News – Page 31
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NewsTrusts ‘stumbling into legal challenge’ with botched procurements
The government is intervening to try to improve NHS contracting of diagnostic services, after being warned about a series of delayed and bungled procurements by trusts.
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NewsNHSE-DHSC merger halts small business grants
An NHS-backed grant agency cannot give small businesses early-stage funding for healthtech innovations this year because of the merger of NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care.
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HSJ LocalFormer civil servant to lead trust
An acute trust has appointed a former government chief of staff and civil servant to replace its CEO of seven years.
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NewsNHSE advertises eight senior jobs despite workforce cuts
NHS England has launched a recruitment drive for eight senior positions for its delayed hospital building programme.
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NewsPrivate hospitals to lose £60m from in-year tariff changes
Private providers are set to lose more than £60m from a proposed cut to prices paid for cataract procedures.
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NewsCEO quits struggling hospital trust
The chief executive of a trust battling major performance and care quality concerns is stepping down after three years.
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NewsResident doctors to strike for five days
Resident doctors in England will go on strike for five days later this month, the British Medical Assocation has announced.
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NewsPalantir calls for greater interoperability between suppliers
The UK head of Palantir has urged the government to ensure other suppliers of software to the NHS make their products interoperable with the federated data platform.
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NewsHospital boards not ready to run population health, says government adviser
Hospital trust boards are not currently in a position to run population health and “very few” acute chief executives “truly understand” primary care, government’s neighbourhood health adviser has told HSJ.
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NewsForty-two areas to pioneer neighbourhood health
The government and NHS England will select 42 places to lead the rollout of neighbourhood health and shape how it will be operationalised.
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News90,000 three-year waiters revealed in unpublished data
The huge numbers of very long waits for NHS mental health care have been exposed in new data – revealing figures much larger than those waiting for physical health treatment.
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NewsResident doctors vote for strike action
Resident doctors in England have voted in favour of industrial action and urged the health and social care secretary to negotiate a new pay deal, the British Medical Association has announced.
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NewsPanel backs ICB over £32.5m contract award
An integrated care board has been told to proceed with a controversial decision to award an out-of-hours primary care contract – previously provided by a local GP firm – to a private company.
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NewsDHSC board will block unfunded safety recommendations
A “revamped, revitalised and reinforced” National Quality Board will decide what safety and quality recommendations the NHS will adopt, with an eye to their cost-effectiveness, the long-awaited Dash Review has said.
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HSJ Local£100m hospital improvements in doubt ‘due to new government’
A trust has not received £100m of capital it was promised for hospital improvements and government is refusing to say whether it will honour the pledge, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsConsultancy called in to review trust's staff 'experience'
A trust grappling with concerns over culture has commissioned an independent review into staff experience.
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NewsEx-No 10 and NHSE advisers join same firm
One of the country’s leading decision-makers on cancer drugs and a former Downing Street health adviser have taken up new roles at a consultancy firm.
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NewsTrusts to be monitored on local recruitment
Trusts will be monitored on how many staff they recruit who live locally and are unemployed, under 10-Year Health Plan proposals.
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NewsThe deadlines and targets in the 10-Year Plan
A private funding business case for health centres, and publishing minimum employment standards, are among the first dated objectives in the 10-Year Health Plan.
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NewsThe local services praised in the 10-Year Plan
The 10-Year Health Plan highlights more than a dozen local examples of work showing where government wants to take the NHS, and eight from overseas.