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Exclusive: No refunds over Ayanda Capital mask deal
The government will not receive reimbursement for 50 million masks which may never be used in the NHS, HSJ can reveal.
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Staff face losing annual leave for post-trip quarantine
NHS staff and healthcare professionals returning from an overseas trip from high risk countries may have to take unpaid annual leave to cover the 14-day self-isolation period, according to new guidance.
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CCG rejects medics’ plea to halt landmark procurement
A plea by hospital consultants for their local commissioners to delay the procurement of a landmark “integrated care provider” contract has been rejected, HSJ can confirm.
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Hancock’s performance to be given a ‘CQC-style’ rating
The parliamentary committee led by Jeremy Hunt will subject health ministers to a “CQC style ratings system”, as part of a new way of scrutinising the Department of Health and Social Care.
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New staff and providers likely to be called in for mass vaccinations
Government is considering asking new staff groups to deliver jabs and bringing in “alternative delivery approaches” for England’s dramatically expanded flu vaccination programme, which begins next month.
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Exclusive: U-turn on mass expansion of covid care units as no funding available
Plans for a mass expansion of rehabilitation beds in new “Seacole centres” have been scrapped, with local leaders now told there is no capital funding to build them.
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Investigation launched into 'inappropriate behaviour' by trust security staff
An investigation has been launched into three incidents at a North West acute trust involving security staff and alleged “inappropriate behaviour” towards vulnerable patients.
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‘Repetitive’ local gov tendering is undermining NHS covid response
NHS leaders have called for the retendering of community and public health services to be ‘paused’ for 21 months, amid concerns about winter capacity within community health.
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GPs asked to keep doors open after ‘significant incidents’ warning
New guidance requires GPs to offer at least some face-to-face appointments, amid reports that some had completely eliminated them, sparking ‘significant incidents’.
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Big increase in BAME leaders sought by 2025
Senior NHS leaders have been set a new target to ensure they will match the overall composition of their black, Asian and minority ethnic workforces or communities in five years’ time.
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Coastal trust to be ‘twinned’ with high performing US hospital
A hospital trust in the North West is set to be ‘twinned’ with a US hospital as part of a programme it believes will improve staff retention and care quality.
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5,000 jobs at risk as NHS commercial work collapses
The NHS could lose more than 5,000 research staff and around £500m in funding because of covid-19, according to senior trust leaders.
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NHS told to return to “near-normal” performance before winter
Trusts have been set a series of “very stretching” targets to recover non-covid services to nearly normal levels in the next few months, in new guidance from NHS England.
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Trust with record covid deaths sees high rate of hospital acquired infection
The proportion of patients confirmed as infected with covid-19 after admission to East Kent hospitals is running at twice the national rate, according to figures seen by HSJ.
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First region sees zero covid hospital deaths
The south west has gone a week without a single covid-related death in its hospitals.
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Three trusts agree pathology 'hub' model expected to save £51m
Three trusts in east London have agreed to consolidate much of their routine pathology work on a single “hub” site.
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Trusts have ‘lost focus’ on patients who cannot use the internet
NHS trusts have “sometimes lost focus” on people who do not have access to the internet during the recent rapid rollout of online appointments, a Royal College of Physicians chief has told HSJ.
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CEO says lives were lost as he was ‘leant on’ to delay covid restrictions
A trust chief says he was “leant on from a big height” to delay visiting restrictions at the start of the coronavirus pandemic - a decision which he believes could have cost 25 lives.
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ICS aims to fill one in five leadership positions with BAME candidates
A healthcare system has set itself the target of filling one in five of its senior leadership posts with black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates.
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Hancock decries ‘layers of management peering over staff’s shoulders’
The health and social care secretary has set out his ambition to build an NHS culture where staff are trusted to use their own judgement, rather than having ‘layers of management peering over their shoulder’.