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‘Commercial barriers’ stop ICS buying private hospital
A health system has dropped a bid to buy a private hospital in its area, saying there were ‘commercial barriers’ to the deal.
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New minister appointed at DHSC
A new junior health minister has been appointed, following Sajid Javid and Edward Argar’s resignations last week.
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Chair appointed across two hospital trusts
A joint chair has been appointed across two acute trusts in London.
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NHSE chief visits trust to ‘learn lessons’ from troubled IT project
The go-live of a new electronic patient record at two hospitals has led to operational problems and a visit from an NHS England board director to ‘learn lessons’ for future roll-outs.
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NHS ‘not doing a very good job’ on children’s mental health
The NHS’s approach to tackling children’s mental health is ‘threatening to overwhelm the social care system’, the president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services has warned.
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Trust chiefs resist ‘pressure’ to treat patients in corridors
Hospital leaders say they have been pressured to deliver more ‘corridor care’ as a result of efforts to ease the ambulance handover crisis.
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Three regions see covid hospital patients double in a fortnight
The number of patients in English hospitals who have tested positive for covid has increased by 86 per cent during the last two weeks.
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CQC criticises outstanding-rated trust for ‘unsafe’ staffing
An ‘outstanding’ rated mental health trust has been criticised by the Care Quality Commission for ‘unsafe’ levels of staffing and inadequate monitoring of vulnerable patients.
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‘New hospitals’ trusts lack cash for planned rebuilds
Half of the trusts in the government’s flagship hospital building programme are ‘not confident’ their funding allocations will be enough to deliver their projects, a new poll of NHS executives has suggested.
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Cancer and primary care investment face cuts due to pay bill, NHSE warns
NHS England has warned of ‘cuts’ to services and investment in cancer and primary care if it is not given extra funding for staff pay-rises above 3 per cent.
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6,000-plus jobs to be cut at ‘new NHS England’
Thousands of jobs – amounting to around 30-40 per cent of posts across NHS England, Health Education England and NHS Digital – will be cut over the next year as the organisations are merged, it was announced today.
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‘Innovation put over safety’ at world-famous hospital
A world-famous hospital has a culture where some staff may put research interests above patient safety, according to an external investigation.
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Health minister among latest to resign
Health minister Edward Argar resigned last night, one day after health secretary Sajid Javid.
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Police role ‘blurred’ with healthcare staff, reviews find
The controversial ‘SIM’ mental healthcare model sometimes ‘blurred’ the role of police with healthcare staff, according to results of local reviews seen by HSJ.
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Middle-class patients to wait longer for care under health inequalities project
Dozens of NHS trusts are looking to adopt new software which can take health inequalities into account when prioritising patients for elective care.
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Hundreds of products out of stock amid ‘unprecedented’ supply chain problems
NHS trusts are finding hundreds of clinical and non-clinical products are out of stock with the national supply chain agency, leaving procurement teams scrambling to find alternatives and avoid gaps in supply.
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NHSE looks to give up on key elective requirement
NHS England is looking to change the rules around its flagship elective fund, amid concern that disappointing activity levels will trigger widespread financial penalties, HSJ has been told.
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Trust stands down service which achieved ‘marked improvement’ in A&E handover delays
An acute trust has had to stand down a new service which led to a ‘marked improvement’ in ambulance handover times, due to a lack of permanent funding to support it.
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New health secretary named
Sajid Javid has resigned and been replaced by Steve Barclay as health and social care secretary.
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New chair for trusts with £3bn joint turnover
Two of the NHS’s largest hospital trusts have appointed a new joint chair