A trust has been told to pay more than £200k for care failings related to two patients’ deaths.
An NHS England director is set to be appointed to the board of a trust with some of the worst A&E problems in recent years, including the most hours lost to ambulance handover delays last year.
NHS Supply Chain has appointed a new chief commercial executive director to lead ongoing reforms to the agency as well as delivery of day-to-day commercial operations.
Trusts and NHS England are failing to prioritise training for senior leaders on listening to whistleblowers — despite repeated findings of serious concerns going unheard — the National Guar...
https://www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/trusts-and-nhse-neglecting-whistleblower-training/7036986.article
Former senior Downing Street official and NHS leader Samantha Jones is to join a digital care firm’s advisory board.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/dhsc-director-joins-tech-firm/7036990.article
Nearly a dozen junior doctors have been relocated from a London hospital’s general surgery department by NHS England, after concerns about a culture of fear, poor support, and reports of bullyi...
A former Care Quality Commission chief executive is to take over as chair of a high-profile trust with long-running financial problems.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-efficiency/ex-cqc-boss-to-lead-85m-deficit-trust/7036984.article
Preventable deaths of seven people from sepsis – including four children – have prompted coroners to flag major concerns about NHS services’ management of the condition.
A regulator overseeing 340,000 professionals breached a psychologist’s human rights by letting their fitness-to-practise case go on for a decade, amid widespread very long delays, it has emerge...
https://www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/disgraceful-regulators-10-year-case-delay/7036977.article
Multiple hospitals are launching redundancy schemes or plans to freeze recruitment for corporate and non-clinical staff, in a bid to meet their financial expectations in 2024–25.
Dame Ruth May is retiring as chief nursing officer for England later this year, it has been announced.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/dame-ruth-may-announces-retirement/7036976.article
The New Hospital Programme team has faced issues recruiting to internal roles and recently had a 50 per cent vacancy rate, the government has admitted.
A watchdog today called for simplification of health and social care regulation, saying “it’s really quite challenging to get the health and social care regulators into one room” because t...
NHS England has extended a national mental health support service for NHS staff by 12 months, pending a review, just three days after announcing it was axing it.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/nhse-u-turns-over-axing-staff-mental-health-support/7036969.article
A trust’s CEO has warned patients they could be refused treatment and asked to leave if they become abusive towards hospital staff.
The number of people waiting more than a year for community services has risen sharply, with children the hardest hit, data reveals.
NHS England has awarded an £8.5m contract to consultancy firm KPMG to “promote the adoption” of the “federated data platform” by trusts and integrated care boards.
A dedicated mental health and addiction support service for secondary care staff is shutting to new patients, as NHS England is set to cut its funding.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/staff-mental-health-support-axed-by-nhse/7036963.article
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in February 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/7036960.article
People attempting to contact their GP practice are almost three times as likely to report failing to get through in some integrated care systems than others, according to NHS England-commissione...
More than a dozen trusts have changed their maternity IT system – or are in the process of doing so – following a national patient safety alert.
The regions with the greatest need for more medical trainees are benefiting the least from the early years of the NHS workforce plan, HSJ analysis shows.
The chair of an NHS estates quango has announced she will be stepping down this summer.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/chair-of-nhs-property-quango-returning-to-australia/7036947.article
The headline A&E target was missed in March, despite NHS England’s controversial last-ditch attempts to deliver it.
NHS England will today take a decisive step towards the first major change in how service’s elective waiting list is collected and reported for 17 years.
A statutory inquiry into deaths of mental health patients will now cover fatalities that took place as late as December 2023.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/mental-health/deaths-inquiry-extended-to-last-three-years/7036944.article
The government’s New Hospital Programme has failed to appoint a new chief after conducting a recruitment process for a permanent senior responsible officer, HSJ has learned.
NHS England regional teams are being encouraged to block NHS better care fund spending unless commissioners provide more evidence it will help with hospital discharge and bed capacity.
A trust is considering offering private operations in its new NHS-funded elective centre, which would be “positioned in an ethical way”, board papers reveal.
