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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: NHS England’s £2bn dilemma
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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HSJ LocalCCG staff ‘crossed the line’ in ‘manipulating’ contract award
Three clinical commissioning groups have been fined after they “manipulated” a procurement process to award a £2m contract to a favoured supplier.
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NewsExclusive: Delays to pension payments after surge in retirements
The body which handles NHS pensions is struggling to process applications on time after a 50 per cent increase in retirements from the service.
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CommentNew research refund 'fantastic news' for trusts
NHS trusts can now claim back more of the costs involved in carrying out clinical research following a national policy change. Dr William van’t Hoff is calling for trusts to use this additional funding as an incentive to further support and embed clinical research delivery – benefitting their staff, patients ...
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Crumbling services, but who’s in charge?
Hospital leaders have warned there is a lack of accountability in the NHS, adding this could undermine public and political trust in the service.
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HSJ PartnersICSs are officially here, but what needs to be different for digital, data and tech?
The establishment of 42 integrated care systems ushers in an unprecedented opportunity to deliver wide ranging improvements in population health and care as well as wider system performance. If that potential is to be realised, digital and analytics will need to play a central role. How can ICS leaders grasp ...
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NewsLondoners several times more likely to get life-saving treatment
The NHS and the Treasury need to make a renewed commitment to increasing the number of patients who benefit from thrombectomy, the Stroke Association has said, as it revealed the service was dependent on just 106 doctors in England.
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NewsICS chief agrees to pay back covid bonus
The chief executive of an integrated care board will return a bonus paid for her ‘response and management’ of the pandemic, following enquiries by HSJ about the payment.
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NewsCEOs could get £30,000 bonus for joining troubled trusts
Senior managers could be paid one-off bonuses to take over the most troubled NHS organisations, according to draft proposals being considered by government and NHS England.
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NewsNHSE tries to put £2.3bn cap on agency staff spend
NHS England is introducing a new ceiling on the amount spent within each integrated care system on agency staff — cutting it by at least 10 per cent in each area in one year — as part of a drive to find further savings across the health service.
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NewsTest and Trace spent £450m on consultants
England’s Test and Trace system spent more than £450m on management consultants during the pandemic, UK Health Security Agency CEO Dame Jenny Harries has revealed.
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HSJ LocalNHSE pushes large London acute to join pathology network
NHS England is using the prospect of diagnostics funding to push a large London acute trust into joining a pathology network.
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HSJ PartnersUnlocking the potential of digital leaders
With an estimated need for over 30,000 digital leaders in the next 10 years, Paul Styler explains why the system needs to act soon to develop the educational capability and infrastructure to address this gap
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NewsRehab services ‘very bizarre’ in some places, says NHSE director
NHS England’s director of community health has said a new strategy for rehabilitation care is needed, because present coverage is sometimes ‘bizarre’, with other services ‘masquerading’ as rehab.
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NewsNew single IT system to manage billions in procurement spend
Funding has been secured for a single software platform to potentially manage all NHS procurement activities, which could equate to around £30bn of spending across 80,000 suppliers.
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HSJ Local‘Commercial barriers’ stop ICS buying private hospital
A health system has dropped a bid to buy a private hospital in its area, saying there were ‘commercial barriers’ to the deal.
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Expert BriefingWest Country Chronicle: Trust’s ‘unique’ private model boosts elective recovery
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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News‘New hospitals’ trusts lack cash for planned rebuilds
Half of the trusts in the government’s flagship hospital building programme are ‘not confident’ their funding allocations will be enough to deliver their projects, a new poll of NHS executives has suggested.
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CommentThe challenge facing Johnson's successor
Even as political winds shift, it’s imperative that future public and political debate on taxes and public spending on NHS is rooted in a clear understanding of the nature and scale of the challenges facing the NHS, writes Anita Charlesworth
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NewsCancer and primary care investment face cuts due to pay bill, NHSE warns
NHS England has warned of ‘cuts’ to services and investment in cancer and primary care if it is not given extra funding for staff pay-rises above 3 per cent.