All articles by James Illman – Page 9
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New minister: Cutting capital budget ‘deeply short-termist’
New health minister Robert Jenrick has declared that cutting the NHS’s capital budgets would be ‘deeply short-term’ and undermine the government’s ability to put the service on ‘a sustainable footing for the future’.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: Will NHSE ever kill off the four-hour target?
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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Exclusive: Trust CEO drafted in to advise crisis-hit neighbour
A senior acute chief executive with extensive experience of managing a special measures provider has been appointed to an advisory role at the NHS’s worst-performing mental health trust, HSJ has learned.
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Exclusive: Trust could be split after crucial CQC inspection, sources warn
An imminent inspection of a special measures trust’s leadership could prompt the provider to be broken up, senior figures have warned.
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BMA ‘acting like football agents’ inflating extra shift pay, say trust chiefs
A row has broken out between trust bosses and the British Medical Association over the doctors’ union’s campaign to drive up consultants’ hourly pay rates for extra shifts, HSJ has learned.
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NHS cuts 18-month waits but concerns over key target remain
NHS trusts again recorded a month-on-month reduction in the number of patients waiting over 78 weeks for treatment, although the flagship target to eliminate this cohort by March remains a tall order, with winter pressures set to crank up.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: PIFU progress revealed in leaked report
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the biggest 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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Revealed: Only two ICSs seeing more elective inpatient activity than pre-covid
Providers in just two integrated care systems carried out more inpatient elective procedures in the first quarter of this year than before the covid pandemic, HSJ analysis of official data has revealed.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: What’s the point of the NHSE winter plan?
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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New NHSE national director role advertised
NHS England is advertising for a new deputy chief operating officer and national director of urgent and emergency care.
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NHS England reveals six targets for ICSs this winter
NHS England today identified six key metrics it will use to monitor the performance of every integrated care system this winter.
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Summer crisis deepens as trolley waits hit new high
Performance figures deteriorated to record lows this month as the unprecedented summer NHS crisis deepens, with trolley waits reaching a new high point and the waiting list growing to more than 6.7 million people.
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Long cancer waits double in a year
The number of patients waiting three months or longer following referral for suspected cancer remains at just over 10,000 patients last month, internal NHS data seen by HSJ and BBC Newsnight reveals.
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Virtual outpatient drive at heart of effort to end 78-week waits, says Mackey
Patients at trusts with long waiting lists should no longer think “they have to go to their local hospital” for outpatient appointments, but should instead be offered virtual consultations elsewhere in the country where there is greater capacity, Sir Jim Mackey has told HSJ.
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HSJ Local
Trust to expand its accommodation amid rocketing property prices
One of the NHS’s biggest trusts is planning to significantly boost its staff accommodation amid concerns a shortage of affordable housing in its catchment area is having a “significant impact on recruitment”.
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HSJ Local
Fresh allegations of whistleblower mismanagement at ‘witch hunt’ trust
Fresh concerns have been raised about the treatment of whistleblowers by managers at a trust recently embroiled in a high-profile bullying scandal, the hospital’s workforce director has disclosed.
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HSJ Local
‘Outstanding’ trust appoints new CEO
A specialist trust has promoted its chief operating officer to be its new chief executive.
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HSJ Local
Trust begins ‘most ambitious’ outpatients project in NHS
A large acute trust is carrying out a major expansion of patient-initiated follow-up appointments, which is said to be “the most ambitious” project of its kind in the NHS.
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Long-standing NHS England director to step down
One of the NHS England’s longest serving senior leaders is set to stand down after seven years in post.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: Why the NHS will struggle to hit 78-week target
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.