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Cheshire and Wirral Partnership offer staff physio to combat sickness absence
WORKFORCE: The foundation is to offer physiotherapy services to help staff with musculoskeletal problems, in an effort to reduce its sickness absence levels.
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NHS Harrow to consider 'appropriate tariffs' for elective care
STRUCTURE: The London primary care trust, part of the north west London cluster, has a specific plan for 2011-12 - alongside the cluster strategy - which will see “a fundamental review of elective care pathways across providers”.
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Exclusive: McKinsey working with trust to see if it can make FT status in current form
STRUCTURE: A report prepared for NHS London said the South London Healthcare Trust was “currently being reviewed by McKinsey & Co and this is feeding into the options assessment around whether/when the organisation can achieve FT status in its current form”.
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NewsInformation strategy delayed until autumn, DH confirms
The government’s long-awaited “information revolution” strategy for health has been delayed again, and will not now be released until the autumn, the Department of Health has confirmed.
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NewsGovernment publishes full details of reform changes
The government today published full details of the changes to its reform plans in a command paper to Parliament.
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NewsClare Chapman resigns from DH
The Department of Health’s workforce director Clare Chapman has resigned.
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Royal colleges to be enlisted to identify procedures at risk of 'cherry picking'
The Department of Health command paper on choice, competition and a failure regime for trusts sets out some specifics but leaves many questions unanswered.
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NewsGroups to commission for 'their whole population'
The Health Bill will make explicit that clinical commissioning groups must commission for “whole populations, not just registered patients”, the government has said.
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NewsBoard membership requirements to be set out in regulations
Key changes to the NHS reforms to widen clinical involvement in commissioning will not be written into legislation.
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NewsTrusts to be held to account for training funds
Providers will be held much more heavily to account for their investment in training, the government has announced.
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Nicholson to remain NHS chief executive until 2013 as reform timetable relaxes
Sir David Nicholson will remain NHS chief executive for the whole of 2012-13, as well as leading the NHS commissioning board in its initial stages, the Department of Health has revealed.
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NewsCommissioners will have duty to tell patients about waiting time rights
Commissioning groups will have a duty to ensure patients are aware of their rights to access services within maximum waiting times, the government’s full response to the Future Forum has said.
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NewsDH redrawing failure regime to avoid up-front political battles
The government is drawing up a revised failure regime to avoid the advance labelling of which hospital and care services could hypothetically go bust and be closed down.
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NewsPatient and public involvement to be strengthened
At least 10 of the 150 amendments the government plans to make to the Health and Social Care Bill concern enhancing patient and public involvement, according to the Department of Health’s full response to Future Forum’s recommendations.
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NewsParliament to approve regulations on dissolving failing consortia
New regulations will be introduced on the NHS Commissioning Board’s powers to intervene and even dissolve failing clinical commissioning groups.
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Integrity of quality accounts in doubt at Sussex Community
PERFORMANCE: Sussex Community NHS Trust’s quality and risk committee has questioned the “integrity” of its quality accounts, following a review.
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City Hospitals Sunderland in bottom 20 per cent for CIP achievement
FINANCE: The acute trust achieved only 76 per cent of its cost improvement programme for the past financial year.
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Buckinghamshire Healthcare cuts staff bill
WORKFORCE Buckinghamshire Healthcare has knocked £1m off its staff pay bill in a month, but is reporting a higher than planned rate of sickness among staff.
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NewsHealth secretary and NCB will only intervene when failure is 'significant'
The health secretary will only have powers to intervene directly in the running of national NHS bodies where failure is deemed to be “significant”, the government has stated.
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NewsKing's Fund calls for hospital mergers
Twenty hospitals need to be merged or taken over to improve the quality of care for patients, the head of the King’s Fund has said.