All NHS Confederation articles – Page 5
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NewsExclusive: 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More than a million people – including hundreds of thousands of children – are on an unpublished national waiting list for community health services, according to NHS England documents leaked to HSJ.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 InsightThe 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 BriefingThe 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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PodcastHSJ 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 BriefingMental 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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NewsDitch 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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PodcastHSJ 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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NewsOver 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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NewsJavid 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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NewsNHS 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.
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NewsGovernment ‘manager bashing’ to hide Conservative failings on NHS, says Confed chief
Ministers, including the health secretary are bashing managers and exploiting the culture wars to try to ‘explain away’ the crisis in the NHS instead of facing up to the problems 12 years of Conservative-led government have created, NHS Confederation chief executive Matthew Taylor has told HSJ.
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News‘Impossible’ to improve delayed discharges as picture worsens
The number of patients stuck in hospitals despite being ‘medically fit’ to leave has continued to increase in recent months, leading to warnings from NHS Confederation that trusts are finding it ‘impossible’ to make progress on reducing the numbers.
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NewsICSs set for £1bn+ gap in first year despite new money
Local systems face a financial gap of more than £1bn in 2022-23, even after factoring in additional inflation funding provided by NHS England last week.
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NewsICSs face test to take on billions worth of services
England’s 42 health systems will be assessed in November and December this year on whether they are ready to commission 65 specialised services that the centre has said should be delegated, NHS England announced today.
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NewsNHSE urges system leaders to ‘understand’ primary care in their areas
An NHS England director has urged integrated care system leaders to better understand primary care in their areas.
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NewsTrusts block pensions deal for senior medics, claiming it is ‘unfair’ on other staff
Ten of the most pressured NHS trusts have refused to offer ‘pension recycling’ to help senior doctors avoid higher pension taxes, with sources saying this would be ‘totally unfair’ on lower paid staff.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Vallance’s view
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by senior correspondent Nick Carding.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: NHSE's latest controversial data project explained
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by senior correspondent Nick Carding.
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NewsFew staff using wellbeing hubs despite rise in sick days
Only 53,500 staff have used a flagship NHS staff wellbeing initiative in its first year of operation, HSJ can reveal, while separate analysis finds mental health sick days have soared in the last five years.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: The profession at ‘high risk’ of being lost
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.