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NewsICS rejects ‘greatest benefit’ reconfiguration option as unaffordable
Regional leaders have unveiled four options for a long-delayed revamp to emergency care at the country’s only ‘inadequate’ acute hospital trust.
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NewsExclusive: Coffey warned of ‘significant risk’ posed by CQC restructuring
Staff at the Care Quality Commission have been left ‘in fear of speaking out’ against structural changes to the organisation which they believe ‘pose a significant risk’ to the CQC’s ability to regulate health services, trade unions have told the health and social care secretary.
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News‘Four-hour rush’ continuing at top A&Es
Hospital trusts are still treating many patients just before the four-hour A&E target deadline, whose proposed abolition was reversed by government yesterday, HSJ analysis has revealed.
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NewsStaffing shortages force NHSE to abandon safety target
NHS England has this week told trusts it is abandoning a patient safety target ‘until maternity services in England can demonstrate sufficient staffing levels’ to meet it.
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NewsUpdated: IR35 rules on NHS contractors to stay in place
UPDATE: Controversial rules governing the tax status of contractors will now remain in place, after a U-turn by government on its own September ’mini budget’.
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NewsNo new money in Coffey’s £500m winter social care fund
The £500m winter “adult social care discharge fund” announced by government will be funded from existing health and care budgets – including money freed up for NHS employers by ministers’ cancellation of this year’s national insurance rise – HSJ has established.
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NewsCoffey promises ‘absolutely no changes to four-hour A&E target’
Therese Coffey has pledged there will be no changes to the four-hour target for A&E waiting times – despite NHS England’s prolonged bid to axe the controversial measure.
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NewsHospital rated ‘inadequate’ after death prompts inspection
A private hospital has been rated ‘inadequate’ by a health watchdog following an inspection prompted by a young patient’s preventable death.
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News‘Gross’ care delays could become ‘new normal’, says CQC report
The Care Quality Commission today urged system leaders to move away from “quick fixes” to the “enormous gap in resources and capacity” in urgent and emergency care.
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NewsTrusts told to offer ‘pension recycling’
Trusts have been told to offer the option of pay rises for forgoing pension contributions for some senior staff, as part of a package of NHS pension changes announced today.
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NewsFourth covid wave of 2022 picks up speed
The number of people admitted to hospital who test positive for covid is rising once more in every English region after two months of decline.
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HSJ Local‘Broken’ health system failing to tackle ‘unsustainable’ emergency care pressures
An integrated care system which has some of England’s worst waiting times for emergency care lacks “delivery structure and processes” to make desperately needed improvements, according to an external report.
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NewsGovernment promises GP appointments within two weeks
The new health and social care secretary will set out her NHS “plan” today, which will promise patients non-urgent GP appointments within two weeks, with urgent needs “seen within the same day”.
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NewsNew CEO for trust beset by national controversy
One of the country’s most high-profile mental health trusts has appointed its new chief executive, four months after its existing CEO announced he was retiring.
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NewsNew national deadline to eliminate two-year waiters
NHS England has issued a new deadline to treat patients who have been waiting more than two years for treatment, a month after saying it had ‘virtually eliminated’ the longest waits, it has emerged.
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NewsNo mental health data taken in cyber attack, NHSE confirms
No patient data held by mental health trusts was taken following a cyber attack this summer, NHS England has confirmed.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: 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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NewsCampaigning MP to chair foundation trust
A long-serving Labour MP is leaving the Commons after 17 years and will join a mental health trust as its chair, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsLawyers warned trust that staff could ‘pick and choose’ documents for coroners
An ambulance trust accused of withholding key evidence from coroners was previously warned its staff needed training to ‘understand the real risk of committing criminal offences’ in relation to inquests into patient deaths.
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NewsBMA ‘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.