All NHS Confederation articles – Page 4
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News
Vulnerable patients facing long delays for beds amid funding rows
Vulnerable patients, including some children, have faced long delays for a suitable bed as organisations argue over whose responsibility it is to fund and deliver their care, HSJ understands.
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News
Exclusive: NHS England launches new crackdown on trust spending
NHS England has set out a raft of new conditions that over-spending trusts must follow, including sign-off from their integrated care board for all revenue investments over £50,000.
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News
Female CEOs say ambulance service culture ‘deeply wrong’
The only two female ambulance chief executives in the country have said there is something ‘deeply wrong’ with the culture in ambulance services.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: Ministers’ big call on a public inquiry
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by correspondent Emily Townsend — contact me in confidence.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: Will NHSE ever kill off the four-hour target?
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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BMA ‘acting like football agents’ inflating extra shift pay, say trust chiefs
A row has broken out between trust bosses and the British Medical Association over the doctors’ union’s campaign to drive up consultants’ hourly pay rates for extra shifts, HSJ has learned.
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News
Truss move to cut management would ‘get in way’ of progress, says top CEO
Liz Truss’s desire to talk about cutting management in the NHS will get in the way of more important conversations about the future operating model of the health service, a respected system leader has said.
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News
‘Emergency’ pension rule changes extended to help NHS cope with winter
The government is planning to extend measures introduced during the coronavirus pandemic which relaxed the pension rules for staff who ‘retire and return’.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: The NHS is delivering care from the dark ages
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by correspondent Emily Townsend — contact me in confidence.
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News
Trusts must ‘exercise judgement’ on covid testing after routine swabs scrapped
Scrapping routine covid tests in hospitals ahead of autumn boosters could downplay how serious the disease still is, NHS leaders have warned as they said trusts would exercise their own judgement on testing.
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News
Exclusive: NHSE leak reveals 1m patients on hidden waiting list
More than a million people – including hundreds of thousands of children – are on an unpublished national waiting list for community health services, according to NHS England documents leaked to HSJ.
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Daily Insight
The Primer: Another Sunak solution
The Primer provides a rapid guide to the most interesting comment and analysis on the English health and care sector that has not (usually) appeared in HSJ.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Layers or enablers – the ICS identity crisis
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care and commissioning. This week by primary care reporter Shruti Sheth Trivedi.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: Race, inequalities and NHS ConfedExpo
Race and racism in NHS leadership and workforce, and health inequalities, are the subject of this week’s HSJ Health Check podcast.
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Expert Briefing
Mental health trusts fear an ICS funding squeeze
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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News
Ditch recruiters who don’t deliver diverse candidates, says NHSE director
An NHS England leadership chief has criticised the lack of diversity among the top ranks of the country’s new integrated care systems, adding the low level of ethnic minority representation ‘really isn’t good enough’.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: Dispatches from Liverpool
This week the news team bring you the podcast from the NHS Confed/Expo conference in Liverpool.
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News
Over half of ethnic minority NHS leaders consider quitting due to racism
Just over half of senior ethnic minority leaders have considered leaving the NHS due to experiencing workplace racism, a survey shared with HSJ suggests.
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News
Javid wants top leaders to leave ‘walled gardens’ and take over struggling trusts
Sajid Javid has said ‘underperforming’ trusts could be forced to join ‘reform partnerships’ designed to spread the NHS’s best leaders across areas which are struggling.
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News
NHS England reviewing bed capacity
The NHS has a low bed base, and NHS England is reviewing ‘how we right-size our capacity’ across hospital, community and ‘virtual’ services, Amanda Pritchard has said.