All articles by Jack Serle – Page 11
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PHE staff to be split between DHSC and new health security agency
The government today said Public Health England’s health improvement functions will be folded into the Department of Health and Social Care while the health protection elements form part of a new government agency.
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Private providers fear unfair treatment under new NHS financial regime
Private providers have warned they face unfair treatment under new financial rules unless the NHS distributes additional funding for covid in an ‘equitable and transparent’ way.
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‘Very boring discussions’ about ICS could quash system working, warns top trust chief
Fixating on the bureaucracy of integrated care systems will cause agile health systems forged during the pandemic to come to a ‘grinding halt’, warns the outgoing chief executive of a major London acute.
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Funding negotiations end with extra £6.6bn for NHS England
Matt Hancock has said the NHS will get an additional £6.6bn on top of the funding envelope set out in the Budget earlier this month.
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‘Smoking ruin’ DHSC could not lead vaccine procurement says Dominic Cummings
Downing Street took covid vaccine procurement out of the ‘smoking ruin’ of the Department of Health and Social Care in the early stages of the pandemic, according to Dominic Cummings the former chief advisor to the Prime Minister.
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Capital budgets could be cut in areas that lose control of finances, NHSE warns
Health systems that fail to show robust monitoring and control of their capital budget could see their allocation cut in subsequent years, regulators have warned.
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Test and Trace cuts 8,000 posts
The government’s Test and Trace service is cutting around 8,000 workers as covid cases continue to decline from the January peak, HSJ has learned.
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New lead for ‘priority’ digital programme as deadline missed
The NHS has replaced the senior official in charge of the digital transformation of England’s ageing cancer screening IT infrastructure, which missed a target completion date amid the pandemic.
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Candidates given a week to apply for chair’s role at new National Institute for Health Protection
The government has given candidates just a week to apply to become the chair of its new National Institute for Health Protection, and has said the successful applicant must have ‘an understanding of the pivotal role [of] NHS Test and Trace’.
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‘Urgent need’ to secure extra funding beyond Budget allocation, says Stevens
The chief executive of NHS England has told MPs there is an ‘urgent need’ to secure additional funding beyond what was announced in last week’s budget, and that he expects this to be agreed by the Treasury.
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Big cities and staff lag on vaccine uptake
Major urban areas are trailing in the vaccine rollout, with health systems covering London, Birmingham and Manchester reporting lower uptake than the rest of England, new NHS data reveals.
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NHS budget to fall by £9bn next year as covid funding is scaled back
NHS England’s budget for 2021-22 will be cut by £9bn compared to the current year as the Treasury scales back its planned spending on the coronavirus pandemic.
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Controversial service closures to be reversed
Trusts in north central London will begin unpicking the temporary reorganisation of their paediatric inpatient and emergency services from April, provided the pressure of the covid pandemic has eased sufficiently.
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Staff covid vaccine uptake much lower in London
A much lower share of ‘frontline’ NHS trust staff in London have had a first dose of the covid vaccine than in other regions, according to new NHS England estimates.
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Exclusive: New call for NHS to take public health budgets back from councils
The NHS should be handed back the commissioning of clinical public health services currently dealt with by local authorities, it has been argued today.
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Exclusive: Covid admissions falling faster among older people, likely due to vaccine
The coronavirus vaccine appears to be having a significant impact on hospitalisations among the elderly, nearly three months into the vaccination campaign, according to analysis of NHS data.
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High covid vaccine uptake in nearly all CCGs
There has been very high uptake of the covid vaccine among those aged 70 and over in nearly all parts of England, new figures from NHS England suggest.
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Flu vaccine uptake lags last year at 43 trusts
More than 40 provider trusts have seen lower flu vaccine uptake so far in 2020-21 than in 2019-20, often citing covid and covid vaccination as a reason, despite a national push.
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HSJ Local
Waiting lists to grow until spring at beleaguered London acute
A London acute trust that has been hardest hit in each pandemic wave expects its waiting list to keep growing until spring.
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£1bn+ teaching trust gets new chief exec
A major London teaching hospital has appointed a new chief executive.