News – Page 637
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NewsHSJ Live 30.03.2015: Challenge Top-down Change guide published
Jeremy Hunt indicates a future Conservative government would meet the £8bn called for by the NHS Five Year Forward View, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsConservatives 'would meet NHS £8bn funding requirement'
The health secretary has suggested a future Conservative government would meet the NHS’s £8bn spending requirement for the next Parliament.
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NewsEd Miliband pledges cap on profits of independent providers in NHS
Ed Miliband has pledged that a Labour led government would impose a profit cap on private providers of NHS ‘clinical services’. He made the announcement at a speech to launch the party’s general election campaign in east London today.
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NewsLeading trusts defy NHS England over 'out of area' referrals
Teaching hospitals are continuing to refuse ‘out of area’ referrals in defiance of new rules from NHS England.
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NewsHSJ Live 27.03.2015: Labour would cap profits of private NHS providers
Ed Miliband pledges to halt ‘privatisation of NHS’ at election campaign launch, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment
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NewsCreate patient safety body straight after election, say MPs
An independent national patient safety organisation to investigate clinical incidents in the NHS should be created immediately after the election, a committee of MPs has said.
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NewsTraining framework to support managers needed, Change Challenge finds
Interactive guide to be published on Monday
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NewsCQC drops risk ratings from GP monitoring
The Care Quality Commission will no longer be risk rating GP practices as part of its intelligent monitoring process.
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NewsFull HCA registration 'inevitable', says care review author
New training standards for healthcare assistants should be made mandatory as part of a journey towards ‘inevitable’ full registration of the care workforce, the author of the Cavendish review has said.
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NewsA&E pharmacists pilot gets national rollout
More than 50 pilot sites will take part in a national trial of clinical pharmacists in accident and emergency departments.
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NewsCQC 'shines spotlight' on outstanding care
The Care Quality Commission has said it is ‘shining a spotlight’ on good and outstanding NHS care with a new report.
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NewsExclusive: Dr Foster Intelligence sold to Australian telecoms giant
Dr Foster Intelligence has been bought by an Australian telecoms giant, HSJ can exclusively reveal.
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NewsRevealed: Virgin handed £280m Staffordshire contract
Virgin Care has been awarded a £280m, seven-year prime provider contract to manage services in East Staffordshire, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsAvoidable harm bill becomes law today
A new law on avoidable harm in health and social care is set to receive royal assent today.
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NewsMaude calls for more personal budgets and mutuals
Cabinet office minister Francis Maude has said there is ‘much more’ scope for the use of personal budgets in health and social care.
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NewsRevealed: HSJ’s top provider chief executives
Sir David Dalton has been named the top NHS provider chief executive in 2015.
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NewsHSJ Live 26.03.2015: Dr Foster Intelligence sold to telecoms giant
Exclusive: Dr Foster Intelligence has been bought by an Australian telecoms giant, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsCQC will miss own inspection deadlines, regulator admits
The Care Quality Commission will fail to hit a high profile target to inspect all acute trusts before the end of this year, the watchdog’s chief executive has said.
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NewsExclusive: Vanguard areas call for tender moratorium
NHS England and Monitor are facing calls to exempt ‘vanguard’ areas from requirements to tender services, amid fears that procurement processes could undermine efforts to establish integrated primary, community and acute care models.
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NewsAnalysis: Huge disparity in trusts challenging CQC accuracy
There is huge variation in the number of factual accuracy challenges trusts are making to their draft Care Quality Commission inspection reports, HSJ analysis has found.