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New job for Simon Stevens
Lord Simon Stevens has been appointed chair of Cancer Research UK, the charity has announced today.
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Sixteen trusts win £150m for green energy projects
Sixteen trusts have been allocated a combined £150m for heat pumps and other projects to reduce emissions from their estates.
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Urgent community services must become ‘business as usual’, says NHS England
Urgent community response services are growing across England – despite significant variation in referrals – but must be maintained all year rather than acting as ‘just a short-term fix for winter’, NHS England’s community director has said.
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Trust fears medics will be ‘harassed’ if it publishes surgery report
Two external reviews have been carried out into a trust’s general surgery services amid concerns about whether it is a ‘safe interpersonal working environment’.
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NHS told to ‘expedite commercial work’ and drop ‘off track’ research
Officials have warned the NHS has been too slow to restart research sponsored and funded by commercial companies after covid, and told them to prioritise this while shutting down hundreds of faltering non-commercial projects.
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CQC’s ICS ratings put on hold
Plans for integrated care systems to be given Care Quality Commission ratings are on hold, and no ratings will be issued until summer 2024 at the earliest, HSJ understands.
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Six new directors appointed at troubled trust
A troubled teaching trust has appointed six new directors to its top team, it has been announced.
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CQC merges chief hospital and primary care inspector roles
The Care Quality Commission has merged the roles of chief inspector of hospitals and chief inspector of primary medical services, it has announced.
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Second ICS chief departs
The chief executive of an integrated care system has announced he will retire later this year, becoming only the second ICS chief to depart since they were created.
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Less than a quarter of new hospital ‘enabling’ funds received by trusts
Less than a quarter of the funding requested for crucial preparation works for the government’s ‘new hospitals programme’ has so far been received, trusts have told HSJ.
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HSJ Partnership Awards 2023 winners revealed
Last night’s HSJ Partnership Awards honoured the organisations that were judged to have forged the most outstanding collaborations with the NHS during one of its most challenging years.
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New CEO for trust where ‘bullying and harassment were normalised’
An ambulance trust grappling with major cultural problems has appointed a substantive chief executive, who most recently has been on extended leave from his role leading two acute providers.
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Exclusive: NHS to miss April deadline to end 78-week waits by around 11k patients
National NHS forecasts are predicting there will be around 11,000 patients on the elective waiting list who have been waiting longer than 78 weeks at the start of April, the target for clearing this cohort, HSJ understands.
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Four-day junior doctors strike announced
The British Medical Association has announced a fresh wave of escalated strike action that will see junior doctors walk out for four days in April.
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Stretched A&E staff ‘rarely saw exec team’, review finds
Trust executives and senior managers have been criticised by a former national director for their lack of support for an under-pressure A&E.
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Trust with few minority leaders sets up diverse ‘shadow board’
A trust chief executive who has created a diverse ‘shadow board’ to counteract the lack of ethnic diversity on its main board has said it has already changed the trust’s recruitment practices.
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Two ex-acute CEOs brought in to fix ICS’s elective problem
Two former acute trust CEOs have been brought in to help with the elective recovery in the integrated care system with the highest number of patients waiting a long time for treatment.
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ICSs given central role in fight against cyber attacks
Integrated care systems will be responsible for planning the response to cyber security attacks, the government has said.
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Lack of private sector help putting elective target at risk, says trust
An acute trust and its integrated care system have said they risk missing the imminent waiting list target, after struggling to get as many patients treated in the independent sector as they hoped.
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New CEO for £1.4bn acute trust
The largest trust in the East of England has recruited a new chief executive with a record of leading struggling acute providers.