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NewsThinktank urges more NHS charges
Ministers should consider extending prescription charges, as well as introducing new charges on visits to NHS GP surgeries and some elements of hospital care, to raise £3bn a year for the health service, a think-tank has said.
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NewsLegal move over hospital asbestos
A Scottish health board is facing legal action due to asbestos being found at a hospital.
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NewsNursing leaders divided over minimum staffing levels
Three of the NHS’s most senior nurses have spoken out against the introduction of minimum staffing levels as the profession becomes increasingly divided over the issue ahead of the government’s response to the Francis report.
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NewsHospital boarding should end says study
Forcing hospital patients into other wards because of overcrowding should be eliminated in the NHS to improve standards of care, according to a report by senior medical professionals.
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Blogs
Your 18 week waits: September 2013 data
Interactive maps of local NHS waits around England, showing the pressures and one year waits, with links to all the detail by organisation.
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NewsExclusive: Official staffing guidance to order 'urgent' nurse staffing reviews
NHS providers should recruit more staff if their current workforce plans do not take account of staff training and unplanned leave, new government backed guidance is set to say.
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Blogs
Waiting times steady in September
The position on English waiting times remained steady in September. But nearly half the country’s one year waiters were reported at just one hospital.
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NewsHSJ launches hospital transformation microsite
HSJ has launched a new microsite and weekly email newsletter focusing on hospital transformation.
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NewsRevealed: the £2bn switch back to payment by results
More than £2bn of acute service funding has moved away from locally agreed deals and onto the national payment by results tariff this year, an HSJ investigation has found.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Ministers to order staffing reviews in response to Francis
Hospital boards will be ordered to review and publish nurse staffing levels at least twice a year as part of the government’s full response to the Francis report, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsJones overturns neonatal care move
Wales’s first minister has overturned a decision to transfer some specialist neonatal care in north Wales across the border to England.
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NewsKeogh reveals plan to redesignate emergency services
Hospital emergency departments are set to be reclassified, with as few as 40 of them offering a higher level of staffing and expertise, NHS England has revealed.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow Bath developed new thinking on coping with winter pressures
A new approach to seasonal care
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HSJ KnowledgeWinter pressure fund is cold comfort for some
Is it fair that the most challenged trusts are getting a bailout to ease winter pressures?
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HSJ KnowledgeGetting on board with 'patient experience'
Is a patient experience director need to keep the issue at the top of everyone’s agenda?
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HSJ KnowledgeAnalysis, quality, rigour: what the new NHS chief means for you
Simon Stevens has a track record on incentives, benchmarking and innovation
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HSJ KnowledgeQuality governance: burden or opportunity?
A good system goes far beyond regulation and the regulators
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HSJ KnowledgeHSJ Hospital Transformation
HSJ Hospital Transformation is supported by McKinsey Hospital Institute. Themes are discussed with MHI and articles are independently commissioned and edited.Sign up here to get new Hospital Transformation resources by email every weekReturn to HSJ Hospital TransformationAbout MHIMcKinsey Hospital Institute works with hospital leaders to support them on transformation; to ...
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HSJ LocalCouncil loses bid to halt reconfiguration
Enfield Council has lost its legal challenge to a large reconfiguration scheme in north London.
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NewsPM focused on A&E winter measures
Downing Street has confirmed that David Cameron is getting personally involved in overseeing the NHS’s response to expected pressures on casualty departments in England this winter.