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  • GP with patient
    News

    Exclusive: GPs 'fear' new care models, says royal college chair

    2016-12-22T07:00:00Z

    The new chair of the Royal College of general practitioners has said GPs “fear” new primary and acute care systems and see them “take overs”.

  • Jeremy Hunt
    News

    Regulators will not merge before 2020, says Hunt

    2016-12-19T07:00:00Z

    Health service regulators will not be merged or restructured before the end of the current parliament in 2020, Jeremy Hunt has told HSJ.

  • Simon Stevens
    News

    Exclusive: Some STPs are becoming 'integrated organisations', says Stevens

    2016-12-07T07:00:00Z

    STP next steps will see a small number becoming “integrated organisations” Others are at the stage of “proposals” and need to developed into “plans”, before becoming a “governance partnership” Some STPs will be given “decision rights over resources and people” in their area, including those in NHS England and ...

  • Jim Mackey
    News

    Exclusive: Trusts will not be 'intimidated or bullied', says Mackey

    2016-12-06T07:00:00Z

    Jim Mackey says he wants to give “the keys back to providers” to run their organisations NHS Improvement will hold people to account “professionally” with no bullying or aggression On clinical leadership, Mr Mackey said he “couldn’t care less” what people’s background was if they have the right skills ...

  • Contract 3x2
    News

    Vanguard CCG tenders landmark new care model contract

    2016-11-29T12:03:00Z

    Dudley CCG begins procurement process for multispecialty community provider contract MCP contract may include budgets for adult social care Chief officer for Dudley CCG says it is the responsibility of providers to highlight risks and concerns about the MCP Dudley Clinical Commissioning Group has become the first CCG ...

  • Workforce
    HSJ Local

    Exclusive: Trusts to create regional shared staff bank

    2016-11-07T07:00:00Z

    Three trusts in the Midlands are working on plans to create a shared staff bank, HSJ can reveal.

  • Ian Cumming
    News

    Not HEE's role to fill junior doctor rota gaps, says chief executive

    2016-11-04T07:00:00Z

    Ian Cumming says Health Education England is responsible for supplying future consultant workforce The drive to provide 24/7 care has created gaps in rotas that should be filled by non-training staff NHS trusts and universities will need to fund expansion of nurse training posts in 2018 Providing enough ...

  • Mark Rogers
    News

    Top council chief criticises Stevens and Mackey for 'NHS first' bias

    2016-10-26T07:00:00Z

    Birmingham council chief and STP lead hits out at NHS England’s tendency to “sort the NHS out first” Mark Rogers complains about use of sustainability funds for acute deficits Calls for joined up national approach to STP and says engagement has been “flawed” Says better care fund “has not ...

  • Group of clinical professionals talking
    HSJ Local

    500 nurses in pipeline for large teaching hospital

    2016-10-21T07:00:00Z

    Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust to hire 500 more nursing staff Chief executive Julian Hartley says £14m recruitment drive is to improve safe staffing levels CQC raised trust’s rating to good but says it requires improvement on safety One of the largest teaching hospitals in the country is planning ...

  • Classroom
    News

    Hunt vows to act on NHS's 'biggest area of weakness'

    2016-10-20T07:00:00Z

    Health secretary Jeremy Hunt brands children’s mental health services the NHS’s “biggest area of weakness” Mr Hunt took on mental health portfolio after being reappointed as health secretary He tells HSJ there were “big problems” with CAMHS capacity and one solution is integrating more NHS services into schools ...

  • Henrietta Hughes
    News

    Whistleblower guardian will 'not be an investigation body'

    2016-10-12T07:00:00Z

    National guardian for the freedom to speak up says her office will “not be an investigation body” Henrietta Hughes started as national guardian last week Dr Hughes says she has raised concerns twice in her career, and says it should be part of NHS “business as usual” The ...

  • Sara Munro
    HSJ Local

    New trust chief vows to cut costly out of area treatments

    2016-10-07T07:00:00Z

    Leeds and York Partnership FT’s new chief executive hopes to save £1.5m by reducing out of area treatments Trust has sent 37 adult mental health patients out of area for treatment since April Sara Munro took up the post last month Hopes reducing out of area placements will save ...

  • Beverley Bryant
    News

    Not prioritising cash for tech laggards is 'right'

    2016-09-21T12:45:00Z

    Beverley Bryant backs plans to switch funding priorities and push back digital deadline to 2023 Leading trusts will bring others with them, Ms Bryant says NHS Digital director sets out priorities including plans to parachute 100 “business change” staff to NHS organisations Pledges to make NHS Digital “relevant” and ...

  • Niall Dickson
    News

    80 hospitals in GMC 'special measures' over safety and training concerns

    2016-08-25T07:00:00Z

    GMC chief executive urges government to accelerate reform of professional regulators, including mergers Medical watchdog is developing a new intelligence system to analyse data and act faster over concerns Seventy-nine hospitals are being monitored because of concerns over standards of training or safety Almost 80 hospitals are being ...

  • Birmingham
    HSJ Local

    Acute trust looks to be lead provider in Midlands MCP

    2016-08-22T07:39:00Z

    Sandwell and West Birmingham chief executive says trust would look to be lead provider within vanguard The organisational form Modality MCP will take is still unclear, says Toby Lewis Sandwell and West Birmingham Trust working with Your Health Partnership to take on GP consultants STRUCTURE: The chief executive ...

  • Dr Gillian Fairfield
    HSJ Local

    Former Pennine Acute chief 'very sorry' for speed of turnaround

    2016-08-12T10:56:00Z

    Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust rated “inadequate” by the CQC following an inspection in February when Gillian Fairfield still led the trust It was also rated inadequate in the well led category, though the report noted staff were “very positive” about Dr Fairfield Dr Fairfield: “I am very sorry that ...

  • Hinchingbrooke Hospital
    HSJ Local

    Hinchingbrooke chair: Ditching Circle management structure key to turnaround

    2016-08-11T12:27:00Z

    Replacing management structure put in by private firm which previously ran trust was key to turning around performance, says chair Alan Burns praises efforts of staff across Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust Reduction in trust’s A&E opening hours not the way forward, he says INTERVIEW: Replacing the management structure ...

  • Andy Burnham
    News

    Integrated care a 'main priority' for Greater Manchester, says Burnham

    2016-08-10T11:57:00Z

    Andy Burnham says handing the running of social care services to the NHS would be a “main priority” if he becomes Greater Manchester mayor Former health secretary says the fact the region had a health and social care devolution deal was the “clinching factor” as to why he stood ...

  • Matthew_Kershaw
    HSJ Local

    Major South East hospital trust eyes reconfiguration

    2016-07-28T10:38:00Z

    Three emergency medicine sites in East Kent likely to move to two Seven stroke units likely to reduce to three Vascular services expected to be reconfigured from two sites STRUCTURE: Stroke, vascular and emergency medicine services in Kent and Medway are likely to see major reconfiguration, one of ...

  • Nick Hulme
    HSJ Local

    Special measures trust’s problems 'worse than I thought', says new chief

    2016-07-25T07:00:00Z

    Colchester “doesn’t feel like an organisation that has control of its day to day functioning”, says new chief executive Nick Hulme says he expects merger with Ipswich over the next 18 months to two years Merger timetable slowed considerably because of extent of care quality and performance issues ...