All News articles – Page 764
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NewsHSJ Live 25.3.2013: Minister confirms Mid Staffs CEO payoff
Former Mid Staffs chief signed a compromise agreement, new GMC guidance for doctors, and the rest of today’s news
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Exclusive: Hospitals and GPs to be required to tell truth about errors
Healthcare providers which conceal mistakes or failures that lead to harm of patients will be held to account under a new statutory duty of candour, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsOFT extends its remit over NHS mergers
Healthcare sector regulator Monitor has confirmed the Office of Fair Trading will in future have responsibility for assessing any merger involving an NHS foundation trust.
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HSJ Live 22.3.2013: MPs cast doubt on DH QIPP claims
The public accounts committee casts doubts over QIPP and the rest of today’s news
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NewsExclusive: CQC reveals overhaul of inspection regime
The Care Quality Commission is about to launch a massive overhaul of its inspection regime which could see the best hospitals go five years without an inspection and the worst face intense scrutiny, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsExclusive: One breach could put a trust in 'failure regime'
Just one breach of new fundamental standards to be developed by the Care Quality Commission would see a provider tipped into a new “single failure regime” – but all enforcement action will be left to other regulators, HSJ has been told.
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News'Star rating' style system back on the agenda for NHS
Hospitals and care homes will receive single quality ratings under plans being developed by the Care Quality Commission, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsExclusive: CQC admits it cannot spot poor hospitals
The Care Quality Commission has not been able to “really assess” the safety and quality of hospitals under its current model, the regulator’s new chair has told HSJ.
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NewsExclusive: Employers warn against new laws post Francis
Creating new laws with the threat of criminal sanctions in the NHS would be the wrong response to the Mid Staffordshire scandal, according to NHS Employers.
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Full coverage: DH underspending
Full analysis and opinion following HSJ revealing the DH is this year on course for its biggest annual underspend in the current parliament
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Exclusive: HSJ foundation trust pipeline tracker map
HSJ’s exclusive map tracking trusts’ progress in the pipeline to become a foundation trust.
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NewsExclusive: Details on surgeon rankings plans revealed
Fresh details about how rankings of individual consultants on metrics such as how many patients die in their theatres each year will be devised have been shared with HSJ.
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NewsHow HSJ has covered the DH's history of underspending
The 2013 Budget showed the Department of Health is on course for its biggest annual underspend this parliament. In October last year HSJ exclusively revealed the DH had returned almost £3bn to the Treasury in the previous two years. Here is how HSJ has covered the department’s recent history of ...
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NewsExclusive: Delay to 111 go live in third of country
NHS Direct has been asked to provide a contingency service in almost a third of England due to delays in rolling out the government’s flagship 111 urgent care phone number, HSJ has learned.
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NewsOnly half health and wellbeing boards consider end-of-life care
Concerns have been raised that some bodies introduced under the NHS reforms have not considered the needs of dying people.
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NewsBan on gagging clauses is 'smoke and mirrors'
High level announcements about restrictions on the use of confidentiality clauses have “limited significance” but may help to clarify their effect for staff, lawyers have told HSJ.
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NewsHSJ Live 21.3.2013: Rolling healthcare news
The Labour party responds to the Department of Health’s large underspend today, government gagging clause commitments are described as “smoke and mirrors”, and live coverage of today’s other news.
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Morecambe Bay reveals former chief’s compromise agreement
WORKFORCE: The foundation trust today released details of the ‘compromise agreement’ it reached with former chief executive Tony Halsall, who stepped down last February amidst a care quality scandal.
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NewsNumber 10 health adviser joins Care Quality Commission
Paul Bate, the Prime Minister’s health adviser, is leaving his role to become the Care Quality Commission’s director of strategy, the watchdog has announced.
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NewsDH on course for biggest underspend this parliament
The Department of Health is this year on course for its biggest annual underspend in the current parliament – with none of the unused budget due to be carried over for future use, today’s Budget revealed.