All articles by Nick Renaud-Komiya – Page 17
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CCG leader steps down
WORKFORCE: The managing director of South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group has stepped down from his role, it has emerged.
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Cut to councils' public health budgets
Local authorities’ core public health funding will be cut in real terms in 2015-16, it has been announced
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CCG considers flexing 'running cost' rules
FINANCE: A clinical commissioning group may redesignate the cost of clinicians’ involvement in service redesign as a ‘programme’ cost to help retain capacity while staying within its running allowance.
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Payment reforms would be a ‘disaster’, warns A&E leader
Proposals by NHS England and Monitor for reform of the urgent and emergency care payment system would be a ‘disaster’ for emergency departments, the president of the College of Emergency Medicine has said
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Cornwall summit to discuss tripartite merger proposal
STRUCTURE: The chief executive of a south west trust hoping to merge with a social enterprise and mental health provider in the region is due to meet the heads of the proposed merger partners next month.
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Mutuals ‘central’ to solving NHS challenges, say ministers
Mutual models of ownership in the provision of NHS services will play a ‘central’ role in overcoming the challenges facing the health service, ministers have said.
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Ambulance service loses 42,000 patient records
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Regulators are investigating whether data protection laws have been breached after an ambulance trust admitted losing 42,000 patients’ confidential records.
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Senior South Devon trust manager resigns
WORKFORCE: A senior manager at South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust has resigned, months after its chief executive stepped down.
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Success of hospital cash incentive scheme tails off
A project that aimed to reduce death rates in hospitals using financial incentives has seen its initial period of success tail off, research reveals.
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Exclusive: Hospital trust sector deficit could breach £750m this year
The NHS acute sector is expecting to record a net deficit in excess of £750m for the current financial year, exclusive HSJ research shows.
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Better care on track despite tough climate, new chief claims
The government’s ambitious plan to integrate health and social care is on track to go live next April despite the ‘tough’ financial climate, the health chief overseeing the project has said
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Monitor’s pricing tariff independence under scrutiny
The Foundation Trust Network has urged Monitor to stay independent when setting the national pricing tariff, despite pressures on the NHS budget.
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Acute trust takes on sexual health services
COMMERCIAL: Salisbury Foundation Trust has won a contract to provide sexual health services across southern Wiltshire.
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Lincolnshire mental health trust cuts jobs
WORKFORCE: A mental health trust’s plans to reconfigure its social care services will lead to job losses from its 240-strong independent living team, the trust has confirmed.
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Minority of patients are offered choice of provider, say Monitor and NHS England
Less than 40 per cent of patients are offered a choice of provider when referred by their GP for an outpatient appointment, according to a survey report published today by NHS England and Monitor.
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Patients warned over telehealth scammers
COMMERCIAL: A community services provider has warned local patients using NHS-funded telehealth services to be vigilant after fraudsters tricked a patient into paying for the service by posing as a telehealth company.
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Community trust joins FT pipeline
STRUCTURE: An NHS community trust set up in the wake of a High Court battle has been accepted onto the foundation trust pipeline.
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Social enterprise explores ‘merger’ with NHS trust
STRUCTURE: A social enterprise established to provide community services in Cornwall could be taken back into the NHS after experiencing financial difficulties.
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CQC praises mental health trust
PERFORMANCE: Inspectors have praised the care provided by Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust, desrcibing it as “responsive and effective”.
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Former trust finance chief jailed for £2.2m fraud
A former head of financial accounting at two NHS bodies in East Sussex has been sentenced to five years and four months in prison after being found guilty of defrauding the health service out of £2.2m.