All articles by Alison Moore – Page 52
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NewsNHS England rubber stamped CCG director on £1,920 a day
NHS England approved the use of an interim director providing turnaround support for a clinical commissioning group at a cost of £1,920 a day, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCommissioners give struggling ambulance service £10m extra
Commissioners are to pump an extra £10m into ambulance services in the south east this financial year so national standards for responding to emergency calls can be met from the middle of 2019.
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NewsExclusive: The highest paid interim managers
An investigation has revealed some of the highest interim manager payments by NHS trusts, including a chief operating officer who cost his trust the equivalent of £700,000 per year.
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NewsTrust exits financial special measures as deficit reduces
A trust has been taken out of financial special measures after over two years – because it has reduced its underlying deficit by £15m and is making progress on efficiency and productivity savings.
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NewsOutpatients and day surgery could move out of city
Day surgery and outpatient clinics could largely move out of Canterbury if a proposal to site an emergency and specialist hospital in the city go ahead.
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NewsCCGs split on IVF policy
Eight clinical commissioning groups which were meant to work together under a single accountable officer are split on one of their first major commissioning decisions.
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NewsRegulators tell county to look again at centralising stroke services
Stroke services in West Sussex could be reorganised – two years after plans were halted because of fears they would impact on other hospitals outside the county.
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NewsTrust considered stopping sick pay for staff refusing flu jab
A foundation trust considered proposals – which it has now abandoned – to deny staff sick pay if they had time off work with the flu after refusing vaccination.
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NewsTrust pulls out of contract as hundreds of cancer patients miss two week target
A foundation trust is to withdraw from a dermatology contract after hundreds of suspected cancer patients had to wait up to five weeks for a first appointment.
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NewsBlood test recall for thousands of patients
Nearly 2,500 patients have been recalled for extra tests after problems with a merged pathology service between Medway Foundation Trust and Dartford and Gravesham Trust.
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NewsDHSC fails to approve tech funding loan for 15 months
An acute trust has been forced to look for new funding to pay for its electronic patient record system after the Department of Health and Social Care has still not signed off a loan after more than 15 months.
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NewsMore CAMHS beds commissioned in the south east
Twelve more child and adolescent mental health beds have been commissioned from a private provider in the south east of England to avoid sending youngsters out of area.
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NewsTrusts push ahead with staff transfers despite 'pause' on subsidiaries
Two NHS trusts are planning to continue with developments of their subsidiary companies – saying a national “pause” does not apply to them.
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NewsFormer chief facing fraud charges died by suicide - inquest
A former acute trust chief executive who faced fraud charges killed himself, an inquest has heard.
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NewsCCGs asked to pump extra £2m into wheelchair contract
Clinical commissioning groups in Kent are being asked to find at least an extra £2m for a service which is leaving people waiting months for wheelchairs.
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NewsPlans to close three acute stroke units revealed
Proposals to replace six stroke units with three new hyper acute stroke facilities across Kent and Medway have been revealed.
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HSJ LocalTrust set to lose finance director as well as CEO
Medway Foundation Trust is to lose both its finance director and chief executive this autumn – with the medical director also making a sideways move into a different role.
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NewsChief officer of struggling CCGs steps down
The chief officer of two clinical commissioning groups is leaving her job, after they were put under directions by NHS England.
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NewsStaff to strike over transfer to subsidiary company
Key estates staff at an acute trust are to strike over plans to transfer their jobs into a subsidiary company.
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NewsTrust chair to step down early
The chair of a financially challenged trust is to step down after less than three years.