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NewsGovernment allocates £760m capital funding
The government has today allocated £760m capital for building projects, including a major acute reconfiguration in the Midlands, and another £150m for “efficiency” investments.
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NewsCCGs pulled out of special measures ahead of mergers
Three clinical commissioning groups have been taken out of special measures ahead of mergers this weekend.
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NewsProviders: Growing bed shortage must be priority after torrid winter
The NHS’s growing bed shortage is the most pressing issue system leaders must address following a torrid winter, NHS Providers has warned, as it dismissed all of NHS England’s core targets for next year as unrealistic.
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NewsRegulator chief executive to leave for Canada role
The chief executive of the Professional Standards Authority is to step down from his role later this year.
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HSJ LocalHospital chief executive to head up charity
The leader of a financially struggling acute trust is leaving to become chief executive of a mental health charity.
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NewsRogue surgeon inquiry to investigate NHS private sector referrals
The way NHS patients are referred to and from the private sector by individual professionals will be examined by an independent inquiry, the government has announced.
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NewsNHSI: Sacking leaders and quick savings 'endanger improvement'
Sacking leaders when mistakes are made and “salami slicing” budgets to make quick savings “endanger improvement” and risk system failure in mental health, a new NHS Improvement report says.
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LeaderWhy the NHS England and NHS Improvement integration plans matter
The convoluted nature of the NHS’s national oversight is the product of the bungled Lansley reforms.
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NewsGovernment promises long term NHS plan this year
The Prime Minister has said the government will reveal a new “sustainable long term plan” for the NHS over the next year, which will be backed by a ”a multiyear funding settlement”.
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NewsSeven regions planned in NHS England and NHS Improvement 'integration'
NHS England and NHS Improvement are creating seven “single integrated regional teams” and will decide by September which national roles and functions will be combined, staff have been told today.
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HSJ LocalCircle threatens legal action over £150m treatment centre procurement
Circle Health has pulled out of a bid to continue running services at the Nottingham Treatment Centre, and threatened clinical commissioning groups with legal action over their £150m three year procurement.
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HSJ LocalShelford Group trust will run deficit for 'at least three more years'
A Shelford Group teaching hospital trust will run an underlying deficit until at least 2021-22, it predicts.
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HSJ LocalSTP leader steps down
The sustainability and transformation partnership leader for the Black Country and west Birmingham is stepping down.
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HSJ LocalChair of two hospital trusts to retire
The chair of two Sussex acute trusts is to retire in May.
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NewsHunt to unveil new midwifery support role and training routes
The health and social care secretary will announce new training routes into midwifery today as well as a new voluntary register and education standards for maternity support workers.
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LeaderUpdated: May makes a bid for her place in NHS history
Time will tell if Theresa May’s intervention buys her a place alongside Thatcher and Blair in NHS history, writes Alastair McLellan.
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NewsLife sciences forum launched by HSJ
HSJ has launched its first event for the life sciences sector.
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NewsChief Executive Interview: Roger Spencer, The Christie FT
This is the latest 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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HSJ LocalChief executive confirmed for trust with severely challenged A&E
Susan Acott has been appointed as the permanent chief executive of East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust after nearly six months as interim leader.
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NewsMental health funding forecast to hit £11bn by 2021
Clinical commissioning group investment in mental health will rise by 8 per cent over the next three years to nearly £11bn if they meet mandated spending targets, HSJ can reveal.