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CommentCowper’s Cut: Giving Hancock his due
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week
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NewsNHSE refers ex trust CEO and CFO for ‘fit and proper person’ review over £46m accounting failure
The former chief executive and chief financial officer of a major acute trust have been referred to the Care Quality Commission under the ‘fit and proper person’ process, after an ‘unprecedented’ failure to provide true and fair accounts.
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NewsRevealed: Nightingale hospitals to cost half a billion pounds in total
England’s Nightingale hospitals have been forecast to cost more than half a billion, according to the latest government projections.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Treasury’s ‘reluctance’ is worsening NHS crisis
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior integration correspondent, Sharon Brennan.
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NewsNHS England pushes for more private capacity and cancels planning round
NHS England has told local leaders to outline plans to use up to 100 per cent of their private sector capacity from next week.
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CommentThe pandemic has broken the promise of universal healthcare
The promise of universal healthcare from the NHS has been broken, as it is not “coping” with covid-19, and will be hard to reinstate without being honest, writes Charlotte Augst
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NewsNHS England told to cancel ‘tone-deaf’ fines on elective performance
NHS England has been criticised for its ‘tone-deaf’ attempts to maintain financial incentives on elective care, even as the service deals with extreme pressures from coronavirus.
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NewsExclusive: Treasury ‘the barrier’ as full hospitals desperate to discharge patients to social care
The government is being pressed to urgently pay care homes to take on thousands of patients from hospitals, many of which are on course to be overwhelmed by covid-19 patients.
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NewsNHS plea for private help as covid forces cancer surgery cancellations
NHS leaders are holding fresh talks with private healthcare groups to try to secure surgery for urgent cancer patients in London, as the covid-19 second wave causes hospitals in the capital to make widespread cancellations, HSJ understands.
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HSJ’s 10 most read finance and efficiency stories of 2020
With 2020 down to its final days, it’s time to take a look back at HSJ’s most read finance and efficiency stories of the year.
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NewsHSJ’s 10 most read stories of 2020
As 2020 draws to a close, HSJ takes a look at its most read stories of the year.
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News‘Emergency’ measures giving NHSE control over commissioning extended to end of March
NHS England’s control over clinical commissioning groups has been extended to enable it to ‘commission healthcare from independent sector providers’ during the ongoing covid pandemic.
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NewsCCG accused of ‘colluding’ to evict charity at centre of PFI dispute
A clinical commissioning group has been accused of ‘colluding’ with an NHS facilities company to evict a children’s centre.
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NewsExclusive: Cancer care under threat as NHS loses covid private sector back-up
Cancer surgery in London is under threat as rising covid admissions put pressure on services that no longer have back-up capacity from the independent sector, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Hancock demands “affordability” must determine size of NHS covid pay rise
The health and social care secretary has repeatedly emphasised the need for “affordability” when determing the size of the promised pay rise for over one million NHS staff in instructions sent to the independent pay review body this week. DHSC starts Agenda for Change staff pay review process Health ...
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CommentWhy has the government gone quiet on prevention when we need it most?
The government has gone quiet on prevention, but it could save the NHS, boost the economy and level up the country, writes Chris Thomas
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Mackey warns of ‘extreme dangers’ around NHS legislative proposals
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior correspondent, Sharon Brennan.
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NewsPrivate hospital groups negotiating with NHS England on new stopgap contract
Large private hospital providers are in advanced talks with NHS England over a new three-month outsourcing contract, which aims to provide a ‘smooth transition’ to longer term contracting arrangements.
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NewsRevealed: The trusts receiving a share of £600m estates fund
An acute trust in London is among the biggest winners of a £600m allocation by the government to pay for backlog maintenance across the NHS.