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NewsExclusive: Trusts' capital spending plans unaffordable by £1bn
NHS Improvement says trusts’ capital spending expectations are £1bn more than the resources available Trusts asked to defer non-urgent spending to 2017-18 Concerns over some organisations, whose chief executive and chair have been asked to review their forecasts NHS trusts have been told their capital spending plans for ...
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NewsTrusts offered lower interest on bailouts to hit finance targets
Lower interest rates on loans offered as incentive for trusts to deliver control total for the year, as DH seeks to stay within parliamentary spending limit Dozens of providers with financial deficits are reliant on “revolving” loans to ensure staff and invoices can be paid Loans carry an interest ...
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NewsCatch up: Hunt on Brexit and NHS data shared with Home Office
Coverage of Jeremy Hunt facing MPs’ questions, and an important agreement between NHS Digital and the Home Office
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NewsStevens: GPs will change as their 'backs are against the wall'
Primary care transformation will be “won or lost” over next two years, Simon Stevens says Quality and outcomes framework to be replaced as it is “past its use by date” NHS England chief also says junior doctor training needs overhaul within three years Simon Stevens has said there ...
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HSJ LocalCCG seeks single provider for £1m seven day GP contract
Commissioners in the West Midlands have launched a procurement process for a single provider of a seven day GP services contract worth more than £1m, HSJ has learned.
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NewsHoma, Durkin and May head up Patient Safety Awards judges
The national director of patient safety Mike Durkin, prominent patient safety campaigners and leading trust chief executives have been confirmed as judges for this year’s Patient Safety Awards.
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HSJ LocalFoundation trust predicts £7m increase in private income
Moorfields Eye Hospital Foundation Trust is predicting a significant spike in private income in 2016-17, its board papers reveal.
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NewsMPs approve new head of NHS watchdog
New health service ombudsman approved by MPs after joint hearings last week Rob Behrens is currently head of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator in Higher Education Mr Behrens will replace Dame Julie Mellor who resigned last year The new parliamentary and health service ombudsman has been approved ...
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NewsThousands of patients could be forced into care homes due to CCG cuts
At least 37 CCGs may force patients with ongoing care needs to accept residential care home placements due to restrictions to NHS Continuing Healthcare funding More than 13,000 people could be affected by the policies in these 37 areas At least three CCGs confident their policies are legal despite ...
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HSJ LocalTrust sought millions in compensation for 'horrendous' handover delays
In 2017-18 contract negotiations West Midlands Ambulance Service requested compensation from CCGs for handover delays Trust and 22 CCGs entered mediation over the request for compensation Despite mediation the trust said it did not get the agreement it wanted An ambulance trust sought millions of pounds in compensation ...
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NewsExclusive: Six out of seven people haven't heard of STPs
Research shared exclusively with HSJ has found very low awareness of sustainability and transformation plans among the general public.
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NewsRevealed: The hospitals with the worst nurse staffing
Analysis suggests majority of acute hospitals are struggling to meet their own plans for nurse staffing Data shows trusts employing more healthcare assistants than planned Expert warns there is a risk of “false reassurance” on safety Decline in achieving staffing plans comes despite increases in employed nurses and tougher ...
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Quarter of trusts in dispute with NHS Improvement over finance targets
Around 60 out of 238 trusts have refused to agree their financial “control total” for next year Control totals require provider sector to deliver average efficiency savings of 4 per cent Majority of providers have agreed their contracts with commissioners, with fewer than 10 thought to require a formal ...
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NewsPressure on NHS 'toughest I have ever seen', says NHSI director
Trusts need support to recruit and retain staff, says NHS Improvement nursing director Nursing directors say they plan more overseas recruitment this year Some trusts may have harder to achieve staffing plans compared with others One of England’s most senior nurses has said the pressures facing the health ...
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NewsHSJ Value in Healthcare Awards shortlist revealed
The organisations in the running to win one of the HSJ Value in Healthcare Awards 2017 at have been revealed.
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HSJ Local'Joint executive' team to lead three trusts revealed
Clare Panniker finalises top team to lead Basildon, Southend and Mid Essex “group model” Team includes members from each trust and Basildon has biggest representation Team must take crucial decisions over major acute reconfiguration and A&E downgrades Three Essex trusts setting up a new “group model” to run ...
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HSJ LocalSandwiches withdrawn from trust with cash flow problems
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust has asked some external suppliers to accept later payments, which has prompted a sandwich firm to withdraw its products Trust has a cash shortfall of more than £8m, so will seek to delay payments until next year The DH introduced new restrictions on cash ...
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NewsExclusive: Doctors' views used to expose failing services
NHS Improvement looking at trusts in lowest quintile of GMC’s doctors in training survey Regulator also believes concerns expressed by HEE can identify “trusts teetering on the brink of lasting A&E performance failure” See the most recent survey results NHS Improvement will use the satisfaction rates of junior ...
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NewsNurses reveal strain of working on understaffed wards
Patients have been left waiting for medications, unwashed or had vital observations delayed because hospital wards do not have enough nurses, HSJ has been told.
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NewsNew owner for HSJ announced
Wilmington plc has reached an agreement to acquire HSJ from Ascential plc, its owner since 1997.