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  • Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
    HSJ Local

    Exclusive: Hospital chain trust looking at primary care integration

    2016-11-17T12:23:00Z

    The Royal Free London Foundation Trust, which already runs a chain of hospitals across north London, is looking at models of integration between acute and primary care.

  • David_Prior
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    Minister reveals details of NHS Professionals selloff

    2016-11-17T16:47:00Z

    Lord Prior confirms plans to sell NHS Professionals Government will retain a minority stake in the temporary staff supplier Ministers want the company to expand its services to more trusts The government has reiterated its commitment to selling a majority stake in NHS Professionals so the company can ...

  • Nurse5
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    Region plans shake-up of nursing skill mix to save millions

    2016-11-17T11:57:00Z

    Changes in workforce skill mix with more support workers and reduced registered nursing input to deliver £34.2m savings National regulators will sit on Buckingham, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West STP board to ensure finance and quality targets are met Potential future restrictions on treatments as STP aims to save £60.2m ...

  • Sw london chief executives
    HSJ Local

    Trusts form new 'group model' to cut costs

    2016-11-17T07:00:00Z

    Three mental health trusts to form partnership to improve care pathways and make back office savings South London London and Maudsley, Oxleas, and South West London and St George’s Mental Health trusts are already working together Three trust chief executives have said their new partnership will not create ...

  • Queen_Charlotte_s___Chelsea_Hospital
    HSJ Local

    Major teaching hospital has 100 patients waiting more than a year

    2016-11-16T16:07:00Z

    A London teaching hospital has more than 100 patients waiting over a year for treatment.

  • Jim Mackey
    News

    Exclusive: New NHS 'bond' could unlock capital funds, says Jim Mackey

    2016-11-16T12:48:00Z

    NHS Improvement in early discussions about creating an “NHSI bond” to help accelerate capital investment Department of Health’s capital budget has been frozen in cash terms over the course of this parliament, which equates to a real terms cut Jim Mackey says some of the NHS estate is in ...

  • Older people's services
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    MPs: Services 'likely to suffer' after UnitingCare contract collapse

    2016-11-16T00:01:00Z

    Services “likely to suffer” in wake of £750m contract breakdown, say MPs “Incompetent, grossly irresponsible” NHS bodies showed business acumen which would “embarrass a child in a sweet shop” NHS England told to address commercial skills gap in NHS after “catalogue of failures” Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning ...

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    King's Fund chief says STPs are not 'secret plans'

    2016-11-16T17:54:00Z

    King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham has written to the health secretary stating that sustainability and transformation plans “offer an important opportunity to improve health and care services”, and that there was no ”concerted effort to keep the plans secret”.

  • Andy Williams
    News

    NHS Digital chief to retire

    2016-11-16T17:04:00Z

    NHS Digital chief executive Andy Williams has announced he will retire in March next year.

  • Hexham general hospital
    News

    Regulator looking at buyouts of 'ridiculous' PFI schemes

    2016-11-16T12:48:00Z

    Jim Mackey says borrowing levels and profit margins within some PFI schemes are “absolutely ridiculous” Where buyouts are not possible, trusts are urged to manage their contracts more “robustly” Treasury unlikely to support a “blanket buyout” NHS regulators have established a working group that is looking at the ...

  • Enfield
    HSJ Local

    Five CCGs confirm shared leader by April

    2016-11-16T15:00:00Z

    Five clinical commissioning groups in London intend to have a single accountable officer by April 2017.

  • city of london
    News

    London NHS organisations call for 'whole system' regulation

    2016-11-16T07:00:00Z

    STP requests national bodies regulate accountable care organisations as a “single system” rather than on an individual organisation basis North East London plan outlines capital investment needs of £500m-£600m and asks for central support to cover “above normal” PFI costs Footprint to set up GP practices with diagnostic capability, ...

  • Grantham Hospital
    HSJ Local

    A&E could be downgraded to 'urgent care centre-plus'

    2016-11-16T07:00:00Z

    United Lincolnshire chief executive says trust wants to reopen unit 24/7 but suggested it could lose services One option is for Grantham to become an “urgent care centre-plus” Trust announced “temporary” night time A&E closure was being extended until “at least” February The chief executive of the trust ...

  • Mick Martin
    News

    'Termination payment' to former deputy ombudsman revealed

    2016-11-16T07:00:00Z

    Deputy ombudsman Mick Martin received a larger payment than previously disclosed He also received more than £10,000 of “benefits in kind” in 2015-16 PHSO says it “should have been clearer” in its original responses to HSJ The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman made a “termination payment” of £93,834 ...

  • HM_Treasury
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    Chancellor defends government's £10bn NHS spending claim

    2016-11-15T12:44:00Z

    Health committee chair called on ministers to stop using “incorrect” £10bn figure to describe additional NHS spending Chancellor says the claim always referred “specifically” to the NHS, rather than the DH Department of Health budget is increasing by £4.5bn in real terms over five years The chancellor has ...

  • Ruth May
    News

    Exclusive: Chief nurse 'will intervene to back nursing directors on staffing levels'

    2016-11-15T07:00:00Z

    NHS Improvement says safe staffing guidance will be evidence based Ruth May says she will intervene to support directors of nursing in decisions Work follows the suspension of safe nurse staffing work by NICE in 2015 NHS Improvement’s chief nurse will intervene to back nursing directors where they ...

  • Papworth hospital
    HSJ Local

    Trust makes long awaited chief executive appointment

    2016-11-15T10:58:00Z

    Papworth Hospital Foundation Trust has appointed East and North Hertfordshire Trust deputy chief executive Stephen Posey as its new chief executive.

  • Workforce
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    NHS Improvement still considering how to count nursing associates

    2016-11-15T07:00:00Z

    NHS Improvement yet to decide whether nurse associates will be counted as registered nurses in Carter care hours metric New drive on pressure ulcers will see top performances paired with worst NHS Improvement has not yet decided how to count nursing associates as part of a proposed high-profile ...

  • Jane Cummings
    News

    National nurse leaders defend plans for new support role

    2016-11-15T23:30:00Z

    Senior nurses in England sign letter defending plans for nursing associate role Letter confirms nursing associates will take on tasks currently performed by nurses New research says substituting nurses for non-nurses increases mortality risk The most senior nurses in England have defended plans for the new nursing associate ...

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    Inquiry calls for an end to 'divisive' workforce hierarchy

    2016-11-14T07:00:00Z

    The “second-class citizen status” of NHS staff who do not have clinical roles must be addressed urgently, an HSJ inquiry has concluded.