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NewsFoundation model faces 'challenges' - Monitor chief
The foundation trust model could come under question as the NHS faces up to the “absolutely huge” financial challenge, David Bennett has said.
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HSJ Local
Northern Lincolnshire bodies create elderly care team
Health and social care bodies across Northern Lincolnshire have used a £1.3m tranche of their Better Care Fund money to create a multi-disciplinary team to focus on care for frail elderly patients.
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NewsNHS England announces specialised treatment decisions
NHS England has announced it will begin funding a range of new specialised treatments and drugs, following a consultation process.
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NewsExclusive: Cornwall set for NHS integration-devolution deal
A devolution deal for Cornwall, including greater integration and control over health and care spending, is expected to be announced by the chancellor next week, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Barbara Hakin to retire
NHS England national commissioning operations director Dame Barbara Hakin is to retire by the end of the year.
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NewsConcerns NHS England safe staffing guide for mental health 'lacks rigour'
Experts have criticised NHS England’s latest safe staffing guidance on mental health inpatient care, raising concerns that the model used ‘lacks rigour’.
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NewsToday is your last chance to enter the HSJ Awards
The entry deadline for the HSJ Awards 2015 is this Friday, 3 July.
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NewsBennett: FTs must cut deficit or face 'completely eroded' freedoms
Exclusive: Monitor’s chief executive will today warn that foundation trusts could see their freedoms ‘completely eroded’ if they do not do better to reduce a sector-wide deficit projected to reach £1bn in 2015-16.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Social enterprise to pull out of Cornish community services
COMMERCIAL: A social enterprise which provides community services across Cornwall and oversees the county’s 14 community hospitals has said that it will not seek an extension to its current contract, which ends in March 2016.
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HSJ LocalReport: Bullying and 'blame culture' prevalent across ambulance trust
WORKFORCE: Bullying is prevalent across the London Ambulance Service and the trust has a ‘blame culture’ in which bullies are perceived to have been rewarded, an independent review has found.
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HSJ LocalFallout from Nottingham dermatology collapse hits nearby trust
PERFORMANCE: The high profile collapse of dermatology services at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust is now having a knock-on effect on the services at a neighbouring trust, board papers indicate.
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NewsExclusive: Weak bargaining position blew Mid Staffs administrators' budget, says Monitor
The ‘failure regime’ for Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust overran its budget because the trust’s ‘special administrators’ had a weak negotiating position relative to neighbouring NHS organisations, a Monitor review has found.
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NewsStevens sets out NHS devolution 'tests'
Councils hoping to gain Greater Manchester style devolved powers over health and social care must convince NHS England that the benefits of the move would go beyond integration of the two services, the body’s chief executive has said.
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HSJ LocalStaff petition for chief executive to remain in post
WORKFORCE: More than 300 staff at East of England Ambulance Service have signed a petition to the health secretary calling for its departing chief executive to remain in his position.
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HSJ LocalTrust must remain in special measures, says regulator
PERFORMANCE: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust should remain in special measures, the Care Quality Commission has recommended.
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NewsFrustration over delay to specialised access policy
A process for deciding which new specialist treatments NHS England will fund will not be developed until the end of the year at the earliest, it has emerged.
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NewsExclusive: National director says NHS 'can’t afford' new drugs
The NHS will not be able to afford many new drugs and treatments in the next few years because it is prioritising out of hospital care, a senior NHS England director has warned.