All articles by Nick Renaud-Komiya – Page 14
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NHS England delays access to NICE approved drug
Patients will be put at risk of developing cancer after NHS England was granted permission to delay access to a groundbreaking cure for hepatitis C, patient groups have warned.
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Cancer drugs fund will need to cut more treatments, chair warns
Treatments available through the cancer drugs fund will have to continue being cut, the NHS England official in charge of the fund has said.
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Tribunal to hear Great Western staff racial discrimination claims
WORKFORCE: Hospitality staff at Great Western Hospital in Swindon will be able to pursue claims of racial discrimination and harassment following a ruling by an employment tribunal.
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Cancer drugs fund receives surprise £60m boost
NHS England has announced a surprise £60m boost to the cancer drugs fund, bringing it up to £340m for 2015-16, even as it slashes the number of drugs available.
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CCG to extend community provider contract
COMMERCIAL: Bath and North East Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group is to extend the contract of its community services provider by a year, with it now ending in March 2017.
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Uncertainty for dermatology patients as acute service faces axe
Concerns have been raised about ongoing uncertainty over arrangements for emergency dermatology patients at a major teaching hospital, just a month before the service is set to be axed.
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Cardiology to be merged across Northamptonshire hospitals
STRUCTURE: Cardiology services are set to be merged across Northamptonshire’s two major acute hospital trusts, commissioners have said.
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National bodies pledge to root out 'misaligned' annual plans
National bodies have pledged to work ‘closely’ together to identify plans based on misaligned or unrealistic assumptions between providers and commissioners.
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CCGs launch one-year community services tender
COMMERCIAL: A pair of clinical commissioning groups in the east of England have decided to retender their community services for only one year.
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Updated: NHS England to fund 'significant volume' of private sector care
NHS England has agreed to commission a ‘significant range and volume’ of planned care from private hospitals over the coming months, following the failure of a national push to clear NHS waiting list backlogs
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Exclusive: Service hit by staff 'exodus' after CCG transfers contract to Circle
One of the biggest teaching trusts in England has been forced to axe its once renowned acute dermatology service following an “exodus” of medical consultants following the transfer of their contract to private provider Circle.
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Monitor costing regime promises to 'reduce burden' on trusts
Providers of NHS services are to simplify the way they submit patient level reference cost data to national bodies, under proposals from the regulator Monitor designed to improve comparisons between providers.
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Exclusive: Agency pay variations revealed
Hospitals across the North West paid the highest rates for locum medical staff, an analysis of expenditure on temporary staff in 2013-14 has indicated.
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Avoid financial ‘arms race’, warns watchdog boss
Providers and commissioners should end the escalating “arms race” that threatens the sustainability of their health systems, the NHS Trust Development Authority finance director has warned
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North Bristol sees further emergency performance dip
PERFORMANCE: North Bristol Trust has seen its performance against the four hour accident and emergency standard dip to 80.7 per cent last month.
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Cornwall trust appoints Bill Shields as interim chief
WORKFORCE: Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust has appointed Bill Shields as its interim chief executive.
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Wiltshire CCG uses £4.3m winter pressure cash for service redesign
FINANCE: Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group is to use the £4.3m it has been allocated from the government’s winter pressures funding to support service redesign schemes to halt unnecessary hospital admissions.
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Solent blames agency costs for unplanned deficit
FINANCE: A community and mental health provider has blamed increased agency spending and difficulties delivering its cost improvement plan for a £7.1m unplanned deficit halfway through the financial year.
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Dorrell to leave parliament
Former health secretary Stephen Dorrell has announced that he will not be standing as an MP at the next election. Instead he will be joining consultant KPMG.
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Isle of Wight Trust signs estates partnership
COMMERCIAL: Isle of Wight Trust has established a ‘strategic estates partnership’ with a private company to help modernise its site in line with a recently developed clinical strategy.