All Policy articles – Page 103
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NewsNHS England chief defines 'multispecialty community providers'
The NHS England chief executive has set out nine requirements that define a ‘multispecialty community provider’, one of the key care models in his vision for the future of the NHS.
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News'Success regime' will direct struggling areas to new models, Stevens reveals
National officials will create a ‘success regime’ in which struggling areas are directed to move quickly into the new care models proposed in the NHS Five Year Forward View, Simon Stevens has revealed, while warning local leaders against attempts to ‘re-spray’ their existing plans.
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CommentThe better care fund needs to be stripped of bureaucracy
Better care fund needs a bureaucratic enema
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NewsCommissioners brace for key ruling on patient data access
Southend Clinical Commissioning Group has made a crucial submission to the Confidentiality Advisory Group which NHS England hopes will help overcome a major barrier to integrating health and social care.
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NewsSimon Stevens to give first HSJ annual lecture
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens will reveal his latest thinking on the future of the service in next week’s inaugural HSJ annual lecture.
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NewsAcademic health science networks bid for greater strategic role
The most advanced academic health science networks should play a greater strategic role in service reconfigurations, leading AHSN figures have said.
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CommentNational tariff must balance risk between national and local commissioners
Harder to work together
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NewsHunt: I want five years as health secretary
Jeremy Hunt has asked the prime minister to keep him in the health secretary post until 2017, claiming he ‘would be very happy if this is my life’s work’
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LeaderHunt takes a high risk approach to restoring hope to the service
Health secretary will not be a ‘cheerleader’
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NewsConcern over CCG dialysis transfer
The health secretary has come under fire from charities and MPs for agreeing to transfer the responsibility for renal dialysis commissioning from NHS England to clinical commissioning groups
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NewsAspirant FTs could have option to become a mutual
NHS trusts could in future choose between becoming a foundation trust or an independent mutually owned company as the provider sector becomes increasingly ‘fluid and uncertain’, HSJ has been told.
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NewsExclusive: Tariff delayed amid wrangling over extra NHS funds
Publication of the 2015-16 ‘tariff’ prices for NHS services has been held back amid high level political discussions about the possibility of securing extra funding for health in the autumn statement, HSJ understands.
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NewsNew NHS England partnership with pharma to speed up drug access
Government plans for closer working between the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry will make the new generation of precision medicines more affordable for the NHS, the minister for life sciences has said.
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CommentClose the loophole on therapists and counsellors
Seeking better regulation for psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and counsellors
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NewsMonitor chief supports 'significant' investment in mental health
David Bennett has called for a ‘significant reallocation of resources’ towards mental health to put it on an equal footing with physical health
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NewsBurnham: FT model reinforces hospital domination
The foundation trust model must be updated to prevent a hospital centred approach which could “perpetuates silos”, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has said.