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NewsStevens announces £10m for ‘long covid’ clinics
NHS England will spend £10m on new clinics for ‘long covid’ sufferers, it has announced today.
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NewsIndependent sector model ‘inherently risky’, says CQC
The care model run by independent sector mental health and learning disability hospitals is ‘inherently risky’, a Care Quality Commission chief inspector has warned.
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NewsCelebrating those who are influencing change
It is right and timely that during the most challenging year for our NHS, we recognise those BAME people in healthcare who are making a positive impact in their area of work, says Dr Habib Naqvi
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NewsBAME50: Judges
Sponsored by Professor Ted Baker, chief inspector of hospitals, Care Quality Commission John Brouder, former chief executive, North East London Foundation Trust, and special adviser on diversity and inclusion, NHS England and Improvement in London Peter Carter, former RCN chief executive and consultant ...
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NewsTeaching trust CEO resigns to take up post as government adviser
Professor Marcel Levi will leave University College London Foundation Trust on 31 March next year after four years at the top of the institution.
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NewsTrusts told: Bid for cash to boost overseas recruitment by 41pc
Provider chiefs have been told to submit their plans to boost international recruitment, with a greater share of funding available to those which produce the most ambitious proposals.
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News‘Don’t recreate SHAs’, government told ahead of NHS bill
NHS Providers will this week warn against ‘re-establishing an all-powerful quasi-strategic health authority tier’, as government prepares to legislate for integrated care systems.
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NewsNHS management 'seen as slow and inward looking', David Nicholson warns
Former NHS chief Sir David Nicholson says NHS management needs to be ‘a bit more creative’ to rebuild despite covid-19, and to disprove government perceptions that it is ‘slow and inward looking’.
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NewsDischarge rates slowing as providers face ‘perfect storm’
Providers are beginning to see a slowing in the rate of patient discharges, in what would be another element of the ‘perfect storm’ they face this winter, leaders have warned.
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NewsGovernment launches ‘competition’ for eight new hospitals
Ministers will invite local leaders to bid for eight ‘new hospitals’, as part of the government’s NHS building plan.
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NewsHold national bodies to same leadership standards as trusts, says CQC report
The leaders of NHS England and the Care Quality Commission should have their own performance subjected to the same assessment process they require for local providers, a report has said.
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NewsFourth senior departure from NHS procurement body
The chief commercial officer of NHS Supply Chain has stood down as part of an organisational restructure, making him the fourth departure to be confirmed from the top of the agency inside two weeks.
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News‘Radical’ expansion of diagnostic capacity urgently needed, claims NHSE report
The NHS must make ‘radical changes’ to transform its diagnostics capacity, which was close to ‘tipping point’ even before the pandemic, a major report has found.
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NewsChairs have ‘high moral values’ but struggle with ‘disruptive’ directors, claims landmark study
Nearly half of trust chairs fail to “effectively deal with non-performing board members” according to a major study of the role of NHS non-executive directors seen by HSJ.
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HSJ LocalTeaching trust reopens five years of accounts after £50m ‘discrepancy’
A teaching trust has had to adjust five years’ worth of financial accounts after an error which meant one of its hospitals was undervalued by £50m.
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NewsNHS to become ‘world’s first carbon net zero national health system’
The NHS has been set a target of becoming carbon net zero by 2040 and cutting harmful emission reductions by 80 per cent over the next 12 years.
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NewsBrexit and covid restrictions pose ‘public disorder’ threat for NHS this winter
An ambulance trust is warning of the risk of public disorder affecting its staff this winter.
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NewsSome trusts are gaming race equality targets, says retiring NHSE lead
The NHS’ race equality measures must be reviewed as some of them are being gamed by trusts, according to the NHS England director who oversaw them until earlier this year.
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NewsDamning CQC report finds ‘bullying and predatory behaviour’ concerns at trust
An ambulance service could be put in special measures after a damning report criticised poor leadership for fostering bullying and not acting decisively on allegations of predatory sexual behaviour towards patients.