All Health Service Journal articles in 23 September 2015
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NewsExclusive: 27 urgent and emergency care systems to get targeted support
Twenty-seven urgent and emergency care systems that are struggling to meet the four hour target will be given targeted support as part of a programme announced today.
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CommentDoctors really do want seven day working
It’s in the best interest of safety and quality healthcare
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NewsUpdated: Government to impose new contract on junior doctors
Junior doctors will be forced to work under new terms and conditions from August next year, the Department of Health has confirmed to HSJ.
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NewsExecutive Summary: Financial pressure 'the worst in NHS history'
HSJ’s roundup of the day’s must read stories
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NewsBirmingham CCG removes £4m integration savings from QIPP plan
FINANCE: Commissioners in Birmingham have removed from their annual efficiency plan this year’s expected savings from the better care fund because the financial gains were unlikely to be realised this year.
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HSJ LocalLow staff morale and high use of restraint at mental health trust, CQC says
PERFORMANCE: Low staffing levels and an ‘unacceptable variation’ in the use of restraint at West London Mental Health Trust has caused the Care Quality Commission to call for the trust to make improvements.
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CCGs support controversial change to tariff veto power
The representative body for clinical commissioning groups has backed plans to make it more difficult for NHS providers to block national tariff proposals.
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HSJ LocalTrust exits special measures but must undergo radical change to save £28m
STRUCTURE: Monitor has lifted a troubled foundation trust out of special measures, after it agreed to make radical changes to achieve savings of £28m by 2020.
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HSJ LocalSurrey FTs merger gets green light from competition authority
STRUCTURE: The proposed merger between two Surrey foundation trusts has been given the go ahead by the Competition and Markets Authority.
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NewsTreasury may redefine NHS ringfence, think tanks warn
The Treasury may redefine the ringfence on NHS spending to apply only to NHS England’s commissioning budgets – leaving billions spent on public health, training and research unprotected in the coming spending review, health think tanks have warned.
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NewsExclusive: High NHS chief executive vacancy rate a 'wake-up call'
More than one in 10 NHS trust chief executive posts are not filled on a permanent basis or will shortly be vacated, new analysis by HSJ shows.
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HSJ LocalTeaching hospital consultants may call for McNeil reinstatement
WORKFORCE: Consultants at Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust are voting on whether they should call for the reinstatement of their recently departed chief executive.
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NewsNHS Employers bypasses BMA to seek direct talks with junior doctors
NHS Employers has written directly to 38,000 junior doctors inviting them to a series of open meetings to discuss a new contract for trainee medics.
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HSJ LocalCambridge Hospitals 'to be rated inadequate'
The Care Quality Commission will next week rate Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust as ‘inadequate’, its recently departed chief executive has indicated.
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NewsRoyal colleges wade into row over junior doctors' contract
Medical royal colleges plan to lobby Jeremy Hunt over planned changes to junior doctor contracts which threaten ‘the future of medicine and patient care’, HSJ can reveal.