All Health Service Journal articles in 5 August 2015 – Page 4
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News
Cap on clinical negligence costs could save £400m, says Litigation Authority
The health service could save £400m a year if the government changed the law to fix the costs for clinical negligence schemes alongside other measures, the NHS Litigation Authority has said.
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HSJ Local
Trust that took over Stafford Hospital ‘requires improvement’
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has rated University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust ‘requires improvement’.
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HSJ Local
Trust calls for success regime to take over ‘shambolic’ procurement
COMMERCIAL: Northern Devon Healthcare Trust has called for a controversial community services procurement to be taken over by NHS England or the county’s ‘success regime’.
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Executive Summary: Sir Ron bows out
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HSJ Local
Long serving teaching hospital boss to step down
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of Guy’s And St Thomas’ Foundation Trust is stepping down after eight years in post.
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HSJ Local
West Midlands acute chief resigns
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of a struggling West Midlands acute trust has resigned with immediate effect.
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Comment
What Hunt failed to mention in his 25 year vision
He needs to get real about seven day services
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News
Rise in hospitals using ‘risky’ 12 hour shifts for nurses
There has been an increase in the use of 12 hour nursing shifts that potentially put care quality at risk, according a review commissioned by England’s chief nursing officer.
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News
Executive Summary: The next wave of new care models
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HSJ Local
Trust launches review after agency spend doubles
WORKFORCE: A West Midlands acute trust has launched a review of its agency spending, after figures revealed it spent double the amount on agency nurses in June than it did in the same month in 2014.
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News
CCG property sales 'will fund new care models'
Every clinical commissioning group in England has been directed to evaluate estate within its area to work out how much capital funding can be released by property sales.
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News
NHS England director: 'Budget constraint' to blame for hepatitis C drug delays
Delays to the introduction of groundbreaking, cost effective hepatitis C drugs have occurred because of ‘budget constraint’, NHS England’s specialised commissioning director has indicated.
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News
HSJ Live 24.07.2015: 'Budget constraint' to blame for hepatitis C drug delays, says NHS England director
Delays to introduction of cost effective hepatitis C drugs have occurred because of ‘budget constraint’, NHS England’s specialised commissioning director indicates, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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News
First eight urgent and emergency care vanguards revealed
The first wave of urgent and emergency care vanguard sites has been revealed by NHS England.
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News
Mapped: The urgent and emergency care vanguard sites
HSJ’s map of the eight sites identified by NHS England as the first urgent and emergency care vanguards.
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HSJ Local
First ever tariff hike agreed for troubled trust
FINANCE: Monitor has agreed to increase the tariff paid to University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust, which is likely to result in more than £20m of extra funding for the troubled provider this year.
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HSJ Local
Staffordshire bodies create ‘commissioning congress’
CONFIGURATION: Commissioners across Staffordshire will come together to create a region-wide transformation programme through the establishment of a ‘commissioning congress’, it has been announced.
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Comment
The cancer strategy has laid down a challenge to government
To what extent will the government act on the taskforce’s recommendations?
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News
Breast cancer drug remains on CDF after ‘significant concessions’
A breast cancer drug will remain on the list of treatments patients can access through the cancer drugs fund after the manufacturer made ‘significant concessions’ on the price.