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NewsDaily Insight: The sick man of the NHS
Today’s optimist: John Adler of University Hospitals Leicester Today’s talking point: Lord Carter’s wrecking ball Today’s election-related delay: Heart reconfiguration The sick man of the NHS South Tyneside Foundation Trust has had the worst staff sickness rate in the NHS for four consecutive years, ...
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NewsFlagship service hits recovery target for first time
Flagship talking therapy service hits target for first time since its launch in 2008 Improving access to psychological therapies achieved a 50.1 per cent recovery rate in January 2017, just above the 50 per cent target IAPT is a key element of the Five Year Forward View for Mental ...
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NewsRevealed: Vanguards must give funding to STPs
NHS England sets conditions on final year of vanguard funding Vanguard sites required to give 10 per cent of their funding to STPs Areas told to embed new care model frameworks by December NHS England has set out four conditions on vanguard funding including the requirement to dedicate ...
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NewsDaily Insight: Tech fails and election announcements
HSJ’s round-up of the day’s essential health stories
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NewsElection 2017: Labour pledges 'new law' for NHS safe staffing
If Labour wins the general election it will bring in a “new law” to make safe staffing legally enforceable and ask NICE to recommence its work Party will lift the 1 per cent pay increase cap for NHS staff and set pay levels that “reflect the complexity of the ...
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NewsNHS land deals could raise billions, second Naylor review finds
Sir Robert Naylor says five London estates schemes have a potential value of more than £1bn each Housing associations interested in NHS staff leasing homes built on NHS land Five land redevelopments on NHS property in London are worth more than a £1bn each, Sir Robert Naylor revealed ...
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NewsCQC board should 'revisit its purpose', review finds
“Effectiveness” review finds concerns with the role and function of the CQC’s board Report says although the board is “effective” it should “evolve” to better interrogate its performance and offer focus on each sector it regulates equally Review says board members’ behaviour should be more “consistently” in line with ...
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NewsElection forces delay to successor to Care.data
Government response to Dame Fiona Caldicott’s third report on data security delayed by purdah Expected to push back successor to Care.data Plans still underway for new national opt-out system, “de-identification/re-identification service”, and data lake The government’s long awaited response to the third Caldicott review has been pushed back ...
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NewsDaily Insight: Election pushes back key tech policy
The must read stories and talking points in health policy
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NewsRevealed: 70 hospitals awarded share of £100m A&E pot
Seventy trusts allocated £56m between them out of £100m funding for A&E Winners include Salford Royal and smaller trusts like The Princess Alexandra Seventy hospitals have been allocated a share of a £56m tranche from the £100m of capital funding ringfenced in the budget for accident and emergency ...
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NewsHunt rows back plans for extending investigation 'safe space'
HSIB will operate safe space principles ahead of new legislation to protect material Local NHS organisations will not be granted safe space powers Jeremy Hunt says extending safe space locally would be “premature” The Department of Health will not extend plans for a legal safe space during safety ...
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NewsNHS warned not to ignore needs of 'generation Y' workforce
Pay review body warns policymakers not to ignore demands of “generation Y” doctors Call follows last year’s damaging junior doctors contract dispute People born between 1980 and 2000 will make up half the global workforce by 2020 A failure by NHS policymakers to respond to demands of a ...
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NewsHunt's special adviser hired as delivery director at troubled trust
Jeremy Hunt’s special adviser joins troubled trust as executive director Chair wants to put the trust “on a secure financial footing” Trust also apppoints new acting chief financial officer One of Jeremy Hunt’s special advisers has been appointed as an executive director at a struggling London trust.
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NewsNew safety checks for trust workforce plans in development
Nursing directors to develop new tools and safeguards around workforce reforms NHS Improvement wants to ensure trusts follow proper governance processes Two nursing directors have been asked by NHS Improvement to lead work developing new safeguards to protect care quality when trusts make significant changes to their workforce.
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NewsTop cardiac surgeon set to leave under-threat children’s heart unit
Clinical lead for paediatric cardiac surgery set to leave hospital trust Trust already faces closure of its congenital heart disease services Trust says it will still have necessary surgical cover A trust whose children’s heart unit faces closure looks set to lose its clinical lead for paediatric cardiac ...
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NewsIR35 tax rules will not be applied to locums retrospectively
HMRC and NHS Improvement say there will be no retrospective action following IR35 tax changes Locums say they are being taxed without receiving employment rights NHS Improvement asks trusts to complete operational pressure situation reports Locum doctors and temporary NHS staff hit by new tax rules will not ...
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NewsSuccessor to Mike Richards expected to be chosen in June
The Care Quality Commission will likely agree a successor to Sir Mike Richards in early June, a “confidential” document seen by HSJ reveals.