All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 159
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News
Concern grows over tight timetable for waiting list cuts
An official timetable for clearing planned care waiting lists over the summer has sparked concern among NHS managers.
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Comment
Beware the false solutions to the NHS's challenges
There is a glut of questionable statements being made
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Comment
We'll have to wait and see what Hunt's waiting time intentions will bring
It could all go pear shaped
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HSJ Local
Social enterprise explores ‘merger’ with NHS trust
STRUCTURE: A social enterprise established to provide community services in Cornwall could be taken back into the NHS after experiencing financial difficulties.
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Hospitals to scrutinise integration plans
Acute trusts must say whether they accept local forecasts for cutting emergency admissions under better care fund
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Comment
NICE must reduce the red tape to make cancer drug access a reality
It shows up entrenched conservativism
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Department of Health to establish an anti-fraud unit
The Department of Health plans to establish its own fraud investigation function by poaching senior officers from NHS Protect, shrinking the national body’s size significantly as a result.
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Comment
Ways to reduce the increasing NHS pay bill remain elusive
2.6pc spending increase was not part of the plan
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News
Health spending sees sharpest rise in current parliament
Department of Health spending rose by 2.6 per cent in real terms last year – by far the greatest annual rise in health spending of the current parliament
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Unions ballot members for strike action over NHS pay
Three health unions have announced they are going to ballot their members for strike action over NHS pay.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why the friends and family test scores badly among clinicians
Most doctors and nurses disagree with its scoring method
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News
NHS finances 'stretched to limit'
NHS finances have been ‘stretched to the limit’, influential think tank The King’s Fund has warned.
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News
Duty of candour extended to cover wider set of incidents
A statutory duty of candour in the NHS will cover a wider set of incidents than previously expected, and will force NHS trusts to apologise to affected patients, it has emerged.
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Two further Keogh trusts leave special measures
Two further trusts placed in regulatory “special measures” last summer have been removed from the regime, the health secretary announced today.
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Exclusive: Major hospital trust 'very interested' in becoming a social enterprise
One of the largest hospital trusts in the country has revealed to HSJ it is “very interested” in exploring becoming a staff owned social enterprise.
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Trust merger delayed amid financial wrangling
The planned merger of Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals and Frimley Park Hospital foundation trusts has been delayed
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Comment
Public service mutuals will inspire greater staff engagement
Devolve more power to local level
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News
Hospital trusts should be free to become mutuals, DH advised
Acute trusts should be free to become staff-led mutual social enterprises in an effort to improve staff engagement, a Department of Health commissioned report recommends.
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HSJ Local
Moorfields misreported waiting times performance for five years
PERFORMANCE: Moorfields Eye Hospital Foundation Trust has been misreporting waiting times for treatment at its sites across London for years, with hundreds of patients waiting longer than recorded, the trust discovered.