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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: Delay and disappointment for the ‘new hospitals’
This week, government finally revealed its new – and mostly delayed – target dates for the building of the promised “new hospitals”.
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News
CEO and finance chief to leave £90m deficit ICB
The chief executive and chief financial officer of an integrated care board under financial strain have both announced their resignation.
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News
ICB to lose another leader
An integrated care board in the Midlands is facing more leadership churn as its interim chief executive has announced she will retire this summer.
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News
NHSE’s leadership standards ‘wordy and woolly’
The new framework which is meant to set national standards for NHS leaders has been criticised as “too wordy” and “woolly”.
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Comment
The NHS is holding the economy back by failing to share its data
Matthew Swindells writes about how unlocking AI’s potential in the NHS can boost productivity, improve patient care, and free clinicians from admin tasks by prioritising simpler, proven technologies like RPA and machine learning
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Comment
The NHS is not empowering charities to help the service
Wes Streeting has highlighted the urgent need for change in NHS maternity care, to address a workforce crisis and significant inequalities. Integrating charities into NHS care pathways could enhance services and provide cost-effective solutions, writes Angela McConville
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Comment
The investment in people that’s needed to make the most of AI
The prime minister plans to unleash AI across the UK, fervent in his belief that it can revolutionise healthcare and other key sectors. So can we sit back and let the robots take charge? Health Economics Unit director Andi Orlowski takes a look at the role left for humans in ...
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: The fall of an NHS giant
On this episode, we unpick the ongoing tensions between leaders and senior doctors at one of the biggest trusts in England.
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News
Reforms to fix Band 8 pay gap at risk, ministers warned
Unions are warning the government it risks derailing “comprehensive” reforms to fix the Agenda for Change pay band structure, including the lack of an incentive to promotion to Band 8a.
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News
Managers should ‘embrace’ regulation, says Letby trust CEO
NHS managers should “welcome and embrace” the introduction of professional regulation in the wake of the Lucy Letby scandal, according to the current CEO of the trust where her murders took place.
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News
Hackers ‘compromised details’ of hundreds of staff
Hackers are claiming to have stolen – and are offering for sale – personal details of around 200 foreign nationals working in the UK healthcare sector from the Home Office.
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News
Revealed: War of words among leaders at £1.6bn trust
Medical managers at University Hospitals Birmingham have accused some colleagues of misrepresenting doctors’ views and creating “negativity” which is “detrimental to the reputation of our organisation”, HSJ has learned.
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20% of corporate jobs to go in cost-cutting restructure
An ambulance trust is reducing the number of posts in its corporate directorates by 20 per cent.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: The plan for electives
The HSJ Health Check team looks at the new elective recovery plan launched this month.
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HSJ Local
Trust ordered to pay £100,000 after sacking doctor with PTSD
A judge has ordered a trust to pay £100,000 to a doctor with PTSD who had been unfairly dismissed.
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News
Exclusive: Trust orders external review into medical training ‘concerns’
University Hospitals Birmingham has ordered an independent review into its international medical training programme, after concerns the scheme may be routinely underpaying overseas doctors.
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News
Trusts to foot bill for new ‘customer service’ training
New compulsory customer service training to help non-clinical staff better advise elective patients and “handle difficult conversations with compassion” will be paid for from providers’ existing budgets, HSJ understands.
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News
CEO of NHS’s largest trust to stand down
The NHS trust with the largest annual income has started an “international” search for a new chief executive.
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Comment
Threat to defund digital apprenticeships creates risk for NHS
Proposed reforms to the Apprenticeship Levy could unlock vital NHS training funds – but risks loom for key health sector apprenticeships, writes John Rogers, Skills For Health CEO
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Comment
The use of volunteers is no longer just a 'nice to have'
From its pandemic origins, the NHS and Care Volunteer Responders programme has evolved to tackle broader healthcare challenges in the NHS, delivering promising results