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NewsCCG warns of large financial gap
A large clinical commissioning group has admitted it will miss its financial plan by around £13m, due to higher than expected spending on continuing healthcare costs.
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Official figures ‘deceptive’ on intensive care pressures, doctors warn
Intensive care units are under far greater pressure than is reflected by NHS England’s official data with many trusts already recording 100 per cent bed occupancy, specialty leaders have warned.
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HSJ’s 10 most read mental health stories of 2019
As we get ready to say goodbye to 2019, HSJ takes a look back at the 10 most read mental health stories of the year.
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Special measures trust at risk of losing trainees
A special measures trust is at risk of losing its trainee doctors in acute medical services in January due to gaps in its workforce.
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Former NHS Providers chair to lead ICS
Outgoing NHS Providers chair Dame Gill Morgan has been appointed independent chair of a south western integrated care system.
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Regulators plan smoking ban across all NHS sites
National regulators are planning to effect a ban on smoking across all NHS grounds and premises from April next year.
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Trust told to do harm reviews after patients drop off waiting list
A trust has been told to carry out harm reviews on 74 patients who disappeared from a waiting list after they could not be found an appointment slot.
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Stronger rules on rehiring managers after redundancy payments
NHS England is planning to strengthen rules around senior managers who are rehired after receiving a redundancy payment for leaving the service.
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Finance director makes swift U-turn to stay at troubled trust
The finance director who opted to quit his hospital trust to ”be held to account” has now decided not to resign after all.
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‘Concern’ over Cornish patients’ long journeys for cardiology treatment
A commissioner’s elective lead has raised concerns about the distance cardiology patients face travelling for treatment.
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Daily Insight: What Boris’ government planned next
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Former council leader to chair South West health system
A new independent chair has been appointed to the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire health and care system.
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Exclusive: Trial A&E target ‘driving completely the wrong behaviours’
A new accident and emergency target which could be introduced early next year is “driving completely the wrong behaviours”, senior clinicians have told HSJ.
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NHSE and DHSC warned over lack of beds at leading FT
A 14-day delay to surgery, caused by a lack of beds at a London teaching hospital, contributed to the death of a pensioner, a coroner has found.
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Trusts told to create ‘dedicated A&E space’ for mental health patients
Every emergency department in London has been advised to create “dedicated space” to care for three mental health patients, due to concerns over long waiting times for people in crisis.
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CQC lifts conditions on hospital after refurbishment work
Conditions imposed on a teaching hospital’s operating theatres because of major infection risks have been lifted following refurbishment work.
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NHS England: More centralisation needed to cut neonatal deaths
NHS England has indicated there will be avoidable deaths of young babies without further centralisation of neonatal intensive care units, which it funds and oversees, so they can have ”better staffing”.
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Tech investment to shift from ‘leading trusts’ to laggards, Hancock signals
Matt Hancock has announced a new “digital aspirant” programme, to invest in technology in “many more hospitals”, as opposed to “just the leading trusts” which have been the focus in recent years.
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STP’s seven CCGs to become three
The seven clinical commissioning groups in a sustainability and transformation partnership are to merge into three, despite initial reluctance from some local GPs.
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Exclusive: Staff assaults and killings spark investigation of 20 providers
Safety inspections have been carried out at 20 health and care providers, in response to a high level of assaults, including three staff killed by patients in the last five years.
