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NHS news blog: PCTs may face tests on financial competence
A financial competence test could be reintroduced in next year’s round of world class commissioning competency assessments.Other changes on the cards include “tweaking” the definitions of tasks in the programme and moving panel assessments to April and May – traditionally a quieter time for primary care trusts.NHS Confederation PCT network ...
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NHS news blog: DH refrains from standardising patient experience
The Department of Health will not impose standards for “real time” measurement of patients’ experience, despite pressure to use results to help identify failing trusts.Guidance will be published on the use of fast-turnaround feedback, which many hospital trusts are beginning to collect, in coming weeks.But there will be no standard ...
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NHS news blog: Baby P case 'hitting recruitment'
BBC: Baby P case is making it harder to recruit social workers
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NHS news blog: Mid Staffs scandal - confed says NHS must 'put its own house in order'
The NHS Confederation has said the NHS must “put its own house in order” in response to the failures at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust.Two reports, on the trust’s progress since the highly critical Healthcare Commission investigation and lessons for the whole NHS, were published yesterday. Health secretary Alan Johnson announced ...
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NHS news blog: DH publishes criteria for defining failure
NHS providers with even small deficits or which get their financial forecasting wrong risk being placed “under review” through the Department of Health’s new criteria for its failure regime.The regime – published last year and now part of the Health Bill currently going through Parliament – sets out how a ...
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NHS news blog: NHS culture stifling innovation, Confed warns
The NHS is stifling innovation through an organisational culture that places barriers in the way of staff with good ideas, the NHS Confederation has warned.In a report timed to coincide with the launch by Lord Darzi of a £220m fund to boost innovation in the health service, the confederation said ...
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NHS news blog: Dental surgeries could extend opening hours
Primary care trusts are to begin a £150m procurement process which could see dental surgeries opening outside normal hours.National director for GP and dentistry access Mike Warburton said contracts for new work should focus on quality and access rather than activity and consider extended hours. PCTs would decide what hours ...
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NHS news blog: Chief executives picked to lead integrated Welsh NHS
Six chief executives have been appointed to lead the NHS in Wales as it takes a further stride away from the English system.They will lead local health boards, newly merged from existing primary-focused LHBs and trusts, which run acute, community and mental health services, from October.Care provision will be merged ...
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NHS news blog: Mid Staffs reports - new duties on NHS to prove patient involvement
The government has announced that NHS organisations will have to publish information that proves they are involving patients to prevent a repeat of the failures at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust.A report for the Department of Health by national director for primary care David Colin-Thomé, published today, found that a significant ...
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NHS news blog: Interview - David Nicholson talks leadership
In an exclusive interview following the first meeting of the national leadership council last week, NHS chief executive David Nicholson tells HSJ what was discussed, why the council won’t become a “dustbin” for difficult issues and why all chief executives must take responsibility for leadership.
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NHS news blog: Confed proposes peer review to avoid Mid Staffordshire repeat
The NHS Confederation has called on hospital trusts to invite others trusts’ directors to inspect their services to help prevent failures such as those at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust and Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust.The confederation has proposed a series of steps that should be take voluntarily in response to ...
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NHS news blog: Monitor appoints new chief and chair to 'challenged' foundation trust
A foundation trust has been assigned a new chief executive by Monitor for the second time in eight months.The regulator has appointed Kirsty Matthews as interim chief of the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases foundation trust, in Bath, it announced yesterday.The regulator hired Ms Matthews as interim chair of ...
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NHS news blog: PCT poll backs Alan Johnson on swine flu pandemic
NHS organisations are backing up health secretary Alan Johnson’s assertion this week that the UK is one of the countries most prepared to deal with a flu pandemic.As cases of swine flu were confirmed in the UK, an HSJ straw poll of 15 primary care trusts this week revealed that, ...
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