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HSJ Efficiency Awards extends deadline for finance entries
The inaugural HSJ Efficiency Awards aim to promote organisations who demonstrate strategies and initiatives that have tangibly improved efficiency and cost savings, whilst maintaining the highest levels of patient care and staff morale.
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Online seminar: driving standards up and costs down
With the advent of commissioning consortia and competition in the NHS, how will standards be improved and costs be driven down? Watch HSJ’s free online seminar now to find out
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Providers warn over dangers of PCT ‘war chest’
NHS commissioners are building a “war chest” to fund service reorganisation and deal with financial emergencies. But providers are warning the move risks “unnecessary cuts to jobs and services”.
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South East London cluster breaching Data Protection Act and Information Commissioner rules
PERFORMANCE: The six-PCT cluster reported it was working to develop an “information sharing agreement” between it and its constituent primary care trusts.
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Surrey consortium petitions Lansley over handover legal hurdles
COMMERCIAL: A commissioning consortium last week pulled health secretary Andrew Lansley into its struggle to take on commissioning powers from primary care trust NHS Surrey.
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Data transparency letter to Treasury reveals fraud fears
Public organisations are at an increased risk of fraud because of the government’s requirement for them to publish detailed spending data online, HSJ has learned.
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Birmingham council loses care judicial review
Judge says disability legislation must be followed
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SE London cluster has 22 red-rated 'issues of concern' with independent contractors
PERFORMANCE: A South East London cluster has 22 red-rated “issues of concern” with independent contractors, according to its latest risk register.
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Wolverhampton practice-based commissioners run up £7.84m overspend
FINANCE: Practice-based commissioners overseen by NHS Wolverhampton City have run up a recurrent overspend of £7.84m.
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Solent trust overshoots on agency staff
WORKFORCE: Solent Healtcare NHS Trust used more than double its target rate of agency staff in March.
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NHS Greenwich heading to judicial review with GPs over contract termination
PERFORMANCE: The commisioning organisation NHS Greenwich, part of the South East London cluster, terminated one of its practice’s PMS contract with six months’ notice, sparking a request for a judicial review.
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Consortia authorisation 'window' risks quality
The short “window” to authorise commissioning consortia could undermine quality, according to one of those working for the Department of Health on the reorganisation.
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Private provider bosses confident of reform opportunities
Private healthcare chief executives have remained confident their firms will profit from NHS reform even as political controversy has stalled the Health Bill, a survey shows.
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Competition of services could have 'unintended consequences', warns FTN
“Unbundling” services to subject them to competition will be “very difficult” for the new NHS economic regulator, the head of the Foundation Trust Network has warned.
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Fast-tracked treatment for armed forces to be law
Commissioners face further pressure not to restrict treatments following a move to enshrine in law preferential access to care for the armed forces.
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Wolverhampton City overspends on private providers by 88 per cent
FINANCE: NHS Wolverhampton City has overspent on private providers by the equivalent of 88 per cent of the total value of the contracts.
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Negligence claims against GPs rise
Medical negligence claims against GPs have jumped by almost 20 per cent, figures suggest.
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No evidence for money saving potential of community care pathways
A lack of reliable data on the cost of outpatient and community services is hampering commissioners’ attempts to make efficiency savings by moving care out of the acute sector.
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Oxford Health over target on agency staff use
WORKFORCE: Use of non-permanent staff is to be investigated at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, after it increased at the end of the 2010-11 financial year.
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Locum surgeons 'not appropriately qualified'
Some locum surgeons are working beyond their expertise and are not eligible to be called consultants, the Royal College of Surgeons has said.