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NewsAccident and emergency bailout fund increases to £700m
Hospitals are to receive an extra £300m in government cash in a bid to arrest further decline in A&E performance over the winter
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HSJ Local
CQC hails care improvements at Bournemouth hospital
PERFORMANCE: Regulators have welcomed improvements in the quality of services provided by Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals Foundation Trust.
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NewsHSJ Live 14.11.2014: Take part in HSJ's technology survey
We are looking to explore readers’ views about the NHS’s progress on its digital journey, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.
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HSJ LocalOxford University Hospitals chief Sir Jonathan Michael to retire
The chief executive of one of the biggest and most prestigious acute trusts in England is to step down, the trust has announced.
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NewsCSU boss appointed NHS England regional director
A former commissioning support unit boss has been appointed NHS England’s regional director for the south
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NewsGuidance falls short on anti-bullying rules
New guidance that demands doctors and nurses are open about their mistakes does not include an explicit warning against staff obstructing or bullying their colleagues, sparking concern from campaigners.
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NewsNational tech blueprint sets greater role for regulators
Wide ranging proposals aimed at making the NHS fully digital by 2020, including new regulatory powers and allowing patients to write in their care records from 2018, have been revealed
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NewsPatients to be able to write in their records from 2018
Patients will be able to add comments into their care records from March 2018 under new plans to make the NHS fully digital by 2020
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NewsNHS England extends drive for equality in senior posts
NHS England’s drive to boost the representation of ethnic minorities in senior positions will be followed by an equalities push on disability, sexual orientation and gender, its head of equality has said
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NewsFTs will resist forced expenditure on primary care
Foundations trusts will ‘furiously resist’ any attempt to push them into ploughing their accumulated surpluses into primary care as envisaged by the NHS Five Year Forward View
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NewsKelsey: Digital ambition will need carrots as well as sticks
NHS England’s information director has acknowledged trusts will need ‘incentives’ as well as ‘consequences’ to encourage them to hit new national standards for information technology
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HSJ Local
Community services spin-out agrees new staff terms
WORKFORCE: A community services provider which spun out of the NHS three years ago has announced new terms for all its staff including a 1 per cent pay rise and access to the NHS pension.
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NewsHSJ Live 13.11.2014: Hunt sets out proposals for £10bn savings
Health secretary to say NHS can save £10bn through better use of innovation and technology, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.
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NewsPatients 'denied treatments' because of 'Kafkaesque' commissioning regime
Patients are being denied access to life changing treatments because parts of NHS England’s “Kafkaesque” commissioning regime appear to have ground to a halt, clinicians and charities have warned
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NewsNAO's better care fund criticism enrages DH chief
Whitehall mandarins tell spending watchdog it fails to understand localism
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NewsGE Healthcare buys governance consultancy
The UK consultancy arm of GE Healthcare, one the world’s largest health technology firms, has acquired governance consultants Foresight Partnership
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NewsAnalysis: Distressed health economies' leaders doubt books will balance
Senior leaders in several of the NHS’s ‘challenged health economies’ are not confident their area will be in financial balance in five years’ time, even after months of intensive support from national organisations
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News'Challenged' areas recovery plans demand integration and reconfiguration
The creation of new integrated provider models and capitated budgets are fundamental to the visions of the national ‘challenged health economies’, HSJ has been told
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NewsHSJ Live 12.11.2014: Distressed health economies' leaders doubt books will balance
Senior leaders in several of the NHS’s “challenged health economies” are not confident their area will be in financial balance in five years’ time, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsExpensive drugs to be cut from cancer drugs fund
NHS England is to start evaluating the cost effectiveness of medicines available through the cancer drugs fund in a bid to bring the budget under control