All articles by Henry Anderson – Page 5
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ICSs miss financial plans by £340m after two months
Health systems missed their combined financial plans by more than £300m after just two months of the year, according to a report to NHS England’s board.
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Fresh spending crackdown as NHSE is accused of ‘micro-managing’
Fifteen health systems that submitted deficit plans have been told to review all their staffing vacancies to ‘consider where the removal or freezing of posts is appropriate’.
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NHS agency spent £7m on ‘irregular’ payments to external contractors
NHS Digital spent more than £7m on consultants and external contractors without ministerial authorisation, with the organisation’s leadership acknowledging the payments were ‘irregular’.
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Workforce plan will force ministers to spend more on the NHS, warns watchdog
The new NHS workforce plan is likely to force governments to give the service real terms funding increases beyond 3 per cent a year, the government’s budget watchdog has warned.
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CEO Interview
CEO interview: Peter Reading, interim CEO, Yorkshire Ambulance Service Trust
This is the latest in a series of interviews with provider chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Insight subscribers.
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CQC needs to ‘call out’ domineering trusts, says Hewitt
The Care Quality Commission should ‘call out’ integrated care systems where acute trusts are ‘dominating’ decision making and funding conversations to ensure other sectors are not sidelined, the author of a major review on ICSs has said.
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Band 7 and 8 pay is ‘disincentive’ to promotion, government advisers warn
Narrow gaps between Agenda for Change pay bandings are discouraging senior NHS staff from going for promotions, with some losing money if they move up a band, the government’s independent pay review body has warned.
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Senior managers get 5pc pay rise to recognise ‘strained environment’
Senior NHS managers will receive a 5 per cent pay rise, after the independent review body called for an uplift to ‘take account of the enormous demands that are being made of NHS leadership’.
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DHSC 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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HSJ Local
Leading ‘trust in distress’ can be like playing ‘whack-a-mole’, says CEO
A drawn out CQC inspection process that saw the final report published more than seven months later was difficult for staff to deal with, a trust CEO has admitted.
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HSJ Local
Plans to downgrade A&E services revealed
Plans that would significantly reduce the range of services at an acute hospital in north Lincolnshire have been drawn up by health chiefs.
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Insight Briefings
Recovery 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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Trust 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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NHSE and government reprimanded for ‘selective reporting’ of cancer performance
NHS England and the government have been criticised for “selective reporting” of statistics by an influential Westminster committee.
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HSJ Local
Trust leadership rated ‘inadequate’ as CQC accuses staff of ‘ignoring’ problems
An acute trust’s leadership has been downgraded to ‘inadequate’ after some staff ignored concerns raised directly by CQC inspectors, while others said bullying was ‘rife’.
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NHSE 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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HSJ Local
‘Low morale’ trust appoints new CEO
An acute trust in the South West has appointed a new CEO who joins from a neighbouring provider.
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Hunt 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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HSJ Local
Trusts adopt ‘group model’
NHS leaders in Lincolnshire have committed to bringing two of the county’s three trusts together in a “group” model.
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A lot more ICSs will hit financial targets this year, says NHSE chief
NHS England’s chief finance officer has said he expects ‘a lot more’ integrated care systems to hit their spending plans in the current year than in the past.