All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 205
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Health expert 'can appear before MPs' - DH
The Department of Health has denied stopping the expert leading a review of the controversial NHS reforms from appearing in front of a Commons committee.
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CQC boss set to warn DH over GP registration
The Care Quality Commission could ask the government to reduce its remit if it finds it cannot cope with registering all of the country’s GPs and dentists, the regulator’s chief executive has admitted.
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Monitor urges trusts to use service line system
Monitor is encouraging trusts to use service line management to improve quality and control costs, amid evidence that senior management is taking back control of trust finances.
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Consortia authorisation 'window' risks quality
The short “window” to authorise commissioning consortia could undermine quality, according to one of those working for the Department of Health on the reorganisation.
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Providers warn over dangers of PCT ‘war chest’
NHS commissioners are building a “war chest” to fund service reorganisation and deal with financial emergencies. But providers are warning the move risks “unnecessary cuts to jobs and services”.
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Clegg opposes NHS competition plan
Nick Clegg will oppose the idea of a regulator to promote competition in the health service - a key plank of the government’s controversial NHS reforms, according to the BBC.
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Bristol acutes appoint joint pathology lead to end rift
WORKFORCE: University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust and North Bristol Trust have jointly appointed a clinical lead of cellular pathology to develop an integrated histopathology service in the city.
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DH-commissioned study ranks hospital trusts' efficiency
An unpublished league table produced for the Department of Health has ranked 163 hospital trusts in order of how efficiently they treat inpatients.
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'Listening exercise' delays DH business plan
Fresh uncertainty surrounds the coalition’s NHS reforms after the Department of Health’s business plan was delayed.
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MORI poll shows confidence in NHS 'eroded'
Public confidence in the NHS has shown “signs of erosion” since the government’s reforms were proposed, according to a poll for the Department of Health.
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Health Select Committee calls for evidence on meeting the 'Nicholson Challenge'
The Health Select Committee is to review the progress of the NHS in meeting the “daunting” Nicholson Challenge to make £20bn of efficiency savings by 2014-15.
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Clinical networks to respond to competition fears
Clinical networks could be given a more prominent role to address fears that greater NHS competition will lead to service fragmentation and greater variations in standards of care.
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£1.9bn cut to pay budgets revealed in trust CIPs
NHS providers are planning to cut pay budgets by £1.9bn this year, a study released exclusively to HSJ has revealed.
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Hospital death rate indicator delayed
A promised new indicator of hospital death rates is unlikely to be ready until the autumn, HSJ has learned.
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How pseudonymisation can uphold patient data security
Not only is pseudonymisation essential for protecting patients’ rights when private data is used for secondary purposes, it is also an important legal requirement for all NHS trusts, says Mastek vice president of healthcare Laurence Cook.
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Exclusive: care quality variations revealed in Dr Foster data
Large disparities in key patient care indicators across trusts in England have been revealed in data shared exclusively with HSJ.
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RNOH presses ahead with PFI project
FINANCE: The north London specialist trust has shortlisted three bidders for its proposed rebuild.
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Executive-level pay jumps by 4.5 per cent
The basic pay of NHS chief executives has jumped by 4.5 per cent, with median earnings now more than £150,000, research revealed today.
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Minister announces merger option for non-FT acute
STRUCTURE: A merger or independent franchise are among the options for a hospital trust which has a private finance deal preventing it from achieving foundation status.
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Most trusts to miss moving target on information governance
PERFORMANCE: Around two thirds of NHS trusts will miss a Department of Health target monitoring their safeguarding of personal and patient information, HSJ has been told.