All articles by Dave West – Page 41
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LeaderCCGs' role is being questioned from all directions
There is a risk in making CCGs subsidiary to health and wellbeing boards
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NewsCCG barometer survey: interactive graphics
Full figures showing clinical commissioning group leaders’ views about the prospect of health and wellbeing board being responsible for health services, and the impact of competition rules.
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NewsExclusive: CCG leaders fear political priorities would come first under HWBs
A large majority of commissioning leaders believe clinical priorities would lose out to political priorities if lead responsibility for NHS services was handed to health and wellbeing boards, an exclusive HSJ survey has found.
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NewsExclusive: Treasury considering health, care and welfare budget link
The Treasury is undertaking a quick turnaround project in the run up to the general election examining the potential savings from bringing together spending on health, social care and some welfare payments.
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NewsConfed chief: Politicians should recognise workforce cost reality
Politicians should recognise the NHS needs to ‘get more out of’ and reduce the cost of its staff, the NHS Confederation chief executive has said.
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LeaderNeither politics nor personality should throw the NHS's plan off course
A difficult balancing act
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NewsExplained: Labour's ‘profit cap’ to prevent 'tide of privatisation'
Labour’s NHS ‘private profit cap’ explained
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NewsJeremy Hunt: NHS funding will be settled in the summer
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has indicated the Conservatives would meet the NHS’s funding requirements, but declined to specifically say they would increase spending by the £8bn sum identified by national officials.
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NewsExclusive: NHS Improving Quality expected to close
NHS Improving Quality is expected to be substantially cut back and could well be abolished under proposals being considered by a national review of the health service’s improvement organisations, HSJ understands.
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NewsNHS England hires local director as another joins Optum
A NHS England sub-region directors is leaving to join private health firm Optum, while another of the posts has been filled by a former primary care trust chief executive.
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NewsMarket role 'hugely limited' in NHS, says CQC chair
The role of the market is ‘hugely limited’ in health and social care partly because its users often ‘have no power’, the Care Quality Commission chair has said.
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NewsDepartment of Health finance chief to retire
Richard Douglas, the Department of Health’s highly influential director general for finance and the NHS, will retire at the end of May.
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NewsExclusive: PHE to further investigate drop in elderly life expectancy
National public health officials have said they will further investigate falls in life expectancy among older people, after finding it was ‘too early’ to conclude they had stopped living for longer.
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NewsExclusive: Stevens moves to sidestep pricing rules after provider revolt
Trusts will be asked to accept a new ‘voluntary’ tariff for 2015-16 after the formal price setting process was thrown into uncertainty and delay by a provider revolt, Simon Stevens has proposed.
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NewsStevens: 'Mixed model' could see CCGs hand over powers
Simon Stevens favours a ‘mixed model’ of health economy accountability in which some clinical commissioning groups could delegate responsibilities to local authorities or providers of new care models, he has told HSJ.
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NewsExclusive interview: Ed Miliband on NHS reorganisation, competition and funding
A Labour government would not instigate a ‘top-down reorganisation’ of the NHS,Ed Miliband has told HSJ
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NewsLabour reveals 10 year plan for health and social care
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has confirmed he wants health and wellbeing boards to be accountable for new ‘year of care budgets’ which would cover the ‘health and social care needs’ of those ‘at the greatest risk of hospitalisation’, but added that the funds would ‘be paid to an NHS ...
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NewsExclusive: Shelford Group medical directors rail at tariff plans
Medical directors from England’s 10 biggest teaching hospitals have written to their counterparts at NHS England and Monitor to warn that controversial new tariff plans will damage patient care and lengthen waiting times.
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NewsDirector behind Hinchingbrooke deal defends decision
The former strategic health authority director who led the franchising of Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust has defended the decision.