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NHS news blog: DH publishes criteria for defining failure
NHS providers with even small deficits or which get their financial forecasting wrong risk being placed “under review” through the Department of Health’s new criteria for its failure regime.The regime – published last year and now part of the Health Bill currently going through Parliament – sets out how a ...
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NHS news blog: NHS culture stifling innovation, Confed warns
The NHS is stifling innovation through an organisational culture that places barriers in the way of staff with good ideas, the NHS Confederation has warned.In a report timed to coincide with the launch by Lord Darzi of a £220m fund to boost innovation in the health service, the confederation said ...
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NHS news blog: Dental surgeries could extend opening hours
Primary care trusts are to begin a £150m procurement process which could see dental surgeries opening outside normal hours.National director for GP and dentistry access Mike Warburton said contracts for new work should focus on quality and access rather than activity and consider extended hours. PCTs would decide what hours ...
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NHS news blog: Chief executives picked to lead integrated Welsh NHS
Six chief executives have been appointed to lead the NHS in Wales as it takes a further stride away from the English system.They will lead local health boards, newly merged from existing primary-focused LHBs and trusts, which run acute, community and mental health services, from October.Care provision will be merged ...
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NHS news blog: Mid Staffs reports - new duties on NHS to prove patient involvement
The government has announced that NHS organisations will have to publish information that proves they are involving patients to prevent a repeat of the failures at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust.A report for the Department of Health by national director for primary care David Colin-Thomé, published today, found that a significant ...
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NHS news blog: Interview - David Nicholson talks leadership
In an exclusive interview following the first meeting of the national leadership council last week, NHS chief executive David Nicholson tells HSJ what was discussed, why the council won’t become a “dustbin” for difficult issues and why all chief executives must take responsibility for leadership.
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NHS news blog: NHS governance 'reduced to paper chase' - Audit Commission
Many NHS trust board members cannot be sure whether or not their hospital is operating within the law, the Audit Commission has found.
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Why did Rose Gibb lose?
There is considerable surprise at the high court ruling against Rose Gibb in her claim for breach of contract.
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The blood and guts of cuts
How well will managers cope with a spending cut? Hardly any NHS managers have been around long enough to experience government imposed cuts like this before.
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Real terms cuts of 2.3% a year from 2011 onwards?
Just got back from the Institute for Fiscal Studies’ annual post-budget briefing. Scary stuff… They reckon real terms cuts of 2.3% a year are looming
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BlogsPre-Budget predictions
It’s dangerous I know, but I’m going to stick my neck out and make my Big Budget Prediction for 2009: Alistair Darling will use the term “confidence”, oh, let’s say, at least five times. Hmm, maybe I should hedge this a bit. Alistair Darling, or someone else from government, or ...
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BlogsTreasury tricks and accountancy acronyms
I have a strange fascination with NHS accountancy. I don’t know whether it’s the edge it gives me over my colleagues every time we play NHS acronym bingo (their PBCs and WCCs are nothing to my IFRICs and EBITDAs) or just the opportunity to try and talk sagely about the ...
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BlogsSurviving another recession
Just as trees can be aged by their rings, people can now be aged by how many recessions they have survived.
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BlogsBack in the saddle
Far be it from me to tell Babs and Cynth how to run their new gaff, but if there’s one baby they don’t want to throw out with the HCC/CSCI merger bathwater it’s that CSCI website.
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BlogsWhat went wrong at Mid Staffs?
Yet again we have a badly under-performing hospital, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of, mainly elderly, patients.
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Death in Swaziland
Death is a funny thing. In almost four years as a performance manager and information manager in the NHS, I never really experienced death.
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Competence or expertise – you choose, if you have a choice
Workforce planning is an ambiguous art made yet more ambiguous when set on a national scale with its unconnected, conflicting and changing priorities – still, we try.