All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 234
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NewsWeekend admission 'raises death risk'
Being admitted to hospital with internal bleeding on a bank holiday pushes up the risk of dying by 41%, researchers have said.
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NewsDH U-turns on cash cut to children's hospitals
The Department of Health has dropped plans that would have seen a significant drop in funding for some specialist children’s hospitals, following political protest.
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NewsMerger plans announced as FT deadline looms
A rush of acute hospital mergers have been announced in the wake of the Department of Health deadline for submitting plans to become a foundation trust.
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LeaderBattleship Lansley ploughs on through the fog of reform
HSJ readers will be familiar with the tensions inherent in the government’s reforms which are now beginning to leak into the public ken.
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NewsCQC to scan Twitter for care complaints
The Care Quality Commission is working on an IT system to monitor social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter for complaints about care homes and healthcare providers.
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Financial checks on NHS providers eased
More than 100 NHS hospital and mental health providers are to be freed of significant checks on their finance and governance within 18 months, HSJ has learned.
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NewsPCT chiefs help drive new structure
Five primary care trust chief executives have left their organisations for full time roles developing the new commissioning infrastructure.
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NewsPCTs expected to be ‘ordered’ to cluster
The Department of Health is likely to make mergers of primary care trusts a requirement in its operating framework for 2011-12, HSJ has been told.
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NewsManagement posts shed without full consultation
Warnings are being issued about the lack of consultation over job cuts as posts are shed in an accelerated bid to meet the Department of Health’s 46 per cent management savings target.
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NewsMId Staffs inquiry told HSE was 'under-resourced'
The Health and Safety Executive was reluctant to prosecute over a patient’s death at Stafford Hospital because it did not have the resources to cope with more families coming forward, the public inquiry into Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has been told.
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NewsPrimary care organisations welcome variation in pathfinders
Variation among the Department of Health’s pathfinder commissioning consortia will help the government to learn lessons about potential models, according to stakeholder organisations.
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NewsBigger consortia safer from risk, say consultants
The deputy chief executive of the NHS has said that commissioning consortia are likely to be “fewer and bigger” than the 500 to 600 figure often cited.
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NewsPathfinder consortia revealed
HSJ has obtained the names of the 54 organisations that will spearhead the government’s plans to hand commissioning over to GP consortia.
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NewsNHS Sheffield chief executive goes to top leadership role at DH
NHS Sheffield chief executive Jan Sobieraj is to be seconded to the Department of Health to work on leadership.
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HSJ Knowledge
Payment by Results - conference sessions
A business critical briefing from HSJ’s Payment by Results conference.
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NewsCircle wins battle to run hospital
Private provider Circle is set to run Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust in Cambridgeshire for 10 years under an operating franchise.
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CommentBruce Keogh and Ian Dalton on death rates
Comparing death rates for heart surgery is difficult enough even when you look at just a single procedure and use well-honed algorithms. When it involves an institutional aggregate of many procedures and diagnoses, it becomes much more difficult.
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NewsNHS Partners in row over ‘cosy’ deal
The carve-up of primary care trust provider arms has seen mental health and acute trusts pick up the greatest amount of work while the private sector will secure the least.
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LeaderWhite paper let down by speedy schedule
The public health white paper is something of a an anticlimax. Government plans for improving the country’s wellbeing may well prove to be significant, but we will have to wait until well into 2011 to find out.
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NewsDH backs plan to award 5.3 per cent pay rises
The Department of Health has written a detailed analysis in support of plans to award lower paid staff pay rises of up to 5.3 per cent, amid growing concern that the NHS paybill is unsustainable.