East London Foundation Trust has announced that Lorraine Sunduza will be its new chief executive.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/outstanding-trust-appoints-new-ceo/7037158.article
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 c...
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.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-efficiency/nhse-reveals-10-productivity-drop/7037154.article
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”.
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.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/primary-care/gps-to-vote-on-immediate-industrial-action/7037149.article
Ministers and junior doctors have agreed to explore mediation in a move that could end months of strike action over pay.
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...
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.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/icss-where-staffing-has-grown-by-a-quarter-revealed/7037131.article
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.
A trust is experiencing severe problems with its electronic patient record system two years after it was installed, HSJ research has revealed.
An NHS trust has lost an employment tribunal case against a nurse who had his shifts cancelled after whistleblowing when a patient was put in seclusion because of staff shortages.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/patient-safety/nurse-wins-staff-shortages-whistleblowing-case/7037122.article
NHS England will begin monitoring and benchmarking systems on the extent to which patients are given the option to be treated by a private provider.
A leaked NHS England review has warned of a “severe shortage” of nurses and midwives with digital skills despite an ambition to deliver tech-enabled healthcare.
An interim chief executive has been appointed to run an acute trust whose previous CEO left suddenly in March.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/leadership/interim-hired-after-trusts-sudden-ceo-departure/7037118.article
A trust has announced it is scrapping a major suicides review, prompting concerns about the “devastating” impact the surprise move could have on some grieving families.
An NHS England review has found the proportion of ‘low acuity’ patients attending emergency departments is far smaller than expected.
Ministers have announced the locations of 350 additional medical training places for 2025–26, with the largest share going to the South East region.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/south-east-gets-biggest-share-of-new-trainees/7037115.article
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Former Norfolk and Waveney system leaders should face “further investigation and those responsible face disciplinary action”, as they “conspired” to unfairly dismiss an assistant director...
A mayor is planning to launch a consultation to build a new hospital the government says he has no powers to build – claiming the project “doesn’t seem difficult”.
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in March 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/quality-and-performance/mapped-rtt-waiting-times/7037108.article
A former trust chief executive has been appointed chair of a second trust in the South East.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/leadership/former-hospital-chief-to-chair-second-trust/7037097.article
Two specialist trusts have been threatened with regulatory action after the Treasury ruled they had attempted to “circumvent” capital spending limits, a letter recently sent to trusts has rev...
Putting too much emphasis on prioritising waiting lists could become a “tick box” exercise and, therefore, not solve the “real problem” of inequalities in accessing care, a trust chief e...
Trusts cut the number 65-week breaches by 35 per cent between February and March, reducing the long waiter cohort significantly from around 75,000 to around 49,000, according to NHS England’s m...
NHS England has found that one in five GP surgeries – and more than two-fifths in some regions – were built more than 75 years ago, and is concerned a lack of space will stop it meeting targe...
A private equity-owned private finance initiative company is paying to make a hospital it built fire-safe, HSJ has learned.
A second trust in the government’s flagship NHS building programme has publicly admitted it does not expect its new hospital to be built by ministers’ 2030 target.
Integrated care boards and local authorities are cutting their voluntary contributions to the better care fund by more than £500m compared to a high point in 2021–22.
The government is launching a review of the Care Quality Commission and has appointed a senior NHS figure to lead it, HSJ understands.
The new president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has accused the NHS of wanting to “protect its workforce” at the cost of developing a more effective health and care...
An integrated care system has agreed to establish a unique body comprising both commissioners and providers, which will be empowered to make binding decisions affecting the entire health economy.
Twenty one serious security failures at hospital mortuaries were discovered by the Human Tissues Authority between April 2022 and March 2024, HSJ can reveal.
An integrated care system in the South West has had plans to install a shared electronic patient record system across its three acute trusts approved by NHS England.
The lead governor of a foundation trust has been suspended after she criticised the handling of a recruitment process to appoint its vice chair, HSJ has discovered.
Seven integrated care boards are to test new “operating models” for GP provision under a wide-ranging programme backed by NHS England, they announced today.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/primary-care/national-programme-seeks-new-gp-operating-model/7037072.article
Integrated care boards must do more to tackle the operational failings that saddle GPs with “untenable workloads”, a group of local medical committees have warned.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/primary-care/icbs-challenged-over-untenable-gp-workload/7037055.article
The vast majority of ICB chiefs believe “drastically reducing data sharing restrictions” would help them achieve their aims, according to HSJ’s survey.
Strict pay bill controls and more provider consolidation are key to recovery plans in most integrated care systems, according to an HSJ survey of NHS leaders.
A former candidate to be NHS England’s chief executive has been appointed to chair a health innovation network, as well as to a board role at a data and AI company.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/ex-dh-boss-takes-nhs-and-data-firm-jobs/7037058.article
Replacement of a hospital in dire condition is “highly unlikely” to be completed before the end of the decade – as promised under the government’s “40 new hospitals” plan – a trust ...
The safety of a teaching hospital’s out-of-hours supervision has been questioned, including reports that trainees were told not to ask for help “unless your patient is dying”.
An integrated care board says the Home Office is now giving it better notice about refugees being housed in its area, meaning their health is no longer at risk due to poor communication.
Medical devices should be judged more on the value they bring to a wider health economy than just the price of the items, according to draft Department of Health and Social Care procurement guida...
A former national NHS transformation director has been hired by NHS England to advise on how billions of pounds of promised technology funding should be spent, HSJ has learned.
The trusts with the worst breach rates of mixed-sex ward rules in hospitals are revealed today by HSJ analysis after national levels hit a record high in 2023-24.
An integrated care board has brought in a senior executive from overseas to lead the commissioning of £1.5bn worth of delegated specialised services for the East of England.
An employment tribunal has said a hospital chief executive should apologise to a surgeon whose mental health was affected by the way it handled his shielding during covid.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/trust-ceo-must-apologise-over-covid-work-demands/7037037.article
A new chair has been appointed at one of England’s best performing trusts.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/leadership/pharma-exec-named-chair-of-high-performing-trust/7037035.article
Wes Streeting would seek to resolve the “tension” between foundation trusts and integrated care boards if he becomes health and social care secretary, he has said.
NHS England is floating proposals to cut the elective waiting list by nearly 50 per cent to under 4 million over the next five years, HSJ can reveal.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/exclusive-nhse-targeting-50-cut-to-waiting-list/7037030.article
A community trust has appointed a director with a background in social care and the third sector to be its new chief executive.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/leadership/trust-names-former-social-care-director-as-ceo/7037026.article
Integrated care boards would be rated on their capability — as “excelling”, “achieving”, “progressing” or making “insufficient progress” — under draft NHS England proposals ...
https://www.hsj.co.uk/integrated-care/icbs-to-get-new-capability-ratings/7037021.article
An integrated care board has denied its officials had conflicts of interest when awarding a £40m contract to run an urgent care centre, according to papers filed with the High Court in London.
A former trust and integrated care system chief executive has been appointed as the chair of a hospital provider grappling with high-profile bullying concerns.
Ambulance trusts are facing significantly higher costs as thousands of staff look set to be upgraded to a higher pay band.
NHS England has appointed a single managing director to lead its four commissioning support units as part of an ongoing overhaul of their operating model.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/people-moves/nhse-appoints-single-boss-for-all-csus/7037012.article
A GP has been named as the new chair of a community trust in the East of England.
Leaders of an integrated care system in the Midlands have warned they cannot make the scale of staffing cuts required to balance the books without putting patients at risk.
A failure to share medical information between IT systems contributed to the death of a man in prison custody, a coroner has concluded.