All News articles – Page 531

  • Missing piece of jigsaw
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    Chart: CCG leaders' contracting and integration plans

    2016-04-25T07:07:00Z

    “Accountable care systems” and “alliance contracting” are clinical commissioning leaders’ favoured contracting routes, HSJ’s barometer survey indicates.

  • Managers meeting
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    Commissioners split on STP leads' roles and responsibility

    2016-04-25T07:02:00Z

    Many expect STP leaders to take responsibility for finance and performance However, few CCG leaders are expected to step back from strategy across their patch Concern about the impact of STPs on local and clinical leadership More than a third of clinical commissioning group bosses expect sustainability and ...

  • Finance chart
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    Survey: CCG leaders' financial confidence dips

    2016-04-25T07:00:00Z

    Confidence in balancing budgets dips from 6.8 points to 5 points Concern about shifting deficit to CCGs Redesigning out of hospital services and reducing acute activity remain common approaches to savings Clinical commissioning group leaders’ confidence in balancing their budgets has taken a substantial knock, according to ...

  • Tightrope
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    Daily Insight: STPs face tricky balancing act

    2016-04-22T17:04:00Z

    The must read stories in health today

  • community services woman carer care worker patient
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    CCG abandons controversial community services procurement

    2016-04-22T16:02:00Z

    South Warwickshire CCG scraps competitive process to procure community services Commissioner had angered main provider by going to market New plan to transform services with neighbour CCGs in STP footprint A clinical commissioning group has abandoned its high profile competitive tender for community services in favour of a ...

  • Miles Scott
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    Chief of scandal hit teaching hospital steps down

    2016-04-22T12:47:00Z

    Miles Scott steps down from role of chief executive at St George’s University Hospitals Move follows high profile financial collapse at the trust and arrival of new interim chair He will be replaced by acting chief executive Paula Vasco-Knight Chair tells staff the trust’s problems will not be solved ...

  • Map pic
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    Mapped: The financial health of every STP area

    2016-04-22T07:00:00Z

    Some of the 44 new health systems for England could be in such deep financial trouble that they will struggle to plan their way out of deficit, according to policy experts.

  • Simon Stevens
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    Daily Insight: Simon's big spending promise

    2016-04-21T17:30:00Z

    The must read stories and debate in health today

  • Birmingham Women's Hospital
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    NHS Improvement investigates Birmingham Women's finances

    2016-04-21T14:09:00Z

    FINANCE: NHS Improvement has launched an investigation into a specialist trust in Birmingham after its finances deteriorated during 2015-16.

  • Strike
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    Exclusive: Junior doctor leaders mull indefinite strike action

    2016-04-21T12:28:00Z

    Junior doctors’ leaders discuss possible indefinite strike action BMA committee chair says no decision has been made ahead of next week’s strike Latest leak follows revelation of NHS Improvement email to trusts over engagement with doctors Senior members of the British Medical Association junior doctors’ committee ...

  • Dame Fiona Caldicott
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    Caldicott: 'Considerable' public support for data sharing

    2016-04-21T11:21:00Z

    There is “considerable” public support for sharing anonymised health data with third parties, according to the unpublished findings of national data guardian Dame Fiona Caldicott.

  • Pills
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    Legal threat forces NHS England rethink over HIV prevention drug

    2016-04-21T09:52:00Z

    NHS England is to reconsider its decision not to fund a new preventative drug for HIV which it had claimed fell under councils’ public health responsibilities.

  • Ruth May
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    NHS Improvement to allow local power over nurse staffing levels

    2016-04-21T07:00:00Z

    The NHS should allow local discretion on nurse staffing levels but trusts will be expected to report against outcome measures to support patient care, according to an NHS Improvement director.

  • GP
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    New ‘GP contract’ may be open to NHS trust joint ventures

    2016-04-21T00:01:00Z

    GP practices may not have to move off their existing contracts Six areas are expected to take up the new contract in April 2017 The new voluntary GP contract announced by the prime minister last year could be held by joint ventures set up by NHS organisations, Simon ...

  • Simon Stevens
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    Stevens promises big increase in GP spending

    2016-04-21T00:01:00Z

    Spending on general practice will increase by 14 per cent in real terms by 2020-21, NHS England has claimed as it launches a five year GP strategy.

  • Bob Alexander
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    Exclusive: 'Strong push' still needed in NHS contract negotiations

    2016-04-20T17:38:00Z

    NHS Improvement finance chief calls for “really strong push” in contract negotiations over next few days Bob Alexander says progress has been made since national bodies issued new deadlines for contract offers earlier this month Still not “sufficient contracts formally agreed” Contracts unsigned after 25 April enter arbitration process ...

  • Shooting star
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    Daily Insight: Secrets of outstanding trust's success

    2016-04-20T17:30:00Z

    HSJ’s round-up of the must read stories in health policy

  • Data
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    HSCIC renamed NHS Digital and new chair hired

    2016-04-20T14:15:00Z

    The Health and Social Care Information Centre has appointed a new chair and been renamed NHS Digital.

  • Claire Murdoch
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    Foundation trust chief made NHS England mental health director

    2016-04-20T14:05:00Z

    Simon Stevens appoints Claire Murdoch on secondment from trust Ms Murdoch will work on implementing mental health taskforce report She is the third provider chief executive brought in for a national director role One of the most influential foundation trust chief executives in the country has been appointed ...

  • David Behan
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    CQC's budget cut further

    2016-04-20T12:26:00Z

    CQC budget for 2016-17 £9m lower than the £245m expected a few months ago Budget declines from £249m last year to £236m CQC board member says delivering revised budget will be “challenging” The Care Quality Commission’s budget has been reduced by an additional £9m compared to what it ...