News – Page 23
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NewsMackey: I never promised redundancies funding
NHS England never promised central funding for integrated care board redundancies, Sir Jim Mackey has told MPs.
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NewsRegional CEOs to ‘manage’ health systems, says NHSE
The CEOs of seven reformed NHS regions are to be made directly responsible for “the success of the health system they manage”, according to the new “blueprint” for their future.
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NewsScanner procurement cancelled under threat of legal challenge
A leading specialist cancer trust has had to cancel and re-run the procurement of a cutting-edge scanner to stave off the threat of a legal challenge..
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NewsExclusive: ‘Neighbourhood’ pioneers revealed
The first wave of 43 areas chosen to take part in the national neighbourhood health implementation programme can be revealed.
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NewsICB boss to retire after 18 years as exec
The chief executive of South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board has announced he will retire next month.
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NewsEnglish trusts resist Welsh waiting time policy
Multiple English hospitals are refusing a Welsh health board’s request to delay operations for up to two years.
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NewsHalf of mental health and community trusts downgraded by NHSE
A third of mental health trusts have been given the lowest score in NHS England’s new rating regime, marking a significant reappraisal of the sector’s performance compared to previous assessments.
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NewsTrusts’ ‘league table’ rankings revealed
NHS England has revealed its new “league table” rankings for every NHS trust, with hospitals in London scoring best and East of England the worst.
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NewsReview finds nine infant deaths at trust ‘potentially avoidable’
A trust has apologised after an external review into maternity failures concluded that nine neonatal deaths may have been avoidable.
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NewsSurgeon appointed as health minister
The government has appointed a surgeon as a junior minister in the Department of Health and Social Care.
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HSJ LocalTrust boss urges directors to experience private sector
A trust leader has urged executives to learn from the private sector as he noted the NHS can “occasionally [be] inward-looking”.
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News‘Concerning’ discrepancies in avoidable deaths revealed
People with a learning disability from a non-white background are more likely to die from avoidable causes, a new report has found.
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NewsExclusive: Spending freeze imposed after NHSE identifies £300m budget hole
The government has ordered a spending freeze and told the NHS to absorb the £300m cost of the most recent resident doctors’ strikes from existing budgets, HSJ has learned.
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NewsGap in crisis services risks future deaths
Only 10 integrated care boards have set up a mental health crisis text service, leaving a “gap” in service provision that could risk future deaths, a coroner has warned.
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NewsTrusts handed target to boost staff vaccination rate
NHS England has said low flu vaccination rates among NHS staff are “neither inevitable nor irreversible” and told trusts to significantly improve their uptake this winter.
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News‘Growing cultural tension’ could turn hospital’s staff against leaders
A hospital has uncovered concerns about “toxic behaviours” and racism, and been warned that “growing cultural tension” could turn “staff against each other or against leadership”.
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NewsUnspent hospital IT funding used to ‘support NHSE position’
NHS England retained more than £40m of unspent electronic patient record funding in 2024-25 to “support [its] overall position” and to invest in other areas such as the NHS App, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsRecord-low turnover ‘will derail savings plans’
The rate of NHS staff leaving their jobs has fallen to the lowest level in more than a decade, as many organisations seek to cut their paybill, analysis reveals.
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NewsSecond national tech director to step down
An NHS England national tech director has announced he is stepping down, marking the second major departure in the space of a fortnight.
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NewsCash-poor trust told financial plan is ‘unachievable’
A cash-poor trust has been told its plan to double the savings it delivered in the past two years is “unachievable”.