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NewsHealth leaders question NHS progress, survey finds
Two in every five NHS senior leaders believe the health service is in a worse condition following the current government’s reorganisation, according to a survey by a consultancy firm.
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NewsFrancis: future Mid Staffs would be detected earlier
Robert Francis QC, chairman of the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry, has told HSJ he believes the government’s actions mean any future “Mid Staffs” would be detected earlier.
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NewsGovernment rejects centralist plans for local Healthwatch
The government has rejected a plan by Robert Francis QC to force councils to hand centrally-allocated funding directly to local Healthwatch groups, arguing that councils should be free to decide the groups’ funding.
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NewsCQC to oversee barring scheme for directors
The Care Quality Commission is to get power to investigate board directors of all NHS providers to establish whether they are “fit” to hold the position, it has been announced.
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NewsThe government's Francis response: line by line
The government has provided detailed responses to each of Robert Francis’ 290 recommendations. HSJ highlights the most significant.
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Francis response: trusts to decide on 'named nurse' for patients
Allocating named or key nurses to individual patients is not to be made mandatory, the government response to the Francis report has said.
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NewsNHS England to launch new ‘hospital safety’ website
A dedicated hospital safety website will be launched next year as part of the government’s response to Robert Francis QC’s report, ministers have announced.
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NewsThe nine rejected Francis recommendations
The government has rejected nine of Robert Francis’ 290 recommendations.
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NewsUpdated: trusts face new wilful neglect offence
Hospital managers and non-clinicians could be drawn into the scope of a new criminal offence of wilful neglect and abuse of patients along with their organisation, it has emerged.
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NewsCover-up trusts could lose litigation cover
NHS organisations which fail to be open and honest with patients and families when they suffer poor care could be forced to pay the costs of any litigation, the government has announced today.
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NewsBureaucracy burden 'bigger' than previously thought
National bodies should reduce the amount of data they collect from NHS providers by 10 per cent over the next two years and contribute to the cost of any new information requests, a review of bureaucracy in the NHS is set to say.
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NewsMaternity services 'run deficit'
Many of England’s maternity services run at a deficit and have to be subsidised by other departments, the Foundation Trust Network has told MPs.
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NewsThinktank urges more NHS charges
Ministers should consider extending prescription charges, as well as introducing new charges on visits to NHS GP surgeries and some elements of hospital care, to raise £3bn a year for the health service, a think-tank has said.
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NewsHSJ Live 19.11.13: Government response to Francis is published
The government’s full response to the Francis inquiry rejects statutory duty of candour for individual NHS employees.
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HSJ LocalColchester faces fresh data fiddle claims
Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust faces fresh claims that senior managers put pressure on staff to alter data, HSJ can reveal.
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Dementia consultation launched by Central and North West London FT
A public consultation to determine the future of older people’s services in Harrow has been launched by Central and North West London Foundation Trust.
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Yorkshire Ambulance Service misses target for third consecutive month
PERFORMANCE: Yorkshire Ambulance Service faces a financial penalty after missing its target for responding to the most life-threatening calls for three successive months, according to board papers from Airedale, Wharfdale and Craven clinical commissioning group.
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Buckinghamshire to get support on HSMRs from St George's
PERFORMANCE: Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust is to get specialist support from south London’s St George’s Healthcare TRust on mortality ratio indicators.
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Yeovil misses ambulance handover target
PERFORMANCE: Yeovil District Foundation Trust is failing commissioner targets on ambulance handovers, board papers reveal.