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NewsHospital reconfigurations ‘negatively impacting’ patients, warn government advisers
Clinical service reconfigurations are mostly driven by the “poor condition of [the] NHS estate” and a lack of staff rather than a desire to “improve clinical outcomes”, advisers to the Department of Health and Social Care have said.
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NewsMinisters sitting on 26 requests to intervene in service reconfigurations
The Department of Health and Social Care received 26 requests to intervene in NHS service changes in the first three months of the new reconfiguration regime, and has yet to make a decision on any of them, HSJ can reveal.
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News‘Patients at risk’ as ministers take two years to decide on reconfiguration
A Tory councillor has criticised successive health secretaries for risking patients’ outcomes by taking two years to decide on a regional centralisation of critical health services.
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NewsHow health secretary’s new powers over the NHS will work
The Health and Social Care Bill, laid before Parliament on Tuesday, sets out how the health secretary could intervene in a wide range of NHS decisions and functions.
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NewsIndependent Reconfiguration Panel will not be abolished by new legislation
The Independent Reconfiguration Panel will not be axed in the government’s health and social care bill, HSJ understands.
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NewsNew health bill may create ‘bureaucratic nightmare’, ICS leader warns
The senior NHS leader who is representing integrated care systems has warned government and NHS reform proposals risk creating a ‘bureaucratic nightmare’.
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NewsHealth secretary could prop up unsafe services with new power, say NHS leaders
New powers given to the health secretary as part of proposed legislation could make local services unsafe, NHS Providers has warned the House of Commons health select committee.
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NewsWhite paper final draft confirms far-reaching NHS legislation plans
A final version of the government’s health and care white paper, seen by HSJ, confirms it plans to press ahead with far-reaching legal reforms.
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NewsGo-ahead given for hospital rebuild backed by PM
Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock has given the go-ahead to the building of a new ‘specialist emergency hospital’ – which was pledged as one of six major rebuilds by the prime minister – the month after it was called in.
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NewsCouncil seeks to block hospital rebuild backed by PM
A council is urging Matt Hancock to call in a decision to build a new specialist emergency care hospital as part of a major £500m project backed by the prime minister.
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NewsStaff shortage leads to emergency reconfiguration of stroke services
A hospital is to stop providing acute stroke services from the end of this month after all but one of its specialist stroke nurses handed in their notice.
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NewsCampaigners lose legal battle against major reconfiguration
Campaigners fighting a regional centralisation of stroke services have lost their judicial review.
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NewsHancock backs controversial A&E downgrade
The health secretary has given the green light to a major overhaul of Dorset’s acute hospital services, including the long-planned downgrade of Poole’s A&E department.
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NewsControversial stroke plans delayed
A controversial reconfiguration of stroke services in Kent and Medway will be delayed by over a year, regardless of whether an ongoing court case forces NHS organisations to change their current plans.
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NewsHancock gives controversial reconfiguration the green light
Matt Hancock has given a controversial A&E reconfiguration the green light following almost a decade of delays.
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HSJ LocalBosses still confident of NHS’ longest-running merger, despite delays
A trust merger which was first proposed in 2011 has been delayed again – this time by up to 18 months.
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HSJ LocalThree trust mega-merger delayed by a year
The planned merger of three Essex hospital trusts has been pushed back a year, board papers published this month have revealed.
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HSJ LocalSecond council supports referral to Hancock over £150m reconfiguration
Health chiefs in Dorset have “confidence” in their plans to reconfigure acute services in the county despite two local authorities asking for a review by health secretary Matt Hancock, they have said.
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HSJ LocalMajor reconfiguration could be referred to Hancock
A major reconfiguration of services faces referral to the health and social care secretary by a local council, putting £118m of transformation funding at risk.
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HSJ LocalHealth secretary backs hospital reconfiguration plans
The health and social care secretary has backed NHS plans for a major reconfiguration of acute hospital services.