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NICE approves hep C drugs despite funding concerns
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has recommended the use of three new hepatitis C treatments, describing NHS England’s concerns over their cost as ‘not robust’.
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'Conflict of interest' claim over mental health contract
COMMERICAL: A Yorkshire trust has complained to Monitor about a tender process which resulted in the loss of a £190m mental health contract.
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Manchester trust seeks estates partner for £100m-plus investment
COMMERCIAL: A major acute trust in Manchester is seeking a strategic estates partner to transform an Edwardian hospital building into a facility for biomedical research.
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Chief executive of Broadmoor trust stepping down
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of West London Mental Health Trust is stepping down in November.
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Exclusive: Hospitals fail to hit staffing targets despite recruitment drive
The ability of NHS acute trusts to employ sufficient numbers of nurses on hospital wards has worsened this year compared with 2014 despite record levels of recruitment, HSJ can reveal.
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Interactive: How your trust is performing on staffing levels
HSJ’s analysis of the proportion of nursing shifts filled according to acute hospitals’ own staffing plans, as reported in the ‘safe staffing’ data collected by NHS England.
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Exclusive: NHS England will not stop hearing aid ‘rationing’ plan
NHS England will not intervene in a clinical commissioning group’s attempt to ‘ration’ access to hearing aids, HSJ can reveal.
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Controversial £175m Oxfordshire outcomes based contract delayed
COMMERCIAL: A major outcomes based contract for adult mental health services in Oxfordshire, which was first mooted more than two years ago, has been delayed because the local provider and commissioner have still not agreed the scope of the deal.
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Care.data opt out ignored by commissioners, campaigners claim
Patients who opted out from having their GP records shared as part of the Care.data programme have been ignored by commissioners behind a pilot scheme in Southend, privacy campaigners have claimed.
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Trust chief executive to retire after 42 years in NHS
WORKFORCE: South Tees Hospitals Foundation Trust chief executive Tricia Hart is to retire.
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High Court rules against regulator in pharma transparency case
A High Court judge has concluded that the Health Research Authority acted unlawfully in applying new transparency rules on pharmaceutical companies carrying out clinical trials.
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Trust calls for success regime to take over ‘shambolic’ procurement
COMMERCIAL: Northern Devon Healthcare Trust has called for a controversial community services procurement to be taken over by NHS England or the county’s ‘success regime’.
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Monitor probes trust governance following unfair dismissal ruling
LEADERSHIP: Monitor is investigating how a mental health trust is run after an employment tribunal found that a trust director was unfairly dismissed after being harassed by the former trust chair.
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Cap on clinical negligence costs could save £400m, says Litigation Authority
The health service could save £400m a year if the government changed the law to fix the costs for clinical negligence schemes alongside other measures, the NHS Litigation Authority has said.
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Trust that took over Stafford Hospital ‘requires improvement’
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has rated University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust ‘requires improvement’.
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Staffordshire CCGs appoint joint nursing director
WORKFORCE: North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Clinical Commissioning Groups have appointed Jayne Downey as joint director of nursing and quality.
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Acute trust meets A&E target for first time in nine months
PERFORMANCE: Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Foundation Trust has met the national four hour accident and emergency waiting time target for the first time in nine months.
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West Midlands acute chief resigns
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of a struggling West Midlands acute trust has resigned with immediate effect.
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Long serving teaching hospital boss to step down
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of Guy’s And St Thomas’ Foundation Trust is stepping down after eight years in post.