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Daily Insight: Neither a borrower nor a lender be
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Trusts face ‘barriers’ to apprenticeship funding
Trusts are unable to take full advantage of subsidised training under the government’s apprenticeship levy because the scheme is not flexible, HSJ has been warned.
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Unaccredited counsellors providing NHS-funded care
Counsellors without the required accreditation are providing NHS-funded therapy services, despite NHS England tightening the rules for providers.
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NHS trusts owe government £14bn
Heavily-indebted NHS providers are bidding to restructure their loans with the Department of Health and Social Care, albeit with little prospect of them being written off.
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PM’s new health adviser says ‘ill-equipped’ NHS does not need ‘more money’
The prime minister’s new senior healthcare policy adviser believes that “more money is not the solution” to transforming the “hopelessly ill-equipped” NHS from “the monolith we have today”.
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Dozens of patients admitted in feed supply emergency
Dozens of patients including children have now been admitted to hospital because of the national shortage of intravenous food supplies for patients who cannot eat normal food, HSJ has learned.
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CQC criminal prosecutions jump by a third
The Care Quality Commission has increased the number of criminal prosecutions of health and social care providers by more than 32 per cent in a year.
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NHSE director slams local authorities for ‘relentless retendering’ of health services
NHS England’s national director for mental health has reignited the debate over local government’s stewardship of public health services by claiming “relentless retendering” is damaging integration, quality and staff morale.
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Eight STPs say no ICS until 2021
Many sustainability and transformation partnerships will leave it to the April 2021 deadline to become integrated care systems, HSJ analysis suggests.
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Trust starved of capital cash for maternity censured by CQC
A trust whose capital bid to improve its maternity services has been repeatedly turned down by government has been told by the Care Quality Commission to make urgent improvements to the obstetrics department after an inspection prompted by three serious incidents.
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Trusts could pay consultants through companies to avoid pension tax
A group of NHS trusts had explored letting doctors set up their own companies as a workaround for consultants who have cut their additional hours to avoid being hit with “punitive” tax bills, HSJ has learned. Trusts have explored LLPs as a workaround to ’punitive’ pension tax bills problem ...
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Scandal-hit trust to leave special measures
A trust, which was at the centre of a scandal around diverting ambulances, is to exit special measures after nearly three years.
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FT’s record keeping cited as a concern by five inquests since 2016
Investigations into patient deaths at a teaching trust in Lancashire have repeatedly raised similar concerns around the quality of care records and information sharing.
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Trusts to get ‘cutting-edge’ cyber security upgrades after £40m deal
NHS Digital has signed a £40m deal with a multinational technology company in a bid to improve NHS trusts’ cyber security with “cutting-edge technology”.
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‘Black alert’ declared at Midlands teaching trust
Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has declared a black alert and is urging staff to prioritise patient discharges.
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Boris-backed inpatients unit may face CQC challenge
A new inpatient unit for patients with learning disabilities, which received £33m in capital funding from the prime minister last week, might not meet national standards set by the Care Quality Commission.
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Daily Insight: The diva will see you now
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Medical leaders must tackle 'untouchable' doctors
Medical leaders need to prevent and tackle “problematic subcultures”, which can include groups of “divas” who are viewed as “untouchable”, new General Medical Council research has concluded.