News – Page 890
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NewsBiggest health and social care link-up set to win approval
Plans for the biggest joint health and social care provider in England to date are being considered by the Department of Health, HSJ understands.
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News£200m boost for NHS compensation fund
Nearly £200 million has been pumped into a pot for NHS compensation payouts, the Department of Health said.
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NewsLeadership and staff engagement 'critical' to hospital savings challenge - study
Effective leadership and staff engagement will be “critical” if hospitals are to achieve the lion’s share of the £20bn NHS savings goal by 2015, a new Nuffield Trust study has found.
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NewsNursing regulator chief executive resigns
The chief executive of the Nursing and Midwifery Council Dickon Weir-Hughes has resigned from his post with immediate effect.
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NewsRCN chief: NHS facing 'toughest year'
The Royal College of Nursing’s chief executive and general secretary has warned the NHS faces its “toughest year”, with specialist nurses losing their jobs and vulnerable patients “in the firing line”.
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NewsAmazon-style site launched in response to NHS's purchasing woes
A new Amazon.com-style price comparison website for NHS supplies will be launched today in a bid to capitalise on the service’s need to drive down its spending on procurement.
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NewsLansley outlines further 'steps' to address breast implants concerns
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has set out a “series of steps” in response to continued concerns over the safety risks posed by French Poly Implant Prostheses (PiP) breast implants.
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NewsCameron demands improvements to frontline nursing 'red tape'
The prime minister has announced a series of moves to improve care standards and free nurses of “non-essential paperwork and excessive bureaucracy”.
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NewsExclusive: only half of CCGs will be ready - GP commissioning champion
Only half of clinical commissioning groups will be given full permission to take on budgets by April 2013 – creating a two-tier NHS – one of the most senior leaders of the movement has predicted.
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NewsCriticism as under pressure CQC reveals 14 per cent underspend
The Care Quality Commission is set to underspend its 2011-12 budget by 14 per cent, the troubled regulator has revealed to HSJ.
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NewsTraining boards must 'resolve' financial conflicts of interest
NHS organisations charged with both allocating and spending the NHS’s £5bn education budget will be “mostly” trusted to manage any “competing interests” themselves.
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NewsPatient reported outcome measures methodology queried by 'negative outlier'
A specialist orthopaedic hospital is reviewing the methodology used for patient reported outcome measures after it was identified as a possible “negative outlier” by the Department of Health.
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NewsLansley vows to enforce drugs access rules
Legislation meant to end the variable access to drugs in NHS hospitals will be enforced, the health secretary has told the Commons.
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NewsDH advertises for future leader of Public Health England
The Department of Health has begun advertising for a chief executive designate for its new executive agency Public Health England.
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NewsHospitals spending less than £3 on patient meals
NHS hospitals are spending as little as £2.57 to feed and water patients each day - or 86 pence a meal, new figures reveal today.
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NewsFuture Forum: all commissioners should consider NHS and social care shared budgets
Commissioners should be able to override current payment rules and share budgets with local authorities in order to accelerate service integration, according to the NHS Future Forum.
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NewsTrusts rewarded with 'quality premium' under Future Forum plan
Trusts’ budgets will be top-sliced to fund a “quality premium” for organisations providing high quality training for NHS staff, under a proposal in a government-commissioned report.
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NewsNHS stuck in 'information dark ages', says Future Forum
The NHS needs a culture change to drag itself out of the “information dark ages” and avoid reputational damage, the NHS Future Forum has said.
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News'Warm words' insufficient to drive integration, ministers warned
One of the leading proponents of integrated care has called for the government to go further than its “warm words” made in response to the NHS Future Forum.