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NewsNHS staff from India in ‘desperate’ situation as covid wave restricts travel
Many Indian healthcare professionals who either work in the NHS or have plans to do so have been left in a desperate situation by the devastating covid wave sweeping the country.
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NewsGovernment paid £38m for covid diagnostics contract that was never signed
The government has paid out nearly £38.5m to a covid diagnostics supplier despite never signing a full contract with the firm.
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NewsThree hospitals placed in special measures following infection control concerns
Three private mental health hospitals have been placed in special measures after the Care Quality Commission found concerns over infection control.
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LeaderStevens has been the most important figure in NHS history since Bevan
When Sir Simon Stevens was appointed chief executive of NHS England in the autumn of 2013, HSJ commented – tongue-in-cheek – that he now had the chance to save the NHS for the second time.
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NewsSafety watchdog has major concerns over ‘lost’ follow-up appointments
A national safety watchdog has highlighted major concerns around follow-up appointments being “lost” within hospital IT systems.
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NewsLandmark legal agreement sees Equality Rights Commission monitor trust’s record on sexual harassment
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has required an ambulance trust to sign a legally-binding agreement stating how it will protect its staff from sexual harassment.
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NewsCIA hunt for Bin Laden and pharma experimentation has fed distrust of govt vaccine policy among NHS staff
An ambulance trust has cited ‘mistrust’ of government and national healthcare policy as one of the factors driving lower vaccine uptake among its ethnic minority staff, linking concerns to historic international controversies around vaccination programmes.
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NewsGovernment drops plans for 24/7 covid vaccination service
Ministers have dropped plans to launch a 24-hour coronavirus vaccination service after two hospital trusts piloted the scheme earlier this year.
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NewsTrust ‘reviewing hundreds of patients’ after failings discovered
The suicide of a woman with severe mental illness has prompted a review into the care of hundreds of other patients, according to her family.
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NewsNHS staff ‘tremendously anxious’ over data sharing, says new national leader
Data sharing principles established during the covid-19 pandemic should be retained for the future, the new national data guardian has told HSJ.
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HSJ Local‘Covid triangle’ A&E service rated ‘inadequate’ after infection control concerns
Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust’s urgent and emergency care services have been downgraded from ‘requires improvement’ to ‘inadequate’.
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HSJ LocalConsultant accused of ‘financial abuse of terminally ill patient’
A consultant has failed to get an injunction placed on a hospital trust investigating several allegations into his work, including that he improperly referred hospital patients to his private clinics.
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NewsNHS England to set new ‘test’ for ICS structures
NHS England will be setting a ‘test’ for the various ways in which integrated care systems want to organise their governance structures, according to one of its directors.
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Exclusive: DHSC reveals procurement shake-up in wake of covid
The Department of Health and Social Care is standing up a new medical technologies directorate, after covid exposed vulnerabilities in government and distribution, as well as global supply chains.
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HSJ LocalTrust decides £4bn price tag ‘too expensive’ for new hospital
A teaching trust is planning a £1.2bn rebuild as part of the government’s new hospitals programme, having rejected a single new site option as “too expensive” at an estimated £4bn.
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HSJ LocalHospital trust’s new CEO will be ninth of minority ethnic background
A north London trust has appointed a new chief executive who will be one of two provider chiefs known to be of minority ethnic background in the capital, and nine in England.
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NewsNHSE must pause roll out of new A&E system until it can prove it is ‘working’, warns RCEM president
The NHS should pause the planned roll out of bookable A&E slots until a robust evaluation of the new system has been undertaken, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine president has told HSJ.
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NewsWorkforce chief moves on after five years
A senior civil servant responsible for NHS workforce planning, the new NHS bill and other key areas of healthcare policy is to move to a new government department.
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NewsAll but eight health systems have given the covid jab to more than half of 45- to 49-year-olds
The great majority of England’s health systems have given first doses of the covid vaccination to more than half of those aged 45 to 49 in their area, according to the latest NHS England data.
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News"Commercial partners" could take over "entirety" of planned imaging networks
New diagnostic imaging networks will be of such scale that they will be ‘significant operation businesses in their own right’ and will ‘need a distinct identity and arm’s length separation from the trusts’, NHS England has said.