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HSJ’s 10 most-read stories of 2023
As 2023 draws to a close, HSJ takes a look at its most-read stories of the year.
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NHS England to issue ban on domestic flights
NHS England is set to ban staff from domestic air travel, even as internal data suggests the number of flights has increased over the last year.
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‘Very tight’ controls on digital and consultancy spend revealed
A new crackdown on central spending on digital and consultancy has been introduced by NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care, HSJ has learned.
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NHS agency spent £7m on ‘irregular’ payments to external contractors
NHS Digital spent more than £7m on consultants and external contractors without ministerial authorisation, with the organisation’s leadership acknowledging the payments were ‘irregular’.
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Partnering with the NHS to accelerate innovation
Andrew Smith explains how Objectivity’s partnerships with the NHS are designed to accelerate innovation and support organisations to realise and scale innovation from concept to regional delivery.
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All NHS board members to get equality objectives
Trusts and systems must draw up plans to improve the diversity of their executive and senior leadership teams over the next 12 months, and evidence progress against them by summer 2025, NHS England has announced.
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‘Archaic’ and risky patient records still used by most GP practices
Most GP practices in England are still using ‘archaic’ Lloyd George paper records despite a commitment to digitise them, HSJ has found.
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‘Over a year behind’ on key maternity target, NHSE admits
Pregnant women and new mothers are facing wide variation in access to mental health support, new figures suggest, as NHS England admits national performance on a key long-term plan goal to expand services is ‘over a year behind trajectory’.
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National ambitions for use of NHS App undermined by plateauing performance
Take-up and usage of the NHS App in England has begun to plateau, after covid drove huge growth, figures seen by HSJ suggest.
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Fraud probe reveals ‘full time’ contractors had second jobs
More than a dozen staff meant to be working ‘full time’ at NHS Digital were found to be doing other jobs at the same time, an investigation by fraud officials has revealed.
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Consultancy firm wins £13m contract for NHSE merger work
NHS England is paying management consultancy PA Consulting up to £13m under a new contract to help merge its national directorates and regional teams with those of NHS Digital and Health Education England.
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Cyber security strategy among dozens of tech promises missed by government
The government has failed to meet most of its own deadlines for commitments to improve how the NHS uses data, including developing a cyber security strategy, HSJ can reveal.
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Revealed: best and worst ICSs for inpatient elective activity
Only seven integrated care systems recorded more inpatient elective activity in the three months to December than in the same period before the pandemic, according to HSJ analysis.
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McKinsey wins £1m contract to devise new NHSE data model
Consultancy firm McKinsey has been awarded a contract worth almost £1m by NHS England to provide a new data and analytics operating model.
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£100m redundancy budget set for NHS England, HEE and NHSD
NHS England is set to spend up to £100m on voluntary redundancies and associated costs, as part of its restructure and merger with NHS Digital and Health Education England, the next phase of which is being announced today.
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NHSE must ‘demonstrate it is trustworthy’ on data, says watchdog
The independent data watchdog has called for greater clarity from NHS England on how it will ensure there are ‘as strong… if not stronger’ safeguards on health and care data following its takeover of NHS Digital.
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We will not sideline inclusion by parking it with a few
As NHS England restructures its “people” teams and merges with Health Education England, Navina Evans says it will “mainstream” its equality, diversity and inclusion work, rather than “parking it with a few” in a dedicated team.
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Branding agency hired to help ‘cultivate new personality’ for NHSE
NHS England will attempt to ‘cultivate the right personality’ as an ‘empowering coach-like leader’ in part to ‘rebuild lost trust’ with the service.
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NHSE’s redundancy scheme ‘unfit for purpose,’ says managers union
NHS England’s voluntary redundancy scheme is “unfit for purpose”, the Managers in Partnership union has claimed, warning its members to “consider their circumstances carefully” before applying.
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Senior managers among targets in NHSE redundancy drive
NHS England has published details of a voluntary redundancy scheme, which has been launched in an effort to cut its headcount by up to 40 per cent and help “minimise any need for compulsory redundancy”.