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Health secretary warned of funding ‘challenge’ to A&E overhaul
The health secretary has been told that a long-delayed A&E revamp at the NHS’ only inadequate-rated trust remains ‘challenging’, with the need to meet a wide range of requirements proving ‘difficult to resolve’.
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NHS employers told: ‘Comply in full’ with tax rules for ‘locum and agency staff’
NHS England has told trusts and commissioners to ‘comply in full’ with regulations which mean deducting tax and national insurance from the payments made to some contractors, despite the ‘substantial administrative implications’ this will create.
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Javid: No increase in NHS funding to address workforce needs
Any investment to increase NHS staffing levels recommended by the forthcoming long-term workforce plan will need to be funded from within the service’s existing budget, Sajid Javid revealed today.
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NHS must remove Russian firms from its supply chain ASAP
NHS trusts must exit any contracts they have with Russian and Belarussian suppliers ‘as soon as practically possible’, Sajid Javid has instructed.
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HSJ podcast: The return of payment by results
NHS England has introduced significant changes to the mechanism that is used to pay hospitals, with the era of covid ‘block contracts’ finally coming to an end.
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Private provider’s NHS revenue up 10pc since before pandemic
NHS spend with a private hospital group was last year up 10 per cent on pre-pandemic levels, but down on 2020, financial results reveal.
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Health secretary calls on NHS to stop buying Russian gas
The health secretary has told the NHS to stop using the UK arm of Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom as a gas supplier.
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Stevens: Gazprom contracts mean NHS funding Russia’s ‘dictatorial regime’
The NHS’ purchase of gas from Russian state owned energy company Gazprom means it is in effect funding ‘dictatorial regimes… engaged in acts of aggression,’ according to former chief executive of NHS England Lord Simon Stevens.
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Joint CEO for two large hospital trusts
A group chief executive will be appointed to run two hospital trusts with a combined turnover of £2.3bn.
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Penalties for missed activity leave services ‘underfunded’
A proposed new national payment system could affect trusts’ ability to deliver safe patient care if it does not recognise ‘legitimate variation’, NHS Providers has warned.
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Comment
How I led the turnaround of a special measures trust
Caroline Shaw shares her thoughts on why turning round a special measures hospital has been the hardest but most rewarding role of her career to date and why she’s adamant the NHS should put our brightest and best CEOs in challenged hospitals.
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DHSC rebukes NHS staff for misusing procurement system
The government has rebuked NHS staff for misusing its e-procurement system Atamis to ‘test supplier experience’.
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Trust drops £310m ‘centre of excellence’ construction deal
A trust has scrapped a plan to build eight operating theatres in partnership with a devices supplier, part of a deal worth up to £310m, because of the ‘impact of covid’.
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Expert Briefing
West Country Chronicle: Trusts set ‘enablers’ for merger
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: Mackey’s blunt message
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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Restoring ‘much needed’ service undermined by lack of funding
Lack of funding and workforce will undermine recovery of a ‘cost effective’ and ‘much needed’ contraceptive service, despite government’s pledges to better support women’s and reproductive health, it has been warned.
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Doctors’ bonus pay talks collapse after two years
Medical trade unions have voted to reject proposed reforms to bonus payments for senior doctors, after two years of negotiations broke down.
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NHSE to spend up to £42m on management consultants for elective recovery
NHS England will fund integrated care systems to spend up to £42m on management consultancy help with their elective recovery plans this year, it has confirmed.
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‘Galling’ move to claw back £28m of overpayments to GPs
NHS England is seeking legal advice on whether it can claw back £28m of “overpayments” that were made to GPs.
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NHS spend on private healthcare rose 27 per cent in a year
NHS commissioners’ spending on private healthcare increased 27 per cent to more than £18bn in 2020-21, with pandemic effects causing it to rise faster than spend on NHS trusts and general practice.