All Sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) articles – Page 30
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Exclusive: Former health secretary 'excited' to bring India lessons to NHS
Former health secretary Patricia Hewitt has pledged to use her experience of working with the Indian healthcare system to help develop the Norfolk and Waveney STP.
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HSJ Local
CCGs abandon £535m flagship prime provider contract
A tender worth half a billion pounds for end of life care services in Staffordshire has been abandoned due to the development of the area’s STP and difficulties, satisfying the new national scrutiny process, HSJ has learned.
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Comment
The NHS's relationships with unions will be tested to the limit
Reaching new agreements with trade unions is a distraction from the important discussions the NHS needs to have with staff about service change, recrutiment and efficiency, writes Dean Royles
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Lagging STPs are still in line for capital funds, says Swindells
STPs rated in the bottom two categories today are still in need of, and in contention for, additional capital funding in coming years, Matthew Swindells has said.
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Revealed: First ratings of all 44 STPs
STPs have been publicly rated for the first time, with five labelled outstanding and five placed in the lowest category of “needs most improvement”.
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Comment
Joining up the procurement of goods with the commissioning of services
A lack of synergy between the procurement of goods with the commissioning of services creates inefficiencies in the system but an integrated approach could resolve these issues, writes Alan Turrell
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HSJ Local
Largest CCG faces £178m deficit by end of the year
A clinical commissioning group that is under legal directions is set to add £57m to its spiralling cumulative deficit in 2017-18.
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Comment
Why strategic estates partnerships are a big thing
Trusts will increasingly turn to SEPs as they can help tighten purse strings and also evolve standards of care, writes Richard Coe
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Revealed: 'Strongest' STPs share £325m of new investment
National leaders have announced which health economies will receive a share of the £325m of extra capital funding that was pledged to the NHS in the spring budget.
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Former trust chief to chair STP 'undergoing refresh'
Sir Ron Kerr has been appointed as independent chair of troubled South West sustainability and transformation partnership.
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HSJ Local
Commissioners tell STP they 'remain sovereign'
Commissioners in north east London have told STP leaders they must remain sovereign organisations in wake of a new partnership agreement in the patch.
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First accountable care system managing director revealed
An NHS England director has been appointed to the first managing director post of an “accountable care system”.
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Exclusive: Treasury must provide transformation funding, insists Simon Stevens
The government will have to provide nearly all the capital funding for service transformation in the next year or two because raising it from land sales and the private sector will take several years, Simon Stevens has said.
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HSJ Local
CCG and council to merge commissioning budgets
A clinical commissioning group and local council have agreed to merge health commissioning budgets so the cash strapped organisations can spend their funds “most effectively”.
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STP dilutes plan to centralise elective work
An STP in the capital has dropped plans to centralise elective orthopaedic work at two sites.
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Comment
Can STPs deliver?
Rebecca Malby on how STPs are struggling to secure effective ways of solving the very complex problems the NHS faces
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Exclusive: Accountable care systems will make 'pathway' for STPs to follow
The first NHS “accountable care systems” must develop a “pathway” for STPs in other areas to follow, according to their agreement with NHS England, seen by HSJ.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: The abolition and reinvention of planning
Cowper’s Cut is a new weekly column from HSJ’s comment editor Andy Cowper. It will be published every Monday and seeks to serve as an informative and entertaining stimulant for HSJ’s subscribers at the start of the working week.
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Comment
When it comes to financing our own future, we need to focus on the revenue
The Local Government Finance Bill may have failed to feature in the slimmed down Queen’s speech but it could still have lasting implications for the NHS, avers Michael Wood
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HSJ Local
Acute chief executive to lead neighbouring mental health trust
The leader of an acute hospital trust been appointed the interim chief executive of the neighbouring mental health and community trust.