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
The NHS has failed to exploit its purchasing power to save hundreds of millions of pounds after a major procurement shake-up fell far short of its target, according to the Public Accounts Committ...
The Care Quality Commission has told Rampton Hospital it must partner with another high secure hospital as a “critical friend”, in recommendations from a government-ordered “rapid review”...
NHS England is piloting a scheme to lower the threshold for getting a bowel cancer scan after screening, which would bring it in line with standards in Scotland.
Six integrated care boards have policies which require hybrid working staff to be in the office either one or two days per week.
A new chief executive has been appointed to a foundation trust seeking to embark on a major new build as part of the “new hospitals programme”.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/leadership/new-ceo-for-ft-embarking-on-hospital-build/7036864.article
An ambulance trust is preparing to ask its commissioners for an extra £20m – and is planning to withdraw some staff seconded to work at A&Es – after the Care Quality Commission ordered it to...
Trust leaders say their main acute hospital needs to double in size to meet modern standards, as part of a £2.5bn investment needed across their estates.
Older people are routinely enduring hidden waits of several months to get essential care and support, according to new figures obtained from government.
Social enterprises and some other providers delivering NHS services have been told government will fund the “covid bonus” for their staff on Agenda for Change-style terms, after months of wai...
An interim CEO has been appointed to take the helm of two Black Country trusts while they re-run a recruitment process.
Administrators acting for a collapsed hospital PFI firm have started legal action against the fire safety testers it employed.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/patient-safety/collapsed-pfi-firm-sues-fire-safety-advisers/7036834.article
NHS England is set to spend up to £40m on management consultancy support for its commercial directorate, according to procurement documents seen by HSJ.
Last night’s HSJ Partnership Awards celebrated the best collaborations between the NHS and private sector and introduced a new judging system featuring gold, silver and bronze awards.
An East Midlands trust group has appointed a director of nursing as its first substantive CEO.
Trust chiefs have collectively called for the Care Quality Commission to review its use of single-word inspection ratings, following MPs’ calls for an overhaul of Ofsted ratings for schools.
Junior doctors in England have voted overwhelmingly to extend their strike mandate for a further six months, the British Medical Association has announced.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/doctors-vote-for-six-months-more-strikes/7036838.article
NHS England is “exploring” relationships between the health service and tech firm TPP — and considering wider measures with other suppliers — in the wake of alleged racist comments by the...
Ten trusts have just 1 per cent or fewer of their outpatients on “patient initiated follow-up” pathways, against a target of 5 per cent, official data suggests.
System leaders in Hertfordshire have settled a lawsuit brought by two companies part owned by an NHS trust in a neighbouring area, allowing a £500m pathology contract to be awarded to their pref...
Disabled NHS staff are more than twice as likely to enter capability processes based on performance than their colleagues, according to NHS England.
The government’s flagship programme to build “40 new hospitals” requires another £4bn to complete the schemes by the end of the decade, according to officials.
Two more non-executive directors have criticised the leaders of Bradford Teaching Hospitals, accusing them of using “Islamophobic tropes” and retaliating against “dissenting opinion”.
The share of a trust’s staff who say it respects differences, and how much confidence they have to speak up, are two of the most strongly linked answers in the NHS Staff Survey, HSJ analysis...
The number of NHS staff from ethnic minority backgrounds has soared over the last five years, rising from less than one in five in 2018 to more than one in four in 2023, according to information ...
Amanda Pritchard says she “completely shares” concerns about the “racist, sexist and violent” comments alleged to have been made by the chief executive of an NHS IT supplier.
Social enterprises working with the NHS have written to health secretary Victoria Atkins calling for the promised “covid bonus” to be paid to them urgently.
The NHS’s new “digital workforce plan” is set to propose that employers be given the ability to make “extensive use” of local recruitment and retention incentives to ensure the service ...
Several integrated care systems are struggling to deliver more than half the NHS dental appointments they had hoped for in 2023-24, and all areas are lagging, figures obtained by HSJ suggest.
Local NHS organisations are facing intense “pressure” from NHS England’s national and regional teams to cut staffing numbers to improve the service’s financial outlook for 2024-25.
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in January 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/7036816.article
An integrated care board CEO has apologised for poor timing and communication about a plan to require nearly all urgent and straightforward GP appointments to be moved out of conventional practi...
A trust which last year was ordered to pay a whistleblowing nurse nearly £500,000 must now give a surgeon £430,000 to compensate him for the racial discrimination and harassment he faced after ...
Children’s cancer services in London and the south east will be hosted by Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust, NHS England has announced, following more than a decade of safety concerns ...
An Australian tech firm, which is partly backed by one of China’s richest people, is set to win the majority of contracts to deploy new AI diagnosis tools across the NHS, HSJ has learned.
NHS organisations across Surrey are to review healthcare assistants’ pay in the face of potential strike action at one trust.
The number of 78-week breaches on the NHS waiting list has risen for the sixth consecutive month, despite a fall in 65-week waiters and the overall list size, according to official data publish...
A second executive director leading the government’s New Hospitals Programme has announced his departure.
The latest staff survey results for the Care Quality Commission suggest a significant drop in confidence in the regulator’s leaders.
Two acute trusts in the same integrated care system have discovered nearly 2,500 “missing” elective waiters, meaning it has abandoned a local target for reducing 65-week waiters.
Trust CEOs and other health leaders have criticised NHS England’s move to offer trusts up to £4m capital in a last-ditch effort to meet the four hour emergency care target in March.
NHS England has confirmed new financial incentives for trusts to deliver strong performance against the four-hour emergency target this month.
NHS England has told integrated care board leaders they must intervene over failures in abortion services in their patches amid “unprecedented demand” for such provision, HSJ has learned.
NHS England has appointed a senior director to lead an “ambitious” £1.5bn efficiencies programme.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/new-nhse-director-to-lead-15bn-savings-programme/7036741.article
NHS England’s flagship tech budget to digitise hospitals will be underspent this year, prompting fresh concern about crucial transformation funding not reaching the frontline.