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From the Bureau Editor
Thursday January 16 2025
The health news this morning is dominated by the RCN’s survey of 5,000 nurses who have described the grim reality of corridor care some patients are having to endure in some hospitals. The NPA has laid out its demands to avoid collective action, the CQC has admitted to having 500 reports that are stuck and not retrievable in their IT system, and the GSTT/Synnovis cyber attack is estimated to have cost over £30million.
Angus Wrixon
Editor
the briefing
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NHS Policy / Performance / Service redesign / £ / Covid inquiry
500 CQC reports ‘stuck in IT system’ - and can’t be retrieved HSJ
14 ICBs cutting spend on the third sector voluntary, community and social enterprise services this financial year, HSJ
Health and Social Care Secretary's statement: winter 2025 - The Health and Social Care Secretary made a statement to the House of Commons on winter pressures DHSC
UK reciprocal healthcare agreements with non-EU countries DHSC
Reforming elective care for patients - DHSC
IT/Tech
Cyber attack on pathology firm Synnovis had financial impact of £32.7m HSJ
Primary care, pharmacy, dentistry, optical, community
NPA sets out five contract demands - or collective action. They have laid out “five key tests any funding package from government must meet” C+D
Health and Social Care Committee publishes Government response to Pharmacy report and writes follow up letter to the Department
Remedi, England’s eighth biggest pharmacy enters administration with £5.8m debts Pharmacy
Trusts
Corridor care: A Royal College of Nursing survey said evidence provided by more than 5,000 of its members across the UK this winter also showed cupboards, car parks, bathrooms and nursing stations were being turned into makeshift areas for patients BBC
what the bloggers are blogging
NEW! The health policy year in twelve charts 2024 - King’s Fund
NEW! The health and care outlook for 2025 - King’s Fund’s Sarah Woolnough
NEW! Do antidepressants work? This British professor says they don’t - Joanna Moncrieff is a professor and NHS psychiatrist who dared to argue that depression is not a physical illness - Times (£-walled)
NEW! University Hospitals Sussex police investigation - BBC File on Four Investigates gives the whole story - well worth a listen
NEW! Keir Starmer’s NHS plan: what are the key elements and can it succeed? Guardian explainer
Realising the health mission: from emergency care to prevention Sarah Woolnough CEO King’s Fund
Fairer funding for general practice in England Nuffied Trust
How will the pharmacy sector change in 2025? Pharmacists make some predictions P3
A New Fiscal Model to Deliver Prevention - Tony Blair Institute
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