giving birth, but hospitals are increasingly struggling to induce mothers-to-be on time.