The Department of Health and Social Care earmarked £1.7bn of extra funding to NHS England to mitigate the impact of industrial action in 2023-24, new documents show.
There is huge regional variation in the rate at which health systems are preventing patients joining the elective waiting list through “advice and guidance” to GPs, according to analysis by ...
Pay rises of more than 2 per cent this year risk cuts to staff and activity, unless there is extra government funding, NHS England has warned.
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A trust could face a £50m yearly bill for outsourcing preparation of chemotherapy drugs, after external inspections raised concern about a leaking roof and other infection risks.
An MP has accused the leadership of her local trust of orchestrating a “witch hunt” against one of its own directors and manipulating a recruitment process to ensure the CEO’s “preferred�...
The Care Quality Commission’s assessments of integrated care systems have been put on hold at the last minute, as the government declined to sign off on the process.
A hospital group has agreed to delay cutting some locum rates for junior doctors by nearly a third after doctors cancelled shifts in protest this week.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/trusts-delay-pay-cut-after-doctors-protest/7036927.article
Eight hospitals in England have fire safety warnings attached to them, with half in place since 2022 or earlier, HSJ can reveal.
Medical consultants in England have voted to accept the government’s latest pay offer, union leaders have announced, ending an unprecedented period of strike action by the senior doctors.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/consultants-accept-government-pay-offer/7036865.article
A new NHS England programme aimed at expanding cyber security resilience is facing a budget cut of 50 per cent, and the possibility it may not receive any funding this year, HSJ has learned.
NHS England has now said it is supporting a trust in trying to pay 1,300 of its staff who missed out on the covid bonus due to a quirk of timing.
NHS England has confirmed four new national clinical director appointments, including its first for women’s health.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/health-inequalities/nhse-appoints-four-new-directors/7036908.article
A trust has appointed a chair to lead an independent review into dozens of suicides that were sparked by allegations of record tampering.
Two more people with finance sector backgrounds have been appointed as NHS England associate non-executive directors.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/integrated-care/two-more-bankers-join-nhse-board/7036906.article
The longest-serving NHS England regional director is retiring after four decades in the health service.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/nhse-regional-director-to-retire/7036905.article
Around 100 doctors have cancelled shifts after trusts cut locum rates by 30 per cent, according to the British Medical Association.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/pay-cut-sparks-mass-cancellation-of-medical-shifts/7036903.article
NHS England turned down a plea to fund the covid bonus for a large group of staff who had recently transferred to a trust due to fears it could set a precedent for payouts to other similar groups...
A successful acute trust has bought a private hospital for just under £10m to increase elective capacity.
Trusts could be exposed to increased negligence claims as a result of new NHS England guidance for a rare spinal condition, a royal college has claimed.
The chief executive of an acute trust has stepped down to spend more time with her family and to return to education.
The man who led an independent investigation into poor maternity care at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust has called for a “more compassionate approach” to grieving families...
Simon Constable is leaving Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust to join University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust as chief executive.
Maternity departments are raising thousands of safety reports every year about delayed inductions of labour, HSJ can reveal.
The elective waiting list would have breached 7 million regardless of strikes over the past 14 months — but would have been around 430,000 smaller — according to new NHS England modelling.
NHS England has promised to review its controversial “return to the office” policy after six months.
All trusts should pick a “designated lead” for improving how they work with primary care, according to new NHS planning guidance.
NHS England has told trusts to review and justify their staffing increases over the last four years, saying there must now be a drive to “consolidate” services and workforce.
NHS England has told local leaders they must start to focus on reducing the overall size of the elective waiting list and not just the longest waiters.
An ambulance trust is having to protect its staff from the effects of fumes – including potential cancer risk – as they are spending so long in their vehicles outside hospitals.
Trusts will be told to hit the four-hour A&E target in 78 per cent of cases by next year after NHS England finally made an agreement with government, HSJ understands.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/emergency-care/nhs-england-agrees-new-aande-target/7036880.article