All articles by James Illman – Page 46
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NewsExclusive: NHS owned pathology joint venture expects £4.5m loss
A pathology joint venture owned by six NHS trusts is forecasting a £4.5m deficit for its first year of operation, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalDunn: FT structure can be used to create new care models
STRUCTURE: A key architect of the foundation trust legal structure has said the sector’s existing governance models can be used to run the new models of care set out in the NHS Five Year Forward View.
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NewsMajor general practice software suppliers agree to share patient data
England’s two biggest general practice software suppliers have struck a long awaited agreement to share patient record data between their systems.
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NewsHunt: £240m tech fund ‘not cut’
A flagship NHS technology fund widely feared to have been raided to finance support for struggling accident and emergency departments has not been ‘cut’ but will instead be subject to ‘a staged roll out’, according to health secretary Jeremy Hunt.
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NewsCare.data records extraction won’t begin until ‘after election’
Commissioners involved in the Care.data pilot programme will not start extracting information from GP patient records until after the May general election, a senior NHS England figure has said.
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NewsCCGs to be measured on new 'core metrics', says Hunt
Clinical commissioning groups’ progress on developing plans set out in the NHS Five Year Forward View will be judged against a new set of ‘core metrics’, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.
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NewsLord Hunt: CCGs to be advisers to HWBs
Clinical commissioning groups will ‘ultimately’ be reduced to an advisory role for health and wellbeing boards under a Labour government, according to a shadow health minister.
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NewsUpdated: Burnham warns Manchester plans could mean 'another reorganisation'
Shadow secretary Andy Burnham has warned plans to devolve £6bn of health and social care funding to Greater Manchester could mean “another reorganisation”.
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NewsRevealed: Details of £6bn Manchester health devolution plan
Radical plans for Greater Manchester to take control of £6bn of health and social care spending will be overseen by a new statutory body from April 2016, according to draft plans obtained by HSJ.
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NewsNHS technology fund cut from £240m to £43m
A flagship NHS technology fund has been slashed from £240m to just £43m after ministers raided it to bolster a separate fund to help hospitals struggling with winter pressures.
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NewsExclusive: Digital pioneer bids to integrate NHS patient records for free
One of the NHS technology community’s leading experts is building a new system to integrate the health service’s myriad patient record systems, and he plans to give it to the NHS for free.
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NewsSUS data collection to be suspended
The Health and Social Care Information Centre will suspend the collection of the secondary uses service data for nearly two weeks as part of a process to bring collection of the vital NHS dataset in-house.
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NewsTrusts combine to pioneer open source patient records project
Trusts to pioneer open source patient records system
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NewsMaking NICE guidelines mandatory ‘counterproductive’, says former chair
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s former chair Sir Michael Rawlins has criticised NHS commissioners for ‘poorly implementing’ the body’s guidelines but said making them mandatory would be ‘counterproductive’.
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HSJ LocalHinchingbrooke applies for £9.6m government bailout
Privately run Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust has warned that its deficit could exceed £12m this year, and has applied for a government bailout of nearly £10m.
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News£35m nursing tech fund shared among 60 bidders
More than 60 bids by NHS and other care providers have received a share of the second tranche of nursing technology fund, an NHS England director has told HSJ.
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HSJ LocalCambridge trust's chief operating officer to leave
Cambridge University Hospital Foundation Trust’s chief operating officer Fran Cousins is leaving the trust this summer to join Deloitte.
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HSJ LocalNorfolk and Suffolk FT rated 'inadequate'
The Care Quality Commission has rated Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust ‘inadequate’ and recommended the trust be placed into special measures.
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NewsCQC row with Circle over Hinchingbrooke laid bare
The row between the Care Quality Commission and Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust and Circle, the private company which runs the NHS hospital, has been laid bare during a heated evidence session held by MPs.
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NewsColchester’s A&E rated ‘inadequate’ by CQC
Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust’s accident and emergency department has been rated ‘inadequate’ by the Care Quality Commission.