All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 180
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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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The NHS is in real danger of being unaffordable
Health bodies are desperately trying to save money
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NewsExclusive: Dramatic increase in emergency 12 hours 'trolley waits' uncovered
Pressure on accident and emergency departments has seen a large increase in the number of hospital trusts reporting patients waiting more than 12 hours to be admitted, an HSJ analysis has found.
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HSJ KnowledgeTransforming leadership culture after Francis
How boards can measure their performance
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NewsNHS England plans to lead 'radical' service change
NHS England is planning to continue the health service’s current savings drive after 2015, and to recast it as a programme of “ambitious and radical” service change led by its area teams.
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NewsGovernment backs liabilities of national NHS property firm
The Department of Health has announced it will fund any income shortfalls of its newly created NHS property company, in a move widely interpreted as aiming to assure private sector investors about their assets.
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NewsGovernment approves £425m Royal Liverpool construction following delays
The government has approved a £425m private finance initiative rebuild of the Royal Liverpool Hospital, following delays.
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Regulator should 'make allowances' for aspirant community FTs, says DH review author
Foundation trust regulator Monitor should “make allowances” for aspirant community foundation trusts and consider adjusting its assessment framework accordingly, according to the author of a confidential review the sector’s future commissioned by the Department of Health.
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NewsNon-foundation trusts to face 5.1 per cent saving target
The NHS trust sector is looking to cut £1.5bn from its cost base this year in a squeeze that could prompt questions about the viability of some organisations, David Flory has revealed.
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NewsOrthopaedic hospital PFI a step closer after affordable housing rollback
A London trust’s private finance initiative rebuild has moved a step closer after it secured permission to sell off some of its land with a smaller proportion than usual earmarked for affordable housing.
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NewsExclusive: Law firm 'likely' to take on prosecution of David Nicholson
A team of specialist lawyers is likely to take on an attempt to bring a private prosecution against NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson
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CommentSally Gainsbury: the disappearing surplus
Other government departments are eyeing the NHS’s “ringfence”