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NewsCQC staff survey shows morale still low
Just 16 per cent of staff at the Care Quality Commission think morale is good while less than a fifth think changes are effectively implemented, the organisation’s latest staff survey reveals.
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NewsCash for end-of-life hospitals
Eighty-five per cent of trusts have adopted a controversial end-of-life care regime which can involve withholding food and drink from terminally-ill patients, figures suggest.
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NewsMonitor vows to improve 'not fit for purpose' pricing system
Monitor has vowed to improve the NHS treatment pricing system after a King’s Fund report said the payment by results system was “not fit for purpose”.
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Buckinghamshire CCGs overspend by £1.3m on elective care
FINANCE: Buckinghamshire’s clinical commissioning groups have reported an overspend on planned care of £1.3m in the year to date.
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NewsBMA concerned at tools manufacture
Some of the medical equipment used in the NHS is manufactured in “unhealthy, unsafe and unfair” working conditions where employees are exposed to serious risks, the British Medical Association said.
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NewsHSJ Live: rolling news 2.11.12
All the day’s news including a King’s Fund report says tariff is “not fit for our current and future needs”
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NewsExclusive: GP practices' huge income variation revealed
Some GP practices are paid substantially more than others, regardless of the number and type of patients they serve, HSJ analysis reveals.
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NewsMonitor and DH work on bailout formula
Monitor and the Department of Health are working to devise a formula determining when troubled foundation trusts receive financial bailouts.
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NewsRevealed: the cost of standardising practices' core income
Standardising practices’ “core” income would mean a shift in funding worth about a quarter of a billion pounds, HSJ has estimated.
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NewsNHS London reviews controversial hospital productivity analysis
NHS London is re-examining a controversial analysis which concluded the capital’s hospital sector was “not sustainable in [its] present form”.
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NewsEpsom and St Helier may be next for failure regime after merger talks fail
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust may be the next to enter the failure regime, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalBristol children's cardiac ward where patient died was understaffed
PERFORMANCE: Managers at University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust have been criticised by the Care Quality Commission for failing to address long running staffing issues on a ward for seriously ill children.
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NewsHSJ Briefing: General practice service and policy - summary
Ie look at the growing pressure for general practice to meet rising NHS demand. Policy direction focuses on local commissioning board teams and CCGs working on a slow but steady path of improvement
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Private providers see 11 per cent growth in NHS elective work
The number of NHS-funded elective procedures carried out in the private sector rose 10.5 per cent last year, NHS Information Centre data shows.
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Hospital admission rise 'due to fragmentation' - report
A significant rise in hospital admissions in recent years is largely due to fragmented health and social care services, according to a think-tank.
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LeaderJeremy Hunt: More a Dorrell than a Lansley
The need to assure and reassure is behind the commissioning board’s £12bn budget
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Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust seeks £9m bailout
A hospital trust struggling with its finances has lodged an application for a £9m loan from the Department of Health.
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NewsHSJ Live: rolling news 1.11.12
Rolling coverage of today’s health news including official figures showing a large rise in the number of NHS operations carried out privately.
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NewsExclusive: Nearly £3bn returned to Treasury
The Department of Health has returned nearly £3bn of its funding to the Treasury over the past two years, despite facing its tightest financial settlement for five decades.A Treasury spokesman this week confirmed to HSJ the department had handed back around £1bn of the funding it was allocated for health ...
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NewsBoard could force CCGs to work with its teams on reconfiguration
The NHS Commissioning Board will have the ability to force clinical commissioning groups to work with centrally appointed groups of doctors on reconfiguration programmes.