All Health charities articles – Page 3
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HSJ Local
Outstanding trust loses £16m contract to charity
An outstanding rated trust has failed in its bid to renew a five year health and wellbeing contract in Bedfordshire.
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News
Exclusive: National radiology review launched over 'significant backlog' fears
The Care Quality Commission has launched a national review of radiology capacity after it found “significant backlogs of radiology reporting in some trusts.”
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HSJ Local
Trust seeks £15m for naming rights of new building
A specialist hospital is looking for £15m for the naming rights of a new treatment and research centre.
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News
Exclusive: Hundreds of mental health patients' deaths still uninvestigated
The families of patients who have died while detained under the Mental Health Act in England and Wales are continuing to be denied inquests, HSJ can reveal.
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Comment
Moving rhetoric to reality: six challenges for health and social care
There are six key issues the health and social care sector need to tackle in the near future, writes Steve James. Can we turn talk into action?
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HSJ Local
Charity fears national precedent if CCG axes free transport services
A charity has warned a dangerous precedent may be set if a clinical commissioning group enforces its decision to stop funding non-emergency patient transport to people who rely on “life sustaining” treatment.
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News
Exclusive: 'Great concern' over 'growing gap' in mental health services
A drop in mental health inpatient beds coupled with a fall in community care provision is a “great concern” that requires an urgent review, a new report has said.
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Comment
The clock is ticking on prevention and integration
Lip service has been paid to the need for prevention and integration in the NHS and social care system. Now more must be done to implement change on the ground, writes Mike Adamson, chief executive of the British Red Cross
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News
Government pushes ahead with safe space plans despite 'misuse' concerns
A new health service safety investigations bill pushes ahead with controversial plans to allow local NHS trusts to investigate safety breaches without the need to disclose the information uncovered.
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News
NHS England 'unethical' to propose withdrawing life changing drug
NHS England has been accused of being “totally unethical” after proposing to stop paying for a thyroid drug that is the “difference between living properly and not doing so” for patients.
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HSJ Local
FT chair steps down amid charity payment allegations
A foundation trust chair has resigned with immediate effect following allegations his charity was paying him large amounts of money.
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News
Give NHS middle managers 'a stronger voice', says charity leader
A health charity chief executive has called for the NHS to give middle managers “a much stronger voice” and stop wasting their time in meetings that do nothing to improve patient care.
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HSJ Local
Cash-strapped trust sells specialist unit to private company and charity
King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust
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HSJ Local
Trust's financial position £60m worse than expected after audit judgement
Auditors said land sale by the Royal Free London Foundation Trust should not register in the accounts for 2016-17 Decision does not change underlying position but means the trust misses out on incentive payments worth £14m Provider sector position for 2016-17 will also worsen by £47m A large ...
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HSJ Local
Hospital's charity could buy land for possible expansion
Board of newly merged trust agrees to buy land next to children’s hospital First major estate acquisition since Birmingham Women’s and Children’s FT shelved single site plans Charity could buy land on behalf of trust Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Foundation Trust has agreed to buy a property for ...
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HSJ Local
Major trust sells £50m of land to charity arm
Royal Free Charity bought current operational site at Chase Farm Hospital for £50m This helped Royal Free London FT end 2016-17 with a £15m surplus, after it was previously forecasting a £39m deficit Charity intends to develop housing for key workers on the site Trust says the deal was ...
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News
Specialised commissioning process 'lacks transparency', NHS England told
Specialised commissioning is “very hard to probe”, resulting in “unusual decisions”, stakeholders warn NHS England made funding U-turn on two treatments it had previously deemed “unaffordable” but provided little detail about why FOI request for minutes of specialised commissioning funding body denied ABPI says “major reassessment” of whole process ...
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News
Thousands of disabled people forced to wait months for wheelchairs
Between October and December, 21 per cent of children and 15 per cent of adults waited more than 19 weeks for wheelchairs to be delivered Waiting times of nine weeks-plus for wheelchair prescription and then delivery Longest waits for those with high or specialist needs for prescriptions and delivery ...
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Comment
Here's how we get the 5YFV back on track
The National Voices coalition of charities is urging the prime minister to salvage the Five Year Forward View with some whole-system planning
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News
GPs not returning to work due to 'huge' insurance costs, charities warn
Returning GPs use commercial insurers at “huge cost” following rejection from major mutual insurers NHS England asked to “streamline” retraining process as “excessive” delays cause “financial hardship” for returning GPs Induction and refresher scheme “too slow and bureaucratic ” says RCGP “Excessive” delays in retraining and “huge” indemnity ...