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Government reveals ‘historic’ first mandate
The government has published its first mandate for the NHS, in what it said was a “historic” moment.
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Exclusive: Hospital chiefs warned to check celebrities' access to patients
All NHS hospitals have been told to review their approach to giving celebrities access to patients in light of the allegations about Jimmy Savile
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Lewisham Healthcare boss appointed designate chief exec of Lewisham/Greenwich organisation
STRUCTURE: The chief executive of Lewisham Healthcare Trust has been appointed chief executive designate of the trust that will be created if his organisation is merged with part of South London Healthcare Trust, which has been placed in the failure regime.
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Mandate requires board to guarantee CCG autonomy
Clinical commissioning groups have received a strengthened commitment from ministers to ensure their autonomy, and new powers to rate the performance of the NHS Commissioning Board.The board will be held to account on whether it achieves “the best health outcomes for patients by strengthening the local autonomy of CCGs”. The ...
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DH earmarks £2bn for commissioning system running cost
The government has set the limit for the NHS commissioning system’s running costs at £2bn for 2013-14, including £676m for the NHS Commissioning Board itself.
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Providers to be judged on integration and deaths from poor care
NHS organisations will be judged by whether patients report their care as well integrated, and the number of deaths in hospital attributable to poor care, under the mandate.
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Mandate: Mental health sector faces new challenges
Providers of NHS mental health services could be expected to meet new waiting time standards to drive improvements in access, according to the NHS mandate.
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NHS chiefs ordered to explain £3bn underspend
The NHS’s leadership has been ordered by the health select committee to explain which pots of money the £3bn Department of Health underspend handed back to the Treasury came from.
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Mandate proposes workforce changes to improve care
NHS managers, doctors and nurses can expect to be put under greater scrutiny over the next two years in order to ensure better and safer care for patients.
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RCN warns of looming nursing crisis
More than 30,000 NHS jobs are at risk of being cut, the Royal College of Nursing has said.
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Barts overpays staff by £1m
WORKFORCE: Barts and the London Trust made salary overpayments totalling nearly £1m in the last financial year, it can be revealed.
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Hunt loosens the reins of power
Hunt considers the mandate a test of the government’s commitment to loosening the reins
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South Warwickshire FT shifts intravenous therapy into the community
STRUCTURE: South Warwickshire Foundation Trust has launched a new intravenous therapy service, which will see patients treated in their own homes rather than in hospital.
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Obese NHS staff criticised in Lords
Obese NHS staff provide a “very poor role model” to patients trying to lose weight, according to a leading doctor.
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Heatherwood and Wexham park FT risks £600,000 contingency gap
FINANCE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust risks a £600,000 gap between the size of its contingency fund and all possible cost pressures.
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Healthcare at Home partnership introduces cancer home care in Leeds
COMMERCIAL: A new private healthcare service, in partnership with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, has opened in the city, offering care at home for cancer patients.
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Royal Leamington Spa Rehabilitation Hospital to be renamed
STRUCTURE: South Warwickshire Foundation Trust is asking staff and its local communities to think of an “innovative” new name for its Royal Leamington Spa Rehabilitation Hospital.
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Moorfields consultant awarded £1.7m by NIHR
CLINICAL RESEARCH: A consultant at Moorfields Eye Hospital Foundation Trust has been awarded £1.7m by the National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment programme for glaucoma research.
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HSJ Live rolling news 13.11.12
Today’s rolling health news from HSJ, including coverage of the first mandate for the NHS.
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Cambridge could be in ‘significant breach’ Monitor warns
PERFORMANCE: Monitor has warned Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust it may declare it in ‘significant breach’ of its terms of authorisation.