All articles by Crispin Dowler – Page 11
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Comment
The government double counts its chickens
There are two ways to see the coalition’s social care plan
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News
Updated: Investigators reveal CQC 'cover up' over Morecambe Bay
The suppression of a report criticising the Care Quality Commission’s regulatory oversight of scandal-hit University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay may well have constituted a deliberate cover up by senior management at the regulator, an independent investigation has concluded.
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Comment
The ultimate squeeze of NHS funds
How much, and for how long, can the prices paid to NHS providers be tightened?
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Comment
Why specialist hospitals aren't like Hilton hotels
The limitations of using the ‘friends and family’ test in emergency care
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HSJ Local
Rules waived to cover CCG's £15.2m financial hole
FINANCE: A clinical commissioning group has secured exemption from a series of national financial rules after discovering a £15.2m hole in its finances for 2013-14, it has told HSJ.
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Comment
CCGs struggle to follow the money
Finance chiefs are still trying to work out where the cash has gone
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News
Lamb invites bids from 'integration pioneers'
Health economies have been invited to bid to become integration “pioneers” running large-scale experiments in integrated care, in an initiative launched by health minister Norman Lamb.
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News
Updated: NHS England and Monitor plan major reform of payment by results
Clinical commissioning groups will be encouraged to experiment with different ways of paying for care next year, in what could be the start of the biggest reform of NHS payment systems since the introduction of payment by results.
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: Two hospitals to close in Fylde shake-up
STRUCTURE: NHS organisations on the Fylde coast have agreed plans for a reorganisation of older people’s rehabilitation services that will involve the closure of two community hospitals.
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News
High cost of fines for long waits revealed
English hospitals would have been fined £227m in 2012 if they had been subjected to the penalty regime written into their contracts for the current financial year, according to analysis shared exclusively with HSJ.
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News
Queen's speech: Criminal sanctions for misleading NHS providers
The government will use its forthcoming Care Bill to make it a criminal offence for NHS providers to provide false and misleading information about their performance, it said today.
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News
Exclusive: Competition ‘jeopardy’ for icon of integration
Commissioners of Torbay’s pioneering integrated care organisation are taking legal advice amid fears its progress could be placed “in jeopardy” by a requirement to competitively tender some services, HSJ has learned.
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Comment
Where next for competition in the NHS?
A look at the practical impact of the section 75 regulations
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News
Care claims backlog 'will take five years to clear'
The deluge of retrospective claims for continuing healthcare funding that flooded into the NHS last year will take at least half a decade to be resolved, lawyers have warned.
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HSJ Local
Morecambe Bay to cut up to 230 posts in savings drive
WORKFORCE: University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust has begun a staff consultation on plans to cut its workforce by up to 230 whole time equivalents in a drive to make savings of £30m by the end of 2013-14.
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News
Exclusive: Experts identify urgent need for 'balanced guidance' on NHS competition
New guidelines from the NHS’s competition watchdog may lead commissioners to “perceive the scope for regulatory action as being so wide that it inhibits service redesign”, an influential think tank has warned.
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News
Exclusive: Key Lib Dem backs government over crunch NHS competition vote
The Liberal Democrats’ health spokeswoman in the Lords has told HSJ she will have “no problem” asking her party to support the government in next week’s crucial vote on new NHS competition regulations.
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Comment
What happened to 'any qualified provider'?
AQP has been oddly absent from the competition debate
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News
Exclusive: NHS England could 'ratchet up' financial pressure on private mental health providers, analysts warn
Private mental health providers could see pressure on their profit margins “ratcheted up” by the centralisation of secure and specialised mental healthcare commissioning in the hands of NHS England, according to a new report by market analysts Laing and Buisson.
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News
Exclusive: Monitor chief executive says it would be 'mad' to force unnecessary tendering
The chief executive of healthcare sector regulator Monitor has rejected claims that controversial new competition regulations could lead to a sharp increase in competitive tendering for NHS services.