All articles by Mimi Launder – Page 5
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Exclusive: 6,500 staff gap in government cancer plan revealed
Community diagnostic centres — the government’s flagship policy for recovering cancer testing after covid — will have up to 6,500 fewer staff than they need by 2025, according to NHS England projections seen by HSJ.
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Ministers failing to reform ‘restrictive’ primary care rules
The government has failed to change ‘restrictive’ legislation which would enable primary care reform – despite repeated announcements – a pharmacy leader has said.
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Trust names interim CEO
A mental health trust has named a managing director as its interim chief executive while the substantive post-holder is on secondment at the local integrated care board.
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ICB defies NHSE over patient record access
An integrated care board has advised its GP practices not to give patients automatic access to their records, contradicting NHS England national requirements.
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IT ‘crash’ hits 1,000s of GP practices
An IT system used by thousands of general practices has suffered major technical problems today, with GPs struggling to access patient records and give prescriptions.
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NHSE officer steps down to focus on board roles
England’s chief dental officer is leaving her national post after eight years in part to focus on several non-executive board roles, NHS England has announced.
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Protect trusts from ‘regulators’ demands’, ICB told
An external review has advised an integrated care board to do more to ‘hold the umbrella up’ to regulators, to protect its providers from their demands.
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Exclusive: Over 80pc of GP practices lack crucial technology, warns NHSE lead
Only 10-15 per cent of GP practices are using all three of the ‘modern’ patient access tools — including overhauling their approach to triage — which are at the centre of NHS England’s primary care recovery plan, its GP lead has told HSJ.
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Patient aggression up by a fifth despite trust’s interventions
A hospital trust, which has already implemented a series of safety measures to protect employees, has reported a 17 per cent rise in incidents of abuse against staff by patients and the public in the last year.
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Babylon ‘administration’ move will not impact NHS services, claims firm
Babylon has said its planned financial ‘restructuring and recapitalisation’, which would see the company return to private ownership, will not impact its NHS services.
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HSJ Local
Trust CEO named as interim ICB chief
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board has appointed its third chief executive, and second interim, since it was established last July.
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Finance chief who ‘eradicated trust’s deficit’ is made CEO
A trust has appointed a chief executive whose track record as finance director includes work towards eliminating its underlying deficit.
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Revealed: the tenfold regional difference in access to GP records
Fewer than one in 10 GP practices offers patients access to their records in several areas of England, with significant variation across England, six months ahead of a new deadline.
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New target for huge NHS App expansion in general practice
The vast majority of GP practices should allow patients to manage their care through the NHS App in less than a year, according to the primary care recovery plan published by government and NHS England today.
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HSJ Local
‘Hyperlocal’ approach unblocked recruitment, says trust
A community trust has reported unprecedented success filling stubborn vacancies by investing in ‘hyperlocal’ recruitment, which involves posting flyers through doors rather than posting adverts online.
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Staff get ‘aggressive verbal abuse’ over strike cancellations
A hospital trust has said its staff have been verbally abused when contacting some patients to postpone their appointments because of next week’s nursing strike.
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Think tank appoints trust boss as new CEO
The Nuffield Trust think tank has appointed Thea Stein as its chief executive, who will take over from outgoing CEO Nigel Edwards later this year.
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ICBs which breach delegation terms face NHSE intervention
Integrated care boards must meet immediately with NHSE if they think they are breaching delegation terms for primary pharmacy, optometry and dentistry commissioning.
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Streeting ‘would not look over NHS England chief’s shoulder’
Wes Streeting has said he would ‘not look over NHS England’s shoulder’ if he became health and social care secretary, calling for ‘clarity’ and a ‘healthier relationship’ between the government and NHSE.
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Child health checks failed to recover after covid, figures show
Inadequate health visiting provision has led to gaps in care for children and heaped pressure on acute services, senior clinicians have told HSJ.