All Comprehensive spending review 2015 articles – Page 6
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£75m fund to close learning disability hospital beds
Plans to close up to half of inpatient beds for people with learning disabilities following the Winterbourne View scandal have been announced by the NHS and local government bodies.
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Hunt’s game plan for CCG ratings is to hasten the demise of weak commissioners
NHS care delivery is now well underway
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Exclusive: CQC will seek to protect 'frontline' duties from budget cuts
The Care Quality Commission chief executive has told HSJ he is expecting its government funding to be cut, and will seek to protect its ‘frontline and statutory responsibilities’.
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Funding pressures are threatening NHS innovation, ministers warned
Efforts to develop and spread the use of innovative drugs and technologies in the NHS could be threatened by ‘unprecedented’ funding pressure, a government commissioned review has warned.
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Ministers confirm future of BCF for 2016-17
The pooling of health and social care budgets under the better care fund will continue in 2016-17, ministers have confirmed.
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CQC asked to plan for 40pc cut in government funding
The Care Quality Commission has warned of spending review ‘implications’ for the delivery of its 2016-17 inspection programme, after being asked to model cuts to its central government funding of up to 40 per cent.
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Stevens sets five NHS 'tests' for government spending review
Simon Stevens has set ‘five tests’ for whether the government’s spending review meets the NHS’s needs, including ‘front-loaded investment’, to fund the changes set out in the Five Year Forward View.
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Care minister: New NHS funding 'is not all going to hospitals'
Care minister Alistair Burt has indicated social care will benefit from the additional £8bn funding promised to the NHS.
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Exclusive: Dorrell calls for NHS ‘change fund’ and social care ringfence
The NHS needs a transformation fund and social care money should be ringfenced, Stephen Dorrell has said.
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'Planning together': Does Simon really mean it?
Simon Stevens’ speech at the King’s Fund this week has been described as his most important since he returned to the NHS.
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Stevens: Funding growth may depend on 'transformation' plans
Health economies’ receipt of their share of the NHS’s £8bn funding growth for coming years could depend on them agreeing shared five year ‘sustainability and transformation’ plans, NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has suggested.
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Five things we learnt from the Tory party conference
The Conservatives’ autumn conference came to an end this afternoon, the first it has held as the single governing party since 1996. Here are five messages NHS leaders can take from the jamboree in Manchester.
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Exclusive: Trusts continue to forecast £2bn deficit as overspending worsens
The latest available figures show the NHS acute sector continuing to forecast a deficit in excess of £2bn for this financial year. Trusts’ year to date financial performance is even worse than planned, HSJ analysis has found.
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Exclusive: Treasury could replace free nursing education to boost workforce
Ministers could end free university education for student nurses in a bid to boost the numbers joining the NHS workforce, under proposals put forward by national education bodies.
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Vanguards: More transformation funding 'critical' to success
Vanguard sites have warned that further rounds of transformation funding will be needed for next year and beyond to implement the Five Year Forward View. It comes despite there being no extra cash confirmed for the new care models project beyond March.
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Exclusive: NHS England seeks freeze in better care fund transfer
NHS England is seeking a freeze in the sum the NHS is required to pool with local government in the better care fund, HSJ has learned.
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HEE chief: Removing our budget ringfence would hit frontline care
Removing Health Education England from the protected NHS budget would result in cuts to frontline NHS services, its chief executive has warned.