All Government/DH policy articles – Page 50
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This year's most important health strategy is the one you might not read
If it ignores the upcoming Industrial Strategy White Paper, the NHS will miss the opportunity to boost its future financing, provision and staffing through strategic local economic partnerships, notes Michael Wood
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New safety regulator could be given power to fine trusts
Ministers plan to give the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch tough new powers including the ability to fine organisations and staff for failing to cooperate with its inquiries.
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Doctors threaten legal action against NHS over IR35 tax rules
Unions representing locum doctors have threatened to seek a judicial review against NHS Improvement claiming the NHS is continuing to wrongly apply new tax rules.
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Government seeks to halt GPs leaving profession
Jeremy Hunt is expected to announce a new government backed indemnity scheme for GPs in England later today.
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More funding needed to lift pay cap, warn Stevens and Mackey
The government will need to provide the extra cash needed to lift the public sector pay cap in the NHS, Simon Stevens and Jim Mackey told MPs.
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NHS pay rises will be 'linked to productivity', says Jeremy Hunt
Jeremy Hunt has told MPs the cap on pay rises for NHS staff has been scrapped but any change would be tied to a deal on productivity.
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CQC: Trusts drop ratings amid 'precarious' care quality
More than a quarter of mental health trusts and almost a fifth of acute trusts previously rated ‘good’ have got worse on reinspection, the Care Quality Commission’s annual State of Care report reveals.
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NHS workers to get first refusal on affordable homes
Plans to give health workers first refusal on affordable housing built on surplus NHS land have been welcomed by sector representatives.
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Exclusive: Trust bosses call on government to confirm sustainability cash beyond 2019
NHS trust leaders have called on the government to protect the £1.8bn sustainability fund beyond 2018-19, but say it should not be channelled into commissioning allocations until problems with the national tariff are addressed.
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Hunt plans 25 per cent increase in student nursing placements
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt will today outline plans to create an extra 5,000 training posts for student nurses from next year, an increase of 25 per cent.
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Exclusive: Government threatens to intervene over DTOCs performance
Ministers are set to issue a fresh warning to councils deemed to have made insufficient progress tackling delayed transfers of care, amid a bitter row over the withholding of funding.
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Revealed: How much NHS trusts made from land sales
Sales of land or physical assets by NHS trusts generated cash receipts of £220m in 2016-17.
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Expert Briefing
Property bubble could yet benefit the NHS
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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New scrutiny body to be 'voice of clinicians' in NHS procurement
Products bought for NHS trusts are set to be subject to greater scrutiny for clinical value as part of a major overhaul of NHS procurement.
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Expert Briefing
Following the Money: Capital funds are coming for the NHS, but there's a catch
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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Labour calls for £500m 'winter bailout fund'
Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth will call on the government to provide a £500m “winter bailout fund” for health and care services.
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HEE expects to beat record GP recruitment numbers
Health Education England is “on track” to exceed last year’s record GP trainee recruitment, a senior official has told HSJ.
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DH spent £3m on consultants for abandoned NHS Professionals sale
The Department of Health spent almost £3m on consultant advice for its plan to sell off NHS Professionals, which was dropped earlier this month.
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Unions demand 3.9 per cent pay rise
Fourteen unions representing nurses and other NHS staff have demanded a 3.9 per cent pay rise, plus a one off payment of £800 per employee.
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Exclusive: Government's capital funding regime is like 'driving in fog'
The leader of Greater Manchester’s devolution team has called for more clarity over NHS capital funding, saying the government’s current regime is like “driving into fog”.