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ICSs must devolve ‘significant’ budget to ‘place’, says government
Integrated care systems must put a single person in charge of health and social care in each of their constituent ‘places’ by April next year, and let them manage a ‘significant’ chunk of the budget, government has said.
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Unvaccinated staff should be welcomed back, urges NHSE
Trusts could offer to bring back staff who resigned over the government’s covid vaccine mandate and are urged by NHS England to contact individuals who did ‘as soon as practicable’.
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Doctors’ bonus pay talks collapse after two years
Medical trade unions have voted to reject proposed reforms to bonus payments for senior doctors, after two years of negotiations broke down.
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Former NHS England chief appointed chair of four trusts
Former NHS England deputy chief executive Matthew Swindells has been appointed chair of all north west London’s acute trusts.
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Recovery plan expects two more years of waiting list growth
The government’s NHS recovery plan says elective waiting lists are likely to continue growing until March 2024.
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Twenty trusts in region now sharing chairs and CEOs
Nearly two-thirds of London trusts will soon be sharing a chair and/or chief executive, after a pair of mental health providers agreed to appoint a joint chair.
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Revealed: How NHSE’s new transformation directorate will operate
Six directors will lead the different units of NHS England’s new transformation directorate created by merging NHS Digital and NHSX into the organisation.
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Waiting lists balloon after suspension of private provider
Waiting lists for some diagnostic scans have ballooned after the sudden suspension of a major private provider.
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NHSE to spend up to £42m on management consultants for elective recovery
NHS England will fund integrated care systems to spend up to £42m on management consultancy help with their elective recovery plans this year, it has confirmed.
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Trust apologises for saying patient’s sexual assault ‘didn’t happen’
A hospital trust has apologised to a mental health patient who reported being sexually assaulted in its A&E department – after it emerged in a safety review that staff wrote ‘this has not happened’ and dismissed her claims of the attack.
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National chiefs tell staff covid vaccine is ‘professional responsibility’
The most senior clinical leaders in the NHS have written to staff telling them it is their professional responsibility to be vaccinated against covid-19, in the wake of the government abandoning plans to make it a legal requirement.
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Trust's recruitment process for new CEO under fire
A major acute trust has defended its recruitment process for a new chief executive after an influential MP criticised what she sees as a lack of involvement from local stakeholders.
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NHS spend on private healthcare rose 27 per cent in a year
NHS commissioners’ spending on private healthcare increased 27 per cent to more than £18bn in 2020-21, with pandemic effects causing it to rise faster than spend on NHS trusts and general practice.
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New ICS structure ‘absolutely daft’, says acute chair
Proposals for how Norfolk and Waveney integrated care system will work ‘feel so top heavy’ that residents could ‘struggle to understand the point’, a local hospital chair has warned.
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‘Galling’ move to claw back £28m of overpayments to GPs
NHS England is seeking legal advice on whether it can claw back £28m of “overpayments” that were made to GPs.
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Javid wants ‘best cancer care in Europe’
Sajid Javid has pledged to make England’s ‘cancer care system the best in Europe’ with a new 10-year plan, despite current problems with underdiagnosis and long waits for treatment.
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NHS England appoints medical director for secondary care and transformation
Vin Diwakar has been made medical director for secondary care in the new national transformation directorate, HSJ has learned.
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Sorry, not sorry
The non-apology has arrived to squat on British public discourse like a particularly ugly and unwanted toad.
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NHSX CEO to remain national director as brand ‘retired’
The head of NHSX will retain his title as ‘national director for digital transformation’ and will continue to work for the Department of Health and Social Care, as the tech unit ‘retires’ its brand this week, HSJ has learned.
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Several million vaccine doses ‘set to be binned’, despite shelf-life extension
Several million doses of the covid-19 vaccine are still ‘sitting in fridges’ across England and are likely to be thrown away, despite their expiry date already being extended, sources have told HSJ.