Healthcare Leader

Healthcare Leader is dedicated to aiding decision-makers within the NHS as they work on transforming health and social care in their communities. Given the current difficulties facing the healthcare sector, Healthcare Leader provides a space for local NHS and government leaders to exchange creative solutions to the financial and care-related issues they encounter. By integrating The Commissioning Review, a top publication for clinical commissioning groups, Healthcare Leader will expand its audience to include others in the health sector, such as local government officials, Vanguard projects, and those involved in Sustainability and Transformation (STP) initiatives.

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Ban on single-use vapes comes into effect

1 week ago | healthcareleadernews.com | Beth Gault

The ban on single-use vapes has come into effect as of yesterday (1 June), meaning it is now illegal to sell or supply single-use vapes in the UK. The ban applies to all businesses and organisations that sell or supply disposable vapes, including healthcare settings and stop smoking services. Organisations have been told to arrange for any leftover stock of these vapes to be recycled. The ban is intended to limit children’s access to cheap vapes, as well as reduce their environmental impact.
Lung cancer blood test to be rolled out across NHS

1 week ago | healthcareleadernews.com | Beth Gault

A blood test that can detect lung cancer is being rolled out across the NHS to speed up access to treatment, NHS England has said. The ‘liquid biopsy’ test, which can detect tiny fragments of tumour DNA in the blood, will be available for up to 15,000 patients per year, following a pilot of the test. NHS England said it would help to fast-track lung cancer patients to receive targeted therapy up to two weeks earlier, helping some avoid further tests and treatment including chemotherapy.
Pandemic agreement adopted by the UK

1 week ago | healthcareleadernews.com | Julie Griffiths

The UK has adopted a new pandemic agreement aimed at protecting the NHS, the economy, and the British public from future global health threats, the government has announced. The World Health Organization (WHO) Pandemic Agreement provides a framework for countries to take collective action to prevent and respond to pandemics.
NHS initiative helps thousands more tackle diabetes risk

1 week ago | healthcareleadernews.com | Julie Griffiths

The NHS public health programme, Healthier You, has supported an additional 166,360 adults in England to address their diabetes risk in the past year. The Healthier You programme helps people lose weight and make lifestyle changes to stop or delay them from developing Type 2 diabetes. Since it was launched in 2016, more than 900,000 adults at high risk of developing Type 2 diabetes have used the programme.
‘Cutting edge’ radiotherapy machines for 28 hospitals in England

1 week ago | healthcareleadernews.com | Julie Griffiths

New radiotherapy machines that will deliver up to 27,500 additional treatments per year are being rolled out across England. The government has paid for linear accelerator (LINAC) machines, which will be rolled out at 28 hospitals from August (see box). Replacing older machines will save as many as 13,000 appointments from being lost to equipment breakdown. The upgraded tech can cut the rounds of radiotherapy needed and, in some cases, halve the number of hospital visits a patient needs to make.
NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin appoints new chair

1 week ago | healthcareleadernews.com | Julie Griffiths

NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin has announced Ian Green OBE has been appointed as chair of its integrated care board (ICB). Mr Green has been chair of Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust since February 2023. He has held non-executive director posts within the NHS over the past 15 years, including at the South-Central Ambulance Trust Board.
Volunteer to Career scheme should be supersized

1 week ago | healthcareleadernews.com | Julie Griffiths

The Government should ‘supersize’ the Volunteer to Career scheme to address workforce shortages in the NHS, say leading health think tanks. National charity Helpforce, which is piloting the scheme, said the programme had the potential to help fill around 23,600 vacancies in frontline healthcare roles and related study placements in England by the end of the current Parliament. The Volunteer to Career scheme helps people transition from volunteering into frontline healthcare careers.
Gonorrhoea vaccination programme to be rolled out

2 weeks ago | healthcareleadernews.com | Beth Gault

A gonorrhoea vaccination programme is to be rolled out to eligible patients across sexual health services in the UK from early August. NHS England announced that the existing vaccine for meningococcal B disease, 4CMenB, will be offered to gay and bisexual men who have a recent history of multiple sexual partners or a STI. Regional commissioners have been told to start working with ICBs and local authorities on commissioning sexual health service providers to deliver the vaccinations.
East of England to cut number of ICBs in half

2 weeks ago | healthcareleadernews.com | Beth Gault

The East of England region is planning to go from six ICBs to just three, the Suffolk and North East Essex ICB board has said. In board meeting papers, it was revealed that the ICBs are considering three different models of configuration (see box), with changes to the ICB footprints. However, the board said these were ‘conceptual models’ that have needed further development and that ‘no decisions on preferred models have yet been made’.
South West ICBs ‘explore’ merging

2 weeks ago | healthcareleadernews.com | Beth Gault

ICBs in the South West are ‘exploring clustering’ as part of efforts to reduce their running costs. Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly ICB and Devon ICB are considering merging, while Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICB, Somerset ICB and Dorset ICB are also considering the move. This would make three ‘clusters’ in the South West of England. Last week, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire and Gloucestershire ICBs also announced they were considering the move.