All Health Service Journal articles in January 2018 – Page 3
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News
Chief Executive Interview: Lesley Dwyer, Medway FT
This is the first in a series of interviews with provider chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Membership subscribers. Each month in 2018 a member of the HSJ expert team will conduct a challenging, candid and in-depth interview with a provider trust boss to uncover their personal insights ...
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Comment
What trusts want from the 2018-19 planning guidance
In view of the 2017-18 plan already coming under pressure, the upcoming 2018-19 planning guidance must set out a clear and realistic set of objectives, say Amber Jabbal and Phillipa Hentsch
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News
Ten per cent increase in CAMHS beds confirmed
More than 130 new child and adolescent mental health beds have been commissioned as part of national plans to expand capacity by 10 per cent by 2019.
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Patient Safety Awards deadline extended
The deadline for entering the 2018 Patient Safety Awards has been extended to 9 February.
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Second wave of 'accountable care systems' delayed
The announcement of a second wave of “accountable care systems” has been delayed, local NHS leaders have been told.
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Revealed: DHSC pays tech giant £65m in legal dispute
The Department of Health and Social Care has paid a multinational technology company £65.3m as part of a decade long legal dispute linked to the National Programme for IT.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: The arm round the shoulders
If healthcare is a people business, we ought to wonder why the NHS is often not great at supporting its people ie its staff, points out Andy Cowper
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News
Government targets NHS over failure to reform 'automatic' pay increases
NHS trusts “operate a virtually automatic incremental pay system” costing £600m a year, the government has said.
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Weekly Catch Up: Tech spending buffers and waiting for merger money
Your essential update on health for the week
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News
CQC: Directors can be dismissed for failing to stop bullying
Bullying and victimisation of staff – and failing to take “appropriate action” about it - can result in dismissal under the fit and proper person test, the Care Quality Commission stated for the first time.
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A&E reporting under review amid accuracy concerns
NHS bosses are reviewing accident and emergency performance data reporting as they grapple with concerns about the accuracy of the politically sensitive data.
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HSJ Local
MPs criticise 'extraordinary' absence of ambulance trust bosses
MPs have called for an “urgent explanation” as to why the chief executive and other senior board members of a crisis hit ambulance trust went on holiday during what was long predicted would be “a really difficult period”.
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News
Daily Insight: A tale of two mega-mergers
The must read stories and debate in the NHS from Thursday
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: Trust predicts years of deficits amid £47m deterioration
The chief executive of a severely challenged acute trust has warned staff “difficult choices” lie ahead after its financial forecast for the year was changed from a £10m surplus to a £37m deficit.
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News
CCGs have legal directions removed
National leaders have lifted the legal directions for three formerly struggling clinical commissioning groups.
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HSJ Local
Virgin set to bid for £260m children's services contract
Virgin Care has indicated it will bid for an NHS contract to provide children’s community and mental health services in Devon worth at least £259m over seven years, HSJ has learned.
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News
NHS England and Improvement appoint first shared board directors
NHS Improvement and NHS England have moved to appoint shared board directors, created a joint finance committee, and are seeking to avoid ”duplication [and] directly contradictory instructions”.
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HSJ Local
NHS Improvement changes stance on Wirral inquiry publication
NHS Improvement has said there is a “strong presumption in favour” of it publishing the independent investigation into the regulator’s handling of concerns at the Wirral University Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust.
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HSJ Local
Biggest NHS trust in line for £125m government loans
Manchester’s new hospital trust is in line for £125m of loans from the Department of Health to implement an electronic patient record and reconfigure its emergency departments.