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NewsHSJ Live 11.10.2013: DH announces preferred candidate for next chair of Monitor
Hunt calls for a review of the implementation of the Working Time Directive on doctors and the NHS, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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11 October issue of HSJ is ready to read on the app
This week’s issue of HSJ magazine is now available to read on our tablet app.Download the HSJ app for iPadDownload the HSJ app for AndroidOn the cover, we analyse commissiong support units’ chances of survival and look at where they need to improve. Also in this week’s issue:We reveal a ...
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NewsChair sits on 'office of the chief executive' body at giant teaching hospital
One of England’s largest hospital trusts will be run by an “office of the chief executive”, consisting of the medical director, finance director and the chair.
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NewsExclusive: Mental health sector hit by beds shortage
Mental health patients requiring urgent hospital admission face long journeys − in some cases hundreds of miles − amid growing evidence of a shortage of beds, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCouncils fear they will be denied infant public health responsibility
Council chief executives fear they will be prevented from taking responsibility for infant public health amid Whitehall concern they would not implement a flagship coalition pledge to boost health visitor numbers by 4,200.
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NewsCall for greater hearing loss support
Older people with hearing loss are more than twice as likely to develop depression compared with those without the condition, a charity has revealed.
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NewsRise in 'avoidable' NHS admissions
The number of emergency hospital admissions for conditions that could be avoided has risen 48 per cent in 12 years, according to a new report.
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NewsHSJ Live 10.10.2013: Monitor investigates commissioners after private firm complains
Spire Healthcare complains to regulator over Blackpool CCG and Fylde and Wyre CCGs’ commissioning of planned care.
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NewsNorman Lamb: Mid Staffs would never have happened at a mutual
Health minister Norman Lamb has suggested acute trusts could improve staff engagement by becoming social enterprises and argued that the culture problems seen at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust would never happen in a mutually-owned company.
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NewsMonitor: NHS must 'change radically' in order to survive
Even if the NHS achieves the highest possible savings it cannot close the £30bn funding gap predicted by 2020-21, a Monitor analysis has predicted.
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NewsMP seeks checks on NHS 'fraudsters'
Convicted fraudsters could infiltrate the NHS unless more is done to ensure that private healthcare providers are subject to the same scrutiny requirements as their public sector rivals, a Labour MP has said.
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NewsEmergency care could move off tariff
Monitor and NHS England are considering moving away from the tariff payment system for emergency and urgent care, it emerged last week.
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NewsDH policy chief calls for combined GP and community contracts
The health service should contract single services that link general practice with community health and care, the Department of Health’s policy director has said.
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NewsTrusts continue to employ leaders 'off payroll'
Some trusts are struggling to comply with new regulations that require them to directly employ senior interim managers and to seek assurance about the tax arrangements of “off-payroll” workers.
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NewsHSJ Live 09.10.2013: Mid Staffs pleads guilty on patient death
How CSUs can secure their future success and the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsExclusive: All continuing healthcare patients to have the right to personal budget
The Department of Health has announced it will give all recipients of continuing healthcare the right to have a personal budget, enabling them to commission their own packages of care.
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NewsMonitor seeks solution to competition impasse
Monitor is in with talks with the Office of Fair Trading to try to prevent trusts which want to merge from facing drawn out inquiries under competition law, HSJ has been told.
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NewsChoices to change friends and family presentation
NHS England has agreed to change the way the results of the friends and family test are presented online by NHS Choices following complaints from trusts, HSJ has learned.
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NewsUnitedHealth UK posts £8.2m loss
UnitedHealth UK recorded a £8.2m loss and a 27 per cent fall in turnover in 2012 - its eleventh loss-making year in a row - the company’s annual accounts reveal.
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NewsA&Es facing 'intolerable pressures'
Urgent action must be taken to ensure that emergency departments remain safe and sustainable, doctors have warned.