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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Missing Sunak’s pledge
This week bureau chief Ben Clover is joined by colleagues to discuss some of the biggest stories ahead of the junior doctors’ strike.
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NewsDHSC ordered to fund pay rise with ‘reprioritisation and greater efficiency’
The Department of Health and Social Care will be asked to make another round of savings and reprioritise existing budgets to fund a pay rise for doctors, the government has confirmed.
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NewsChief executive of financially challenged trust stands down
The chief executive of the largest trust in one of the most financially challenged and poorest performing areas of the country has resigned.
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Insight BriefingsRecovery Watch: Will strikes sink Sunak’s waiting list promise?
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 finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
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CommentAgency staff keep the NHS on its feet and deserve the government's respect
Agency staff deserve more respect than the NHS workforce plan shows them, with the plan being based on a poor understanding of NHS staffing costs, and failing to present a cohesive strategy to make effective use of agencies, writes Kate Shoesmith
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NewsPrivate income boost set to cover £16.5m gap in trust’s finance plan
Great Ormond Street is planning to increase its private income by more than half this financial year to plug half of a projected £32.5m gap in its finances.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: NHSE’s handling of Christie whistleblowing case faces judicial review
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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News‘Big four’ consultancy gets £9m deal to fix NHS procurement systems
The national procurement and logistics agency has signed a £9m contract with Deloitte to replace the ageing, complex and inflexible systems trusts use to order products.
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HSJ InteractiveTop CEOs roundtable 2023
HSJ brought together a panel of trust chief executives drawn from its annual list of the NHS’s Top 50 CEOs. Their discussion explored how trusts will cope with the renewed financial challenge and what values-based leadership means to them
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NewsTrust CEOs decry ‘undeliverable’ and damaging financial plans
NHS trusts have committed to financial plans for 2023-34 without properly considering their consequences – with finance directors turning a blind eye to unrealistic forecasts under pressure from NHS England – some of the country’s top NHS chief executives have warned.
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NewsTrusts to award £500m pathology contract after legal challenge dropped
A pharma and diagnostics firm has dropped its bid to reverse a decision by three acute trusts to award a multimillion pound pathology contract to a competitor.
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News£4bn contract to run NHS logistics out to tender
The procurement for a new national logistics provider has started, with NHS Supply Chain looking to sign a deal with a firm worth up to £4.4bn and potentially running for nearly 12 years.
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NewsHunt demands ‘challenging’ productivity improvements in return for training cash
The chancellor has told HSJ he has agreed “ambitious improvements in productivity” with NHS leaders as part of negotiations for the long-term workforce plan.
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NewsNHSE inks £775m contract for key Microsoft software
NHS England has signed a deal worth £775m to provide local NHS organisations with Microsoft products and software for the next five years.
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HSJ PartnersFinancial improvement plans: Reinvigorating the basics and leveraging new opportunities through collaboration
Akeso, in partnership with Seagry consultancy, talks about approaches and key areas of opportunity to enliven the basics of financial improvement plans
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News‘Once in a generation’ workforce plan promises 300,000 more NHS clinicians by 2036
The NHS will be funded to undertake the ‘biggest recruitment drive in health service history’, the government has pledged.
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NewsNHSE boss calls for big rise in capital spending
The health service needs a significant increase in capital spending to bring it into line with advanced economies, NHS England’s head of estates has said.
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NewsHunt wanted 50pc cut to public health, says ex-PHE boss
Jeremy Hunt asked Public Health England to cut its budget by 50 per cent while he was health secretary, the agency’s former CEO has claimed.
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NewsMackey’s trust to fund bonus payments in ‘surprise move’
A trust led by a national director has agreed to make bonus payments to workers on its staff bank, despite there being ‘no obligation’ and the government refusing to fund it.
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NewsNHS not ministers should decide future ‘new hospitals’, says DHSC chief
A permanent change in approach is needed for deciding which hospitals are built and when, and should be led by the NHS not politicians, the government’s ‘new hospitals programme’ boss has told HSJ.