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NewsMore nursing strikes planned as unions split on pay deal
The Royal College of Nursing has announced fresh strikes after its members voted to reject the government’s pay deal, while Unison healthcare staff voted in favour.
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HSJ LocalCEO of care scandal trust quits
The chief executive of a mental health trust at the centre of a high-profile care scandal has announced his resignation.
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HSJ LocalEx-No10 adviser to chair trust
A former council chief executive and Downing Street adviser has been appointed chair of a small acute trust in Cheshire.
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NewsCQC staff to work to rule from next week
Care Quality Commission staff belonging to four trade unions will begin “action short of a strike” from Monday, HSJ has learned.
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NewsFour hospital ‘CEOs’ set for troubled trust
The acting CEO of a major trust under scrutiny for its poor culture has unveiled plans to appoint four individual “chief executives” at each of its hospitals.
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NewsPrivate hospitals ‘will turn away from NHS work’ unless tariff increased, they tell NHSE
Private hospitals will turn away from NHS work unless the health service increases the rates it pays, some of the country’s largest independent providers have told NHS England.
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NewsNHSE ‘extremely sorry’ for redundancy ‘debacle’
NHS England has apologised to staff for its ‘unsettling’ voluntary redundancy scheme, which has been hit by ‘several delays and payroll errors’, resulting in incorrect exit package offers and leaving dates pushed back at short notice.
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NewsNew chair replaces leader who quit after complaints row
A new chair has been appointed at a mental health trust which lost its previous chair following complaints about their behaviour.
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NewsNHSE national director announces immediate departure
NHS England’s interim director of primary care has announced that she is standing down tomorrow after just over a year in post.
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NewsWatch: How Birmingham and Manchester developed the longest elective waits
HSJ has tracked acute trusts’ average waiting times since the start of the pandemic, revealing how the providers with the longest and shortest waits has changed.
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NewsOne in 10 A&E patients waits 12hrs, long-hidden data reveals
Around 10 per cent of the 1.2 million accident and emergency attendees in February waited 12 hours or more, newly published NHS England data has revealed, laying bare the true extent of the NHS’s emergency care crisis.
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HSJ LocalTrust chair agrees to stay for sixth term
A long-serving trust chair has reversed his decision to leave and will instead serve his fourth one-year term.
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NewsNHSE ploughed ahead with PbR return despite major trusts’ objections
NHS England pressed ahead with a controversial return to payment by results despite strong opposition from some of the service’s largest trusts, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalFurious trust rejects BMA’s claim it ‘abused’ strike deal
The trust accused of “abusing” strike agreements by the British Medical Association has told HSJ it rejects the allegation that it “misled” the union and NHS England.
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NewsNHSE rejects British ‘alternative’ bid to run £480m data platform
A consortium of British technology companies has failed in its bid to win the high-profile contract to provide the NHS with a new “federated data platform”.
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NewsHospital ‘left in unsafe condition’ by private contractor
A PFI contractor left a hospital ‘in an unsafe condition’ for nine months after a fire which required patients to be evacuated, a trust has claimed in legal papers.
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NewsICSs’ £3bn deficit plans rebuffed by NHSE
NHS England has refused to sign off the spending expectations for local systems, after a second round of financial plans warned of a combined deficit of £3bn, HSJ has learned.
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NewsRevealed: Best and worst trusts for cleanliness and food
The best and worst trusts for cleanliness and food have been revealed in a national assessment by patients and staff.
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NewsMore integration ‘metrics’ despite Hewitt’s call for fewer targets
New guidance has introduced a ‘wider range of metrics’ that will be used to measure the contribution made by systems and trusts to the development of integrated care – in the same week that a major report called for fewer national targets.
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NewsTrust CEOs’ strike warning: ‘If anyone gets sick, we’re stuffed’
The leaders of acute trusts across England have told HSJ the second junior doctor’s strike ‘feels very different’ from the first stoppage, and services are much more vulnerable because of ‘thinner’ consultant coverage.