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Four CCGs looking at 1 million population merger
Four Surrey clinical commissioning groups are considering a merger to create a single organisation covering more than a million people.
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Daily Insight: Dealing with BAME ‘outsider’ status
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership
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Funding announced for projects to fight antibiotic resistance
The government has unveiled some of the research projects awarded funding from its multi-million-pound fund for fighting anti-microbial resistance.
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Therapist and nursing shortages forces hospital ward closure
A community ward at a Buckinghamshire hospital will close next month due to a shortage of nurses and therapists.
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AHSN board chief selected to chair ICS
An Academic Health Science Network board chief has been appointed independent chair of the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West integrated care system.
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Greater Manchester trust appoints new CEO
A new chief executive has been appointed to run an acute trust in Greater Manchester, subject to approval by governors.
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Integrated care trust comes bottom in patient experience survey
An integrated care trust received the lowest score in England from the inpatient survey, partly down to people’s experience of being discharged.
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Data changes “traumatic” but vital, says A&E chief
Moving to new data standards will be “traumatic” for the NHS but is vital because “we are really struggling to measure and understand the activity at the front door of our hospitals,” a senior NHS England figure has said.
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Exclusive: NHSE pressured us to protect ‘absurd’ cancer services, says top doctor
A leading doctor who served on an NHS England group tasked with designing new child cancer standards has told HSJ that changes to soften the proposals were “insisted on” by its officials.
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MPs back most of NHS England’s proposed reforms
The Commons health and social care committee has said it “welcomes” the thrust of NHS England’s proposals for legal change, but raised queries and objections on some important points.
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Teaching hospital to open private clinic with major US healthcare provider
A large teaching trust has teamed up with Oxford University and a major US healthcare provider to launch a new private diagnostics clinic in London.
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Daily Insight: Cracking the Croydon conundrum
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Deputy clinical directors will share the primary care network load
Commissioners in the East Midlands are hiring deputy directors to support the clinical directors leading its primary care networks.
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NHS warned to act now on Australian flu
The leader of England’s emergency care doctors has called for the NHS to take action now to prepare for a possible flu epidemic as Australia battles an early outbreak of the virus.
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Clinicians were ‘pressured’ to change child cancer standards
Clinicians drawing up new clinical standards for child cancer services in the NHS faced “unwarranted pressure” from NHS England’s cancer team to soften their recommendations, three other experts in the field have said.
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Daily Insight: NHS prepares for Oz flu to fly in
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership
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Experienced CEO steps up to lead troubled trust
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust has appointed a prominent West Midlands chief executive as its interim CEO, HSJ can reveal.
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Warning over effect of holiday pay ruling
NHS Providers has warned that trusts will need extra funding if changes to how holiday pay is calculated go ahead.
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Dido Harding: Senior managers face ‘trial by HSJ’
The lack of a “fair” and “just” process for dealing with senior managers who have failed in their role has left them facing “trial by HSJ”, NHS Improvement chair Dido Harding told the NHS Confederation conference.
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Treasury scepticism over tech investment ‘misplaced’, says NHSX chief
There is “misplaced” scepticism within the Treasury over the positive impact investment in health tech will have on the healthcare system, according to the new chief of NHSX.