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News14 February 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 AndroidIn this week’s issue we examine the plans for hospital chain being discussed by senior national healthcare leaders. Plus:The Department of Health acknowledges life expectancy at ...
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Cosmetic surgery vows 'appalling'
Government pledges on the cosmetic surgery industry are “appalling” and represent a “wasted opportunity to ensure patient safety”, leading experts have said.
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NewsHSJ Live 14.02.2014 Dalton to examine barriers to hospital chains
Salford Royal chief executive leads team to look at “superhead” style of management, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment
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NewsExclusive: Pay exceptional managers more than PM, says Hunt
Jeremy Hunt has said some NHS posts warrant a higher wage than that paid to the prime minister.
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NewsFormer M&S boss to review NHS management
The health secretary has appointed the man credited with turning around the fortunes of high street giant Marks & Spencer to lead a major review of NHS management.
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NewsExclusive: £10m of Healthwatch cash 'goes missing'
Nearly a quarter of the funding for local Healthwatch groups has gone missing, according to research by the national body representing them.
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NewsUpdated: scale of special measures leadership change revealed
There have already been nearly 50 leadership changes at the 14 hospital trusts placed in “special measures” last year, new figures show.
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NewsExclusive: Dalton to examine barriers to hospital chains
The health secretary has appointed Sir David Dalton to lead a team looking at getting trusts to group together into “chains”.
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NewsMinisters: better care fund cash will be spent on health
Health and local government ministers have insisted better care fund cash will not be diverted by councils into non-health projects.
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NewsIn his own words: Stuart Rose on leadership
Sir Stuart has spoken frequently about what it takes to be a leader.
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NewsProfile: The dapper charmer who restored M&S's fortunes
The retail leader who is leading the NHS’s review on how it can recruit top talent is profiled by George MacDonald, executive editor of HSJ’s sister title Retail Week.
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NewsA short history of NHS leadership reviews
The NHS has a long history of official and unofficial reviews of leadership and management, some of them fronted by luminaries from the world of business.
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NewsStuart Rose: 'You can’t get anywhere unless people believe you'
Outspoken, controversial and never dull, Sir Stuart Rose is a retailer’s retailer. He tells George MacDonald about the mess he inherited in 2004, the highs and lows of his time in charge and his plans for the future. This interview first appeared in HSJ’s sister title Retail Week in 2011.
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NewsChildren's hospital told to improve
A leading children’s hospital has been ordered to improve after inspectors found patients were being put at risk by a faulty emergency call alarm system, poor staffing and incidents going unreported.
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NewsCrisis over NHS database - GPs
GP leaders are warning of a “crisis of public confidence” in an NHS scheme set up to share details from people’s medical records.
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NewsAnalysis: better care fund decision offers a universal solution
The Department of Health’s decision not to withhold better care fund cash from areas struggling to improve performance looks at first glance like a softening of central control.
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NewsHSJ Live 13.02.2014 Ministers: better care fund cash will be spent on health
Health and local government ministers have insisted better care fund cash will not be diverted by councils into non-health projects, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment
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NewsDH acknowledges 'first fall in life expectancy since 2003'
The Department of Health has acknowledged that life expectancy at 75 – one of its corporate indicators – fell in 2012 for the first time in many years.
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NewsExclusive: Hospital chains win backing
Discussions have begun between national NHS bodies on how the provider landscape can be radically reshaped, including on providers forming national chains of hospitals and services.
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NewsMPs back wellbeing boards to be 'system leaders'
The Commons health committee has called for health and wellbeing boards to be given a greater role in spearheading integration between health and social care to ensure the sectors make urgently required savings.