News – Page 568
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News£75m fund to close learning disability hospital beds
Plans to close up to half of inpatient beds for people with learning disabilities following the Winterbourne View scandal have been announced by the NHS and local government bodies.
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NewsCQC efficiency rating will not be based on trust’s financial position
The Care Quality Commission’s future rating of trusts’ efficiency will not be based on whether they have a surplus or deficit, a new document reveals.
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NewsGovernment U-turn on delayed nurse revalidation rollout
The Department of Health has rowed back from plans to delay nurse revalidation in England, in light of the negative response from the profession’s leaders.
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NewsDH consults on three year budgets for CCGs
Ministers are consulting on proposals to give commissioners budgets of at least three years to enable longer term planning.
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NewsGlobal safe staffing expert questions ‘crazy’ NHS nursing policy
One of the world’s leading experts on nursing and safe staffing has questioned current NHS policies towards nurses and suggested some could even put patients at greater risk.
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NewsHSJ annual lecture: Hunt defends plan for 'Ofsted style ratings' of CCGs
A commissioning chief and GP leader have criticised Jeremy Hunt’s plan to introduce Ofsted style ratings for clinical commissioning group performance in a range of clinical areas.
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NewsHSJ Live 29.10.15: Hunt delivers HSJ annual lecture - live coverage
Rolling coverage and the second HSJ annual lecture
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NewsDH raises threshold for blocking national tariff
The Department of Health has confirmed measures that will make it more difficult for providers to block the national tariff payment system.
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NewsExclusive: GP premises fund overhauled with CCGs given control
Clinical commissioning groups will be given responsibility for bidding for future tranches of the primary care infrastructure fund, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsPublic do not trust NHS with personal data, admits health secretary
The public do not trust the NHS to look after personal health information, the health secretary admitted at the HSJ annual lecture on Thursday evening.
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NewsDigital health expert to carry out ‘Berwick review’ of NHS
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said a review by international digital health guru Robert Wachter on how the NHS can become a world leading digital health system will be as pivotal to the NHS as Don Berwick’s review on patient safety.
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NewsWatch on demand: Webinar on NHS regulation
You can now watch for free our expert panel debate the current context and likely future of regulation.
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NewsHunt opens HSJ annual lecture with hip-hop video
Jeremy Hunt gave the second annual HSJ lecture on Thursday evening
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NewsHSJ annual lecture: full transcript
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt delivered the second HSJ annual lecture on Thursday night in London. Here is the full transcript.
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NewsHSJ annual lecture: Hunt promises new 'Ofsted style ratings' for CCGs
Ofsted style ratings are to be given to each area of the country for performance in a range of clinical areas including cancer, dementia and mental health, Jeremy Hunt will announce today at HSJ’s annual lecture.
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NewsExecutive Summary: A lecture from Hunt you will want to hear
HSJ’s daily digest of the must read health stories and debate
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NewsHunt to outline vision for NHS in HSJ lecture tonight
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt will expand on his long term vision for the health service tonight at the second HSJ annual lecture.
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NewsHealth secretary offers pay guarantee to junior doctors
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has offered a pay guarantee to junior doctors as part of plans to end the impasse between the government and the British Medical Association.
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NewsExclusive: Senior clinicians 'recommend merger' of two teaching hospitals
The boards of Liverpool’s two university teaching hospital trusts are to consider a joint report from their senior clinicians that recommends merging the organisations, HSJ has been told.