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Webinar: How can the NHS best support staff wellbeing during the covid-19 pandemic and beyond?
The former chief executive of Salford Royal Foundation Trust spoke at an HSJ webinar on maintaining NHS staff wellbeing during the covid-19 pandemic and beyond.
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Anxiety as social care left out of £3bn spending boost
Senior health figures are increasingly concerned about the lack of new national support for social care, as it was excluded from a £3bn funding announcement by the prime minister today.
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Trust to test all 9,000 staff for covid within five days
A trust with a very high covid-19 death rate is to test all of its staff over the next five days in an attempt to identify those who have the disease but don’t know it.
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Teaching hospital ‘totally wrong’ on equality job search
A major teaching trust’s recruitment of a new equality, diversity and inclusion director role has been criticised after external candidates were given just 10 days to apply for a temporary role.
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Controversial two-week surgery quarantine stopped for children
Children will no longer have to isolate for two weeks before undergoing surgery, amid a debate over whether the rule needs to be strictly maintained for adults.
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Exclusive: No 10 tells Hancock ‘wait until 2021’ for NHS law change
Major health legislation to give government a tighter grip on the NHS is now very unlikely to reach Parliament this year, after a move to rapidly pass a bill this summer by health secretary Matt Hancock was rejected by No 10, HSJ understands.
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CQC intervenes at GP practice run by struggling firm
A company which had a community dermatology contract suspended last month has had a group of surgeries covering 27,500 patients closed by the Care Quality Commission.
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Trust with record covid deaths asks NHSE for help
The hospital trust which has been recording the largest number of covid deaths for several weeks has asked NHS England and NHS Improvement for help with infection control.
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NHS ‘overcrowded with regulators’, says watchdog
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has warned of an “overcrowding of regulators”, following proposals made by the Cumberlege report for a new independent patient safety commissioner.
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‘Insufficient’ national response to deaths review programme, report finds
The latest annual report into the deaths of people with learning disabilities has criticised the “insufficient” national response to past recommendations and called for “urgent” policy changes.
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CCG apologises for decision to close unit
A clinical commissioning group has admitted its predecessors failed to follow due process when trying to close an inpatient unit for people with dementia.
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Block contracts to be extended as NHS wrangles over cash
NHS providers have been told the block contracts they have operated under during the covid pandemic will be extended by at least another month, HSJ has learned.
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McKinsey called in to review NHS Test and Trace governance amid leadership churn
Management consultancy McKinsey has been asked by the Department of Health and Social Care to review the governance and form of the NHS Test and Trace programme
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Exclusive: National roll-out of ‘call before you walk’ A&Es set for winter
NHS England plans to introduce a “call before you walk” model for accident and emergency by winter, HSJ has been told.
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Lack of leadership capacity slows PCN development
Many primary care networks lack leadership capacity and are struggling for influence as a result, according to a report by the NHS Confederation.
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Covid deaths at single trust nearly double that of any other provider
A single trust has recorded 90 per cent more covid-related deaths than any other NHS provider over the last month, an analysis by HSJ shows.
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Prior: use of barcodes should be ‘commonplace in the NHS’
The widespread adoption of barcoding by the NHS is needed to meet the challenge posed by the Cumberlege patient safety review, according to NHS England chair Lord David Prior.
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One in four managers working 20+ hours overtime during pandemic
Nearly a quarter of NHS managers have been working more than 20 hours a week in unpaid overtime during the coronavirus pandemic, while two-thirds say they do not believe they can take time off in lieu, new data has revealed.
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Exclusive: Nearly 200 NHS staff at support organisation face redundancy risk
An NHS commissioning organisation is set to put nearly 200 staff at risk of redundancy as part of a major restructure and faces allegations about its use of expensive interim management and consultancy.
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Hospital remains on diversion 10 days after covid outbreak
A hospital in the prime minister’s constituency remains on diversion for emergency ambulances and admissions 10 days after a covid-19 outbreak among its staff.