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Revealed: New restrictions on tests as long waits mount
A new tranche of commissioning restrictions have been proposed to ease pressure on diagnostic teams and move more treatments to primary care settings.
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National NHS org spends £10m on further redundancies
NHS Digital spent nearly £10m on more than 150 redundancies last year as part of a major restructuring programme.
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Business chief brought in to review ‘turbulent’ NHS IT landscape
A business chief has been given a senior role in NHS IT and asked to review its ‘clumsy’ landscape of national leadership, just over a year after Matt Hancock established NHSX.
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NHS England urged to bring in new A&E targets before winter
The NHS should begin implementing a new emergency care performance regime — which is set to replace the four-hour target — before winter, the Royal College of Emergency president has told HSJ.
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Trust lost £11m in private income due to covid
An NHS trust lost £11m in expected private income because of the covid-19 outbreak, it has revealed.
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Exclusive: Regulator launches independent review into care of vulnerable man
NHS England and Improvement have launched an independent review into the care and death of a man with learning disabilities, following concerns raised by HSJ.
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Trust with 10pc of all covid deaths has ‘relatively low’ fatalities, according to CCG
A trust that is recording one in 10 covid hospital deaths in England has been described as having a ‘relatively low’ number of fatalities from the virus by its lead commissioner.
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Government to give NHS staff ‘difficult’ pension choice
NHS Pension Scheme members face ‘difficult’ decisions over their benefits under government proposals to fix ‘unlawful’ discrimination in public sector schemes.
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Council seeks to block hospital rebuild backed by PM
A council is urging Matt Hancock to call in a decision to build a new specialist emergency care hospital as part of a major £500m project backed by the prime minister.
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Juniors breach 72-hour week at trust with previous training concerns
Trainee doctors at a special measures trust worked more than 72 hours in one week after being asked to do seven 10-hour shifts in a row.
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Four in 10 anaesthetists fear for safety of their hospitals, poll finds
More than four in 10 anaesthetists are not convinced their hospitals would be able to provide safe services should there be a second wave of covid-19, a new survey has indicated.
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Major acute trust launches investigation into bullying during covid crisis
A major teaching hospital trust has launched an investigation into a complaint of bullying during the covid crisis raised on behalf of more than 30 staff.
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New committees take over from Cobra for covid ‘battle plan’
Matt Hancock says new cabinet committees have been formed to manage the government’s response to coronavirus, including a “battle plan” for the coming winter.
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NHS should ‘never return’ to tariff system, says top trust CEO
A leading chief executive in Greater Manchester says the block contracting arrangements introduced in March should remain in place beyond the coronavirus pandemic.
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Nearly 2,000 cases unearthed by inquiry into maternity scandal at trust
The independent inquiry into poor maternity care at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust has closed to new cases as the numbers reached more than 1,800.
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Doctors to get 2.8pc pay rise
NHS doctors in England are to receive a back-dated pay rise which will add up to £3,000 to a consultant’s salary.
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NHS England launches data validation programme to ‘improve’ size of waiting list
NHS England is carrying out a natonal data validation exercise to “improve” the size of the elective care waiting list by removing patients who should not be included on them.
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‘Almost half of healthcare workers had covid-19’ at some hospitals
Almost half of healthcare workers at some hospitals were infected with covid-19 during the height of the first wave, the director of a biomedical research centre has told MPs.
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Unit put into special measures after ‘inadequate’ rating
A low secure unit for people with learning disabilities and autism has been put into special measures after inspectors found the use of restraint and segregation affected the quality of life for some patients.
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FT ‘must do better’ as none of its 35-strong senior team declare as BAME
None of the 35-strong ‘very senior manager’ team at one of England’s largest NHS trusts are declared as black, Asian or minority ethnic.