All Health Service Journal articles in December 2018
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News
Special measures trust at risk of losing trainees
A special measures trust is at risk of losing its trainee doctors in acute medical services in January due to gaps in its workforce.
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Exclusive: Number 10 wants new NHS ‘staff morale’ tracker
Number 10 has encouraged NHS leaders to introduce a new staff morale tracker – potentially to report every month – and is likely to pursue the plan if Boris Johnson remains in power, HSJ has learned.
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NHS hires new HR chief from UN
NHS Improvement has appointed a director at the United Nations World Food Programme as its new chief people officer, it has been revealed.
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Exclusive: Spend on 'vital' community services cut by a fifth
The rate of spending on community mental health teams has fallen by a fifth in real terms since 2012, according to analysis seen by HSJ.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: New year, new appointments
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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Mental health budget worth £1.9bn 'to be devolved'
Mental health specialised commissioning will be fully devolved to providers within the next three years, according to the chief executive of a major mental health trust.
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CCG accused of using 'flawed' test to cut spending on elderly
A clinical commissioning group has been accused of blocking potentially eligible patients from receiving continuing healthcare funding under a programme supported by NHS England.
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HSJ Interactive
An update on the reform of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
Following a year of substantial debate, Hope Davis-McCallion explores how the Liberty Protection Safeguards will differ from DoLs
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Best of 2018: HSJ's top mental health stories
As the year draws to an end, we look back on the 10 most-read stories from the mental health sector. These include the announcement of two trust chiefs stepping down and a merger to create the biggest mental health and community trust in the country being delayed
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New Year honours for hospital bosses and NHS England staff
Hospital chief executives and senior NHS England staff were among those named in the New Year’s Honours list.
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Best of 2018: HSJ's top acute care stories
As the dust settles on 2018, we look at the most read articles relating to the acute sector. They include Sir David Nicholson joining a troubled trust, a leadership exodus in Lancashire and news that an interim manager was paid £311,000 for six months’ work
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Best of 2018: HSJ's top commissioning stories
As the year draws to an end, we look back on the 10 most-read stories from the commissioning sector. These include the announcement of the new joint executive team of NHS England and NHS Improvement and the appointment of a chief for the biggest group of CCGs.
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Best of 2018: HSJ's most read stories
It is that time of the year when we look back at the past 12 months and highlight some of HSJ’s most popular articles. NHS England and NHS Improvement’s ‘integration’, NHS directors under investigation for fraud, and trust chief executives’ resignations were among the most read stories of 2018.
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Regional director takes hospital chief exec role
A departing NHS Improvement regional director will take the chief executive post at a district general hospital, the trust announced.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: That warm feeling down your back? It’s not rain
Andy Cowper discusses the government’s recently released Brexit operational readiness guidance for the health and care system in England
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Comment
The best of The Bedpan 2018
HSJ expanded its comment section in October with the launch of The Bedpan, a Sunday morning fix for health policy junkies in the form of interviews by our editor Alastair McLellan.
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News
NHS could get new access targets in October
New and revised access targets which result from the review being undertaken by NHS medical director Steve Powis could be applied as early as next October, HSJ understands. The targets will join a range of new performance measure set out in NHS England’s 2019-20 planning guidance.
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Every health economy to get 'system control total'
Every health economy must produce a “system operating plan” and will be set a shared financial “control total” for 2019-20.
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Planning guidance: NHS England tightens spending restrictions
NHS England is set to increase rules for clinical commissioning group spending on mental health services and implement stricter controls on those failing investment standards, new planning guidance has revealed.
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Revealed: The NHS contingency plans for clinical waste disposal
NHS Improvement has hired consultants from Mott Macdonald to help NHS trusts and primary care staff whose facilities have lost their clinical waste disposal provider, HSJ has learned.