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Government seeks to halt GPs leaving profession
Jeremy Hunt is expected to announce a new government backed indemnity scheme for GPs in England later today.
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Patient images sent by taxi after £30m IT system breaks down
Doctors have been forced to send images from patient scans on DVDs in taxis to neighbouring hospitals after a £30m IT system failed across eight hospitals.
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Finance directors 'feel bullied' by NHS regulators to agree targets
The professional body representing public sector accountants has warned experienced NHS finance staff are “often feeling bullied by regulators to publicly report numbers they do not think are achievable”.
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Updated: New chief executive for trust with worst A&E in the country
The chief executive of Dartford and Gravesham Trust is to take on the leadership one of the NHS’s most challenged providers.
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Exclusive: Leak shows trust accepted deficit target despite FD's safety warning
A struggling NHS trust went against the advice of its finance director by agreeing to a savings target that he warned would jeopardise patient safety, confidential papers seen by HSJ reveal.
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Private provider loses community services contract to NHS
Virgin Care has lost its bid to hold on to community services in part of Surrey, with the local trust and GP federation chosen as preferred bidder for the Guildford and Waverley area.
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Trust criticised over maternity culture ran 'normal birth' campaign
A trust that was recently criticised over the “oppressive” culture within its maternity department ran a “normal birth” campaign earlier this year, HSJ can reveal.
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More funding needed to lift pay cap, warn Stevens and Mackey
The government will need to provide the extra cash needed to lift the public sector pay cap in the NHS, Simon Stevens and Jim Mackey told MPs.
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NHS pay rises will be 'linked to productivity', says Jeremy Hunt
Jeremy Hunt has told MPs the cap on pay rises for NHS staff has been scrapped but any change would be tied to a deal on productivity.
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Devon trusts to share staff across region
Medical staff will work across trusts in a success regime region under a new system devised by health chiefs to reduce pressure on struggling services.
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Women NHS leaders offered industry internships to help 'create level playing field'
Women leaders in the NHS are being offered customised internships outside the health service to boost their skills and launch them into executive director roles.
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CCG leaders admit struggle to balance day job with STP roles
Senior members of an inadequate clinical commissioning group have said directors’ ability to carry out their jobs is hampered because of extra work related to their sustainability and transformation partnership.
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CQC: Trusts drop ratings amid 'precarious' care quality
More than a quarter of mental health trusts and almost a fifth of acute trusts previously rated ‘good’ have got worse on reinspection, the Care Quality Commission’s annual State of Care report reveals.
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Trust in special measures appoints new chair
England’s only fully integrated health trust, which is in special measures, has promoted one of its non-executive directors to chair of the organisation.
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HSJ Live 10.10.17: Simon Stevens and Jim Mackey face MPs
Live coverage as the NHS England and NHS Improvement chiefs face the Commons health committee
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Trust cuts use of patient restraint
A mental health trust has reduced patient restraint by a fifth in one year under a new clinical pathway at its purpose built medium secure unit.
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New chair of NHS Improvement revealed
The former chief executive of the broadband provider TalkTalk is the Department of Health’s preference to be the next chair of NHS Improvement, HSJ understands.
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Exclusive: CQC plans rules on 'safe workload' for junior doctors
The Care Quality Commission has asked the medical royal colleges to draw up new “safe workload” standards for junior doctors, amid concerns they are still being given a workload that is unsafe, HSJ can reveal.
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New CQC chief inspector: We want to be friendly
The new chief inspector of hospitals has told HSJ the Care Quality Commission “wants to be friendly”, and a “strong partner” in helping trusts improve.
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Transformation funding held back under national savings drive
Commissioners in Lincolnshire have told GPs they will need to hold back transformation funding for 2017-18 in response to a flagship national savings programme.