All Health Service Journal articles in August 2017
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Expert BriefingHSJ Catch Up: Carebnb controversy, suspicious surgery stats and Virgin's scrap with East Staffs
Your essential update on health for the week
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Expert BriefingThe Commissioner: Winter, deaths and inequality
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight for commissioners, by Dave West.
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NewsWorkforce shortage delays mental health safety checks
The Care Quality Commission has increased pay for doctors carrying out essential safeguarding visits for mental health patients after a workforce shortage resulted in waiting time targets being missed.
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NewsExclusive: Mounting aftercare costs eat into mental health budgets
The mounting cost of caring for people after they have been detained under the Mental Health Act is eating up an increasing proportion of mental health budgets for more than two thirds of commissioners, HSJ analysis suggests.
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NewsSupreme Court decision forces NHS pension rule change
NHS trusts are to be asked for help in tracking down unmarried former partners of deceased NHS staff who were wrongly denied pension benefits, HSJ has learned.
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NewsRegulator clears new hospital venture between trust and US provider
The Competition and Markets Authority has today cleared a major acute trust to partner with a US company to build a new hospital, after finding the region would benefit from more competition between private providers.
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NewsCourt orders Paula Vasco-Knight to detail financial assets
A disgraced former NHS chief executive has been ordered to reveal her financial assets
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CommentCould Brexit change competition and procurement in the NHS?
Post-Brexit the UK may gain some freedom to redefine the application of competition and procurement in the NHS but any change will depend on the political choices of the government of the day, writes Cristina Sarb
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NewsCompetition regulator orders five trusts to release private data
The Competition and Markets Authority has threatened to take action against five NHS trusts after they failed to hit a deadline for publishing private patient data.
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NewsBuyout scheme to cut CCG spending on empty buildings
Commissioners are being offered the chance to buy themselves out of their liability for costs associated with vacant properties under a new scheme which starts today.
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Exclusive: Trusts hit by £500m unexpected inflation costs
NHS trusts are having to bear unexpected inflation costs of around £500m, which means the underlying financial gap between their income and expenditure has barely improved over the last year, policy experts have said.
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NewsDaily Insight: Why trusts are paying unexpected VAT
The must read stories and talking points in the NHS
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NewsMajor hospital merger cleared by regulator
A merger of Birmingham’s two biggest providers has been cleared by the Competition and Markets Authority, which said the benefits clearly outweighed the reduction in patient choice.
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NewsSenior staff told governors it was time for Fenwick to go
Senior clinicians told hospital governors they believed it was time for Sir Leonard Fenwick to stand down as chief executive of his trust, days after he was placed on “extended leave”, HSJ can reveal.
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News'Accelerated' access to NHS patient data for private firms
Ministers have been urged to set out plans for a new national patient data sharing scheme to give researchers, including private companies, faster access to “de-identified” patient data from millions of records.
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NewsExclusive: Patient record opt-outs risk blocking improvements in cancer care
The UK’s two leading cancer charities have written to Jeremy Hunt to raise concerns that changes to patient data opt-outs may put at risk the ability to deliver a cornerstone of the national cancer strategy.
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HSJ LocalExtra costs for CCGs after NHS England pauses procurement
Commissioners in two counties have incurred extra costs after NHS England delayed their procurement for an NHS 111 and out of hours GP service.
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HSJ LocalTrust forced to pay £300k VAT over Virgin Care contract
A trust in Staffordshire has been forced to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds in VAT charges due to a controversial “prime provider” contract commissioned by its CCG.