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NewsCapital's trusts to introduce 'maximum' caps on agency rates
Hospitals in London struggling to recruit medical locums to tackle staff shortages are to limit the amount they can spend even when safety is a factor from this weekend, HSJ can reveal.
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CCGs find no link between GP hours and A&E attendance
Two Nottinghamshire clinical commissioning groups, which also lead a national vanguard, have found there is no direct link between extended GP opening hours and accident and emergency attendances.
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HSJ LocalIreland's chief information officer joins teaching trust
The chief information officer for the Irish Health Service Executive is to join one of England’s largest teaching hospital trusts.
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HSJ LocalNational leaders warned over lack of services for personality disorders
A coroner has warned national health leaders about a lack of commissioned services to support patients with borderline personality disorder.
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NewsRoundtable: The war on variation could cause 'stagnation'
The NHS’s drive to instil best practice across the service risks suppressing innovation, experts heard at HSJ’s latest event
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NewsDH completes team assessing £730m procurement after last minute plea
The Department of Health has managed to recruit new evaluators for a £730m procurement after two people left the team tasked with assessing bids at late notice.
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NewsStevens: NHS will be forced to open extra beds if DTOCs aren't cut
The NHS will have to open more beds – but would struggle to staff them – if there are not sufficient reductions in delayed transfers of care ahead of winter, Simon Stevens has said.
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HSJ LocalFT appoints former trust chief executive as chair
A former trust chief executive with more than 20 years’ NHS leadership experience has been appointed chair of a foundation trust.
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HSJ LocalTrust warned by regulator over 'oppressive' culture
A trust in the West Midlands has been issued with enforcement action by the Care Quality Commission following concerns about an “oppressive” culture in its maternity department.
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HSJ LocalSmallest hospital trust moves closer to downgrade and merger
England’s smallest acute trust has moved a step closer to downgrading its emergency services, with the publication of proposals for “a new community focused role… at the heart of the new model of care”.
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NewsExclusive: 'Great concern' over 'growing gap' in mental health services
A drop in mental health inpatient beds coupled with a fall in community care provision is a “great concern” that requires an urgent review, a new report has said.
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NewsNew scrutiny body to be 'voice of clinicians' in NHS procurement
Products bought for NHS trusts are set to be subject to greater scrutiny for clinical value as part of a major overhaul of NHS procurement.
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NewsExclusive: Staffing agencies' profits fall after national squeeze on rates
The four largest agencies supplying temporary medical staff to the NHS have seen a 24 per cent fall in turnover, HSJ analysis reveals.
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HSJ LocalPreviously blocked trust merger could be complete in a year
A long awaited merger between two foundation trusts in a leading accountable care system could be completed within a year.
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NewsCCGs overspend by £60m but only one revises forecast
Local commissioners overspent against their financial plans by nearly £60m in the four months to August, but NHS England still expects them to deliver a near breakeven position by the end of 2017-18.
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NewsNine trusts plan pharma network to save £17m
Nine acute trusts are collaborating on a pharmaceutical network that could achieve efficiency savings estimated at more than £17m.
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NewsConsultant shortages mean sepsis standards 'unachievable'
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has clarified its latest advice on sepsis after warnings that a shortage of consultants makes the standards “unachievable”.
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HSJ LocalRevealed: Triple trust merger delayed
A merger between three West Midlands trusts to create one of the biggest community and mental health providers in the county has been delayed, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHS trusts to offer whistleblowers 'trial employment'
A pool of NHS trusts prepared to offer trial employment to whistleblowers is being created by NHS Improvement.
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HSJ LocalMoving trust to new hospital is 'best suboptimal solution'
A clinical review has found plans to move maternity services in Liverpool offer the ‘best suboptimal solution’ for patients in the city.