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Readers’ Letters – 21 June 2013
Specialised commissioning has been largely absent from NHS reform debate
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NewsNHS changes 'hindering hospices'
Hospices across England are being hindered and many face additional costs under new NHS structures, according to a hospice charity.
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NewsExclusive: Surgeons may not be able to block performance data publication, NHS England believes
NHS England has received legal advice which says surgeons cannot block publication of their performance data, HSJ has been told.
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Think tank seeks lifting of NHS ringfence
A think tank has called on the government to lift its “ringfence” on health spending.
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NewsDH sets aside £600m for 'rotten' Lorenzo ‘bribes’
The Department of Health has set aside £600m to pay up to 22 NHS trusts to procure a patient records system branded “completely useless” by a senior MP, it has emerged.
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NewsHunt heart unit statement expected imminently
Campaigners fighting to save a children’s heart unit are hoping health secretary Jeremy Hunt will reverse the decision today.
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NewsDoctors question hospital chief inspector’s independence
A new survey suggests that while hospital doctors have concerns about the introduction of a chief inspector of hospitals they are significantly less opposed to the reform than senior management.
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NewsThree waves of integration pioneers are predicted
There are likely to be another two waves of integration pilots, with a total of about 30 areas becoming integration “pioneers”, an NHS England official has revealed.
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NewsBurnham backs central planning
A centrally planned health service is “inherently” more efficient than a marketised one, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has told the NHS Confederation annual conference.
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NewsNicholson attacks criticism of GPs and 'tyranny' of politics
Outgoing NHS England chief executive Sir David Nicholson launched a sustained attack on the political debate around the health service in his farewell speech to the NHS Confederation.
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NewsBennett questions Nicholson strategy
Monitor chief executive David Bennett has said the scrapping of the purchaser-provider split envisaged by Sir David Nicholson may not be in NHS England’s power.
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NewsExclusive: Sir David Nicholson announces major review of NHS strategy
NHS England chief executive Sir David Nicholson has told HSJ it is time to question whether “the straightforward commissioner-provider split” is the best way to organise care for some communities.
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NewsExclusive: Many expect local hospital services to remain unchanged or increase
More than four in ten people believe their local hospital will retain or increase the services it provides over the next decade, while very few believe GPs should make decisions about closures, according to a survey.
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CommentMichael White: we're entitled to be sceptical of Labour's plans
A different version of austerity and the NHS after 2015
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NewsExclusive: Confed finds venture capitalists to fund innovation
The NHS Confederation is working with a venture capitalist firm to seek private backing for innovations in the NHS.
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News'Close hospitals' to save the NHS, say managers, doctors and patients
The NHS faces financial ruin and is no longer sustainable in its current form, a collective of leading medical, leadership and patient organisations has warned.
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NewsConservative policy group health questionnaire includes question on limiting GP visits
A questionnaire document distributed by the Conservative Policy Forum includes a question about limiting the number of times patients can visit their family doctor in a year.
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NewsForty-two trusts won't submit foundation applications by April 2014
Forty-two of the 101 NHS providers yet to become foundation trusts will either not do so in their present form, or will breach the current government’s previous authorisation deadline of April 2014.
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NewsMost leaders would leave if groups' budgets were given to councils, survey finds
Large numbers of clinical commissioning group leaders would leave their roles if the groups’ budgets were given to local authorities, as has been proposed by the shadow health secretary.