All Health Service Journal articles in 5 December 2014
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CommentMonitor will not stand in the way of innovation
We support developing new forms of NHS organisation
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NewsTariff reveals NHS savings targets for 2015-16
NHS pricing authorities will require all providers to deliver another 3.8 per cent in efficiency savings next year, while tweaking the controversial “marginal rate” for emergency admissions to ease the financial strain on smaller hospitals
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NewsHSJ Live 27.11.2014: New NHS regulations come into force
Duty of candour and fit and proper person requirement come into for trusts, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsParliament gives 'zero harm' bill financial backing
The government has given financial backing to a bill that legislates for zero harm in the NHS and changes the way professional regulators determine fitness to practise.
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NewsExclusive: Francis whistleblowing review delayed
A review of NHS whistleblowing by Sir Robert Francis QC will be delayed until next year, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalWhistleblowing review of cancer trust finds no evidence of 'serious failings'
WORKFORCE: A review into whistleblowing concerns at a North West cancer trust has found “no evidence” of serious failings but highlighted areas in need of improvement.
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HSJ Local
CCG to create two urgent care centres at hospitals
STRUCTURE: Scarborough and Ryedale Clinical Commissioning Group has awarded a £15m integrated urgent care service contract to Northern Doctors Urgent Care.
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NewsHSJ Live 28.11.2014: NHS England restructure: new 'sub region' directors appointed
NHS England appoints the directors of most of the organisation’s new ‘sub regions’, plus the rest of today’s new and comment.
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HSJ LocalCCG chief to lead acute hospital
WORKFORCE: The leader of a well respected clinical commissioning group has been appointed to the chief executive post of an acute trust under investigation by Monitor.
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HSJ LocalEast Cheshire wins two contracts
COMMERCIAL: A financially strained North West trust has netted itself two contracts worth more than £2m.
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HSJ LocalCQC to inspect Heart of England
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission is to inspect Heart of England Foundation Trust following concerns about its accident and emergency services and ‘management issues’, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHS England restructure: new 'sub region' directors appointed
NHS England has appointed the directors of most of the organisation’s new ‘sub regions’ which are to be created as part of a restructure designed to cut costs by 15 per cent.
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NewsHSJ Live 30.11.2014: Details of Chancellor's NHS spending boost revealed
NHS to get a budget boost of £2bn in Chancellor’s Autumn Statement
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NewsExclusive: Details of the £2bn NHS funding boost revealed
The government has announced an extra £1.95bn will be injected into the NHS in 2015-16 - but details of how the money will be allocated, obtained exclusively by HSJ, reveal that only a quarter of the total will be spent on transformation, with the rest set aside to maintain existing ...
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NewsHSJ Live 01.12.14: Reaction to Osborne's £2bn NHS funding pledge
Experts in the sector have set out their responses to the government’s funding announcement, plus the rest of today’s new and comment.
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NewsGPs should urgently discuss new care models
GPs should begin talking about the new models of care in the NHS Five Year Forward View ‘very soon’, one of their leaders has said.
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NewsFarrar: GPs will move away from CCGs in long term
The new generation of beefed up primary care organisations envisaged in the NHS Five Year Forward View will attract GP leaders away from clinical commissioning groups.
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NewsHunt calls for more nurses in community services
The health secretary has called for a significant increase in community and primary care nursing posts as part of the drive to boost services outside of hospitals
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HSJ Local
Wiltshire CCG uses £4.3m winter pressure cash for service redesign
FINANCE: Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group is to use the £4.3m it has been allocated from the government’s winter pressures funding to support service redesign schemes to halt unnecessary hospital admissions.