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Major ICB plans to cut one in six posts
2024-05-20T11:43:00Z
An integrated care board has proposed cutting morethan 80 of its full-time equivalent posts, in a bid to reduce its operating costs by 40 per cent.
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Trust appeals to NHSE chiefs over EPR funding fears
2024-05-20T11:44:00Z
An acute trust’s digital chief has raised concerns the £3.4bn tech fundingannounced in this year’s Budget may not be available for a new system-wide electronic patient record.
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Trusts red-listed because of failure to connect to ‘critical’ safety system
2024-05-20T04:00:00Z
Some of the country’s largest trusts could be left without an automated safety incident reporting system when NHS England removes the existing solution next month,HSJhas learned.
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40% of funding targeted at improving emergency care goes unspent
2024-05-20T04:00:00Z
Fourty per cent of the £150m capital funding potNHS Englandmade available to incentiviseurgent and emergency careimprovements was not distributed, data shown toHSJreveals.
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Use your ‘operational muscle’ to improve performance urges NHSE director
2024-05-20T04:00:00Z
Commissioners and providers must get back their “operational process muscle” and use it to drive improvements to care, NHS England’s emergency care lead has toldHSJ.
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CIO appointed as trust’s chief for two years
2024-05-20T15:30:00Z
A community trust has appointed its chief information and transformation officer as chief executive in a fixed two-year interim capacity, it has announced.
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‘Outstanding’ trust appoints new CEO
2024-05-17T11:01:00Z
East London Foundation Trust has announced that Lorraine Sunduza will be its new chief executive.
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First test of new rules on competition finds against the NHS
2024-05-17T11:00:00Z
The Independent Patient Choice and Procurement Panel has told the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board that it should re-start efforts to procure a mental health service as it has contravened new commissioning regulations.
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2024-05-17T11:00:00Z
The government should not seek to dismiss chief executives whose trusts fail to tackle long A&E waits.
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New acting CEO and chair for trust
2024-05-17T05:10:00Z
An East Midlands trust has announced it has both a new acting chair and chief executive.
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NHSE reveals 10% productivity drop
2024-05-17T04:36:00Z
Bosses at NHS England have suggested reduced discretionary efforts from staff could have contributed to hospitals being a tenth less productive than they were before the pandemic.
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NHSE declares rationalisation is over after cutting 7,000 posts
2024-05-16T15:15:00Z
NHS England has completed its restructure, reducing its workforce by 30 per cent, in what it says is “one of the largest public sector transformations in the UK”.
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GPs to vote on ‘immediate’ industrial action
2024-05-16T13:00:00Z
GPs will limit the number of appointments a day and refuse to carry out additional work if a ballot announced today by the British Medical Association is successful.
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Government and junior doctors explore mediation to break ‘logjam’
2024-05-16T11:19:00Z
Ministers and junior doctors have agreed to explore mediation in a move that could end months of strike action over pay.
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‘Dangerous’ to rely on ringfenced inequalities funding, NHSE director warns
2024-05-16T11:18:00Z
An NHS England lead has warned against ringfencing funding meant for systems to tackle health inequalities and has said it is “dangerous” for the NHS to get into a position where leaders only do something when told.
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ICSs where staffing has grown by a quarter revealed
2024-05-16T11:16:00Z
The NHS increased its substantive workforce by around 18 per cent over the past four years, which was almost double the rate of increase over the previous period.
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‘Systematic’ cuts to private activity planned by stricken ICS
2024-05-16T04:37:00Z
A health system with one of the largest elective backlogs in the country will implement a “systematic reduction” of its dependency on private hospitals, as part of a bid to cut costs.
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‘Decomposing bodies’ discovered at multiple hospitals
2024-05-16T04:26:00Z
Bodies are being left to deteriorate and in some cases decompose in hospital mortuaries, often because of a lack of freezer space,HSJ has found.
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EPR causing errors and delays two years after go-live
2024-05-15T11:00:00Z
A trust is experiencing severe problems with its electronic patient record system two years after it was installed, HSJ research has revealed.
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ICS’s ‘disgraceful’ racism report goes unpublished for over a year
2024-05-15T10:46:00Z
A council leader has described the findings of a report into racism at an integrated care system – which board leaders sat on for over a year –as “nothing short of a disgrace”.
