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NewsUpdated: Rollover tariff trusts expect massive deficits
Several large hospital trusts that rejected the voluntary tariff agreement have predicted huge swings in their financial position for 2015-16.
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NewsAnalysis: Hospitals will struggle to reach new 12pm discharge goal
Trusts have been told to try to carry out at least 35 per cent of discharges before midday, in a new NHS England directive aimed at preventing delayed discharges.
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NewsPathology joint venture records growth but restructuring hits profits
A public-private pathology provider part owned by two London trusts increased its revenues last year, but a substantial restructure prompted by changes to tax rules resulted in a small drop in profits.
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NewsExecutive Summary: The NHS's financial pain rolls on...
HSJ’s round up of Tuesday’s key stories
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NewsHSJ Live 26.05.2015: Pathology joint venture records growth but restructuring hits profits
A public-private pathology provider part owned by two London trusts increased its revenues last year, but a substantial restructure prompted by changes to tax rules resulted in a small drop in profits,plus all today’s news and comment
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NewsUpdated: NHS provider sector reports £822m deficit
NHS providers have reported a deficit of £822m for 2014-15, with foundation trusts ending the year in the red for first time ever. HSJ analysis suggests that without bailouts the net deficit was closer to £1bn.
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NewsRevealed: Mental health pledge to be funded from existing budgets
A pledge by the home secretary to invest £15m in new health based places of safety to detain people experiencing mental health crisis will be funded from existing budgets, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsExclusive: Slowdown in prevention of early deaths - funding may be the cause
National officials have identified a stalling of improvement in the prevention of premature deaths by the English health service, with one potential cause being the NHS’s “economic challenges”.
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NewsOnly a quarter of CQC inspection reports published on time
Just a quarter of the Care Quality Commission’s inspection reports have been published on time, new figures show.
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NewsHSJ Live 22.05.2015: Foundation Trust sector ends year with £349m deficit
Foundation trusts under “sustained and exceptional pressure”, says Monitor, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment
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NewsAll CCGs must go to market for support services
NHS England has instructed all clinical commissioning groups they must go to the market to procure a number of support services rather than bring them in house.
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News'Vanguard' project now open to entire acute sector
NHS England has expanded the scope of its ‘vanguard’ project to trial new care models, to encompass the viability of the entire acute sector.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England proposes new rare condition drug access rules
NHS England is set to publish new guidance, described by charities as ‘life saving’, on access to licensed drugs for patients with rare conditions and in ‘critical need’, HSJ has learned.
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NewsValue in Healthcare Awards 2015 shortlist announced
Book your table for the ceremony on 22 September.
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NewsHunt: Peer review, not top-down targets, can improve NHS
Jeremy Hunt has praised the benefits of peer review to improve NHS standards, saying it is a better method than top-down targets.
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NewsGP sector sees 'boom' in large provider companies
There has been a ‘boom’ in large scale GP provider organisations being set up in recent months.
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NewsHSJ Live 21.05.2015: Shortlist announced for the HSJ Value in Healthcare Awards
Congratulations to all the organisations that made the shortlist for the 2015 HSJ Value in Healthcare Awards.
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NewsStevens launches hospital chains 'vanguard'
NHS England will ‘test new ways’ of sustaining smaller hospitals, including ‘chains’ running acute services, in its latest vanguard programme launched today by Simon Stevens.