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‘We have done our own risk assessments’: the NHS staff defying the vaccine mandate
NHS workers protesting against the requirement for all patient-facing staff to be vaccinated against covid have told HSJ the government is relying on “brute force” to push the “soul destroying” measure through and that it sets a “dangerous precedent” which could undermine the principle of “informed consent”.
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Exclusive: Bullying, sexism and racism ‘prevalent and tolerated’ at national regulator
An external review into the national safety watchdog has revealed ‘damaging’ cultural problems, including bullying, sexism and racism which go ‘right to the top of the organisation’.
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CCG opens ‘care hotel’ after critical incident
A hotel in the centre of Norwich is temporarily being converted into a care facility to help ease local bed pressures, as Norfolk becomes the latest area to pilot the model.
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Only four in 10 covid inpatients in London have the disease as their ‘primary diagnosis’
Only 41 per cent of covid positive patients in London hospitals are being primarily treated for the disease, according to official data released yesterday.
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‘Babies at risk’ as NHS faces losing nearly one in 10 midwives over mandatory jabs
The NHS could be forced to dismiss almost 2,000 midwives by the government’s mandatory vaccination policy, amid warnings from a former chief nurse of England that mothers and babies will be put at risk.
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NHS England admits it will miss cancer backlog target
The NHS will miss its target for clearing the backlog of long waiters for cancer, NHS England’s national director has conceded.
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Another NHSE national director announces departure
NHS England’s national director for improvement has announced he is retiring.
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Ambulance company takes CCG to court over ‘biased’ procurement
An independent ambulance company is taking a clinical commissioning group to court over how it awarded a patient transport contract to a rival.
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Technology ‘tsunami’ creates funding challenge, says regulator chief
The ‘tsunami’ of digital health technologies being adopted by the NHS is putting a strain on regulators’ ability to determine which ones offer value for money, according to outgoing National Institute for Health and Care Excellence chief executive Gill Leng.
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New chief appointed for ‘outstanding’ trust
A former deputy chief executive and director of finance at a mental health trust is taking over as its CEO, as its outgoing leader retires after almost 40 years in the NHS.
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Troubled trust’s A&E shake-up bid sent back by NHSE
The controversial reconfiguration of a struggling hospital trust’s A&E services – plans for which have been in the pipeline for more than a decade – has suffered further delay after NHS England and Improvement sent proposals back for revisions.
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Hospital-acquired covid on course for pandemic record
The NHS is on course to record the highest proportion of hospital-acquired covid infections across any single month of the pandemic so far.
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Long-serving national director leaves for Microsoft
An NHS data chief has left his position after nine years of working for the national NHS.
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Government appoints third City figure as regulator chief
The government has named a senior accountant and insurance leader as its preferred candidate to chair the Care Quality Commission.
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Exclusive: National database giving trusts false picture of unvaccinated staff
The national IT systems responsible for recording whether NHS staff have been vaccinated against coronavirus are ‘inaccurate’ and forcing trusts to resort to ‘labour intensive methods’ to work out which employees have not been immunised, HSJ has discovered.
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NHSE warns trusts not to use costly clinical locums
NHS England has ‘strongly discouraged’ trusts from using insourcing solutions which involve paying locum clinical staff ‘escalated rates’.
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ICS told to increase help for trust that treated patients on the floor
A troubled integrated care system has been told it must provide more help to a severely under-pressure acute trust where patients were treated on the floor and in a storeroom.
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GP’s ethnicity ‘affects level of support they get’
A GP’s ethnicity has an impact on the level of leadership support they get from regulators and external bodies, a new Care Quality Commission report has suggested.
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NHS England director to step down
One of NHS England’s longest-serving senior figures is to leave their role with the national body.
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Mortuary abuse report delayed until ‘middle of next year’
The final report into how a maintenance supervisor managed to abuse scores of women’s bodies in two hospital mortuaries has been delayed until next year.