Matt Discombe
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Senior correspondent @hsjnews covering emergency care, and London. DM or email me in confidence: [email protected]
London E17
Joined August 2010
NEW: NHS England tells cash-poor trusts ‘to defer supplier payments’ to balance the books. @wesstreeting's local trust @BHRUT_NHS appeals for cash support and says delaying payments would be reputationally damaging. Story:
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Quick recap of my London stories so far. More to come!
NEW: Two North London NHS systems will merge to form largest ICB in England. Will commission healthcare for 4.5m people. Merger due to spending cuts which ICB chief says are "a major blow". w/ @mimilaunder .
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Announcement - I am now covering London for @HSJnews!. Excited to get going on one of the most important patches in the NHS at such a pivotal time. As ever DMs open for anyone who wants to speak on background 👋.
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NEW: Two North London NHS systems will merge to form largest ICB in England. Will commission healthcare for 4.5m people. Merger due to spending cuts which ICB chief says are "a major blow". w/ @mimilaunder .
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NEW: NHS England tells cash-poor trusts ‘to defer supplier payments’ to balance the books. @wesstreeting's local trust @BHRUT_NHS appeals for cash support and says delaying payments would be reputationally damaging. Story:
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RT @HSJnews: NHSE tells cash-poor providers ‘to defer supplier payments’
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NHS England has told some providers they may need to defer payments to suppliers to avoid breaching cash limits, it has emerged, after Wes Streeting's local trust warned it is considering such a step.
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RT @zoetidman: Exclusive: Major new biosecurity lab gets go-ahead from government after years of delays . The new centre in Essex - now ex….
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A major new research facility that will seek to combat the threat from dangerous pathogens has finally been given the green light, following years of uncertainty, HSJ can reveal.
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RT @AliJaneMoore: This is a very interesting breakdown of type 1 A&E performance which is often quite different from the "headline" figures….
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Exclusive: The best and worst hospitals for A&E performance. Unpublished data reveals the biggest improvements and falls by A&E site. Around 70 got worse - as NHS England warns of "too much variation". Story:
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RT @kurtstat: @mattdiscombe @sib313 Here's the (purple) scatterplot that shows the relationship between crowding and attendances. There is….
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BREAKING: Number of year-long elective waits rises two months in a row (to 196k in May). Total waiting list dropping to 7.36m
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6) Big changes to how urgent and emergency care will be funded. As we reported last week -
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5) New mental health A&Es to cover half of England's acute hospitals.
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4) AI to be used to remotely assess emergency patients and avoid ambulance conveyances. How can this be done safely?
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3) More patients able to "book" urgent care by 2028. Wonder how this will work - given this has previously been trialled but not made significant difference
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2) New AI tool to direct patients to urgent care services.
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What the 10 Year Plan says about urgent and emergency care 🧵. 1) Pledge to end "disgraceful spectacle" of corridor care which has been normalised through "benign nomenclature". But no date given re when this will end
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