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Comment
The NHS may get less money after the NHSE is abolished
Ed Jones examines the potential changes that the health service can expect after the abolition of NHS England
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Comment
Avoiding the three icebergs that could sink the NHS
The NHS should start to use programme budgeting and marginal analysis to help decision-makers gauge the effect of reallocating resources across healthcare services, thus optimising resource allocation to improve outcomes
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Expert Briefing
The Download: Lessons from the CQC’s failed transformation project
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by correspondent Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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News
Exclusive: Government admits cutting mental health spend share
The proportion of the NHS budget spent on mental health services is being cut for the first time in several years, the government will admit to Parliament, HSJ has learned.
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News
ICBs will have to merge, says ex-NHSE chief
Some integrated care boards will need to merge in order to cut their running costs in half, according to Sir David Nicholson — leaving trust groups such as the one he now chairs well placed to organise local services.
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Comment
NHS leaders must speak out against the government’s welfare reforms
The recently announced proposals to modify disability benefits will have disastrous effects on disabled people’s income, health and wellbeing, and might harm the NHS on multiple levels, writes Peter Reading
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Expert Briefing
The Download: The 10-Year Plan for data and tech revealed
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by correspondent Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Do ICBs have a future?
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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News
NHSE to be formally abolished
Government will legislate to abolish NHS England and make it “fully integrated” into the Department of Health and Social Care.
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News
Social care delays take 6% off A&E performance, NHSE estimates
NHS England has for the first time put a figure on the potential impact on A&E performance of eliminating discharge delays for patients going into adult social care packages.
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Expert Briefing
The Download: The national security threat in the NHS
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by correspondent Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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News
Revealed: The leaders shaping the 10-Year Health Plan
HSJ reveals the people shaping the government’s 10-Year Health Plan and analyses what it tells us about the process.
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Expert Briefing
The Download: Keeping the AI devil down in the hole
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by bureau chief Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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News
Health minister sacked
Public health minister Andrew Gwynne has left government over offensive comments he made in a WhatsApp group.
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News
Journalist joins DHSC board
A peer who said the NHS needs a “classic management turnaround” has been appointed to the board of the Department of Health and Social Care, alongside two other new directors.
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News
NHS ‘too focused on cost-cutting, not productivity’
The NHS’s efforts to maximise productivity have been characterised by cost-cutting, rather than a coherent long-term strategy, a leading health economist has said.
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News
Elective funding ring-fence to be axed
The ring-fence around elective funding will be axed in 2025-26, officials have revealed.
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Expert Briefing
The Download: The case for an NHS AI strategy
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by correspondent Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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News
Ministers ‘breaking promises on contract reform’
Unions have accused the government of letting them down on commitments to reform primary care contracts, six months after Labour won the general election.
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Streeting seeks ‘unfiltered’ reform ideas from DHSC staff
The health and social care secretary has asked his department’s civil servants to submit innovative policy ideas, saying he will read them all and they will not be filtered by line managers.