All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 165
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News
Prince Charles backs hospital income link to food quality
Prince Charles has encouraged NHS organisations to introduce pay for performance for the quality of hospital food.
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HSJ Knowledge
CQC regulation is being transformed in 2014
Analysis of the five key changes in the new regime
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News
Councils row with DH over deferred care bill
The Local Government Association has claimed a key part of the government’s social care reforms could cost councils five times more than estimated, triggering a row with the Department of Health.
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News
Pathology services 'need to be more transparent'
Pathology services need to become more transparent and be subjected to better safety checks, an NHS England commissioned review has recommended.
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News
Kirkup indicates secrecy on Morecambe Bay probe
The chair of the independent inquiry into failings at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust has indicated no witness evidence will be released until his final report is published.
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Oxfordshire CCG compromises on controversial contracting plan
Commissioners have prepared a set of compromises to one of the most ambitious integrated contracting plans after a Department of Health review recommended much closer collaboration with local providers.
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News
April 2015 targeted for Choices outsource
The NHS Choices website will not be outsourced until April next year, more than a year after initially expected, HSJ has been told.
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News
Leaders should be 'more willing' to embrace technology
The health service could save tens of millions of pounds if its leaders were more willing to embrace technology to manage their workforce, according to a report from London School of Economics academics and a thinktank.
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News
Governance concerns over care.data project
NHS data chiefs have raised “concerns in respect to the governance arrangements” of the pioneering care.data project, according to papers published last week.
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Comment
The service is not ready for a new flu pandemic
The NHS reforms have distracted public health officials
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News
Exclusive: Clegg to launch mental health action plan
Nick Clegg is next week expected to launch a national mental health action plan, advocating a further push towards “parity of esteem” between the sector and the rest of healthcare, HSJ has discovered.
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News
Tameside's Lorenzo difficulties continue
The first trust to accept a sweetener payment to switch to the Lorenzo electronic patient record system has admitted it continues to face a series of risks to patient safety and performance arising from its implementation.
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HSJ Local
Trust receives £10m loan after not getting 'winter pressures' funding
FINANCE: A hospital trust has received a £10m loan from the Department of Health after failing to get funding to tackle winter pressures.
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News
Royal college condemns obesity surgery stand-off
The Royal College of Surgeons has condemned a stand-off between local and national commissioners over surgery for the morbidly obese.
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News
FTN chief criticises tariff and planning guidance
The chief executive of the Foundation Trust Network has said “growing financial pressures” on the NHS are preventing patients from receiving quality care.
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Comment
Better care fund: good policy needs great execution
The £3.8bn pot can have great benefits for the NHS
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HSJ Local
Royal Liverpool signs 'lowest cost' PFI deal
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals Trust has reached financial close on a £429m deal to demolish and rebuild its main hospital site, clearing the way for construction to start in February 2014.
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Comment
Hunt vs Burnham: Care Bill grudge match
Commons debate is one of the rowdiest for a long time
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HSJ Local
Midwifery regulation 'risks failure to learn from mistakes'
Flawed local regulation of midwifery services can place the lives of mothers and babies at risk, according to a report published today by the health service ombudsman.
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Comment
Where does dementia policy go next?
The G8 summit on dementia is a big win, but national progress is stalling