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NewsListening NHS chiefs boost ratings
Trust boards led by chiefs who are not too autocratic and who encourage contributions from non-executives and clinicians perform better in annual health checks, research has revealed.
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NewsBed numbers will dictate CQC registration fees
Plans for charging trusts to register with the Care Quality Commission are going ahead despite warnings they are “fraught with potential risk”.
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NewsCQC fears over mental health safeguards
The Care Quality Commission is looking for urgent “levers” to strengthen legal safeguards it fears are failing to protect vulnerable mental health patients.
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LeaderBurying the NHS mortality row will clear the way for quality push
The Department of Health is trying to get a grip on the toxic issue of hospital standardised mortality ratios.
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LeaderRoyal Surrey has some explaining to do
HSJ’s revelation that Royal Surrey County Hospital was the foundation trust selling millions of pounds of drugs on the export market requires some answers from its board.
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NewsMonitor revises private patient income cap rules
Foundation trusts must ensure the proportion of the income they earn from the treatment of private patients is no more than it was in 2002-03, even if it was earned through a subsidiary or joint venture.
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NewsTrusts face hard task to achieve 18-week ‘right’
Trusts are facing a difficult six weeks before the promised right for patients to be treated within 18 weeks comes into force on 1 April, at the likely start of a general election campaign.
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NewsNPSA halts search for chief executive
The National Patient Safety Agency has put off its search for a new chief executive amid a Department of Health clampdown on senior appointments at arm’s length bodies.
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NewsManagers left mystified by Improvement Foundation closure
A company providing training to hundreds of NHS managers has suddenly ceased trading.
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NewsNHS needs 'business model' change, says former Brown adviser
The NHS needs to change its “business model” to survive investment cuts, Gordon Brown’s former adviser on public service transformation has said.
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NewsDorset Hospital makes U-turn on redundancies
Dorset County Hospital Foundation Trust has made a U-turn on its decision to axe 28 managerial posts by next month - a move which would have cost £3m in redundancy packages.
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NewsNHS Confederation governance shake-up
The NHS Confederation is to appoint a remunerated chair as part of a shake-up of its governance arrangements.
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NewsNHS car parking: driven to distraction
Hospital car parking has become an impassioned talking point. While it may seem a side issue to the real work of healthcare, the heated arguments over charging won’t subside until policies are seen as fair and fixed, writes Joe Farrington-Douglas
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NewsNew chief exec for Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust has appointed Rachel Newson as chief executive.
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NewsPrivate option for Hinchingbrooke looks more likely
Hinchingbrooke Hospital will now almost certainly be taken over by a private company after the only NHS organisation bidding for the franchise to run it dropped out.
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NewsIndependent review of Cornwall reconfiguration
The Independent Reconfiguration Panel is to review a controversial reconfiguration of upper gastro-intestinal cancer services in the South West.
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NewsBlackburn care trust plus given go ahead
The Department of Health has approved plans for NHS Blackburn with Darwen to become a care trust plus.
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NewsAnnual cancer costs 'to reach £25bn'
Cancer costs England more than £18bn a year, but the figure could rise to almost £25bn over the next decade, a report published today says.
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NewsNHS trusts 'slow to process bills'
A survey has revealed that some NHS trusts are not processing any bills within 10 days and others are barely managing to pay a fifth within 30 days.
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NewsNHS Scotland meeting cancer targets
NHS patients in Scotland wait five weeks on average for cancer treatment from the time the illness is first suspected, official statistics have shown.