All Foundation Trust Network (NHS Providers) articles – Page 36
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NewsCorporate skills required for foundation trust governance
Boards require the skills of blue-chip firms to deal with the risks that come with foundation status. Alison Moore examines how trusts have adapted to make the most of their freedoms
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CommentNoel Plumridge on foundation trusts
Are foundation trusts here to stay? Five years have passed since the prototypes first saw the light of day. Once controversial enough to bring the government’s very survival into question, how far has this radically new and politically controversial way of organising NHS hospitals simply become normal?
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CommunityFT logo's a no-go
Take a look at this little design effort. No, it’s not a (very) early design of the European Commission flag, but the emblem the Foundation Trust Network has conjured up to mark the fifth anniversary of the first ten foundation trusts this month.
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Baroness Meacher drops bid to end private patient cap
An amendment to the Health Bill that would have abolished the foundation trust private patient cap has been withdrawn.
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Mid Staffs was 'off SHA radar'
Cynthia Bower has hit back at criticism that she could have done more to prevent problems at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust in her former role as chief executive of NHS West Midlands.
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Monitor revises assessment criteria for foundation applicants
The NHS has been issued with stark new estimates of the impact the recession will have on its finances.
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NHS financial forecast worsens
The NHS has been issued with stark new estimates of the impact the recession will have on its finances.
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Steve Barnett aims to marshal NHS Confederation's network power
Ten months ago no one expected Steve Barnett to permanently replace Gill Morgan as chief executive of the NHS Confederation.
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Monitor takes fight for FT freedoms to the House of Lords
Monitor has launched a challenge to the government in Parliament to protect foundation trust freedoms and its role as their regulator.The regulator believes proposals in the Health Bill compromise foundation trusts' independence by requiring them to send quality accounts to the health secretary.
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Alan Johnson has 'no concerns' over private patient cap amendment
Health secretary Alan Johnson was shown Baroness Molly Meacher’s amendment to abolish the cap on private patient income and raised ‘no concerns’, HSJ has been told.
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Peer lays amendment to remove private patient income cap
An amendment laid to the Health Bill on Friday will completely remove the private patient income cap for foundation trusts, if MPs pass it.The amendment was developed by the Foundation Trust Network and comes as Unison prepares to challenge in court foundation trust regulator Monitor’s ‘too permissive’ interpretation of the ...
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20 trusts set to miss foundation trust deadline
More than 20 hospital and mental health trusts have been warned they are entering an ‘end game’ because they will not be ready to become foundation trusts before December 2010.Those unable to meet the government’s deadline face either radical restructuring or becoming part of a ‘shopping list’ for existing foundation ...
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Foundation trusts call for private patient income flexibility
The Foundation Trust Network has called for a public debate on changing the law to allow foundations to take on more private patient work.
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Care Quality Commission could make SHAs redundant
The NHS Confederation has called for a major rethink of strategic health authorities' roles in light of the new regulatory regime.
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Foundations face threat to joint ventures
Foundation trusts face narrowed commercial opportunities because of a gap in the government's insolvency regime, the Foundation Trust Network has warned.
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HSJ Knowledge
Health tourism: don't forget your toothbrush…
Estimates suggest as many as 150,000 Britons will travel abroad for medical treatment this year. But how is health tourism likely to affect the NHS, asks Alison Moore
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Foundation trust transition reaches halfway mark
The transition of acute and mental health trusts to foundation status passed the halfway mark this week.
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Monitor tightens private patient income rules
Monitor has ruled that income from foundation trusts’ joint ventures and associate ventures will count towards their private patient income cap.However, the regulator has also recommended that the government changes the legislation on the cap on the proportion of income foundations can earn from private patients.
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Comply with NICE or pay, Care Quality Commission tells trusts
Healthcare providers could be shut down for failing to comply with National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance under plans to make adherence a requirement of the Care Quality Commission's registration scheme.
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HSJ Knowledge
Acute Organisation of the Year, supported by CHKS
Winner: Cambridge University Hospitals foundation trustA comprehensive drive for transformation meant our winner slashed MRSA bacteraemias and waiting times and raised day of surgery admissions