All Strategic health authorities (SHAs) articles – Page 4
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News
SHA clustering arrangements announced
Clustering arrangements for strategic health authorities will see the country divided into the South, the Midlands, London and the North, it has been announced.
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Comment
Progress in the community: how TCS has helped community providers
With the Transforming Community Services transfers largely complete, attention turns to realising the benefits this sector of the NHS can now bring. Dr Kate Fallon looks at the progress that has been made.
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Exclusive: Lansley says hospitals exempt from 'over-managed' claim
Andrew Lansley has used an exclusive HSJ interview to exempt the acute sector from his criticism that the NHS is over-managed.
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DH to review FT application process to avoid 'embarrassment'
The Department of Health is overhauling the process for checking whether a trust is ready to apply for foundation status to avoid “embarrassing” the health secretary, HSJ has discovered.
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In-house consultancy saves NHS £2.5m
The NHS’s in-house consultancy service says it saved trusts an estimated £2.5m in consultancy fees in 2010-11.
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Comment
North divide to be united under NCB plans
NHS North East and North West are to be united – along with NHS Yorkshire and the Humber – HSJ understands.
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HSJ Local
Seventeen South East Coast provider contracts signed off late
COMMERCIAL: A total of 17 providers in the South East Coast strategic health authority area did not have their 2011-12 provider/commissioner contracts signed off at the beginning of the year.
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Comment
Sally Gainsbury: sitting duck surpluses
When the going gets tough, the tough hide their surpluses from the grasping claws of the strategic health authority.
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News
DH denies FT momentum will be lost
The Department of Health has denied that the impetus behind achieving foundation trust status for all trusts would evaporate after the dropping of the 2014 deadline.
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News
Nicholson: PCT clusters to survive as arms of Commissioning Board
Primary care trust clusters will effectively survive to commission GP services and oversee new clinical commissioning groups from April 2013, it was confirmed this week.
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HSJ Local
South Central SHA wins fluoridation battle
South Central strategic health authority has won a lengthy battle with residents who opposed water fluoridation, adding that it will be “several months” before the chemical can be added to the local water supply.
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Nicholson to remain NHS chief executive until 2013 as reform timetable relaxes
Sir David Nicholson will remain NHS chief executive for the whole of 2012-13, as well as leading the NHS commissioning board in its initial stages, the Department of Health has revealed.
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Exclusive: Details of NHS regional tier plan
The NHS is set to form four regional bodies out of grouped strategic health authorities.
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Rare cancer drugs budget underspent by nearly half
Only 56 per cent of the money allocated for cancer drugs normally unavailable on the NHS was spent in the first six months of a high profile fund, a report has found.
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News
Coalition reform agreement sees deadlines extended and relaxed
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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HSJ Local
South Central QIPP plans to be reviewed for possible technology improvements
PERFORMANCE: South Central strategic health authority has said that efficiency and operating plans will be reviewed to identify areas that could benefit from the use of technology.
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HSJ Local
Bournemouth and Poole considers regional shared services
COMMERCIAL: NHS Bournemouth and Poole is set to enter a four year contract with NHS Shared Services for its finance accounting and payroll services.
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News
Exclusive: Future Forum to suggest 'pragmatic' solutions to deaneries crisis
The NHS Future Forum is due to recommend that interim measures are put in place quickly to prevent the quality of training from suffering as strategic health authorities wind down.
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News
Exclusive: SHAs may get further reprieve
The abolition of strategic health authorities could be deferred further – potentially until April 2013 – because of Health Bill delays, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Southampton PCT plans stroke bid for previously top-sliced funds
FINANCE: Southampton City primary care trust is planning to bid for £1.5m of additional funding from NHS South Central, to invest in stroke care services.