James Illman
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NHSE admits elective impact as trust chiefs warn of dangers of doctors’ strike
Ministers and NHS England have not sufficiently warned the public of the risk to patient harm posed by next week's junior doctors strike, some of the NHS's most senior trust chief executives have warned. → Read More
Recovery Watch: Consultant strike cover ‘costing up to £4,500 per shift’
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman. → Read More
NHSE treats me like ‘a band 7’ says ICB chief
An outspoken integrated care board leader has criticised NHS England's micromanagement, adding that it was "not in the make-up" of some healthcare chiefs to collaborate. → Read More
BMA ‘rate card’ wipes out elective recovery gains, claims trust
A struggling acute trust says its failure to hit its elective care targets is directly linked to doctors' demanding overtime rates in line with the British Medical Association's new rate cards, as national tensions around the issue intensify. → Read More
Revealed: best and worst ICSs for inpatient elective activity
Only seven integrated care systems recorded more inpatient elective activity in the three months to December than in the same period before the pandemic, according to HSJ analysis. → Read More
Trust staves off break-up calls after CQC upgrade
A troubled trust has most likely secured a reprieve from being broken up after the Care Quality Commission upgraded its rating, but its leaders accept they still have a 'long way to go'. → Read More
Recovery Watch: Overtime pay, not ‘insourcing’, is NHS chiefs’ big elective headache
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman. → Read More
Trust accused of highlighting long NHS waits to promote its private hospital
An NHS trust has been accused of promoting its private hospital by highlighting the long NHS waiting times which it is supposed to be addressing. → Read More
ICS plans £100m tech investment alongside new EPR
One of the NHS's most challenged health systems has made plans to invest around £100m on IT projects over the next three years, in addition to an electronic patient record across three trusts. → Read More
Payment by results transition ‘painful’, Mackey admits
NHS England has "wrinkles to iron out" with the elective recovery funding guidance, but national director Sir Jim Mackey has dismissed some concerns about the new regime as "nonsense". → Read More
‘Digital desert’ gets go-ahead for £155m records system
Three acute trusts are set to launch a tender process to sign up a provider for an ambitious electronic patient record system spanning all their hospitals, with the contract valued at around £155m, HSJ has learned. → Read More
Trusts ‘coping better with strikes’ and on track to eliminate 78-week waits, says NHSE director
Trusts are getting better at coping with industrial action and are still on track to hit the national target of eliminating the backlog of 78-week waiters, an NHS England director has told staff. → Read More
4,000 temporary beds to be made permanent under NHSE recovery plan
NHS England plans to shift about 4,000 temporary hospital beds from inappropriate areas into new wards next year, and open around 1,000 additional staffed beds, as part of new urgent and emergency recovery proposals set out today. → Read More
We need to tell the public that hospitals are ‘horrible places’, urges trust CEO
Hospitals are 'horrible' and unsafe places, which should be avoided 'unless you really need to be there', a longstanding trust chief executive has argued. → Read More
Recovery Watch: Patients removed from waiting list under divisive new rules
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman. → Read More
Trusts given 20 days to book in all 78-week waiters
Trusts must book appointments for all patients who have been waiting longer than 78 weeks by the end of this month under new orders sent out today by NHS England. → Read More
Eight trusts win place on elective recovery project
Eight trusts have been awarded roles trialling a new accreditation scheme for surgical hubs as part of an NHS England pilot that will run until March. → Read More
‘Tearful’ staff raise patient safety concerns to CQC
An inspection of a hospital has found all wards were understaffed, while 'tearful exhausted' clinicians raised patient safety concerns to the regulator. → Read More
Sunak: Covid elective cancellations are to blame for long waiting lists
Rishi Sunak has appeared to suggest the NHS should not have cancelled so much elective activity during the pandemic and attributed the service's "huge waiting list" to the extent of the hiatus. → Read More
The trusts with most and least nurses striking
The share of nurses striking at trusts which saw Royal College of Nursing action this week varied significantly, HSJ analysis suggests. → Read More