All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 183
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NewsFrancis highlights problems with 'culture' and targets
Robert Francis QC has criticised elements of the “culture” of the NHS and Department of Health, including overly tough performance management.
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NewsObama adviser to make ‘zero harm in the NHS a reality’, pledges PM
Don Berwick, the man who advised President Barack Obama on his health reforms, has been appointed to spearhead a “zero harm” agenda in the NHS, David Cameron has revealed.
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NewsFrancis blames NHS culture for Mid Staffs failings
An institutional culture which put the “business of the system ahead of patients” is to blame for the failings surrounding Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, Robert Francis QC has said.
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NewsFrancis avoids direct criticism of top NHS leaders
The Francis report has criticised the work of the strategic health authorities which oversaw Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, but includes little direct criticism of specific leaders, including Sir David Nicholson.
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CommentThe latest in a long line of scandals
“Whatever Francis recommends, my fear is it’s three years too late”
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Government backs down from plan to abolish specialist regulators
The government has backed down from plans to abolish two specialist regulators and transfer the majority of their responsibilities to the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsCapita faces NHS Choices axe
The future operating model of the website at the centre of the drive to extend choice in the NHS faces fresh uncertainty after the Cabinet Office blocked the renewal of a contract with the existing supplier.
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NewsMedics question rationale of Lewisham downgrade
The health secretary has approved plans to downgrade the first hospital using failure regime legislation. However, the downgrade is subject to conditions, the details of which remain unclear.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Safety data reveals trusts bucking the improvement trend
HSJ analysis has identified the NHS providers whose patients are suffering increasing levels of avoidable harm, bucking a national trend of continuous month-on-month improvement.
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NewsJoin tech revolution or face 'serious repercussions', hospitals told
Hospitals face “very serious repercussions” if they do not have electronic patient records systems in place by 2014-15, the NHS Commissioning Board’s national director for patients and information warned last night.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: putting a stopper on bungs
The DH and Monitor are in a quandry over EU competition rules
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NewsNHS bodies to produce common vision for integrated care
National organisations including the Department of Health, NHS Commissioning Board and sector regulators are drawing up a joint statement of purpose to set how they will make integrated care a reality, HSJ has discovered.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe remote care revolution needs a boost
Stronger support is needed to get telecare off the ground
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CommentThe NHS cannot ignore DH underspends
The NHS must decide what has to go unspent if providers are to spend their surpluses
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NHS property company to charge CCGs to bridge cost gap
The new NHS property company is likely to charge clinical commissioning groups for any assets it takes ownership of whose costs are not fully met by rents or service charges.
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NewsCouncil-led public health group has role extended
A group of council representatives set up to negotiate local government’s new public health role with the Department of Health will continue to run for another year.
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NewsNHS earmarks £300m to put hospitals through failure regime
Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority are planning a £300m joint contract to pay for failing trusts to go through the special administration regime.
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Blogs
NHS holds the line on 18 weeks
Small improvements meant new record-bests for long-waiters in November.
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Comment
Readers' letters - 17 January 2013
A tribute to Alasdair Liddell, who died on 31 December 2012, aged 63