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NewsDH reveals pay cap for agency staff
The hourly rate the NHS can pay agency staff will be capped at 55 per cent above the pay levels of permanent staff, under plans announced by the Department of Health.
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NewsStevens: Funding growth may depend on 'transformation' plans
Health economies’ receipt of their share of the NHS’s £8bn funding growth for coming years could depend on them agreeing shared five year ‘sustainability and transformation’ plans, NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has suggested.
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HSJ LocalUpdated: Hospital rebuild set to drive shake up of city's blood cancer services
STRUCTURE: Commissioners have agreed to help fund a £36m extension to a new cancer hospital being built in Liverpool, to make possible a reconfiguration of the city’s fragmented blood cancer services.
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HSJ LocalRoyal Wolverhampton appeals 'proportionality' of CQC inspection
REGULATION: A West Midlands acute trust is appealing against the ‘proportionality’ of its recent Care Quality Commission inspection, HSJ has been told.
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NewsNational chiefs aim to resolve 'contradictory' messages on staffing and finance
National leaders have moved to resolve ‘contradictory’ messages issued to NHS providers around safe staffing levels. They stress that nurse to patient ratios ‘should not be unthinkingly adhered to’.
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HSJ LocalImperial slashes private earnings forecast
FINANCE: One of England’s most prestigious teaching hospital trusts has been forced to revise down the amount of private income it plans to generate this year.
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HSJ LocalKing's Lynn ‘up for’ radical restructure to stave off £39m deficit
Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn Foundation Trust is planning a radical restructure after an independent review said it faced a £39m funding deficit by 2018-19.
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NewsExecutive Summary: Score draw on CCG ratings
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HSJ Local18 week waits, August 2015: explore the maps
See all NHS waiting lists around England by provider, CCG or specialty
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HSJ LocalChief executive leaves London community trust to lead troubled Essex FT
APPOINTMENT: The chief executive of a London community trust is to leave his post to take up the top role at Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust.
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HSJ LocalEx-South Devon chief joins London trust
WORKFORCE: St George’s University Hospital Foundation Trust has appointed the former chief executive of South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust as its interim chief operating officer.
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NewsExclusive: GP ‘scorecard’ would be 'divisive', says report
The use of single ‘scorecard’ type metrics for measuring performance in general practice would be misleading and divisive, a Department of Health commissioned report has concluded.
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NewsExclusive: Eliminating elective variation can save NHS £1.4bn, says Monitor
More than £1bn can be saved if the NHS wipes out variations in elective care productivity, according to a new report from Monitor.
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Executive Summary: Delay can't hide ballooning deficits
HSJ’s roundup of the day’s essential stories
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HSJ LocalPlanning approval granted for new hospital despite CCGs’ doubts
COMMERCIAL: Planning approval has been granted for a new hospital build in Hampshire, despite local clinical commissioning groups’ doubts about the affordability of the reconfiguration project.
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NewsUpdated: Provider deficits swell to £930m in three months
The NHS provider sector has reported a combined deficit of £930m for the first three months of 2015-16, which is more than the entire deficit reported last year.
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NewsHSJ Live 09.10.15: Provider finances worse than planned - reaction
Rolling coverage of today’s NHS financial announcements and reaction
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NewsNMC approves introduction of nurse revalidation in April
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has today approved plans for the introduction of a major new system of competency checks for registered nurses and midwives, with the regulator’s chief executive describing it as a ‘historic’ moment.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Immigration rules derail major nurse recruitment plans
WORKFORCE: A Manchester trust’s plans to draft in 275 nurses from India have been thrown into doubt due to difficulties securing visas.
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NewsExclusive: Another CCG agrees variation from QOF
A clinical commissioning group in the south of England has agreed a variation to the GP quality and outcomes framework with nearly all its practices, to encourage more community based care.