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NewsHSJ Live 04.06.2015: Catch up on a huge day for health policy
Catch up on the key events from the NHS Confederation conference, HSJ’s exclusive interview with Jeremy Hunt and NICE stops work on safe staffing guidelines
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NewsExclusive: NICE suspends work on nurse staffing levels
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has suspended with immediate effect its work to determine safe staffing levels across the NHS, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsFirst three troubled areas to be put into 'success regime'
Simon Stevens has confirmed the three areas to be the first put into a new whole health economy ‘success regime’.
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NewsKeogh to review elective waiting time targets
NHS England medical director Sir Bruce Keogh is to review the current waiting times standards for elective care, the organisation’s chief executive Simon Stevens has announced.
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NewsExclusive: Multimillion pound cancer contract consortium revealed
A private company led consortium including two NHS trusts is now the only remaining bidder for a 10 year, £687m cancer services contract in Staffordshire, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsConfed 2015 tweets from the HSJ team
Follow the HSJ team at the NHS Confederation conference on Twitter for the latest news from the event
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NewsHSJ Live 03.06.2015: Three troubled areas to be put into 'success regime'
Simon Stevens has confirmed the three areas to be the first put into a new whole health economy “success regime”, plus the rest of the news from the first day of the NHS Confederation conference
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NewsStevens promises tougher line on struggling CCGs
The responsibilities of severely struggling clinical commissioning groups could be passed to other CCGs, local authorities or “integrated providers”, Simon Stevens has said.
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NewsEmergency care to be 'completely redesigned' within three years, says Stevens
Urgent and emergency care will undergo a “complete redesign” and be in “a very different place by the middle of this Parliament”, the NHS England chief executive has announced.
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NewsCancer care funding faces overhaul
Cancer services should be funded via population-based payments to networks and lead providers, the NHS England chief executive has said.
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NewsStevens interview: Dealing with agency staff is NHS’s ‘biggest operational risk’
NHS trusts will ‘undoubtedly’ struggle to employ the doctors and nurses they need as the service clamps down on the cost of temporary staff from next month, NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has told HSJ.
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NewsUpdated: Monitor to review consultancy contracts above £50k
Foundation trusts wanting to spend more than £50,000 on a management consultancy contract will have the deal reviewed by Monitor, as part of new measures announced today.
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NewsHealth secretary launches crackdown on NHS executive pay
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has ordered an immediate review of executive pay at every NHS hospital in England.
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NewsCCGs told to fund more hospital activity
NHS England expects clinical commissioning groups to fund more hospital activity than initially planned this year, prompting concerns that this could undermine non-acute services intended to reduce emergency admissions.
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NewsHSJ Live 02.06.15: CCGs told to fund more hospital activity
NHS England expects clinical commissioning groups to fund more hospital activity than initially planned this year, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsHunt to intervene on agency spending
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt will today unveil plans to cap agency and management consultancy spending by NHS trusts.
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NewsExclusive: Vacancies fuel agency overspending by NHS trusts
Two-thirds of the spending on locum doctors employed in NHS trusts is being driven by the need to fill vacancies, analysis shared exclusively with HSJ reveals.