Acute Care – Page 154
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NewsBehan: CQC must ensure trusts balance quality and finance
Boards need to move from “putting all their investment into quality and safety” to achieving a better “balance” with financial success, the chief executive of the Care Quality Commission has said.
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CommentKeogh has cut out the most glaring target perversities
NHS England has strengthened the 18 week standard
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NewsCQC would ‘love’ to rate whole health systems, says chief inspector
The chief inspector of hospitals said he would ‘love’ the Care Quality Commission to rate local health systems, rather than specific providers, but suggested there were potential obstacles to inspecting clinical commissioning groups.
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NewsHunt: Trusts to be given procurement savings targets
Hospitals will be expected to make set savings in their procurement processes from January, the health secretary announced today.
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NewsTwo key waiting time targets abolished
Two headline waiting times targets for planned care are being dropped by the NHS on the basis they are creating ‘perverse incentives’, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Knowledge'If vanguards work, the return on investment is to the wider NHS'
Interviews with three vanguard trusts
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NewsKeogh to review elective waiting time targets
NHS England medical director Sir Bruce Keogh is to review the current waiting times standards for elective care, the organisation’s chief executive Simon Stevens has announced.
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NewsEmergency care to be 'completely redesigned' within three years, says Stevens
Urgent and emergency care will undergo a “complete redesign” and be in “a very different place by the middle of this Parliament”, the NHS England chief executive has announced.
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NewsHealth secretary launches crackdown on NHS executive pay
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has ordered an immediate review of executive pay at every NHS hospital in England.
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HSJ LocalFourth largest acute trust reveals £50m deficit forecast
One of the largest teaching hospitals in England is forecasting a year-end deficit of almost £50m, HSJ has been told.
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NewsCCGs told to fund more hospital activity
NHS England expects clinical commissioning groups to fund more hospital activity than initially planned this year, prompting concerns that this could undermine non-acute services intended to reduce emergency admissions.
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NewsExclusive: Vacancies fuel agency overspending by NHS trusts
Two-thirds of the spending on locum doctors employed in NHS trusts is being driven by the need to fill vacancies, analysis shared exclusively with HSJ reveals.
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NewsAnalysis: CQC ratings align with staff satisfaction
Trusts rated well by the Care Quality Commission tend to have better scores in the NHS staff survey, HSJ analysis has found
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NewsSimon Stevens confirms 'collective' NHS action on agency spend
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has said the NHS will take collective action to tackle the high cost of agency spending in the NHS.
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NewsMonitor sets out plan to enlist 'superbuddies'
Monitor plans to set up a framework agreement to allow high performing trusts to put themselves forward as potential “superbuddies” for failing counterparts, the regulator’s chief executive has revealed.
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NewsGovernment considers cap on 'egregious' agency spend
A cap on the cost of agency staff supplied to NHS trusts is being explored by the Cabinet Office and Department of Health in an attempt to tackle the ballooning agency spend in the NHS, it has emerged.
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NewsBennett moots rethink on performance targets
David Bennett has called for the NHS to investigate the possibility of redefining key access targets to reduce the financial burden they place on providers – where it can be done without compromising safety.
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HSJ Knowledge
Seven day services: Gathering the data to make it happen
Ten acute trusts in the East Midlands joined forces to tackle the challenge