All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 167
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NewsNHS England to create safe staffing 'oversight' group
An advisory group including senior figures from across the health service is being created by NHS England to oversee future work on safe staffing guidance.
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NewsDH prepares controls over trusts' capital spending
The Department of Health is preparing to announce controls over capital spending for NHS providers.
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News‘Cash is king again’: trust chiefs respond to Monitor letter
Trust leaders have told HSJ about their wide ranging concerns over the implications of a letter sent by regulators calling on them to take tough measures to improve their financial positions.
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NewsMonitor: 'We are not telling trusts to stop hiring clinical staff'
Monitor has insisted it is “not telling trusts to stop recruiting clinical staff” in its letter to them outlining emergency measures to try to reduce their deficits.
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NewsUpdated: DH proposes across the board public health cut
Local authorities look set to face a flat 6.2 per cent cut to their 2015-16 public health budgets under plans put out for consultation by the Department of Health this morning.
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NewsExclusive: Hospitals fail to hit staffing targets despite recruitment drive
The ability of NHS acute trusts to employ sufficient numbers of nurses on hospital wards has worsened this year compared with 2014 despite record levels of recruitment, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsCap on clinical negligence costs could save £400m, says Litigation Authority
The health service could save £400m a year if the government changed the law to fix the costs for clinical negligence schemes alongside other measures, the NHS Litigation Authority has said.
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NewsCCG property sales 'will fund new care models'
Every clinical commissioning group in England has been directed to evaluate estate within its area to work out how much capital funding can be released by property sales.
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HSJ LocalFirst ever tariff hike agreed for troubled trust
FINANCE: Monitor has agreed to increase the tariff paid to University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust, which is likely to result in more than £20m of extra funding for the troubled provider this year.
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NewsReview to consider ‘cancer drugs fund’ for innovative medicines
The government’s accelerated access review will look at whether the principle of the cancer drugs fund could be extended to non-cancer treatments, its chair has said.
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NewsExclusive: NHS ‘needs at least £1.5bn a year’ for transformation
The NHS needs a dedicated transformation fund of at least £1.5bn a year to properly test and roll out new models of care, according to researchers.
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NewsDH accounts show NHS ‘clearly in underlying deficit’
The Department of Health underspent its revenue budget by just £1.2m in 2014-15 – a fraction of its £110bn budget – the department’s accounts reveal.
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HSJ PartnersGetting to grips with Monitor's framework for change
How to navigate the regulatory challenges ahead
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NewsExclusive: DH funds private prescriptions for drug denied to NHS patients
Taxpayers’ money is being used by the Department of Health to pay for private prescriptions for a £12,000 a year drug to treat narcolepsy, HSJ has learned.
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NewsAnalysis: Huge regional variation in NHS financial health
There is wide regional variation in the financial health of the NHS, HSJ analysis of the performance of clinical commissioning groups, providers and specialised commissioners in 2014-15 reveals.
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