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Exclusive: NHS England mulls specialised services payment overhaul
NHS England is considering a radical overhaul of the way specialised mental health services are paid for including a greater emphasis on rewarding providers for shifting care into the community, according to internal documents obtained by HSJ.
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NewsHSJ Value in Healthcare Awards shortlist revealed
The finalists for the 2018 HSJ Value in Healthcare Awards have been announced.
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NewsFebruary ‘most pressured month ever for NHS’
February was probably the “most pressurised month the NHS has seen in its nearly 70 year history”, Simon Stevens has said, as the service continues to grapple with winter.
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NewsFormer NHS Improvement chair recruited by digital GP company
Former NHS Improvement chair Ed Smith will join a new board senior government and NHS figures advising private digital GP company Push Doctor.
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HSJ LocalMore trusts using estates 'wheeze' to boost their finances
NHS trusts are increasingly revaluing their estate in a way that boosts their reported financial position, under encouragement from NHS Improvement.
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NewsUpdated: CCG pulls out of whole-county commissioner plan
Thanet and South Kent Coast CCGs have not joined county-wide commissioning arrangement Accountable officer Hazel Smith had been due to be the county-wide commissioner’s “head of partnerships” Move thought to be linked to forthcoming service consultation A clinical commissioning group has opted out of a regional strategic commissioning ...
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NewsNHS revenues fall at private hospital firms
NHS revenues have fallen year-on-year at two large private providers, according to financial results released this week.
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HSJ LocalAnalysis: How top trusts saved money by revaluing their estate
HSJ finance correspondent Lawrence Dunhill explains “modern equivalent asset” revaluations - an accounting “wheeze” being used increasingly by NHS trusts.
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HSJ LocalTrust appoints new chief executive to replace Dame Jackie Daniel
A hospital trust has appointed a new leader to replace the outgoing Dame Jackie Daniel who announced her departure in January.
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News'Vulnerable patients' face ongoing caps to care funding
Commissioners have been allowed to continue applying cost caps to the more than £3bn of NHS Continuing Healthcare claims as long as they follow new new government rules.
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NewsExclusive: Three-trust merger plan dropped
A merger of three trusts has been dropped because it would have created a trust spanning two sustainability and transformation partnership areas, along with concerns over clinical and financial viability, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsVascular surgery must be centralised, government report says
Getting It Right First Time report says vascular surgery services need to be centralised Large variation in access to stroke-preventing surgery Sets minimum staff and procedure numbers for surgery hubs England’s vascular surgery services are “not configured to meet clinical need” and are resulting in unnecessarily long waits ...
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NewsTrust chair criticises 'failure' to act on service change
A departing chair has said his trust has been held back over the past 20 years because of the local system’s failure to take action to improve services.
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NewsNHS England rejects 'implausible' CQC recommendations
NHS England has branded one of the Care Quality Commission’s key suggestions for tackling the problem of locked rehabilitation for mental health patients as “implausible”.
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NewsCCG lead and GP join NHS England as primary care directors
NHS England has appointed a former clinical commissioning group leader as its deputy director of primary care.
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NewsCQC condemns 'alarming trend' of long stays in 'locked rehab'
The care watchdog has called on government and national officials to draw up a plan to address the “alarming trend” of patients being locked in rehabilitation units miles from home.
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NewsControversial ‘CareBnB’ firm returns to launch new trial
The company developing a controversial “Airbnb for social care” model allowing homeowners to rent spare rooms to recuperating hospital patients is bidding to launch a new trial in Cambridge.
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NewsKing's Fund chief executive announces departure
Chris Ham has announced he will leave the King’s Fund at the end of 2018.
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NewsNHS England shifts stance on sharing patient records over WhatsApp
NHS England has opened the door to sharing patients’ medical records via instant messaging apps, such as WhatsApp, after previously stating it was not permitted.
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HSJ Local'Incredible' CQC upgrade is endorsement of hospital group model
Sir David Dalton says a troubled hospital trust in Greater Manchester has made “incredible” improvements, despite receiving only a “fraction” of the financial support offered to struggling trusts in the south east.