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Second batch of trusts to receive Hancock’s cash for tech improvements
At least 20 trusts will receive extra funding to improve their digital maturity in 2021 under one of Matt Hancock’s highest-profile programmes to modernise NHS trusts.
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Revealed: Details of ex-CEO’s bumper salary and 45-day holiday package
Further details of a former chief executive’s controversial pay and rewards package have emerged, including an unusually generous annual leave entitlement and pro-rata salary.
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Flu vaccine uptake lags last year at 43 trusts
More than 40 provider trusts have seen lower flu vaccine uptake so far in 2020-21 than in 2019-20, often citing covid and covid vaccination as a reason, despite a national push.
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Hospital put into special measures after young patients appeared ‘over sedated’
An independent mental health hospital has been placed into special measures after young people ‘appeared to be over sedated’ during an inspection.
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Trust warned by regulator after cluster of never events
The Care Quality Commission has ordered immediate improvements to a trust after it reported six never events inside eight months.
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UPDATED: 1.7m people added to shielding list 11 months after it started
A further 1.7m people are being added to the shielding list, and therefore newly prioritised for covid vaccination, 11 months after shielding began, HSJ can reveal.
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Revealed: Beds for children hit ‘crisis point’ amid covid demand surge
Availability of inpatient child and adolescent mental health services beds — particularly for eating disorders — has reached ‘crisis point’, with young people left waiting on a standard paediatric ward or at home as demand surged during the covid pandemic.
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Rate of decline in covid hospital patients continues to increase
The number of covid patients in English hospitals has fallen below the peak seen in mid-April for the first time.
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Exclusive: NHSX to be merged into new NHS England transformation directorate
NHS England is to create a new transformation directorate which will include NHSX and its own various improvement arms, HSJ has learned.
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Waiting lists to grow until spring at beleaguered London acute
A London acute trust that has been hardest hit in each pandemic wave expects its waiting list to keep growing until spring.
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National data guardian Dame Fiona Caldicott dies
Dame Fiona Caldicott, the UK’s first national data guardian, has died after a short illness, the government has announced.
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Government u-turns over exit pay after legal battle
The government has u-turned over plans to cap exit payments for public sector workers, including in the NHS, following a union’s legal challenge.
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Exclusive: Backlog of long cancer waits has doubled
The backlog of patients who have been waiting for cancer treatment for more than 104 days has more than doubled since last year, according to internal NHS England papers seen by HSJ.
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£1bn+ teaching trust gets new chief exec
A major London teaching hospital has appointed a new chief executive.
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More than 70 staff promoted as merging CCGs cut staff
More than 70 staff have been promoted to more senior roles as part of a merger between eight clinical commissioning groups.
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NHS England pledges to limit job changes arising from government reforms
NHS England will make an “employment commitment” to staff whose roles are directly impacted by the new legislative reforms which have been outlined this week.
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Scandal-hit trust partnered with ‘outstanding’ care provider
The trust at the centre of one of the biggest maternity scandals in recent years has been partnered with another trust in the Midlands to drive improvements.
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Mapped: RTT waiting time
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in December 2020, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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New stats show vaccination progress in each health system
Seven of the country’s integrated care systems have given the covid-19 vaccination to more than 90 per cent of people aged 70 and over, according to the latest NHS England figures.
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‘Social value’ key to choosing NHS providers under new procurement regime
NHS commissioners seeking to procure services would need to consider the ‘social value’ of their decisions, under new proposals.