All articles by Ben Clover – Page 84
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NewsExclusive: NHS efficiency drive won’t close whole hospitals, says Sir David
No “whole hospital” will have to close as a result of the drive to find £20bn of efficiencies from the NHS budget, NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has insisted to HSJ.
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NewsDH denies FT momentum will be lost
The Department of Health has denied that the impetus behind achieving foundation trust status for all trusts would evaporate after the dropping of the 2014 deadline.
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NewsTrusts missing NICE guidelines on stroke treatment
“Considerable variation” exists in the time taken to provide stroke prevention surgery, data from the Royal College of Physicians and the Vascular Society has shown.
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Royal colleges to be enlisted to identify procedures at risk of 'cherry picking'
The Department of Health command paper on choice, competition and a failure regime for trusts sets out some specifics but leaves many questions unanswered.
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CommentLondon's commissioner-provider relationships set on edge
Which bit of London has the worst commissioner/provider relationships?
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Commissioners to investigate 'disproportionate' activity rise
PERFORMANCE: Commissioners in west London ordered a report into short stay emergency admissions at their main hospital after becoming suspicious about an activity rise in the run-up to the trust’s Monitor application.
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NewsLocal authorities to have 'formal role' in authorising Clinical Commissioning Groups
Local authority health and wellbeing boards will have a formal role in authorising consortia, the coalition response to the Future Forum has said.
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NewsIn full: government responds to NHS Future Forum
The government has responded to the NHS Future Forum, confirming agreed changes to its overhaul of the service.
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NewsGovernment scraps 'pipeline' deadline to become a foundation trust
The government has ducked a self-imposed deadline for creating an all-foundation trust provider sector, and scrapped its proposals for safeguarding specific services.
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Quality premiums and Any Qualified Provider supported by Future Forum
Quality premiums for commissioning consortia and the “any qualified provider” policy both escaped censure or proposed modification in the Future Forum’s report.
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NewsCouncils poised to scale back consortia freedoms
Councils will eat into the freedoms commissioning consortia expected to gain if the recommendations of the patient involvement and public accountability group are implemented.
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NewsPFI 'barriers' to FT status affecting fewer than 10 trusts
Claims by more than half of the trusts that argued private finance initiatives were a barrier to their obtaining foundation trust status cannot be justified, an insider has revealed to HSJ.
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NewsExclusive: dozens of trusts missed savings targets in 2010-11
Trusts missed 2010-11’s efficiency targets by nearly 10 per cent before even tougher demands came into force this year, an HSJ analysis reveals.
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Exclusive: FT income busts target as pay drives costs over plan
Foundation trusts took more than half a billion over-plan in income in 2010-11, a Monitor report seen by HSJ reveals.
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NewsOrganisational reform poses 'catastrophic' information risk
Managers could “stumble into illegality” by breaching the Data Protection Act as a result of the rapid structural reforms to the NHS, HSJ has learned.
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Surrey and Sussex Healthcare eyed for potential takeover
FINANCE: Expectation is growing that Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust may be one of the next acute trusts put up for takeover.
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Cluster considering centralising pathology services across five PCTs
STRUCTURE: The south west London primary care trust cluster is looking to centralise the procurement of pathology services as part of a wider review of care.
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NewsStruggling trusts owe DH quarter of a billion in bailout cash
Trusts owe the Department of Health a quarter of a billion pounds, with most of the debt resulting from mass bailouts made during the financial crisis of 2006, DH figures reveal.
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CommentScreening programmes under threat in London
Chlamydia screening is not a big outlay for commissioners but they are measured on it, along with other screening programmes.
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Shared support services arm up for sale
COMMERCIAL: Trusts in the East of England region are selling a support services body that serves primary and mental health services in two counties.