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Financially challenged CCG must not get 'distracted', says outgoing chief
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group, one of England’s largest commissioners, must not get “distracted” by designing new structures following its improved rating, its outgoing chief officer has warned.
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Exclusive: Former health secretary 'excited' to bring India lessons to NHS
Former health secretary Patricia Hewitt has pledged to use her experience of working with the Indian healthcare system to help develop the Norfolk and Waveney STP.
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NHS to build new cybersecurity centre
The agency charged with protecting the NHS from cyberattacks is planning to build a new ‘security operations centre’.
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Private hospital chief executive announces departure
The chief executive of one of the largest private acute providers working in the NHS has resigned and will return home to Australia at the end of the year.
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'Undeliverable' DTOC reduction targets revealed
More than a third of councils have been told to reduce delayed transfers of care from hospital attributable to social care by 50 per cent or more by September, raising the possibility they could lose better care fund money if they fail.
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Pharma manager named as new DH chief commercial officer
The Department of Health has appointed a new chief commercial officer who will lead the renegotiation of pharmaceutical pricing regulation scheme.
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Plans confirmed for biggest ever CCG merger
A merger of three clinical commissioning groups would streamline commissioning across Birmingham and Solihull with some functions shifting to accountable care organisations.
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Challenged trust appoints former nurse as chief executive
A former nurse has been appointed as the new chief executive of a £550m turnover trust.
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CCGs face 'impossible' choices to deliver higher savings targets
Local commissioners must deliver efficiency savings of almost 4 per cent to meet their financial targets this year, despite failing to get close to last year’s target of 3.2 per cent.
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Exclusive: New top doctors' leader warns over 'softening' of waiting targets
One of the UK’s top medical leaders has warned over the ‘softening’ of waiting list targets, in the first interview in her new post.
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NHS worker allowed to keep £30,000 after pensions mix-up
An NHS worker has been told she can keep more than £31,000 in payments she was not entitled to after blunders by the NHS Business Services Authority
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New trust 'foundation group' formed across counties
Two West Midlands trusts have formed a “foundation group” to create twin accountable care organisations despite being separated by an entire county.
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Exclusive: Child suffers 'severe harm' as a result of trust's data problems
Two more patients, including a child, came to ‘severe harm’ as a result of a teaching trust losing track of their records.
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Richards: NHS must protect waiting times and access to treatment
The NHS must protect waiting times for planned treatment and maintain access to evidence based care despite ongoing austerity, the outgoing chief inspector of hospitals has insisted.
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CQC: More trusts to face prosecution for safety breaches
More NHS trusts could face criminal prosecution for breaches of fundamental safety standards to act as a “deterrent”, the Care Quality Commission’s outgoing chief inspector of hospitals has warned.
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CCGs abandon £535m flagship prime provider contract
A tender worth half a billion pounds for end of life care services in Staffordshire has been abandoned due to the development of the area’s STP and difficulties, satisfying the new national scrutiny process, HSJ has learned.
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Exclusive: NHS England delay 'denies patients access to life saving treatment'
Patients are being denied access to heart treatments that could prevent strokes or save lives after an NHS England project was delayed, a charity has told HSJ.
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CCG leaders step down amid NHS England investigation
Two senior clinical commissioning group leaders have stepped down, and the CCG is being investigated by NHS England, it has emerged.
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Jeremy Hunt to have final say over A&E closure
Controversial plans to close an accident and emergency department and centralise emergency services in a neighbouring town have been referred to Jeremy Hunt for a final decision.
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HR directors warn new union rules are 'complete distraction'
Trusts are wasting valuable time dealing with new legislation governing staff’s trade union subscriptions, HR directors have told HSJ.