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NewsLast ditch talks try to stop junior doctors' strike
NHS Employers confirms talks have taken place with the British Medical Association to try to avert strike Junior doctors are due to walk out for 24 hours from 8am tomorrow but emergency care will be provided NHS England estimates almost 3,000 inpatient and daycase procedures will be cancelled ...
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NewsFormer NHS chief calls for four hour mental health target
Commission describes mental health system under pressure after “steady attrition” of funding in recent years Lord Crisp calls for new four hour waiting time target for acute adult patients and an end to long distance transfers Mental Health Network calls on NHS England to invest directly in frontline provision ...
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NewsRevealed: The costs of closing NHS Direct
Dissolution of NHS Direct cost £89m, documents reveal Regulators say “lessons learned” for transactions planning The dissolution of NHS Direct over two years cost £89m, documents reveal.
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NewsExclusive: DH hired headhunters to find new regulator chief
The Department of Health spent thousands on a headhunting firm to recruit the head of NHS Improvement, only a few months before trusts were warned against using the firms for their own executive posts, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsCQC’s first assessment of whole health economy released
CQC finds quality of providers in north Lincolnshire “broadly in line” with national average but health outcomes worse “Financial sustainability” of Northern Lincolnshire and Goole FT and clinical recruitment identified as problems Report is CQC’s first “place based” assessment of care quality The Care Quality Commission has published ...
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NewsHSCIC chair steps down
Kingsley Manning to step down in May He has been in post since May 2013 “Next stage” of the HSCIC’s development should be led by new chair, he says Kingsley Manning is to step down as chair of the Health and Social Care Information Centre, it has been ...
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NewsCommissioners 'must do more with voluntary sector'
Chair of government review of funding and links with voluntary, community and social enterprise says commissioners not doing enough to engage with sector Levers and incentives need to change, he says Call for use of wider mix of funding, including social prescribing, personal budgets and social investment Incentives ...
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News'Flip' incentives to get NHS using tech, says US digital guru
Finding ways to encourage digital adoption is one of “fundamental challenges” for Robert Wachter’s digital review American “meaningful use” programme has been “mostly successful but still flawed” US digital health expert Professor Robert Wachter has said finding ways to change the financial and regulatory incentives in the NHS ...
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NewsExclusive: Government tech review to shake-up clinical leadership
US digital health expert outlines his preliminary thinking about his review exclusively to HSJ Professor Wachter is discussing a shakeup of the role of NHS chief clinical information officers He indicates there is a need for changes to financial and regulatory incentives The US digital health expert advising ...
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NewsProfile: Bob Wachter, the digital doctor and NHS devotee
Jeremy Hunt asked Professor Wachter to review the NHS after reading his book, The Digital Doctor Wachter says doing review is “an amazing once in a lifetime opportunity” He also focuses on patient safety, quality and health policy issues Bob Wachter is professor and interim chair of the ...
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NewsHunt says £1.8bn will be spent on 'paper free NHS'
Hunt announces £1.8bn of funding earmarked to “create a paper free NHS” Appears to be an increase on £1bn over five years allocated in last year’s spending review The announcement involves no new money for health overall Details of the source of the funding and plans for spending it ...
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NewsCarter savings ‘won’t be enough’, experts warn
The Carter report has illustrated how difficult it will be to extract further savings from the hospital sector, think tanks have warned.
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NewsGovernment to act on every Carter recommendation
Government endorses “all” of Lord Carter’s recommendations NHS Improvement says it “fully supports” the efficiency review Finance chiefs welcome the report but urge caution over implementation Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has backed Lord Carter’s review into NHS efficiency, and said the government “will act upon all his recommendations”.
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NewsNAO: NHS workforce plans driven by saving cash
National Audit Office says existing system of workforce planning is not value for money NHS training 19 per cent fewer nurses in 2014-15 than it was in 2004-05 NAO says trust workforce predictions influenced by financial efficiency savings NHS trusts’ workforce predictions are driven by the imperative to ...
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NewsCarter calls for US style ‘meaningful use’ clause to drive tech adoption
Efficiency review supports US style standards to drive uptake of new technology Report recommends lead role for NHS Improvement Boards should be held directly accountable for digital standards, says report NHS system leaders should put a US style “meaningful use” clause into provider contracts to require hospitals ...
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NewsNew staffing metric 'may lead to unsafe nursing levels'
‘Care hours’ metric to be ‘principal’ measure for nursing deployment Experts say using metric could lead to unsafe staffing Concerns include the mixing of nurse and healthcare assistant numbers Lord Carter says trusts should also use separate data on nurses and HCAs A new headline staffing metric proposed ...
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NewsInterview: Hospitals must 'take fate into their own hands', says Carter
Hospitals must rapidly find ways to reduce delayed transfers of care by taking more responsibility for post-discharge services, Lord Carter has told HSJ.
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NewsTell trusts whether to outsource this year, says Carter
Lord Carter recommends trusts determine whether their in-house departments are viable this year Urges NHS Improvement to develop benchmarks for admin costs, pharmacy and pathology Methodology used for review has been criticised Trusts should find out this year whether they will be forced to outsource their administration, pathology ...