News – Page 727
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NewsField: Nurses central to primary care reform
Nurse training needs a “radical review” to meet the “urgent” need for professionals with the skills to care for patients with long term conditions, the new chief inspector of primary care has said.
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NewsCQC official accused of cover-up is cleared
One of the Care Quality Commission officials accused of covering up a report criticising the regular has been exonerated by an internal investigation.
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NewsMulti-year allocations could aid local contracting, Monitor review finds
Multi-year budget allocations could help commissioners develop local contracting more effectively, Monitor has said.
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News4 October 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, we feature Andy Burnham’s plans to repeal the Health Act if Labour are elected in 2015. Also in this week’s issue:Research suggests delayed ...
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NewsHSJ Live 04.10.2013 Delay to 'damp squib' value based pricing
Lansley’s flagship drug pricing scheme behind schedule, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham under pressure and the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsProviders hit with raised efficiency requirement
Providers will lose hundreds of millions of pounds in income under Monitor and NHS England plans to raise the efficiency assumptions that govern how much they are paid under tariff.
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NewsNearly half of acute hospital trusts predict deficit
The NHS hospital trust sector is predicting a deficit at the end of this financial year, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsExclusive: Delayed hospital discharge to blame for A&E pressure
Poor accident and emergency performance this year has not been caused by GP out of hours provision, increased attendances or a lack of doctors, exclusive analysis shared with HSJ shows.
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NewsChanges to emergency admissions tariff planned
The marginal tariff for hospital emergency care will be retained in 2014-15, but the policy will be modified.
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NewsNew effort to confront north-south divide
England’s public health body is preparing to “make noise” about the north-south divide in health outcomes.
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NewsGPs 'facing financial black hole'
GP services are facing a £400m financial “black hole” that could have catastrophic consequences, the Royal College of General Practitioners has warned.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England may outsource further functions to CSUs
NHS England is to carry out a fundamental review of its use of commissioning support units, which could see more of the national commissioning body’s back office functions being outsourced, HSJ has been told.
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NewsScotland to review NHS IT after Glasgow system failure
A review has been ordered of Scottish NHS IT systems after a failure forced a major health board to cancel hundreds of appointments.
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NewsHSJ Live: 3.10.13 Jeremy Hunt addresses RCGP
Secretary of state speaks to GPs’ annual conference in Harrogate.
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NewsAreas with worse life quality would be hit by allocation shake-up
Clinical commissioning groups in areas where people with long term conditions have a worse quality of life would lose funds under the revised allocation formula being considered by NHS England, analysis shows.
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NewsFurious row as ex-CQC chair angrily rebuts Hunt's speech claim
Full transcript of Baroness Young’s row with the health secretary
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NewsHealth secretary announces Bank of England-style independence for CQC
The Care Quality Commission will be given Bank of England-style statutory independence to prevent it facing political interference in the run up to the general election, the health secretary announced today.
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NewsHigh Court rules incompetent nurses cannot be struck off
Nurses and midwives cannot be struck off the register for incompetence under the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s current rules, it has emerged.
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NewsConservative Party conference - follow it live
Keep up with the HSJ news team, reporting from the 2013 Conservative Party conference in Manchester
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NewsDH paid additional £25m to Capita for Choices website
The Department of Health paid outsourcing giant Capita £108m to run the NHS Choices website, including £25m in additional charges, HSJ can reveal.