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NewsDepartment of Health shake-up revealed
DH unveils new directorate structure as part of cost cutting drive Social care and technology move into new community care directorate Four new directorates report to permanent secretary Chris Wormald The Department of Health has reorganised its directorate structure, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalBristol heart review finds 'no evidence' of 1990s failures being repeated
Children’s heart services review finds outcomes at University Hospitals Bristol “broadly comparable” with other centres However, parents sometimes “let down”, nursing staff “regularly under pressure” and managers took “unnecessarily defensive position” NHS England to publish plans for reconfigured congenital heart disease services next week PATIENT SAFETY: The independent ...
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HSJ LocalTeaching hospital pleads for any junior doctors to help staff A&E
Leeds Teaching Hospital appealed for junior doctors regardless of experience or specialty to work in its A&E departments Agency and locum staff declined shifts at the trust despite offers to pay above capped rate Royal College of Emergency Medicine president says country is short of 1,000 A&E consultants ...
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NewsPersonal maternity budgets worth up to £6,000, MPs told
Personal maternity budgets will be worth up to £6,000 Seven pilot groups are already trying out the new personal health budget Maternity review’s aim is for new midwifery pracices to provide continuity of care Personal budgets for women who wish to take charge of their own maternity care ...
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HSJ LocalLincolnshire sets out plans to tackle £60m deficit and performance
RECONFIGURATION: NHS leaders in Lincolnshire will go out to public consultation later this year over plans to radically overhaul key services.
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NewsTrust chiefs declare support for 'brave' EU staff following Brexit vote
Senior NHS leaders for organisations across the service have sought to reassure employees in the wake of the vote for the UK to leave the EU, and have restated their policies for zero tolerance towards racist abuse.
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NewsTrusts could be graded on agency spend in new performance framework
NHS Improvement consulting on single performance framework for foundation trusts and non-FTs Agency spending among proposed measures in finance and governance categories Trusts would be banded into four grades NHS Improvement is consulting on a new performance framework that would see foundation trusts and NHS trusts subject to ...
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NewsExclusive: Paybills and planned care targeted in huge savings drive
NHS Improvement sets out plan for major interventions to bring provider sector deficit down to £250m in 2016-17 Warns that planned £550m deficit makes management of overall NHS financial position “very risky” Providers given a month to produce plans for consolidation of back office and pathology services across entire ...
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NewsNHS providers on course for £500m deficit, says Mackey
Jim Mackey says NHS providers are on course to record deficit of £500m for 2016-17 NHS Improvement chief says this is a big improvement but “we can’t stop there” NHS Improvement to unveil measures aimed at further improving financial position Mackey promises he will abide by any “control total” ...
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NewsTroubled CCGs spent hundreds of thousands on interim directors
CCGs in legal directions have each spent hundreds of thousands of pounds turnaround directors and other senior roles NHS England served directions to a number of CCGs in 2015-16 Groups say they have to appoint executives quickly as part of process NEW Devon spent £335,000 on off-payroll turnaround director ...
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HSJ LocalCCG 'disappointed' to be given legal directions by NHS England
PERFORMANCE: A London clinical commissioning group has become the second CCG to be given legal directions by NHS England this year, over waiting times performance in its health economy.
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HSJ LocalFormer King’s chief to head up Cambridge AHSC
Cambridge University Health Partners has appointed Malcolm Lowe-Lauri executive director The former King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust CEO will join on 1 August Mr Lowe-Lauri is currently working for KPMG is Australia Cambridge’s academic health science centre has appointed a former chief executive of King’s College Hospital Foundation ...
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NewsSupplier chosen for Carter efficiency league table
A supplier has been chosen to provide the league table ranking NHS trusts on their efficiency.
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NewsHunt tells EU staff 'you are a crucial part of our NHS'
EXCLUSIVE: Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has spoken for the first time since the EU referendum result, calling on the country to value the contribution of EU workers in the health service.
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NewsHSJ launches award to celebrate NHS’s European staff
The contribution to the NHS by staff from elsewhere in the EU will be honoured by a new category in the 2016 HSJ Awards.
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HSJ LocalSheffield trust chief switches to fellow vanguard
APPOINTMENT: The chief executive of a specialist children’s hospital is leaving to lead a neighbouring acute foundation trust.
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LeaderA firestorm of uncertainty now menaces the NHS
The greatest tragedy of the European Union referendum is that many people voted Leave in the sincere hope it would help the NHS by reducing demand. That is extremely unlikely, but in any case the other consequences of the result leave the service facing the grimmest set of scenarios since ...
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NewsWhat does Brexit mean for NHS funding?
The vote for Brexit and the economic and political turbulence that attends it have ushered in a period of huge risk and uncertainty for NHS finances, HSJ has been told.
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NewsBrexit: How the political fallout will affect the NHS
HSJ considers how the political fallout from the vote to leave the European Union will effect the NHS in the next few months and beyond.
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NewsKeogh: We must make EU NHS staff feel welcome and valued
The NHS’s most senior doctor, Sir Bruce Keogh, has called on NHS leaders to send out a message to European staff working in the health service that they are valued and welcome in the wake of Friday’s vote for the UK to leave the EU.