All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 191
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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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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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Comment
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.