All articles by Dave West – Page 78
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NewsFinancial fears as axe falls on Audit Commission
The abolition of the Audit Commission has heightened concern about the NHS losing control of financial management as the government cuts growth and overhauls commissioning.
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NewsTrauma care ‘needs networks at regional level’
The location of NHS regional trauma centres should be organised to deliver required levels of care rather than to deal with the predicted volume of patients, according to the NHS Confederation.
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NewsTwo bidders left in NHS hospital franchise race
The outcome of a competitive process that will see a private firm involved in the running of an NHS hospital for the first time is expected to be announced before the end of the year.
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NewsLondon mayor seeks health funds role
London mayor Boris Johnson is looking to take over large parts of the capital’s public health budget instead of it being passed directly to councils.
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NewsNHS service reconfigurations 'surge' expected
The NHS looks set to see a “surge” of major changes to hospital services in the next 18 months after the government effectively lifted its moratorium on reconfiguration.
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NewsIntegration of NHS Direct and NHS Choices raised by web review
The DH’s digital communications review describes the future of NHS Direct and NHS Choices as “unfinished business” - but stops short of recommending the two services should be merged.
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NewsNHS brand undermined by online confusion
The NHS spends close to £100m a year on thousands of websites that are often hard to find, badly designed and not wanted by the public, according to government reports leaked to HSJ.
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NewsNational Childbirth Trust wants maternity providers to go it alone
Maternity networks should be provider organisations and employ their own staff, according to a charity working with the government on the proposals.
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NewsCommissioners must 'balance evidence and views' on reconfiguration
The health secretary’s four tests for major service change should be “embedded” into future planning.
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NewsReconfiguration moratorium lifted in three months
Most reconfigurations covered by the government’s moratorium could be ready to go ahead in three months time.
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NewsTrusts dodge scrutiny by omitting vital quality measures
Quality accounts were supposed to be an important tool to inform patients. But as the first are published, many have gaping holes on safety, experience and outcomes. Dave West reports
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NewsDoubt over removal of DH ‘shackles’
Tensions are emerging in government plans to remove the “shackles” of central control by liberating foundation trusts and strengthening regulators.
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NewsFoundation trust proposals raise tough borrowing question
The government has left wide open the question of whether foundation trusts will be able to finance major investments with commercial loans - and risk seeing their taxpayer funded property sold off if they default.
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NewsMissing detail renders NHS quality accounts ‘meaningless’
Many hospitals have evaded a major government initiative to make them more open and accountable about the quality of their services.
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NewsTrusts repond to weak quality account charge
Most of the 10 trusts highlighted as having several elements missing from their accounts responded to HSJ.
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NewsWhite paper: regulation reform to create 'level playing field'
The government has proposed significant changes to health provider regulation, which it says will create a “level playing field” for all providers of NHS care.
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NewsNHS IT programme faces further cost cutting
The government is expected to confirm a further scaling back of the NHS IT programme as part of central cost cutting measures announced in the emergency budget.
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King's Fund seeks clarity on NHS cost pressures
Pay freezes, the removal of waiting time targets and slowing hospital improvements could reduce the total of NHS efficiency savings needed from £21bn to £14bn, the King’s Fund has estimated.
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GP consortia management budgets could be as low as £9 per person
GP consortia could receive an annual management allowance of £9 per head of population, HSJ has been told. The figure represents an even larger cut in management costs than previously proposed.
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NewsEast of England opens up hospital quality figures
A strategic health authority has published hospital trusts’ performance against dozens of quality indicators on the internet.