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News
CQC chief admits ‘we’ve lost your trust’ and announces more inspections
The Care Quality Commission’s new chief executive has admitted the regulator “got things wrong” during the rollout of its new inspection regime and announced an increase in the number of assessments it carries out.
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Leader
Doctors’ pay: a warning from Labour’s past
In November 2002, HSJ sat opposite then prime minister Tony Blair in the cabinet room and asked him what he planned to do about consultants’ refusal to accept the new contract the government wanted to introduce.
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Expert Briefing
Patient Safety Watch: Bold moves to address the crisis and key appointments at the top
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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Comment
Hurrah! The politcians are back in control
The NHS has issued a statement expressing support for Wes Streeting as the new health and social care secretary promises to take back control, get the NHS done and lead us to the sunlit uplands. Julian Patterson has the details
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: 48,000 hours stuck in an ambulance
This week we discuss the ongoing harm done by long ambulance handover delays and what the new government must do to address this problem.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Streeting’s first days
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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News
Long waiters increase raises fresh questions over key NHSE target
The number of 65-week elective waits has increased for consecutive months with the figure rising by more than ten per cent to around 56,000 in May, NHS England’s latest statistics show.
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News
Streeting orders ‘independent investigation’ into NHS performance
The government has commissioned former minister, surgeon and academic Lord Ara Darzi to carry out an independent review of NHS performance.
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News
Two experts join DHSC to lead 10-year reform plan
Two health policy experts are joining government to help draw up a 10-year plan for health.
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News
Former minister joins Streeting’s team
Two new health and social care ministers, who previously held roles in the shadow team, have been announced by the new government.
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News
Streeting tells NHSE and DHSC to ‘work as one team’ and air ‘competing views’
Wes Streeting has told his department and NHS England to work as “one team” to improve services – which includes relaying their “competing views and interests” to him.
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Comment
Regulating managers will not fix the NHS's honesty problem on its own
Amidst growing concerns over the silencing of whistleblowers, the Labour Party manifesto has pledged to introduce the “regulation” of NHS managers. But can punitive measures alone ensure patient safety and staff support? By David Oliver
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News
Former NHS manager appointed health minister
Two new ministers have joined the Department of Health and Social Care, the government has announced.
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News
‘The NHS is broken’ says new health and social care secretary
Wes Streeting has been named as health and social care secretary — and said talks with junior doctors will begin shortly.
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Leader
The three tensions the new government must resolve
The new government will need to resolve three tensions in its mission to fix the broken NHS, writes Dave West.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: When HSJ met Wes
While the rest of the country was watching the football, HSJ met shadow health and social care secretary Wes Streeting in a café in Ilford for a wide-ranging interview.
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News
Exclusive: Streeting has ‘total confidence’ in Amanda Pritchard
The shadow health and social care secretary has “total confidence” in NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard, he has told HSJ.
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News
Labour expects trusts to pay ‘time and a half’ to staff delivering ‘40,000 extra appointments’
Trusts should pay staff around “time and a half” for the additional shifts required to hit Labour’s manifesto pledge for an extra 40,000 elective appointments a week if the party wins power, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has told HSJ.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: What’s missing from the manifestos
This week we’re joined by Sally Gainsbury and Leonora Merry from the Nuffield Trust think tank, who help us join the dots on the key issues for the NHS in the election campaign.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Labour’s £6bn social care questions
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.