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NewsA&E’s staff ‘not trained’ for mental health
Staff working in an understaffed A&E were unsure about who was responsible for the care of patients with mental health issues – potentially putting them at risk of harm, the Care Quality Commission has said.
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NewsTrust in merger talks with social enterprise community services provider
A community trust is exploring a merger with a neighbouring social enterprise.
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NewsThree-fold difference in app use by ICS revealed
The share of patients routinely contacting their GP practice using the NHS App is only 6 per cent, and varies more than three-fold between systems, new figures suggest.
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NewsRise in year-long elective waits
Year-long waits for elective care have risen for the second month in a row, despite a reduction in the overall waiting list.
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NewsExclusive: The best and worst hospitals for A&E performance
Performance against the headline A&E waiting time target got worse at 69 hospitals last year amid NHS England warnings of persisting regional variation, unpublished stats have revealed.
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NewsNHSE workforce chief departs
NHS England’s chief workforce, training and education officer is leaving this summer, ahead of the appointment of a new director for “people” in the health department.
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NewsTrusts ‘stumbling into legal challenge’ with botched procurements
The government is intervening to try to improve NHS contracting of diagnostic services, after being warned about a series of delayed and bungled procurements by trusts.
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NewsNHSE-DHSC merger halts small business grants
An NHS-backed grant agency cannot give small businesses early-stage funding for healthtech innovations this year because of the merger of NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care.
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HSJ LocalFormer civil servant to lead trust
An acute trust has appointed a former government chief of staff and civil servant to replace its CEO of seven years.
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NewsNHSE advertises eight senior jobs despite workforce cuts
NHS England has launched a recruitment drive for eight senior positions for its delayed hospital building programme.
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NewsPrivate hospitals to lose £60m from in-year tariff changes
Private providers are set to lose more than £60m from a proposed cut to prices paid for cataract procedures.
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NewsCEO quits struggling hospital trust
The chief executive of a trust battling major performance and care quality concerns is stepping down after three years.
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NewsResident doctors to strike for five days
Resident doctors in England will go on strike for five days later this month, the British Medical Assocation has announced.
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NewsPalantir calls for greater interoperability between suppliers
The UK head of Palantir has urged the government to ensure other suppliers of software to the NHS make their products interoperable with the federated data platform.
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NewsHospital boards not ready to run population health, says government adviser
Hospital trust boards are not currently in a position to run population health and “very few” acute chief executives “truly understand” primary care, government’s neighbourhood health adviser has told HSJ.
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NewsForty-two areas to pioneer neighbourhood health
The government and NHS England will select 42 places to lead the rollout of neighbourhood health and shape how it will be operationalised.
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News90,000 three-year waiters revealed in unpublished data
The huge numbers of very long waits for NHS mental health care have been exposed in new data – revealing figures much larger than those waiting for physical health treatment.
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NewsResident doctors vote for strike action
Resident doctors in England have voted in favour of industrial action and urged the health and social care secretary to negotiate a new pay deal, the British Medical Association has announced.
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NewsPanel backs ICB over £32.5m contract award
An integrated care board has been told to proceed with a controversial decision to award an out-of-hours primary care contract – previously provided by a local GP firm – to a private company.
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NewsDHSC board will block unfunded safety recommendations
A “revamped, revitalised and reinforced” National Quality Board will decide what safety and quality recommendations the NHS will adopt, with an eye to their cost-effectiveness, the long-awaited Dash Review has said.