All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 174
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News
2012-13 biggest year yet for NHS in-house consultancy
The NHS in-house interim management consultancy has saved trusts and commissioners £9.1m over the past financial year, it has said.
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CommentPrepare for the workforce boom
The DH has to face up to 20,000 future unemployed hospital doctors
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Blogs
The English waiting list is bigger than first thought
After fixing a slip in my calculations, the adjusted English waiting list turns out to be bigger than first estimated.
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CommentWhy DH civil servants will spend a month on the front line
The civil service is too remote from the reality of life and work in the health service
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HSJ Local
Northamptonshire Healthcare joins DH funded Stonewall group
PERFORMANCE: Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust has become part of Stonewall’s Health Champions programme, receiving free advice and expertise on health services from the gay equality charity.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: the mutating baseline
What to do with illogical policy or unworkable budgets
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NewsFrancis warns recommendations could be lost in 'long grass'
Robert Francis QC has cautioned the government against allowing its review of safety in the NHS to “disappear beneath the long grass”. He also called for an “honest” conversation between the NHS and the public about which health services could be safely provided.
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NewsNHS leaders must make improvements, warns Francis
NHS leaders who fail to make improvements in response to the Francis report should not have “a place in that system”, Robert Francis QC has told HSJ.
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NewsFrancis criticises nursing leaders
The leaders of the nursing profession have been criticised by Robert Francis QC, who told HSJ he has seen little to “give him cause for optimism”.
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NewsExclusive: Francis presses government on criminal sanctions
The absence of an ability to prosecute individual NHS staff in cases of serious patient neglect would cause “public confidence” in the service to “evaporate”, Robert Francis QC has told HSJ.
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NewsExclusive: Capita challenges NHS Choices 'insourcing'
Capita is in talks with the Department for Health over government plans to axe its NHS Choices contract, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCommissioners raise concerns over Caldicott recommendations
Efforts to integrate care and improve services with better use of patient data could be hindered by proposals in the government-commissioned Caldicott review, it has been warned.
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NewsExclusive: Ministers want CCG topslice to fund health and social care integration
Part of clinical commissioning groups’ budgets – potentially worth more than £1bn – should be used to fund integration with council-run social care services, Norman Lamb has told HSJ.
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NewsExclusive: A&E performance plummets as majority of trusts miss target
Accident and emergency waiting time performance plummeted in April, as hospital leaders told HSJ they were grappling with the after-effects of “the worst winter anyone can remember”.
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NewsTwo bidders drop out of pension fund hospital build scheme
Two out of three bidders involved in an innovative scheme to use pension fund capital to finance a major hospital development have dropped out, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ KnowledgeModernising the musculoskeletal pathway
Care in the community can provide better results for patients
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NewsCommissioning reforms redundancy count exceeds 10,000
More than 10,000 NHS staff have been made redundant in the past three financial years as a result of the government’s commissioning reforms, according to official figures published today.
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CommentMonitor needs to be clearer about its regulation style
The regulator faces a challenge following changes in its role
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