All Government/DH policy articles – Page 79
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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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NewsHEE review: Primary care should be favoured for running community nursing
A series of recommendations have been set out by a major review of primary care workforce commissioned by Health Education England.
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News'Massive relief' over NHS England decision on rare condition drug
A drug at the centre of a row over preventable deaths and policy delays could become routinely available on the NHS, it has emerged.
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NewsEights lessons from MPs' quizzing of Simon Stevens
How heroic efficiency savings will be made, being assertive, and underwear sales: the key points from Simon Stevens, Sir Bruce Keogh and Jane Cummings’ answers to Commons health committee questions on Tuesday.
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NewsKeogh: New research confirms 'weekend effect' on mortality
NHS England medical director Sir Bruce Keogh will shortly publish research showing a ‘weekend effect’ in NHS services including higher mortality, he told MPs today.
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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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NewsDH starts search for NHS Improvement chief executive
The Department of Health has begun advertising for the chief executive of new combined provider regulation body NHS Improvement.
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NewsHunt intervention: NICE will review new body's safe staffing guidance
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt today intervened in the debate over safe staffing levels in the NHS, announcing future guidelines will be independently reviewed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
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NewsPatients to be told CQC ratings to encourage 'informed' hospital choice
Patients will be told the Care Quality Commission rating and waiting times for their local hospitals when making appointments through a new electronic booking system to encourage ‘truly informed’ patient choice, the health secretary has said.
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LeaderHunt battles his 'inner Stalin' to deliver the NHS’s 'reformation moment'
Determined to make his mark
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HSJ LocalImmigration officers at London trust for patient charging pilot
FINANCE: The Home Office has sent immigration officers into a London trust to help administrative staff identify foreign patients who could be charged for treatment.
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NewsCouncils 'running out of time' to prepare for public health cuts
Councils are ‘running out of time’ to make the £200m of in-year cuts to public health budgets announced by the chancellor last month, HSJ’s sister title Local Government Chronicle has been told.
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NewsCrisp: Mental health beds shortage actually a discharge crisis
A perceived crisis in the availability of mental health beds is actually caused by delayed patient discharges, according to an inquiry chaired by Lord Crisp.
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NewsExclusive: CCGs need to ‘radically evolve to have a future’
Clinical commissioning groups would need to ‘radically evolve’ to be sustainable once new care models are developed, according to a report commissioned by the Nuffield Trust.
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NewsLords approve devolution bill 'wrecking' amendment
The government has suffered a blow to its insistence on places adopting directly elected mayors in return for substantial devolution deals.
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NewsExclusive: Providers expected to use unofficial NICE staffing guidance
NHS providers may have to increase the number of nurses in emergency departments after regulators and the Department of Health suggested trusts need to consider new safe staffing evidence from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.