All Matt Hancock articles – Page 19
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NewsTrusts can keep clinicians’ unused pension contributions
Trusts will be allowed to determine whether they will pay or keep the contributions they would be required to pay into doctors’ pension funds if their clinicians opt for one of the government’s proposed pension tax workarounds.
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NewsU-turn on plans to strip trust of cancer scanning service
Specialist cancer scans will continue to be provided by a major teaching trust after NHS England backtracked on a decision to award the work solely to a private provider.
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Ministers to outline pensions crisis plans
Senior doctors and nurses will be allowed to set their own level of pension contributions each tax year under government proposals to tackle the pensions crisis gripping the health service.
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NewsGovernment pledges £1,000 ‘personal development budgets’ for NHS
The chancellor has promised an increase in planned spending on NHS staff development, which he says will pay for £1,000 “personal development budgets” for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals.
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CommentScandalous lack of capital investment has put patients at risk
The NHS treats a million people every 36 hours. In the vast majority of cases, the care they receive is exceptional. But in recent years, the ability of NHS professionals to provide the standard of care they strive and want to deliver has become harder, writes Chris Hopson.
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NewsFood review will ‘unclip caterers’ wings’, says chair
A new government review will aim to stop NHS catering staff feeling “boxed in” and help to “unclip [their] wings”, its chair has told HSJ.
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Expert BriefingTen weeks before Brexit, vital questions are still unanswered
Ministers expect the NHS to parrot their stance on Brexit from carefully prepared PR guidance. But guidance on far more critical matters has not materialised and there are worrying signs the government is not taking the impact of a no-deal Brexit on the NHS seriously enough, writes James Illman.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: ‘Chaos’ reigns as uncertainty grows over IT funding
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Contact Ben Heather in confidence here.
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NewsPM’s new health adviser says ‘ill-equipped’ NHS does not need ‘more money’
The prime minister’s new senior healthcare policy adviser believes that “more money is not the solution” to transforming the “hopelessly ill-equipped” NHS from “the monolith we have today”.
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NewsNHSE director slams local authorities for ‘relentless retendering’ of health services
NHS England’s national director for mental health has reignited the debate over local government’s stewardship of public health services by claiming “relentless retendering” is damaging integration, quality and staff morale.
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NewsTrusts could pay consultants through companies to avoid pension tax
A group of NHS trusts had explored letting doctors set up their own companies as a workaround for consultants who have cut their additional hours to avoid being hit with “punitive” tax bills, HSJ has learned. Trusts have explored LLPs as a workaround to ’punitive’ pension tax bills problem ...
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Expert BriefingPerformance Watch: Has Hancock decided to scrap the A&E target?
Welcome to HSJ’s Performance Watch expert briefing. Our fortnightly newsletter on the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsBullying culture ‘persists’ at scandal hit trust MP warned minister
A bullying culture still “persists” at Wirral University Teaching Hospital FT 18 months after a major governance scandal was exposed, a senior Parliamentarian has told health ministers.
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NewsTrust CEO says pension proposals make him feel like ‘second-class NHS citizen’
The government has been accused by senior NHS figures of treating managers unfairly after confirming pension changes would not apply to them.
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NewsManagers still excluded from NHS pensions proposals despite rethink
The government is proposing allowing senior doctors to set their own pension contributions alongside a review of how tax rules are impacting clinicians, in a bid to prevent doctors refusing extra NHS work.
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News£1.8bn funding boost 'just a down payment'
More than half the £1.8bn spending boost announced by the prime minister yesterday will be enabled by the reversal of last month’s demand from NHS England that trusts cut capital spending plans by 20 per cent.
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NewsReality TV star and Hunt’s former aide appointed junior health ministers
Two new junior ministers, including one covering mental health, have been appointed to the Department of Health and Social Care.
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NewsNew health minister appointed
A new minister of state for health has been appointed, as prime minister Boris Johnson continued his government reshuffle yesterday.
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NewsHancock remains health secretary
The new prime minister has kept Matt Hancock as health and social care secretary despite making major changes to the rest of the Cabinet.
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NewsConsultants get pay rise amid ‘serious concerns’ for morale
Consultants are set to receive a 2.5 per cent backdated pay rise amid “serious concerns” for workforce morale.