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NewsNHSE’s improvement teams axed
NHS England’s elective, emergency care and mental health improvement support teams are being axed – and their staff and functions merged into the Getting it Right First Time programme, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNational scheme to support families after baby deaths faces axe
An “overwhelmingly valued” pilot support scheme for families who have lost a child before or shortly after birth has been paused to new referrals and is being “brought to a close”, HSJ has learned.
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NewsAll-white ICB CEO appointments ‘deeply concerning’
The chief executives of consolidated integrated care boards are largely white men with little senior experience outside the NHS, HSJ analysis shows.
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NewsNHSE director steps down to chair care scandal trust
An NHS England national director is stepping down to become chair of a mental health trust at the centre of a public inquiry.
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CommentWhy new NHS buildings are not ready for patients on opening day
New NHS buildings are often declared complete before they are ready to start operating. Poor planning leaves staff unprepared and patients at risk, writes Michelle Higgins
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NewsNew head for innovation network
Ben Bridgewater has been appointed executive chair of the Health Innovation Network, the umbrella body for the 15 regional health innovation groups.
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NewsChildren’s unit to close over staffing and CQC concerns
A children’s mental health unit struggling with short staffing has been forced to close for several months, in the wake of a Care Quality Commission inspection.
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NewsCuts to centre stopped under Labour
Two years of cuts to NHS England’s workforce came to an end under the first 12 months of the Labour government, despite ministers’ plans to cut the centre, figures show.
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NewsConfed and Providers agree merger
The boards of NHS Providers and the NHS Confederation have agreed “provisionally” to merge in April next year.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: What Ian Dodge learned about legislation
The HSJ Health Check podcast is tracking development of the government’s planned Health Bill. This week, we talk to Ian Dodge, who shaped several major pieces of NHS legislation as long-serving policy lead at NHS England and the Department of Health.
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NewsFormer NHSE director to chair health alliance
Former NHS England chair Richard Meddings has been appointed to the same post at Birmingham Health Partners, an alliance of six of the city’s NHS trusts, two of its universities and the local health innovation network.
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CommentThe ICB and NHSE restructure threatens the service’s diversity
Restructuring on a large scale is exactly when the tenuous gains on diversity and inclusion are most at risk, write Roger Kline and Claire Barnett
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News‘No rush’ to transfer NHSE staff as abolition faces delay
There is no longer a “rush” to transfer the employment of NHS England staff to the Department of Health and Social Care, Sir Jim Mackey has told them.
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NewsLong-serving hospital chief executive to retire
A long-serving hospital chief executive has announced plans to retire later this year so he can focus on his family after his wife’s cancer diagnosis.
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CommentGovernment reforms are leaving managers without a lifeline
The NHS risks breakdown, not from clinical shortages alone but from the silent collapse of corporate systems that sustain frontline delivery, writes Colin Graham
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NewsChair lambasts ‘regrettable’ plans to remove FT governors
The removal of governors is a “regrettable” proposal that is generating “concern and anxiety” among foundation trusts, a trust chair has warned.
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NewsICB chief moves to lead neighbour
Two integrated care board chief executives have been confirmed in the South East, including one incumbent moving to lead their challenged neighbour.
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News‘Philosophical intent’ will guide new NHS workforce plan
The government’s 10-Year Workforce Plan will focus on “a philosophical intent of what roles we need” rather than “prescriptive numbers” on staffing requirements, a health minister has said.
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NewsStreeting forces NHSE U-turn on subcos
NHS England has rowed back on its insistence that all trusts “have or use” wholly owned subsidiary companies to run ancillary services following intervention from the health and social care secretary.
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CommentWe risk losing the NHS analysts vital to delivering reforms
Analysts are crucial to delivering the NHS 10-Year Health Plan, but reorganisation and underinvestment threaten to undermine reform ambitions, says Neil Morgan