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NewsConcerns NHS England safe staffing guide for mental health 'lacks rigour'
Experts have criticised NHS England’s latest safe staffing guidance on mental health inpatient care, raising concerns that the model used ‘lacks rigour’.
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Northern Lincolnshire bodies create elderly care team
Health and social care bodies across Northern Lincolnshire have used a £1.3m tranche of their Better Care Fund money to create a multi-disciplinary team to focus on care for frail elderly patients.
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NewsNHS England announces specialised treatment decisions
NHS England has announced it will begin funding a range of new specialised treatments and drugs, following a consultation process.
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NewsToday is your last chance to enter the HSJ Awards
The entry deadline for the HSJ Awards 2015 is this Friday, 3 July.
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NewsHSJ Live 03.07.2015: Last chance to enter the HSJ Awards
The entry deadline for the HSJ Awards 2015 is midnight tonight, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsExclusive: Weak bargaining position blew Mid Staffs administrators' budget, says Monitor
The ‘failure regime’ for Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust overran its budget because the trust’s ‘special administrators’ had a weak negotiating position relative to neighbouring NHS organisations, a Monitor review has found.
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NewsHSJ Live 02.07.15: NAO finds mistakes in GP data extraction project led to 'losses of public funds'
National Audit Office finds that GP data IT system “significantly delayed” and mistakes led to “losses of public funds”, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Social enterprise to pull out of Cornish community services
COMMERCIAL: A social enterprise which provides community services across Cornwall and oversees the county’s 14 community hospitals has said that it will not seek an extension to its current contract, which ends in March 2016.
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NewsStevens sets out NHS devolution 'tests'
Councils hoping to gain Greater Manchester style devolved powers over health and social care must convince NHS England that the benefits of the move would go beyond integration of the two services, the body’s chief executive has said.
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HSJ LocalFallout from Nottingham dermatology collapse hits nearby trust
PERFORMANCE: The high profile collapse of dermatology services at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust is now having a knock-on effect on the services at a neighbouring trust, board papers indicate.
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HSJ LocalStaff petition for chief executive to remain in post
WORKFORCE: More than 300 staff at East of England Ambulance Service have signed a petition to the health secretary calling for its departing chief executive to remain in his position.
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HSJ LocalTrust must remain in special measures, says regulator
PERFORMANCE: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust should remain in special measures, the Care Quality Commission has recommended.
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HSJ LocalReport: Bullying and 'blame culture' prevalent across ambulance trust
WORKFORCE: Bullying is prevalent across the London Ambulance Service and the trust has a ‘blame culture’ in which bullies are perceived to have been rewarded, an independent review has found.
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NewsExclusive: 'Candour' law may change after legal threat
The government is considering changing the duty of candour law just three months after it came into effect, following a threat of judicial review by a patient charity, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsExclusive: Agency spending clampdown team will be made up of temporary staff
Details have emerged of the Monitor team that will drive the clampdown on agency staff spending.
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NewsExclusive: National director says NHS 'can’t afford' new drugs
The NHS will not be able to afford many new drugs and treatments in the next few years because it is prioritising out of hospital care, a senior NHS England director has warned.
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NewsPublic perceptions of the NHS: 12 key facts
The standout findings from the latest government survey of public perceptions of the NHS and care.
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Exclusive: Community and mental health trust chief to retire
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust has announced that he will retire in January 2016.
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NewsFrustration over delay to specialised access policy
A process for deciding which new specialist treatments NHS England will fund will not be developed until the end of the year at the earliest, it has emerged.
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NewsHSJ Live 01.07.2015: Hunt speech to LGA Conference - reaction
The latest reaction to health secretary’s Local Government Association Conference speech, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.