All Health Service Journal articles in 3 August 2016 – Page 4
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LeaderMackey dares to ask: how good is good enough for the NHS?
What choices must the NHS make in a period of financial restraint? That is the primary question facing the service in 2016 and the response to NHS Improvement chief executive Jim Mackey’s HSJ interview and following conference speech shows there is little consensus yet in how to handle this challenge.
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HSJ LocalFT governor resigns over 'farcical' response to deaths report
John Green tendered his resignation from Southern Health Foundation Trust’s council of governors on Wednesday His resignation follows the departure of chair Mike Petter and governor Mark Aspinall earlier this year HSJ understands Mr Green resigned because he felt the trust’s response to the Mazars report was “farcical” ...
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NewsVanguard CCG to start procurement for multi-billion MCP contract
Dudley CCG set outs procurement timetable for MCP contract worth £244m a year MCP contract not expected to be operational until April 2018 32 per cent of services within the contract scope currently provided by Dudley Group Foundation Trust MCP will be a “single legal entity” holding one ...
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HSJ LocalSerious failings at Liverpool trust to be investigated further
Damning report detailed a catalogue of governance and care failings at Liverpool Community Health Trust between 2011 and 2014 Rosie Cooper MP calls for “independent investigation” into actions by the TDA, NHS England and CCGs Health minister Ben Gummer says NHS Improvement will be commissioned to undertake a review ...
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NewsSTPs offer private sector 'enormous opportunity'
STPs offer “enormous amount of opportunity” to private sector and charities, says NHS England director Public-private sector partnerships through STPs could help NHS solve issues it could not solve by itself, Michael Macdonnell says Cites estates management and new care models as areas that could benefit from external assistance ...
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HSJ LocalHospital trust takes on fourth GP practice
STRUCTURE: Chesterfield Royal Hospital Foundation Trust has taken on the management of a fourth GP practice.
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NewsBehan, Williams, Field and Dodge join HSJ Awards judges
Care Quality Commission chief executive David Behan and Department of Health finance director David Williams are the latest leading figures to be named as judges for the 2016 HSJ Awards.
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NewsPatients report further steady decline in GP access
GP survey shows continued steady reduction in people finding it easy to access Criticism over small proportion reporting they have written care plans The proportion of patients finding it easy to get through to their GP surgery on the phone has fallen slightly for a fourth successive year, ...
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HSJ LocalNorth London Trusts merge lung cancer teams
Whittington Health Trust has merged is multidisciplinary lung cancer team with its counterpart at neighbouring University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust.
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NewsNew role to raise role of 'GP voice' in STPs
RCGP appoints 29 GP forward view ambassadors College says it has been told there is a lack of GP voices withing some STPs NHS England: ”Half of the footprint areas are being led by GP controlled CCGs” Twenty-nine GPs have been appointed to act as local ambassador’s for ...
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NewsAudit teams merge to form regional consortium
The merger of three NHS audit teams in the north east into a new specialist provider could become a model for other areas to follow, according to a trust finance director.
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NewsHunt confirms junior doctors contract will be imposed
Jeremy Hunt today announced the government would impose a new contract on junior doctors, despite medics rejecting the proposed deal in a vote.
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NewsJunior doctors vote to reject contract deal
Junior doctors have voted to reject a contract deal which the BMA had negotiated with the Department of Health.
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NewsLong-serving FT chief announces retirement
PROVIDERS: The chief executive of a community and mental health foundation trust in Yorkshire is to retire after nearly 10 years in the post.
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NewsExclusive: 14 practices on course to form ‘single partnership’
Fourteen practices in Suffolk are close to agreeing to form a “single partnership” covering 155,000 patients, HSJ understands.
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HSJ LocalNew North East mental health inpatient unit approved
New three ward mental health unit to open at St Nicholas Hospital Older people’s services to be consolidated at the same site Services at Gateshead’s Tramwell Unit and Newcastle’s Hardian Clinic to close Plans expected to save £3m a year STRUCTURE: NHS leaders in the North East have ...
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NewsHost trust quits financially 'fragile' NHS pathology venture
Cambridge University Hospitals pulls out of flagship pathology project it was hosting Trust faces £5m bill to extricate itself from The Pathology Partnership Cambridge says partnership lost £15m last year, costing trust £3.7m Partnership insists it will “evolve” A flagship NHS joint venture has been left reeling after ...
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HSJ LocalRegulators approve landmark trust merger
Regulators have approved the acquisition of England’s last standalone learning disability hospital trust, HSJ can reveal.
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