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NHSE hires hospital chief as digital director
NHS England has hired a hospital chief executive to work part time as its national director for digital channels.
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Senior managers among targets in NHSE redundancy drive
NHS England has published details of a voluntary redundancy scheme, which has been launched in an effort to cut its headcount by up to 40 per cent and help “minimise any need for compulsory redundancy”.
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‘Marked reduction in pressure’ leads ambulance trust to move from top alert level after 598 days
An ambulance trust is no longer operating under the highest alert level for the first time in 20 months, after the number of calls it receives each day halved and a crucial response time reduced by 95 per cent.
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Nurses and ambulance staff to stage co-ordinated strike on 6 February
More than 10,000 ambulance staff will join nurses in co-ordinated walkouts next month, in one of the biggest strikes in NHS history.
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Exclusive: the trusts offering thousands of staff inferior pensions
Trusts are regularly denying staff employed by their wholly owned subsidiary companies access to the NHS pension and providing them with schemes which are significantly less generous.
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Two MDs from same hospital group get CEO jobs
Two hospital managing directors within a foundation trust group have been given chief executive jobs in the space of a month.
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Board members tried to ‘disrupt’ joint CEO plans, says NHS England
Board members at an acute trust deliberately ‘disrupted’ attempts to merge its leadership with another provider, according to a highly critical NHS England investigation.
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Police and CQC investigate serious incidents at trust
A series of concerns about serious incidents at a mental health trust are being investigated by the Care Quality Commission, with a referral also made to the police, HSJ has learned.
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Exclusive: ICSs with most and least funding growth
Local health systems’ budgets will rise by an average of 3.3 per cent in 2023-24, according to draft allocations seen by HSJ.
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Nurse strike to hit at all but one of region’s hospitals next month
Nurses at every acute trust in the South West except one will strike next month, under further action announced by the Royal College of Nursing.
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Building firm to pay £5m over ‘defects’ at major cancer centre
A construction firm has been ordered to pay £5m after fire and electrical safety defects were found at one of the NHS’s largest cancer centres.
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CQC names worst trusts for maternity care
The trusts with substantially worse experience of maternity care have been identified by the Care Quality Commission.
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Revealed: How much each ICS is getting from the £200m discharge fund
Two integrated care systems are receiving over £10m each to spend on supporting hospital discharge, while 10 are getting less than £3m.
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NHS England set to water down renewable energy rules
NHS England plans to water down a requirement for trusts to buy electricity from 100 per cent renewable sources.
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Four urgent care centres in one ICS placed in special measures
The Care Quality Commission has placed the four urgent treatment centres run by a private provider in a single system into special measures.
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Deaths inquiry thrown into doubt as only 11 staff agree to give evidence
The chair of an inquiry into hundreds of deaths at a mental health trust has revealed she may not be able to deliver it in its current form following a ‘hugely disappointing’ lack of staff coming forward to give evidence.
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Trust names interim CEO after dropping merger plan
One of England’s smallest trusts has appointed an experienced interim chief executive for nine months while it recruits a permanent replacement.
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Complaints against trust chair upheld by leaked report
A trust chair failed to follow proper processes when suspending a colleague and did not always act with “honesty, truthfulness and clarity”, an investigation found.
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Only three trusts hit new A&E target
Average ambulance waits for stroke and heart attack patients topped two hours in three regions last month, amid another sharp drop in emergency care performance.