All Foundation Trust Network (NHS Providers) articles – Page 32
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NewsDH figures showing private sector disadvantage 'almost certainly' wrong - Monitor
Department of Health figures showing NHS providers enjoy a significant advantage over the private sector are “incomplete” and may hide a net disadvantage to the NHS, Monitor has said.
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NewsFoundation Trust Network to split from Confed
The Foundation Trust Network has decided to split from the NHS Confederation.
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NewsDH to drop workforce section in slim down
The Department of Health’s workforce directorate could disappear as part of a restructure designed to slim down the department.
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NewsThe provider's essential guide to the Health Bill
As with commissioning consortia, the bill presented providers with a mixture of new freedoms and potential restraints.
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NewsNigel Edwards to leave NHS Confederation
Nigel Edwards will end his 12 years at the NHS Confederation this summer after deciding not to put himself forward for the position of chief executive.
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NewsNew freedoms set out for NHS foundation trusts
Mergers will be considerably easier for foundation trusts under the rules set out in the health bill.
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NewsFT oversight to move to DH bank
Oversight of the £24bn worth of “taxpayer investment” in foundation trusts is to be moved to a banking function “established by the Department of Health”.
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NewsDH sticks to guns on removal of FT income cap and borrowing controls
The government will push ahead with plans to free up foundation trusts from control, according to its response to the white paper consultation.
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CommentMedia Watch: All eyes are on Lansley
Health secretary Andrew Lansley is not a politician to wilt in the face of criticism, which probably came in handy last week.
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NewsSue Slipman back in post
Sue Slipman has been reinstated as Foundation Trust Network director but has stood down from her role on the NHS Confederation board.
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NewsNHS back office savings worth £1bn
The NHS could save £600m-£1bn through sharing more back office services, according to research conducted for the Department of Health.
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NewsNHS Confederation and Slipman agree ‘way forward’
The NHS Confederation has agreed a “collaborative way forward” with the Foundation Trust Network and its suspended chair Sue Slipman.
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NewsFoundation Trust Network considers Confed split as director suspended
The Foundation Trust Network has drawn up plans to leave the NHS Confederation, prompting opposition within the organisation, HSJ has learned.
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NewsFTs call for lighter control
Foundation trusts are in conflict with Monitor over the future regulation of their financial planning and governance.
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NewsFTs favour male nurse directors
Foundation trusts are more likely to give senior nursing posts to men than acute trusts without foundation status, an investigation by HSJ’s sister title Nursing Times has found.
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NewsPessimistic foundation trusts set tough savings target
Foundation trusts are expecting their income to drop by an average 0.8 per cent a year from 2010-11 to 2012-13.
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NewsMissing detail renders NHS quality accounts ‘meaningless’
Many hospitals have evaded a major government initiative to make them more open and accountable about the quality of their services.
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NewsMonitor chair wants FTs off public balance sheet
Foundation trusts should be freed from one of the shackles put in place during the Labour government’s internal battle over their creation, Monitor’s new chair has said.
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NewsMental health trusts best at patient involvement
Mental health trusts have made the greatest efforts to reflect patients’ views in the precursors to formal quality accounts, the Foundation Trust Network has found.
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CommentMark Britnell on the future of Agenda for Change
Agenda for Change does not need to be scrapped and renegotiated - just applied properly