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News£44m deficit declared by first trust to abandon financial plan
A large trust has become the first to publicly admit it will fail to meet its financial plan this year and will plunge into a deficit of more than £40m.
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News‘Distressing’ rise in maternal deaths as progress stalls
More women are dying during pregnancy or shortly after giving birth compared to over a decade ago – despite a government ambition to halve maternal mortality rates, it has emerged.
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NewsCEO takes regional role after breakdown in relationship
A trust group chief executive who had been absent from the role for nearly a year is leaving the organisation and joining an NHS England regional team.
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NewsProviders fear ‘significant commercial risk’ from NHSE contract rules
Fundamental concerns have been raised about NHS England’s proposed elective payment model for next year by NHS and private providers – with independent sector leaders branding them “not sustainable”.
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HSJ LocalRegional cancer centre joins New Hospital Programme
A funding route has finally been agreed to finance the relocation of a regional cancer centre from North London to a new, purpose-built facility in Watford.
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NewsPioneering chair stands down after a decade
A trust chair is standing down after more than a decade, having developed a pioneering group of four hospital providers.
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NewsTrust ‘losing £35m a year’ from integration contract
An acute trust is considering ending a 20-year partnership with a local authority as the cost of delivering adult social care services is exceeding funding by £35m per year.
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NewsDHSC offers £285,000 for new tech chief
The new national technology lead could become one of the highest paid directors in the Department of Health and Social Care, a new job advert suggests.
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NewsMajor flaws discovered in trust training programme
An external review has uncovered multiple problems with fairness, finance and governance in a major trust’s scheme for taking on hundreds of overseas medical trainees.
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NewsDHSC workforce chief revealed
A new director general for people has been appointed to lead on workforce issues across the health department and NHS.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE director to head major trust
A national director is leaving NHS England to head up one of England’s major trusts, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsConfusion over ‘corridor care’ obscuring safety risks
The NHS has been told by a safety watchdog to agree a universal definition of “corridor care” following a row over the terminology used to describe the practice.
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NewsRetiring ICB CEO received £300,000 exit payments
A chief executive who retired from an integrated care board received about £300,000 in payments for redundancy and in lieu of notice in October, it has emerged.
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NewsRegion seeks firm to replace ‘ageing critical infrastructure’
Six trusts in the West Midlands are letting a £290m contract to build and run a regional sterile drugs production unit, to replace current outdated facilities.
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NewsCEO of leading ICS to step down
Rob Webster has told staff he is stepping down as CEO of West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board.
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NewsDigital tools approved to support asthma patients
New digital tools to help people with asthma manage their conditions through their phones or laptops have been approved for use in the NHS.
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NewsRevealed: Wide variation in resident doctors on strike
There was wide variation in the proportion of resident doctors who went on strike before Christmas amid increased national turnout, analysis of NHS England data suggests.
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NewsChief nurse made CEO after unstable year for ICB
A nursing leader has been appointed as the permanent chief executive of an integrated care board whose management has been uncertain for more than a year.
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NewsICBs told to strengthen relationships
Nine integrated care boards have been told to improve partnership working, in NHS England’s latest formal assessment of their performance.
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NewsCEO turnover hits 25% as ‘scrutiny ratchets up’
One in four trusts saw their chief executive change last year, which senior figures say reflects “onerous” performance management being “ratcheted up” – and a problem retaining leaders.