All Health Service Journal articles in 10 October 2014
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NewsNational officials call for 'rapid action' on failing waiting targets
The bosses of clinical commissioning groups and NHS providers have been told to raise their game to hit waiting time targets in a letter from NHS England, Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority.
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HSJ LocalCambridge University Hospitals in row over withheld payments
PERFORMANCE: Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust has clashed with commissioners over £1m withheld from the trust for failing to meet a target it believes it met.
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NewsExclusive poll: Public approval for government's NHS handling grows
The past three months have seen a strengthening of public approval for the government’s treatment of the NHS, an exclusive HSJ/FTI Consulting poll has found.
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NewsHSJ Live 01.10.2014: CCG appoints NHS-led consortium for £800m flagship contract
Commissioners have selected a consortium led by NHS providers as preferred bidder for a pioneering £800m contract to deliver older people’s services in Cambridgeshire, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsCCG appoints NHS-led consortium for £800m flagship contract
Commissioners have selected a consortium led by NHS providers as preferred bidder for a pioneering £800m contract for older people’s services in Cambridgeshire.
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HSJ LocalFormer SHA boss appointed as foundation trust chair
WORKFORCE: Aintree University Hospital Foundation Trust has appointed a former strategic health authority chief executive as its new chair.
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NewsHSJ Live 02.10.2014: Hunt commissions independent study into GP capacity
The health secretary has commissioned Health Education England to conduct an examination of GP capacity, after admitting current assessments involved guesswork, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsNICE tenders for safe staffing guidelines support
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is tendering for a team of outside advisers to provide economic modelling to help it draw up safe staffing guidelines.
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HSJ LocalHealthier Together deadline extended
STRUCTURE: Residents and organisations in Greater Manchester have been given more time to respond to a consultation on reorganising acute services across the region.
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NewsHunt commissions independent study into GP capacity
The health secretary has commissioned Health Education England to conduct an area by area examination of general practice capacity
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NewsExclusive: Hinchingbrooke threatened with enforcement action by CQC
The Care Quality Commission warned Britain’s only privately run NHS hospital that it could take enforcement action after its inspectors raised serious concerns about care quality, management and culture.
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HSJ LocalCCG approves severe restrictions to IVF services
FINANCE: Mid Essex Clinical Commissioning Group has approved plans to severely restrict access to specialist fertility services.
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CommentWho pays when it goes wrong? The uncertainty of private providers in the NHS
Confusion over negligence
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NewsHSJ Live 03.10.2014: Simon Stevens' hostile reception at GP conference
GPs have reacted angrily to the NHS England chief’s speech to Royal College conference, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsStevens: Hospitals should open GP surgeries
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has proposed that some hospitals should be allowed to open their own GP surgeries.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England could curb access to NICE approved drug
Patients could be denied access to a groundbreaking drug that cures Hepatitis C because the NHS cannot afford it, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHS England changes will 'give CCGs freedom'
Job cuts and reorganisation at NHS England will free CCGs to become local leaders, an internal document setting out the commissioning body’s planned reform has said
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NewsLib Dems lobby for more money for 2015-16 amid cash crisis fears
The Liberal Democrats are calling for the 2015-16 funding settlement for the NHS to be “in effect reopened” amid fears that an imminent cash crisis could lead to declining access to services and redundancies
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HSJ KnowledgeKeep up with change: The trusts transforming the outpatient pathway
How six trusts are keeping up with the increasing expectations on services