All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 195
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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
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NewsMid Staffs Foundation Trust 'too small' to be sustainable
Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust − the first organisation to be taken through Monitor’s failure regime − will not be able to sustain its current services in the future, investigators have found.
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NewsDH names new director general
The Department of Health has named Croydon London Borough Council chief executive Jon Rouse as its new director general of social care.
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NewsJunior doctor contract negotiations 'will miss government deadline'
Plans to renegotiate the junior doctors’ contract are unlikely to be completed by the April 2014 deadline set by health secretary Jeremy Hunt, HSJ has been told.
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News
Second trust takes financial help from DH for IT system
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust has become the second to accept a controversial financial support package from ministers to implement the Lorenzo IT system.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Aviva in talks with DH over LIFT fears
One of the biggest private sector lenders to NHS infrastructure projects is in discussions with the Department of Health over fears its investments are threatened by the abolition of primary care trusts, HSJ has learned.
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NewsSavile used hospitals to commit decades of abuse
Jimmy Savile was “a prolific, predatory sex offender” who committed abuse across more than a dozen UK medical sites and could have been prosecuted for offences against at least three victims while he was alive, two separate reports said on Friday.
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NewsHealth and wellbeing role taken on by ex-council chief
The Department of Health’s work on health and wellbeing boards, the local forums at which council and NHS leaders, discuss health priorities, is to be led by a former chief executive of Wigan council
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NewsOFT moves to extend its jurisdiction over NHS mergers
The Office of Fair Trading has moved to take over responsibility for assessing mergers between NHS trusts and foundation trusts, in a development which could have significant implications for the “pipeline” of aspirant FTs.
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NewsRedundancy threat for 3,500 NHS managers
Around 3,500 NHS managers were told over Christmas that they are at risk of redundancy, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
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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News
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.