Acute Care – Page 153
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NewsExclusive: Letters show how CCGs directed to up activity plans
Letters seen by HSJ reveal how NHS England ordered clinical commissioning groups to change their contracts with acute providers to reflect an assumption that hospital activity would grow this year.
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NewsFoundation model faces 'challenges' - Monitor chief
The foundation trust model could come under question as the NHS faces up to the “absolutely huge” financial challenge, David Bennett has said.
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NewsBennett: FTs must cut deficit or face 'completely eroded' freedoms
Exclusive: Monitor’s chief executive will today warn that foundation trusts could see their freedoms ‘completely eroded’ if they do not do better to reduce a sector-wide deficit projected to reach £1bn in 2015-16.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to balance the push and pull of performance and demand
Hospital performance targets
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NewsPublic perceptions of the NHS: 12 key facts
The standout findings from the latest government survey of public perceptions of the NHS and care.
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NewsExclusive: 'Candour' law may change after legal threat
The government is considering changing the duty of candour law just three months after it came into effect, following a threat of judicial review by a patient charity, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHS England tells regions to create urgent care networks
NHS England has said urgent and emergency care networks should be set up across the country to set and monitor standards of care and ‘designate urgent care facilities’.
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NewsFines for breaching final elective target to be boosted
The penalty imposed on providers who breach the remaining elective waiting time target is to be increased, regulators have told all NHS providers and clinical commissioning groups.
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NewsRegulators make it harder to improve care, special measures trust claims
A trust in special measures believes regulatory intervention has made it harder to improve patient care, the minutes of a high level ministerial meeting reveal.
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HSJ KnowledgeElective care: how trusts are recovering from poor performance
Elective care: replacing the gold standard target
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NewsExclusive: Birmingham FT boss to run two trusts
Sarah-Jane Marsh is to be appointed chief executive officer of Birmingham Women’s Hospital Foundation Trust, a role she will take on in addition to her current job in charge of Birmingham Children’s Hospital FT.
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CommentMopping up unspent public health money promotes wasteful year-end spending
Stop micro-managing in-year cash
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NewsGive AHPs more powers to unlock new care models, says NHS England official
Plans to give allied health professionals the ability to prescribe medicines without the input of a doctor will help the NHS develop new models of care, an NHS England official has said.
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HSJ LocalInspectors worried by overcrowded A&E department
PERFORMANCE: Hospital inspectors have expressed ‘urgent concern’ at the risk to patients arriving by ambulance at Portsmouth Hospitals Trust’s main emergency department where they saw severe overcrowding.
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HSJ KnowledgeMCP vanguard leaders: We will find the solutions
MCP vanguards report on their progress
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NewsExclusive: Bailouts top £870m as trusts struggle to pay bills
The Department of Health issued £874m in bailouts to trusts in 2014-15, HSJ can reveal.
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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.