All articles by James Illman – Page 5
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Revealed: The trusts offering ‘BMA rates’ to doctors covering strikes
Around a quarter of acute trusts paid consultants premium rates to provide strike cover during the first two junior doctors’ walkouts, broadly matching the pay levels demanded by the British Medical Association’s ‘rate card’, HSJ research has found.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: Quantifying the strike damage
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 bureau chiefs James Illman and Ben Clover.
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HSJ Local
Service ‘collapses’ after department left with ‘no doctors’
A trust has been accused of presiding over the deterioration of a key service amid communication problems between senior leaders and a ‘worrying series of resignations’ which has left the department with ‘no doctors’.
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Exclusive: NHSE cuts elective targets and admits PM’s waiting list pledge under threat
Stop with this we are giving TrustsNHS England has reduced its elective activity target for the service because of the impact of junior doctors’ strike, and acknowledged the service may not hit the prime minister’s pledge to reduce waiting lists before the next general election if the industrial action continues.
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HSJ Local
First-time CEO picked by trust
North West Anglia Foundation Trust has recruited Mid and South Essex FT’s acting chief executive as its new permanent CEO.
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HSJ Local
Senior trust CEO takes on top job at second major trust
East Suffolk and North East Essex Foundation Trust chief executive Nick Hulme has been appointed interim chief at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals FT, the trusts have announced.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: The specialties with the most challenging backlogs
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 bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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HSJ Local
Poor data leaves trust unable to report on avoidable deaths
An independent review has raised concerns about a mental health trust’s reporting systems, including what appeared to be a large number of patient deaths shortly after leaving the trust’s care.
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Palantir awarded £25m NHSE deal to ‘transition’ to federated data platform
NHS England has awarded Palantir a new £24.9m contract to ‘transition’ its existing NHS projects into the new federated data platform – a £480m deal expected to be granted in the coming months – HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
Teaching hospital CEO leaving to take NHSE role
The chief executive of Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Foundation Trust is leaving the provider to take on a senior role at NHS England.
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Pritchard: We need to be ‘really thoughtful’ about intervening with ICSs
NHS England needs to be ‘really thoughtful’ about how and when it intervenes as powers are devolved from the centre to integrated care systems, NHSE’s chief executive has said.
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Hitting elective target ‘not in NHS’s control’, Sunak warned
The NHS Confederation chief says he will this week demand clarity about Rishi Sunak’s flagship waiting list reduction target, warning it may not be ‘the most sensible target [or] within the service’s control’.
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HSJ Local
Rebuilding DGH will now cost ‘more than £600m’, says chief
The forecast cost for a small acute trust’s new hospital has increased from a previous estimate of £600m, its chief executive has told HSJ, as inflation piles pressure on the government’s New Hospitals Programme.
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Elective activity nosedives as strikes and holidays bite
Elective activity fell sharply in April as national holidays and strikes squeezed resources, and the waiting list rose to a record 7.4 million, NHS England’s monthly performance data shows.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: New data lays bare outpatient transformation failings
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 bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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HSJ Local
‘Good’ maternity unit downgraded to ‘inadequate’
A Norfolk hospital’s maternity services have been downgraded from ‘good’ to ‘inadequate’, with warnings raised about the safety and quality of care provided.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: A reason for optimism about the waiting list?
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 bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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‘Financial realities’ preventing elective targets being met, say trust leaders
Trust bosses have warned of a ‘disconnect’ between government policy on the use of private providers and its pledge that waiting lists will fall.
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Waiting list hits new record high as attention shifts to 65-week breaches
The NHS waiting list hit a record 7.3 million incomplete pathways in March, according to new official data, as trust bosses gear up to clear the circa 95,000 patients who have waited over 65 weeks.
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HSJ Local
ICS explores trust co-funding of system roles
An integrated care board is exploring whether some ‘system level and place roles’ could be jointly funded by local providers, as ICBs look to radically cut their running costs.