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Department of Health finance chief to retire
Richard Douglas, the Department of Health’s highly influential director general for finance and the NHS, will retire at the end of May.
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News
Trusts go to the wire on voluntary tariff offer
A significant number of providers are still yet to decide whether to accept NHS England and Monitor’s offer of a ‘voluntary’ tariff for 2015-16, with just a day to go until the offer expires, HSJ has been told.
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Leaked report exposes Staffordshire's 'oppressive culture'
A leaked report has delivered a damning verdict on the NHS leadership in Staffordshire, describing the health economy as beset with an ‘oppressive culture’ and in ‘perpetual crisis mode’.
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HSJ Local
NEW Devon accused of conflict of interest in £100m contract award
COMMERCIAL: A community services provider has accused the country’s largest clinical commissioning group of a conflict of interest in its decision to award a £100m contract without a tender.
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Exclusive: Lamb proposes single department for health and social care
Care minister Norman Lamb has told HSJ that he wants to create a single government department for health and social care by joining budgets at a national level.
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Leader
It's a historic day for Manchester, but not a 'town hall takeover'
NHS insiders in Greater Manchester have been pleasantly amazed by the speed at which negotiations progressed leading up to today’s historic agreement to devolve and integrate £6bn of health and social care spending for the conurbation.
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HSJ Local
Acute trust warns 2015-16 deficit could hit £23m
FINANCE: Burton Hospitals Foundation Trust is predicting that its deficit could worsen to from £12.7m to £22.7m by the end of 2015-16.
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Manchester NHS calls for regulation shake-up after devolution deal
NHS providers across Greater Manchester have called for a ‘new set of relationships’ with health regulators to underpin the newly agreed £6bn devolution of commissioning responsibilities to the conurbation.
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'Rollover' trusts still able to negotiate local tariff prices
Trusts that opt to roll over 2014-15 national tariff prices to 2015-16 will still be able to agree local variations with commissioners, national pricing authorities have said.
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Osborne: Manchester's health deal sets trail for other areas
The chancellor has said the signing of the £6bn deal to bring together health and social care budgets in Greater Manchester, overseen by an elected mayor, has ‘set a trail for the rest of the country to follow’.
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News
Updated: £6bn Manchester devolution deal is signed
NHS and local government leaders have this morning announced plans to join up health and social care budgets for Manchester worth £6bn, but insisted the deal is not a ‘town hall takeover’ of health services.
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Supplements
Private sector with public spirit: a Swiss alternative to Hinchingbrooke
How private sector takeovers of NHS hospitals can work
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Supplements
Follow the tides of change to achieve new models of care
Go with the flow in new care models
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Comment
Other major cities will soon be demanding their own health devolution plan
Pandora’s box has opened
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HSJ Knowledge
What the future NHS hospital should look like
Two hospitals challenging assumptions about how care is delivered
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HSJ Local
Demand for beds stretches pooled budget for learning disability services
FINANCE: Walsall Clinical Commissioning Group is predicting an overspend of almost £400,000 this financial year on its learning disability pooled fund with Walsall Council, largely because of high demand for inpatient beds.
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HSJ Local
Trust surplus £250k more than expected after third quarter
FINANCE: Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership had a surplus of £795,000 by the end of December - £251,000 more than planned.
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Manchester health devolution could be 'recipe for disaster', local government source warns
Giving Greater Manchester control over the region’s £6bn health budget could be ‘a recipe for disaster’, a senior local government source in the conurbation has warned.
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Updated: Greater Manchester aims to be new care models 'trailblazer'
The Greater Manchester area will be a ‘trailblazer’ for developing new models of care, and will be one of the first places to access two national transformation funds worth a combined £450m, according to draft proposals that emerged today.
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Complex governance questions remain over Manchester devolution plan
Complex questions of governance and accountability will have to be resolved over the coming year to allow the proposed full delegation of primary care and specialised commissioning budgets to Greater Manchester by April 2016.