All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 121
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NewsPension bosses consider extending tax relief for high earners
The organisation that runs the NHS pension is “actively considering” extending a facility designed to ease the tax burden on high earners, amid reports of staff being hit with bills worth many thousands of pounds a year.
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NewsFire and IT risks heightened as capital squeeze 'comes home to roost'
NHS trusts have been forced to rein in plans for “essential” maintenance and infrastructure projects – leading to “significantly higher” fire risks and IT system vulnerability.
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NewsContract talks complicated as BMA refuses to work with second union
The British Medical Association’s refusal to negotiate alongside another doctors’ union has complicated negotiations on the consultant contract, HSJ has been told.
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HSJ LocalOfficial review tells Hunt to knock back hospital downgrade
An independent review has recommended Jeremy Hunt knocks back an NHS decision to downgrade a general hospital’s maternity services.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Decision time for property disposals
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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NewsSpeed up mental health improvement, warns report ordered by PM
Promised commitments to improve children and young people’s mental health services must be delivered more quickly or patients will suffer “unnecessary distress”, a report ordered by Theresa May has warned.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: £780m bonanza for trusts that stay on target
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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NewsHunt tells PM: Deserving NHS chiefs are missing out on honours
Jeremy Hunt has written to the prime minister calling for an overhaul of the honours system to help reward leaders who take on challenged NHS trusts, HSJ has been told.
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NewsFinancially struggling trusts pay £183m in 'pointless' interest charges
Financially troubled NHS trusts have paid interest charges of more than £180m on their short term cash bailouts from the Department of Health and Social Care in the last three financial years.
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NewsRevealed: 'Ludicrous' CCG variation for care at home
There is dramatic variation across England in the rate of people with serious long-term conditions being approved to receive NHS-funded care at home.
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NewsGovernment admits senior staff leaving NHS over pension cap
High earning NHS employees including medical consultants and senior managers are choosing to leave the NHS because of government caps on the amount of tax relief that can be applied to pension schemes, the Department of Health and Social Care has admitted.
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NewsMore seriously ill people turned down for NHS home care funding
Fewer people with serious long-term conditions are receiving NHS-funded care at home, with massive countrywide variation revealed.
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NewsNHS revenues fall at private hospital firms
NHS revenues have fallen year-on-year at two large private providers, according to financial results released this week.
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News'Vulnerable patients' face ongoing caps to care funding
Commissioners have been allowed to continue applying cost caps to the more than £3bn of NHS Continuing Healthcare claims as long as they follow new new government rules.
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NewsKing's Fund chief executive announces departure
Chris Ham has announced he will leave the King’s Fund at the end of 2018.
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NewsNHS England rejects 'implausible' CQC recommendations
NHS England has branded one of the Care Quality Commission’s key suggestions for tackling the problem of locked rehabilitation for mental health patients as “implausible”.
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NewsChildren ‘at risk’ as STP ignores guidance on gluten free foods
Children, pensioners and low income families may be at risk because an STP is ignoring government guidance on commissioning gluten free foods, a senior health leader has warned.
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NewsNHS must honour new single patient opt-out from May
Every NHS patient in England will be given the option to opt-out of sharing their health records for research or planning from May, coinciding with new European privacy rules.
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NewsCQC condemns 'alarming trend' of long stays in 'locked rehab'
The care watchdog has called on government and national officials to draw up a plan to address the “alarming trend” of patients being locked in rehabilitation units miles from home.
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NewsControversial ‘CareBnB’ firm returns to launch new trial
The company developing a controversial “Airbnb for social care” model allowing homeowners to rent spare rooms to recuperating hospital patients is bidding to launch a new trial in Cambridge.