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Daily Insight: Propping up the providers
Your essential summary of the day’s biggest health stories
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Latest safe staffing guidance unveiled
Mental health providers told to carry out evidence based strategic staffing reviews New guidance follows suspension of NICE safe staffing work in 2015 Document says professional judgement alone cannot be relied on to set staffing levels Mental health trusts must carry out evidence based reviews of staffing levels ...
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Community providers face new staffing requirements
Community service providers need better tools to meet safe staffing levels District nursing providers should review staffing annually and benchmark their services, NHSI says Report is the latest safe staffing guidance to be published by the regulator Providers of district nursing services lack the tools to plan staffing ...
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RCN to separate union and professional roles
RCN to set up two committees to separately lead on professional nursing and trade union issues Reforms follow recommendations in the Francis report that RCN separate its dual roles All members will be able to stand for election to the committees and be eligible to vote. The Royal ...
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Naylor review: Minister reveals plan for new NHS property body
Department of Health has accepted Sir Robert Naylor’s recommendation New body will provide strategic estate planning for the NHS Plans were revealed in a Parliamentary answer from Lord O’Shaugnessy The government is planning to establish a new national body to provide “strategic estate planning” for the health service.
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Pay crackdown: Trust chiefs to sign off all agency shifts above £120
NHS Improvement says annual pay costs to increase by 3.3 per cent in 2016-17 But real terms reduction in costs against activity suggests productivity gains Trust chief executives must sign off agency shifts of £120 per hour or more Hospital chief executives are now expected to personally sign ...
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NICE goes ahead with controversial drug affordability test
NICE approves plans to defer treatment implementation if the cost per year is higher than £20m in any of the first three years of implemention Consultation responses warn that this could lead to treatment access “inequity” especially for those with rare diseases New “light touch” fast-track appraisal method also ...
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Revealed: Only three trusts hit 'reset' A&E targets
Just three hospital trusts have hit their lowered targets for accident and emergency performance, the latest data reveals.
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Daily Insight: Commissioning pioneers and budget blunders
HSJ’s round up of Wednesday’s must read stories
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Interim managers demand higher rates to offset tax losses
NHS Improvement says trusts have been asked to pay higher rates to agency workers to “offset their tax losses” Under new rules, agency workers must pay the same level of tax as substantive employees Changes will affect interim senior managers, locum doctors and other agency staff who set up ...
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Pioneering trust and GP tie-up to bid for new care model contract
Northampton Healthcare FT creates new organisation with 3Sixty Care GP federation New partnership will bid and deliver contracts together and is “keen” to secure a local MCP contract once released The organisations have an “equal” share in the new company with three board directors each A Midlands trust ...
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New London devolution deal postponed
A planned announcement on devolution in London, which was due tomorrow and expected to involve devolving health powers, has been halted less than a week after the “deal” was revealed in the budget.
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New immigration charges could cost NHS millions
Immigration and skills charge could cost NHS millions of pounds from April NHS England chief nurse Jane Cummings says EU staff must be supported Government has overturned protections for EU staff ahead of Brexit talks NHS England’s chief nurse has called on the NHS to support European nursing ...
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Exclusive: Warning over 'neglected' elderly mental health services
New royal college president elect vows to address neglected mental health services for older people Wendy Burn takes over as president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in June The president elect of the Royal College of Psychiatrists has warned mental health services for older people are being ...
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CQC risk monitoring 'wrong more than right', study warns
Research finds the CQC’s risk monitoring could leave poor care undetected The CQC’s tool failed to identify more than half of inadequate trusts Analysis found the tool had an accuracy rate of 48 per cent The Care Quality Commission’s new system for identifying high risk NHS trusts could ...
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Virgin Care starts legal proceedings against NHS
Virgin Care issues legal proceedings after losing £82m, three year contract to provide children’s services Virgin spokesman complains of “serious flaws in the procurement process” Commissioners say they they “have confidence in the process” A private provider has launched legal proceedings against eight NHS commissioners after losing a ...
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Councils must agree targets for rapid help to hospitals, say NHS Providers
NHS Providers has urged councils and NHS leaders to agree targets for short term reductions in hospital bed days, after the announcement of £1.2bn extra in social care funding for 2017-18.
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