Exclusive: £1bn raid on capital budget to cover pay rises and strike costs
Capital budgets have been raided by almost £1bn to pay for the cost of industrial action and other day-to-day cost pressures, new documents reveal. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 27, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Following the Money: Audit ‘horror stories’ risk spreading to NHS
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 27, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
NHSE approves 20 procurement framework hosts ahead of clampdown
A first set of organisations that set up and run procurement frameworks has been approved by NHS England as part of preparations to force trusts to buy services through accredited routes. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 27, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
NHS to target same elective activity next year
Health systems will be asked to deliver the same amount of elective activity next year as they were tasked with completing in 2023-24, HSJ understands. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 27, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Thirty trusts report more 12-hour waits, despite national improvement
Long A&E waits have got worse at more than one in five acute trusts, despite an improving trend nationally. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 27, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Over 30 sepsis deaths linked to ‘systemic’ failings, investigation reveals
Major progress made in sepsis care during the previous decade has been significantly reversed amid repeated failures in recognising and treating the condition. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 27, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Paramedic named as trust’s permanent CEO
A leading paramedic has been confirmed as the permanent chief executive of an ambulance trust. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 26, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
North by North West: The threat of regime change
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 26, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
NHSE looks to scrap ‘follow ups’ target
NHS England is looking to ditch a key elective target that aimed to deliver large reductions in follow-up appointments, HSJ has learned. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 26, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
‘Oldest NHS IT system’ to be replaced
An acute/community trust is set to implement a “game-changing” electronic patient record which will replace one of the oldest IT systems in the NHS, according to its chief executive. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 26, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Top team overhauled at trust with ‘inadequate’ leadership rating
Half of the executive directors at an ambulance trust are absent from work or due to leave as it contemplates a major shake-up of its governance. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 26, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
NHSE not recruiting to 900 vacancies despite staff ‘frustration’
NHS England will “hold back” nearly 900 posts in its new structure, despite many staff currently being at risk of redundancy and looking to apply for the roles, it says in a note leaked to HSJ. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 26, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
NHS England ‘holding’ 900 posts despite staff ‘frustration’
NHS England will “hold back” nearly 900 posts in its new structure, despite many staff currently being at risk of redundancy and looking to apply for the roles, it says in a note leaked to HSJ. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 26, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
The mythbuster: The six ways the NHS screws up making things better
Steve Black sets out the six steps to developing and implementing good policy – and then examines how the NHS too often fails at each of those steps. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 26, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
ICB pauses work on new stroke unit after ‘assurance’ concerns
A decade-long bid to establish a hyper-acute stroke unit has been delayed further after commissioners raised “assurance” concerns. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 23, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
