All articles by Crispin Dowler – Page 9
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Comment
Predicted wave of tenders refuses to arrive
Lack of TCS tenders is one of many miseries facing commissioners
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News
Revealed: The commissioning groups planning huge underspends
More than 20 clinical commissioning groups are planning to underspend their budgets by at least double the required surplus target this year, HSJ analysis reveals.
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News
Howe concedes need for more balanced language on NHS failures
Lord Howe yesterday suggested the government needed to be more balanced in its “messaging” to counter a fall in public confidence in the NHS following a series of investigations and inquiries into poor care.
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News
Exclusive: CCGs dip into non recurrent fund to stay in the black
Clinical commissioning groups are dipping into funds intended to be set aside for making one-off investments in order to stay in the black, an HSJ investigation has found.
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News
Further complaints to NHS competition watchdog 'almost guaranteed'
A number of private providers are likely to take complaints to the NHS’s new competition regulator Monitor over the next three years, the chief executive officer of Ramsay Health Care UK warned last week.
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News
Monitor deputy chair issues warning on failure regime
The outgoing deputy chairman of Monitor today suggested the NHS still did not have an effective failure regime and called on politicians to relinquish ultimate control over what happened to financially failed trusts.
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News
Government announces A&E fund winners
The government today announced the allocation of its £250m fund for the trusts thought to be most at risk of failing their accident and emergency targets this winter.
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NHS England warning: Monitor's proposals 'could put services at risk'
NHS England has warned that some of Monitor’s proposals for securing fairer competition between NHS and independent sector providers could “put the continuation of certain services at risk”.
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HSJ Local
Ten bidders announced for £800m older people's contract
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group today announced the 10 bidders that have passed the first stage of a contest to provide integrated older people’s services worth up to £800m.
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HSJ Local
Trust responds to Keogh by centralising complex surgery
STRUCTURE: North Cumbria University Hospitals will tomorrow take the first steps towards centralising all of its complex surgery onto one site, at the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle.
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News
Legacy of care claims liabilities threatens CCGs’ finances
Contingent liabilities in primary care trust accounts rocket to £661m
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News
Smaller trusts face 'disproportionate' impact from 30pc marginal rate
Controversial financial levers aimed at curbing the growth in non-elective NHS activity are having a “disproportionate impact” on smaller trusts, according to analysis by healthcare intelligence firm CHKS shared with HSJ.
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HSJ Local
Inherited care liability adds to CCG's financial woes
FINANCE: Mid Essex Clinical Commissioning Group could face an unfunded liability of up to £8m for NHS continuing healthcare claims made before the group came into being.
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News
Monitor rejects calls for different approach to PFI risk
Monitor has rejected claims from foundation trusts with large private finance initiative commitments that they should be treated differently than others under the regulator’s new system for measuring financial risk.
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News
Exclusive: Nine CCGs planning overspends in first year
Nine clinical commissioning groups are forecasting multimillion pound deficits in their first year, HSJ has learned.
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Analysed: Rewiring Manchester's mental health services
This week’s HSJ Local Briefing analyses moves to address shortcomings in Manchester’s mental health provision
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News
Carruthers joins board of private mental health group
Former NHS South of England chief executive Sir Ian Carruthers has joined the board of major private sector mental health provider Partnerships in Care.
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Comment
Money doesn't equal power to patients
Provider compensation for missing waiting targets will not ‘empower’ patients
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News
Push for payment by results reform gathers pace
NHS England wants to investigate the scope for scrapping payment by results for some services as early as 2015-16, its director of strategic finance has told HSJ.