All Foundation Trust Network (NHS Providers) articles – Page 33
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NewsSue Slipman back in post
Sue Slipman has been reinstated as Foundation Trust Network director but has stood down from her role on the NHS Confederation board.
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NewsNHS back office savings worth £1bn
The NHS could save £600m-£1bn through sharing more back office services, according to research conducted for the Department of Health.
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NewsNHS Confederation and Slipman agree ‘way forward’
The NHS Confederation has agreed a “collaborative way forward” with the Foundation Trust Network and its suspended chair Sue Slipman.
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NewsFoundation Trust Network considers Confed split as director suspended
The Foundation Trust Network has drawn up plans to leave the NHS Confederation, prompting opposition within the organisation, HSJ has learned.
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NewsFTs call for lighter control
Foundation trusts are in conflict with Monitor over the future regulation of their financial planning and governance.
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NewsFTs favour male nurse directors
Foundation trusts are more likely to give senior nursing posts to men than acute trusts without foundation status, an investigation by HSJ’s sister title Nursing Times has found.
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NewsPessimistic foundation trusts set tough savings target
Foundation trusts are expecting their income to drop by an average 0.8 per cent a year from 2010-11 to 2012-13.
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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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NewsMonitor chair wants FTs off public balance sheet
Foundation trusts should be freed from one of the shackles put in place during the Labour government’s internal battle over their creation, Monitor’s new chair has said.
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NewsMental health trusts best at patient involvement
Mental health trusts have made the greatest efforts to reflect patients’ views in the precursors to formal quality accounts, the Foundation Trust Network has found.
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CommentMark Britnell on the future of Agenda for Change
Agenda for Change does not need to be scrapped and renegotiated - just applied properly
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NewsLeaked FTN document: no job guarantees for foundation trust staff
Staff working for foundation trusts are at risk of compulsory redundancy because of the impending public sector spending squeeze, a leaked report suggests.
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NewsBill Moyes takes pride in rocking the foundations
Monitor executive chair Bill Moyes leaves the foundation trust regulator this week with no regrets about his stormy journey, as he tells Sally Gainsbury in his final interview
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NewsDH urged to put off Monitor search
The Department of Health should wait until a new government is in place before appointing a permanent Monitor chair, the organisation representing foundation trusts has said.
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CommentMichael White: FT freedoms and the election
Barely a couple of days pass without some potentially significant policy shift on the health and social care front from the political parties.
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NewsVoters halve as foundation trust governors win elections uncontested
Turnouts at foundation trust governor elections have almost halved in the past five years while the proportion of those that are uncontested has increased by 81 per cent.
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NewsNHS organisations hit staff numbers to save costs
There has been a big jump in the number of NHS organisations planning to cut staff, an HSJ survey has revealed.
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Mental health FTs allowed to treat private patients, but rules face fundamental review
The government is to launch a rapid review of the foundation trust private patient income cap in the face of a judicial review of the policy by the trade union Unison.
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NewsGovernment backs down from controversial foundation trust proposals
The government has dropped foundation trust proposals that had been criticised by the trusts, their regulator Monitor and former health secretary Patricia Hewitt.
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NewsFT warning over competition panel ruling on consultants
Foundation trusts have warned most decisions on allowing consultants to work for other providers will need to be decided individually, despite a co-operation and competition panel ruling last week that attempts to prevent such work were anti-competitive and undermined patient choice.