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  • Katrina Percy
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    Katrina Percy resigns as Southern Health chief executive

    2016-08-30T11:55:00Z

    Katrina Percy resigns as chief executive of Southern Health Foundation Trust Ms Percy said “ongoing personal media attention” following the publication of the Mazars report had made her role “untenable” Julie Dawes, director of nursing and quality, to take over as interim chief executive Katrina Percy is standing ...

  • Mike Pinkerton
    HSJ Local

    Yorkshire hospital trust chief steps down

    2016-08-30T12:22:00Z

    LEADERSHIP: A south Yorkshire hospital trust chief executive has stepped down to spend more time with his family after nearly four years in the post.

  • Amanda Doyle
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    Today: Join our session on STPs at the Health and Care Innovation Expo

    2016-08-30T12:38:00Z

    HSJ is to hold a discussion on STPs at the Health and Care Innovation Expo on 8 September. 

  • Doctors
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    Revealed: NHS trusts to lose millions in training funding

    2016-08-26T07:00:00Z

    Treasury spending review leads to 2 per cent cut in education and training cash paid to NHS providers in 2016-17 Health Education England will offset the cut this year as a one-off move to prevent destabilisation NHS Providers warns cuts are not sustainable in light of wider financial pressures ...

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    HSJ Local

    Mental health trust saves £2m by cutting out of area placements

    2016-08-26T07:00:00Z

    Mental health trust has eliminated acute adult out of area placements due to lack of beds in the last four years Sheffield Health and Social Care FT has put the £2m savings into bolstering community services teams “Out of town bed nights” dropped from 2,939 to 188 from 2011-12 ...

  • News

    Updated: NHS provider sector on track to meet financial plans, says regulator

    2016-08-25T13:57:00Z

    Provider deficit after Q1 broadly in line with plans NHS observers welcome the report, but warn that situation is likely to worsen throughout year Further actions needed to reduce year end forecast deficit of £644m The overall NHS provider sector has reported a deficit of £461m for the ...

  • Niall Dickson
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    80 hospitals in GMC 'special measures' over safety and training concerns

    2016-08-25T07:00:00Z

    GMC chief executive urges government to accelerate reform of professional regulators, including mergers Medical watchdog is developing a new intelligence system to analyse data and act faster over concerns Seventy-nine hospitals are being monitored because of concerns over standards of training or safety Almost 80 hospitals are being ...

  • Illustraion showing NHS in a vice
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    Exclusive: Officials warn over 'extremely constrained' capital for STPs

    2016-08-25T07:00:00Z

    STP leaders warned over capital funding and IT funding Officials say some areas will get “system control totals” Deadlines set to finish two year contracting process by end of December Health and local government leaders working on major regional transformation plans have been warned capital funding is “extremely ...

  • Stafford Hospital
    HSJ Local

    Stafford hospital A&E stops seeing children amid safety fears

    2016-08-25T12:55:00Z

    University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust says Stafford A&E department is unsafe due to shortage of specialist paediatric staff Concerns echo those raised in August 2006 when a peer review warned of “immediate risks” to children due to a lack of staff Staff shortages include doctors and nurses trained ...

  • Doctor
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    Exclusive: Successor to Care.data awaits government sign-off

    2016-08-24T15:30:00Z

    New digital services platform follows abandoned Care.data project It will be built with scale and flexibility to “take in all available GP data” Personal data flowing out of GP surgeries will have to be adequately anonymised for patients who wish to opt-out Care.data “set back” data sharing arrangements in ...

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    HSJ Local

    Trust to face legal challenge over A&E closure

    2016-08-24T11:39:00Z

    LEGAL: United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust could face a legal challenge against its decision to partially close the accident and emergency department at Grantham and District Hospital.

  • Pathology
    HSJ Local

    London trusts seek major savings through pathology consolidation

    2016-08-24T10:57:00Z

    Imperial College Healthcare, Chelsea and Westminster FT and Hillingdon Hospitals FT to consolidate pathology services Service will run on a “hub and spoke” model, with £96m of savings expected over 10 years Pathology targeted by NHS Improvement for major in-year savings drive STRUCTURE: Three trusts in north west ...

  • Harrogate
    HSJ Local

    'Outstanding' CCG announces £8m savings target

    2016-08-24T07:00:00Z

    Harrogate and Rural District CCG was given the top rating by NHS England last month CCG now says growing and ageing population is putting strain on its finances and it expects an £8.4m shortfall for 2016-17 FINANCE: A Yorkshire clinical commissioning group rated as outstanding last month has ...

  • Office
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    Revealed: £6m spent on redundancies at closed CSUs

    2016-08-23T07:00:00Z

    The bill for redundancies following the shutting of two commissioning support units reached more than £6m, HSJ can reveal.

  • Social care
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    Commissioners insist Virgin Care will make no 'margin' on Bath contract

    2016-08-23T11:34:00Z

    Bath and North East Somerset CCG and council claim Virgin Care will make no “margin” on £69m community services contract Commissioners say company’s proposed information system “almost feels like nirvana” Contract will cap Virgin Care’s “management and organisational costs” COMMERICAL: A CCG and council in the South West ...

  • Insulin injection
    HSJ Local

    Private provider beats trusts and GP federation to community contract

    2016-08-23T12:05:00Z

    COMMERICAL: Virgin Care has been named preferred provider to provide adult community services in the south of England as part of an alliance contract, ahead of a bid from local trusts and a GP federation.

  • Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
    HSJ Local

    Southern Health services continue to be disbanded

    2016-08-23T10:57:00Z

    Hertfordshire Partnership University FT will take on some of Southern Health’s specialist learning disability services Contract covers people living in Buckinghamshire and will focus on community care Southern Health divested of services after recognising it could no longer offer the area a “safe and effective” service RECONFIGURATION: Hertfordshire ...

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    NHS Improvement alert aims to improve acute kidney injury care

    2016-08-23T06:00:00Z

    NHS Improvement patient safety alert issued with new resources for providers Help includes guidance on improving recognition and treatment of acute kidney injury Improvement in treatment of AKI is included in national CQUIN payments A patient safety alert has been issued by NHS Improvement to help NHS providers ...

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    HEE to re-run job appointment after royal college complaint

    2016-08-23T09:58:00Z

    Health Education England has said it will re-run the appointment process for the head of Yorkshire and the Humber School of Radiology after the appointment of a radiographer led to complaints by a medical royal college.

  • Birmingham
    HSJ Local

    Acute trust looks to be lead provider in Midlands MCP

    2016-08-22T07:39:00Z

    Sandwell and West Birmingham chief executive says trust would look to be lead provider within vanguard The organisational form Modality MCP will take is still unclear, says Toby Lewis Sandwell and West Birmingham Trust working with Your Health Partnership to take on GP consultants STRUCTURE: The chief executive ...