All Jim Mackey articles – Page 16

  • Ara Darzi
    News

    Lord Darzi calls for trusts to invest in social care

    2016-02-29T10:07:00Z

    Professor Lord Ara Darzi has said NHS providers should get into the social care business to take the pressure off acute trusts.

  • hand shake
    Comment

    End Game: Hands up who’s been naughty

    2016-02-23T06:53:00Z

    Get your facts right on hand hygeine – and weighty issues delay a meeting

  • News

    NHS providers facing £2.8bn deficit for 2015-16

    2016-02-19T13:58:00Z

    Provider sector’s current trajectory would result in a full-year deficit of £2.8bn for 2015-16, but “additional opportunities” for savings still being implemented Regulators target a deficit of £1.8bn, to prevent the Department of Health from breaching its revenue spending limit for NHS has been told that any overspend this ...

  • Ian Cumming
    News

    Trusts may lose training cash if they don’t impose contract, warns HEE

    2016-02-17T11:05:00Z

    HEE chief executive Ian Cumming says he is not prepared to see a competitive market between trusts with different junior doctor contracts Adoption of new contract will be key criteria for HEE decisions on training posts with NHS trusts Follows speculation some trusts could choose not to adopt the ...

  • Jim Mackey
    News

    Mackey: Junior doctors’ contract should be 'consistently' implemented

    2016-02-16T17:00:00Z

    Jim Mackey says NHS Improvement will “do all we can” to ensure consistent implementation He says Sir David Dalton deserves the full support of trust chief executives and chairs Mr Mackey calls social media attacks on chief executives “unacceptable and unprofessional” The chief executive of NHS Improvement has ...

  • Jim Mackey
    News

    Exclusive: NHS Improvement executive director team revealed

    2016-02-11T09:08:00Z

    NHS Improvement executive team names revealed The new organisation, replacing Monitor and the TDA, will today set out how it plans to work Announces new ‘improvement faculty’ and networks for clinical leaders No competition and cooperation director in top team NHS Improvement has appointed its executive director team, ...

  • Treasury
    News

    Treasury gives £1.2bn boost to DH revenue budget

    2016-02-10T17:07:00Z

    DH confirms it will get an extra £205m from the Treasury, and transfer £950m from its capital budget to revenue spending Revised departmental funding estimates will be laid before Parliament today, before being debated and voted on in the coming weeks Bailout comes amid warnings that the DH could ...

  • Hospital staff rushing with patient
    News

    Staff agencies struggle to meet NHS demand following pay cap

    2016-02-10T07:00:00Z

    Survey suggests agencies are struggling to fill NHS shifts following introduction of pay caps Monitor says the majority of trusts are not struggling to find temporary staff but a third of providers have said it is more difficult Jim Mackey says NHS’s financial challenge “should not be at the ...

  • Hand shake
    News

    Exclusive: DH hired headhunters to find new regulator chief

    2016-02-08T17:00:00Z

    The Department of Health spent thousands on a headhunting firm to recruit the head of NHS Improvement, only a few months before trusts were warned against using the firms for their own executive posts, HSJ can reveal.

  • David Cameron
    News

    Fifteen trusts asked to pay executives more than prime minister

    2016-02-03T07:00:00Z

    Fifteen trusts applied for permission to pay an executive more than the prime minister Providers must get Treasury approval for salaries above £142,500 NHS Improvement leaders say finding the right managers is biggest problem facing providers Fifteen trusts have applied for permission to pay at least one board ...

  • Jim Mackey
    News

    Mackey: Success regime not working fast enough

    2016-01-29T11:18:00Z

    Jim Mackey criticises pace of success regime programmes NHS Improvement board notes “short window” for statutory consultations around service change Chief executive stresses these are “once and for all” changes The chief executive of NHS Improvement has criticised the speed with which the success regime programme has made ...

  • Alastair Mclellan - Innovators
    Leader

    Seeing the real Carter legacy through the smoke

    2016-01-28T18:04:00Z

    Post-Carter report, healthcare leaders have their work cut out tackling unwarranted variation

  • Agency nurse
    News

    More than a quarter of trusts asked to breach agency cap

    2016-01-26T12:45:00Z

    More than a quarter of trusts ask Monitor permission to breach “ceiling” on agency spend in September Nearly a quarter are successful New price cap due to take effect next week More than a quarter of trusts asked Monitor to increase their agency spending cap last year, HSJ ...

  • David Behan
    News

    Exclusive: Regulators plot new 'single view of quality'

    2016-01-25T13:00:00Z

    CQC chief executive says local NHS should change its quality monitoring and governance The CQC “will use NHS Improvement’s assessment of efficiency” Regulator has “come away from the use of the phrase co-regulation” The Care Quality Commission has promised to develop a “single shared view of quality” across ...

  • Crispin Dowler
    Comment

    Moves to rescue the DH's bottom line look increasingly desperate

    2016-01-25T09:58:00Z

    As the NHS approaches the end of one of the toughest years in its history, the Deparment of Health is going to desperate measures not to bust its budget, writes Crispin Dowler

  • Agency nurse
    News

    Agency bill predicted to hit £4bn this year

    2016-01-19T11:22:00Z

    NHS provider trusts will spend £4bn on bank and agency staff in 2015-16, national NHS leaders told MPs yesterday.

  • A&E
    HSJ Local

    A&E shake-up needs £490m 'external funding support'

    2016-01-19T10:41:00Z

    Huddersfield to lose emergency services despite being twice the size of Halifax Plan will ensure full use of PFI buildings at Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax CCGs say plan will maintain high quality services using the resources available STRUCTURE: Commissioners may consult on plans to reconfigure acute services ...

  • Sir Mike Richards
    News

    Quality and finances 'cannot trump one another', say regulators

    2016-01-15T13:04:00Z

    NHS Improvement and CQC say providers will be judged on delivering “the right quality outcomes within the resources available” Regulators promise to work together to send “single clear, consistent message” New staffing guidance and “care hours per patient day” metric due NHS Improvement and the Care Quality Commission ...

  • Pooland
    Comment

    End Game: A saucer of milk for the minister

    2016-01-14T17:30:00Z

    End Game brings to you the serious nature of herbal products and a dash of pop 

  • Jim Mackey
    News

    Tariff proposals will not include marginal rate for specialised services

    2015-12-18T12:33:00Z

    Providers would be required to buy high cost devices through a central price list “Sustainability fund” could be linked to performance on Carter review, agency spend and avoidable mortality Up to £500m of local capital-to-revenue transfers expected, on top of those at a national level Some areas indicating a ...