All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 179
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Herts trust probes safe guarding
PERFORMANCE: East and North Hertfordshire Trust has joined a number of trusts in reviewing their safeguarding arrangements following the Jimmy Savile scandal.
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NewsChief executives and chairs in New Year's Honours list
Three hospital trust chief executives have received New Year’s honours.
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NewsChief executives not confident on out-of-hours safety
Chief executives have significant doubts their hospitals are as safe at weekends as they are in the week, the latest HSJ/Capsticks survey reveals.
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NewsSHAs told to share winter cash boost with councils
The NHS is to get £330m to spend on alleviating winter pressures and is being strongly encouraged to share it with local authorities, medical director Sir Bruce Keogh has announced.
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NewsImproved performance as workforce numbers drop
The NHS has delivered improved performance in the second quarter of 2012 despite figures showing the size of its workforce is continuing to shrink.
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NewsMcKay: More jobs in system than staff at risk
There are likely to be more jobs in new NHS organisations than there are people in posts being axed, HSJ has been told.
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NewsCommissioning board pledges paperless referrals by 2015
The health service will move to paperless referrals by March 2015, the NHS Commissioning Board has announced.
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DH overrules health 'politicisation' fears
The government has rejected councils’ objections to proposal which could “politicise” local disputes about hospital closures.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: DH could face probe over IT deal
The Department of Health could face a fresh probe by a government spending watchdog after its latest attempt to dismantle the National Programme for IT sparked allegations of anti-competitive behaviour.
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NewsHunt: I'm open to NHS or private sector solutions
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has told HSJ it is “not my job to hold a candle” for either NHS or private sector providers when deciding what is best for patients.
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NewsHunt: Francis could lead to more reorganisation
The health secretary has told HSJ he expects the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry to propose “pretty serious policy changes and potentially some structural changes”, potentially leading to more reorganisation.
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NewsGP nominated as new NICE chair
One of the country’s most prominent GPs has been named as the government’s preferred candidate to chair the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
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NewsGP contract: DH proposes new funding formula
GP practice income should be more closely linked to deprivation from 2014, the Department of Health has proposed.
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NewsHealth budget ringfence extended to 2015-16
George Osborne today committed to extending the health budget’s relative protection from government spending cuts to 2015-16 – the first year of the next spending review period.
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NewsNext generation of PFI announced by Osborne
“Soft facilities management” services like cleaning and catering will be excluded from future NHS private finance projects, new government guidance reveals.
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HSJ LocalNorth Bristol renews plans to go it alone
A proposal to merge two South West trusts, creating an organisation with a turnover of almost £1bn, appears less likely to proceed after one of the organisations confirmed it was still working on an alternative plan to go it alone.
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NewsDH awards audit contracts to HQIP
The Department of Health has chosen to entrust two audit contracts with The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP).
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NewsNHS 111 switch will be a 'big bang'
NHS 111 is likely to generate inappropriate referrals for a “considerable period of time”, a champion of the new non-emergency telephone number has told HSJ.
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NewsLamb plans to support new wave of integrated care 'experiments'
Ministers are planning to support a series of large-scale, locally led “experiments” in integrated care that could enable commissioners to move away from the payment by results tariff system.
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NewsCQC may fail to meet annual inspections targets
The Care Quality Commission has just over four months to complete more than half of its annual inspections and is considering informing the Department of Health it will not meet the target.