All articles by David Williams – Page 19
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Private firm withdraws George Eliot bid
COMMERCIAL: George Eliot Hospital Trust has confirmed that one of the private firms shortlisted to take it over has pulled out of the bidding process.
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Boss of troubled Berkshire trust quits
WORKFORCE: Royal Berkshire Hospital chief executive Ed Donald has resigned after four years leading the organisation. The trust is currently being investigated by Monitor after governance concerns.
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'There is no battle of Oxford', say local NHS leaders
Local NHS leaders have insisted there is “no battle of Oxford”, following HSJ’s revelation that the clinical commissioning group’s ambitious plans had been delayed amid provider concerns.
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Performance measures will impact on integration funding
NHS England has announced factors including delayed transfers of care and levels of emergency admissions will impact on how much money each area receives from the new £3.8bn integration fund.
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Midlands CSU to unite with neighbour
Two commissioning support units have announced they are planning to merge, in a bid to ensure they are accepted onto NHS England’s procurement framework for support services.
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Julie Moore: leading trusts could run hospital chains
Dame Julie Moore told HSJ she wanted to see top providers running chains of hospitals, arguing the district general hospital could be “redefined” as an outpost of a larger trust.
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Leading foundation trusts explore moves into primary care
Two of the most powerful acute and tertiary trusts in the country are looking to expand into providing primary care to establish vertically integrated provider organisations, HSJ has discovered.
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Review recommends Portsmouth Hospitals loses vascular services
A review of specialised vascular services in Hampshire has recommended centralising surgery in Southampton, meaning that neighbouring Portsmouth would lose some services.
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EXCLUSIVE: Trusts force delay in outcomes based commissioning plan
One of the largest and most advanced attempts to bring about integrated, outcomes based commissioning has been delayed following objections from two powerful provider trusts, HSJ has discovered.
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Data video: the growing QIPP shortfall explained
Commissioners are slipping behind on their efficiency plans
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HSJ Local
Consultants scupper cancer surgery reconfiguration
STRUCTURE: A proposed reconfiguration of urological cancer surgery has been abandoned because two groups of consultants refused to work together, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Consultants call for review of disciplinary action
WORKFORCE: Consultants at a hospital provider have called for an external review of recent disciplinary actions and acknowledged allegations of racial bias in the organisation.
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HSJ Local
Heatherwood and Wexham Park investigates maternity incidents
PERFORMANCE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park bosses have carried out a review of clinical quality in their maternity services following a cluster of serious incidents.
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Growing QIPP shortfall predicted
NHS commissioners are slipping behind on their efficiency plans and becoming more pessimistic about whether they will hit their year-end targets, HSJ can reveal.
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Budget cuts likely to spell job losses for commissioning support staff
There is a growing expectation that commissioning support staff face further rounds of redundancies driven by cuts to the NHS management budget, HSJ has learned.
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Revealed: Four options proposed for CSU autonomy
Commissioning support units will be given a choice of four options for becoming independent, under proposals under consideration by senior leaders at NHS England.
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Revealed: the £2bn switch back to payment by results
More than £2bn of acute service funding has moved away from locally agreed deals and onto the national payment by results tariff this year, an HSJ investigation has found.
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Three CSUs consider merger
Three commissioning support units have announced they have are considering a merger or a formal partnership arrangement.
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Analysed: Lamb's integration pioneers
The Department of Health’s integrated care “pioneers” will be monitored centrally to check progress against their plans and could be stripped of their status if they lose their way, health minister Norman Lamb has said.
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Ministers to legislate on £3.8bn pooled budget
The government will amend the Care Bill so it can force clinical commissioning groups to share a chunk of their budgets with local authorities, a health minister has told HSJ.