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NewsIn full: government responds to NHS Future Forum
The government has responded to the NHS Future Forum, confirming agreed changes to its overhaul of the service.
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NewsAssisted suicide documentary defended by Pratchett
Sir Terry Pratchett has defended his documentary about assisted suicide, which showed the moment a millionaire hotelier with motor neurone disease took a lethal dose of barbiturates to end his life.
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NewsFewer young blood donors prompts 'generation gap' fears
Fears are growing of an “alarming generation gap” in blood donors after figures showed a 20 per cent drop in the number of young blood donors over the last decade.
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HSJ Local
Specialised services spending risk at South West Essex
FINANCE: South West Essex PCT is at risk of not meeting its savings target for “volatile” specialised services spending, it has warned.
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HSJ Local
Consortium lead elected for Brighton and Hove
WORKFORCE: A local GP has been elected to lead Brighton and Hove Transitional Consortium.
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HSJ Local
Independent review into Norfolk PMS provider
PERFORMANCE: An independent review has been announced into a provider of primary medical services in Norfolk.
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NewsPatients 'being coded as palliative to cut death rates', inquiry told
Patients with diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis are being coded under palliative care to reduce death rates, a leading expert has told the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to manage conflicts of interest in GP commissioning
As commissioning responsibilities will almost certainly leave GPs straddling a conflict of interests, the government needs to quickly establish mechanisms to regulate such conflicts, writes TPP Law senior solicitor Owen Willcox.
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NewsGovernment scraps 'pipeline' deadline to become a foundation trust
The government has ducked a self-imposed deadline for creating an all-foundation trust provider sector, and scrapped its proposals for safeguarding specific services.
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NewsBeefed up health and wellbeing boards extend council powers
Councils have been handed greater influence over healthcare commissioning following the government’s decision to bolster the power of health and wellbeing boards.
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NewsFuture Forum: government should stop 'slagging off' managers
The government should stop “slagging off” managers and urgently establish the NHS Commissioning Board to give them more certainty, the NHS Future Forum has said.
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NewsExclusive: ministers set to overrule Future Forum
A new coalition agreement on NHS reform will put the Competition and Co-operation Panel on a statutory footing, leaving Monitor with a duty to “protect and promote patients’ interests”, HSJ understands.
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HSJ Local
'Room for improvement' in Stockport FT cancer waiting times
PERFORMANCE: NHS Stockport has identified “scope for further improvement” in Stockport Foundation Trust’s performance against 62 day referral-to-treatment targets for cancer patients.
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Quality premiums and Any Qualified Provider supported by Future Forum
Quality premiums for commissioning consortia and the “any qualified provider” policy both escaped censure or proposed modification in the Future Forum’s report.
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NewsConsortia should have governing bodies, says Future Forum
The Health Bill should be amended to require commissioning consortia to have “a governing body that meets in public”, the NHS Future Forum has said.
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Nuffield Trust responds to Future Forum report
The NHS Future Forum is right to highlight primacy of the efficiency challenge, according to the Nuffield Trust.
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NewsFuture Forum proposes to hand competition powers to Nicholson's commissioning board
The NHS commissioning board should be handed the power to set the rules for competition in the health service, the expert panel set up to examine the government’s health reforms has recommended.
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Blogs
Is enthusiasm the key skill to look for in public sector recruitment?
Surely departing from tradition and qualifications and embracing enthusiasm will make for a more successful public sector.
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NewsCouncils poised to scale back consortia freedoms
Councils will eat into the freedoms commissioning consortia expected to gain if the recommendations of the patient involvement and public accountability group are implemented.
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Future Forum report: NHS Confederation response
NHS Confederation chief executive Mike Farrar said today: “This report makes big strides in the right direction and has a real chance of getting NHS reform on the right path.