All articles by Ben Clover – Page 84
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HSJ Local
Trust sells half its beds to rent them back
FINANCE: A hospital trust has sold half of its beds to a Dutch company for half a million pounds and is leasing them back, HSJ has discovered.
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HSJ Local
London trusts fail ambulance handover targets
PERFORMANCE: Ambulance handover times have deteriorated across the capital since the government relaxed accident and emergency targets last year, a report has said.
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Foundation trusts borrowing over £1bn from DH
Foundation trusts have secured loans worth more than £1bn from the Department of Health, HSJ can reveal, prompting concern about the impact of increased debts on foundation trust independence.
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NewsSeven trusts and two primary care trusts finished 2010-11 in deficit, DH says
Two primary care trusts and seven trusts finished the year in deficit, according to figures released by the Department of Health.
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HSJ Local
District general hospital confirms it is going for independent foundation trust status
A financially-challenged district general hospital has confirmed that it will attempt to get to foundation trust status independently.
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NewsIn-house consultancy saves NHS £2.5m
The NHS’s in-house consultancy service says it saved trusts an estimated £2.5m in consultancy fees in 2010-11.
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HSJ Local
Giant trust could emerge from London merger plan
STRUCTURE: Two London trusts have asked management consultants to assess their future configuration options, including a potential merger that would create one of the biggest providers in England.
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NewsDistrict generals face questions over their survival
The Department of Health’s head of provider development has questioned whether district general hospitals can survive within their present “organisational boundaries”.
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HSJ Local
London consortium writes to CCP over 'monopoly' merger
STRUCTURE: A London commissioning consortium has complained to the Co-operation and Competition Panel about a merger that would create the biggest provider organisation in England.
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CommentLondon trusts encouraged by delayed 'drop dead' date for FT status
So what does the slackening off of the pressure behind the foundation trust pipeline mean for London, the most stubborn of regions in resisting an all-FT health service?
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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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HSJ Local
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.