HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Job cuts, reignited mergers and unaccounted for beds
Your essential update on health for the week. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 26, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
FTs and ICBs want me to abolish each other, says Streeting
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. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 26, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Exclusive: NHSE targeting 50% cut to waiting list
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. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 26, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Exclusive: NHSE developing plan to halve waiting list in five years
NHS England is developing a plan to cut the elective waiting list by nearly 50 per cent to under 4 million over the next five years, HSJ can reveal. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 26, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Trust names former social care director as CEO
A community trust has appointed a director with a background in social care and the third sector to be its new chief executive. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 25, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
ICBs to get new ‘capability’ ratings
Integrated care boards would be rated on their capability — as “excelling”, “achieving”, “progressing” or making “insufficient progress” — under draft NHS England proposals for a new assessment process. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 25, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Recovery Watch: Why are referrals lower than expected?
Recovering services from the covid crisis is a big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by bureau chief James Illman. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 24, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
ICB sued over ‘conflict’ in £40m contract award
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. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 24, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Former CEO to chair trust at centre of bullying allegations
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. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 24, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Trusts face paybill hike from rebanding claims
Ambulance trusts are facing significantly higher costs as thousands of staff look set to be upgraded to a higher pay band. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 24, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
NHSE appoints single boss for all CSUs
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. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 24, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
GP takes over community trust as new chair
A GP has been named as the new chair of a community trust in the East of England. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 23, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
‘Wholly unrealistic’ NHSE financial recovery policy risks ‘significant harm’ warns ICS
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. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 23, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
NHSE appoints to key recovery role after nine-month wait
NHS England has appointed a substantive chief dental officer after filling the post in an interim capacity for almost a year, it has announced. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 22, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Block on data sharing contributed to death
A failure to share medical information between IT systems contributed to the death of a man in prison custody, a coroner has concluded. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 22, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
