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News13 September 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 AndroidOn the cover this week, author Alexander Stevenson argues most management books are relevant only to private sector leaders. So he offers his advice for the ...
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NewsNHS England board meeting - follow it live
Follow David Williams as he tweets from NHS England’s September board meeting
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NewsDoctors 'must be free to innovate' says MP
Doctors should be free to innovate and be given greater opportunities to find cures for cancer, a Conservative MP has urged.
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NewsHSJ Live 13.09.2013 Lewisham announces merger with Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Howe calls for ministers to tone down talk of ‘failing hospitals’, Nicholson steps into Morecambe Bay furore and the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsCollege urges reconfiguration to support seven-days-a-week care
Hospitals must be reorganised so patients do not have to move beds or wards unless medically necessary, the Royal College of Physicians has urged.
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NewsExclusive: Huge variation emerges in CCGs' efficiency ambition
There is a 23-fold variation in the scale of clinical commissioning groups’ efficiency targets, with at least 11 groups planning to make savings of under 1 per cent, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsUpdated: Hunt says uncertainty about patient data will be resolved
Problems experienced by commissioners due to a restriction on how much patient identifiable data they can access will soon be resolved, the health secretary has said.
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NewsExclusive: CCGs dip into non recurrent fund to stay in the black
Clinical commissioning groups are dipping into funds intended to be set aside for making one-off investments in order to stay in the black, an HSJ investigation has found.
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NewsAusterity measures 'bad for nation's health'
The government has been urged to look more closely at the impact of austerity measures on the health of the nation before it pursues more cuts.
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NewsFirst local government vision for care is produced
Councils and the NHS must help reduce “dependence on the state” for health and care services in order to avoid a “grave crisis” sparked by rising demand and falling resources, a commission set up by Essex County Council has concluded.
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NewsShare your views on mental and physical healthcare, locally and nationally
There is a general acknowledgement that the NHS should be a service of equal access, equal quality and equal resources.
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NewsHSJ Live 12.9.2013: Morcecambe Bay inquiry terms of reference announced
Health secretary announces independent investigation’s terms of reference, RCP publishes Future Hospital report, Monitor’s decision on Peterborough, plus the rest of today’s news
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NewsHelp us find the most innovative people in healthcare
HSJ is launching a search for the most innovative people in healthcare and is inviting your nominations.
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NewsFurther complaints to NHS competition watchdog 'almost guaranteed'
A number of private providers are likely to take complaints to the NHS’s new competition regulator Monitor over the next three years, the chief executive officer of Ramsay Health Care UK warned last week.
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NewsPhysios call for changes to NHS treatment
Leading physiotherapists have issued a list of recommendations they believe should be implemented to improve care for NHS patients.
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NewsSurvey suggests staff concern about quality and pressure
A survey suggests healthcare workers are concerned their organisation could have similar problems to those seen at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, and worries about pressure and bullying.
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NewsHSJ Live 11.09.2013 Twitter chat: Is A&E on the brink of crisis?
Take part in HSJ and the NHS Confederation’s Twitter chat from 1pm today.
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NewsGovernment announces A&E fund winners
The government today announced the allocation of its £250m fund for the trusts thought to be most at risk of failing their accident and emergency targets this winter.
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NewsMike Farrar to leave NHS
Mike Farrar is to step down from the NHS Confederation and will not apply to become NHS England chief executive, he announced today.
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NewsMonitor deputy chair issues warning on failure regime
The outgoing deputy chairman of Monitor today suggested the NHS still did not have an effective failure regime and called on politicians to relinquish ultimate control over what happened to financially failed trusts.