All Health Service Journal articles in 17 June 2015
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News
Hunt speech: Health secretary sets out '25 year vision'
Jeremy Hunt has promised ‘more transparency in return for fewer targets’ in a major speech setting out his vision for the direction of the NHS over the next 25 years today.
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News
Updated: US corporation brought in to help improve five trusts
An American healthcare corporation is being brought in to support five trusts in improving quality and clinical engagement.
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Comment
The current payment system won't enable the forward view vision
Incentivise outcomes rather than inputs
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Comment
Make people the controllers of their data to help the NHS go digital
Integrating personal and NHS health records
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Leader
Hunt’s deal for doctors forces primary care to be top priority
GP plan cements Hunt’s plan for the NHS
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HSJ Knowledge
MCP vanguard leaders: We will find the solutions
MCP vanguards report on their progress
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News
Updated: CSU procurement halted in devolution drive
Clinical commissioning groups in Greater Manchester are set to establish a shared support service function. It means they will not immediately have to go to market to procure external services.
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HSJ Local
Trust with £17m deficit launches resignation scheme
WORKFORCE: St George’s University Hospitals Foundation Trust has started a round of mutually agreed resignations after its finances deteriorated sharply at the beginning of the year.
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HSJ Local
Struggling FT threatened with 'leadership change'
PERFORMANCE: Monitor has threatened a troubled foundation trust with leadership change if it fails to produce robust plans to recover its finances.
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HSJ Local
Mental health trust improves safety and quality of services
PERFORMANCE: Southern Health Foundation Trust has improved the quality and safety of its services, regulators have found.
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News
£2bn acute deficit may mean ‘real trouble’ for frontline services
Experts have warned that patients could end up waiting longer for treatment as acute trusts try to tackle an expected overall deficit of more than £2bn this year.
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HSJ Local
NHS 111 procurement abandoned in West Midlands
COMMERCIAL: The procurement of a new NHS 111 service to span 16 clinical commissioning groups in the West Midlands has been abandoned after no ‘acceptable’ bids were put forward.
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News
Call to extend hepatitis C drugs access after £190m funding boost
A charity has called for NHS England to allow all hepatitis C patients to access new treatments. It comes after the arm’s length body announced a much delayed commissioning policy for cirrhosis.
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News
NHS England: Digital plans 'could save £10bn'
Plans to roll out the use of digital technology in the health service could result in efficiency savings up to £10bn by 2020, work conducted for NHS England has estimated.
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HSJ Local
Royal Free considers joint venture with specialist trust
STRUCTURE: The Royal Free London Foundation Trust is considering a joint venture with a specialist orthopaedic hospital trust.
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News
HSJ Live 17.06.2015: HSCIC apologises for e-Referral tech problems
The NHS e-Referral Service is back online following technical problems, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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HSJ Partners
New procurement rules: Simplifying the process for NHS professionals
Public Contracts Regulations