All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 209
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NewsDH-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An unpublished league table produced for the Department of Health has ranked 163 hospital trusts in order of how efficiently they treat inpatients.
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News'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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NewsMORI 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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NewsHealth 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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NewsClinical 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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News£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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NewsHospital 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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HSJ KnowledgeHow 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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NewsExclusive: 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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NewsExecutive-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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HSJ LocalMost 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.
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Smaller trusts forced to rethink FT plans
STRUCTURE: Several smaller trusts that could not confirm the date on which they will apply for foundation status had previously been confident of achieving it.
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NewsAcute trusts' FT plans slip back a year
More than a quarter of the acute trusts still bidding for foundation status have seen their application date slip by over a year.
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NewsMonitor increases efficiency target to 'reflect the economic outlook'
Foundation trusts may have to make significant increases in efficiency savings if a “worst case” scenario predicted by the regulator hits the sector.
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Taunton and Somerset challenges C diff target
PERFORMANCE: Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust have challenged the target set by the Department of Health for the number of cases of Clostridium difficile during 2011-12.
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NewsTories accused over listening exercise timing
Health secretary Andrew Lansley’s promise to “pause and listen” to concerns over his planned NHS shake-up were dismissed as a smokescreen to protect the coalition from an electoral backlash in the run-up to next month’s polls.
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NewsJoint pathology venture fairly awarded, CCP decides
A foundation trust did not breach competition principles in selecting a public/private partnership for its pathology services, the NHS market regulator has found.
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NewsFears over offender services as duties transfer to PCTs
One of the largest providers of drug and alcohol services for offenders has expressed serious concerns about primary care trusts’ readiness to commission them.