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NewsCCGs target steep cuts in avoidable admissions and deaths
Clinical commissioning groups have set themselves ambitious targets to cut avoidable admissions and improve patient experience over the next five years, plans submitted to NHS England reveal.
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NewsPlans for nurse staffing data unclear
NHS England has still not worked out how to present trusts’ nurse staffing data on NHS Choices, less than two weeks before it is due to publish the information for the first time.
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NewsBMA: NHS England QOF move spells 'Balkanisation of national healthcare'
Allowing GPs in a single clinical commissioning group to break away from the nationally agreed quality and outcomes framework could lead to the “Balkanisation of national healthcare”, the British Medical Association has warned.
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NewsPrivate sector debate is 'utterly toxic', says Hunt
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said that the debate over the use of private providers in the NHS is “utterly toxic”, and that poor care is still unacceptable regardless of how it is provided.
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NewsWhat we learnt this week
If you want to get rich, don’t become an NHS trust chairA survey of NHS trust and foundation trust chairs this week revealed a pay divide between the two. All respondents - FT and non-FT - thought pay should be more fairly balanced between the two.The findings suggest that, on ...
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HSJ Local
East Kent CCGs consider merger
STRUCTURE: Two clinical commissioning groups in Kent are considering a merger in a bid to “strengthen clinical involvement” and help manage “future financial risks”.
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NewsHSJ Live 13.06.2014: BMA opposes Somerset QOF move
The Department of Health has today announced a £250m elective care fund to help providers clear their planned treatment backlogs, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.
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NewsExclusive: CSU boss suspended amid governance investigation
A commissioning support unit managing director has been suspended from work for more than two months, HSJ has learned.
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NewsPolitical consensus grows on merging health and social care budgets
A political consensus is emerging in support of pooling all NHS and social care funding, with the idea now openly backed by both the shadow health secretary and his Liberal Democrat counterpart.
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HSJ LocalMorecambe Bay chair and medical director stand down
WORKFORCE: The chair and the medical director of a troubled North West trust have resigned.
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NewsNon-acute leaders join Dalton review panel
Two healthcare chiefs with experience in the non-acute sector have joined the Dalton review panel
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NewsHollins urges action on learning disabilities care
Exclusive: Ministers will today be accused of failing to implement recommendations from a damning report into the care of NHS patients with learning disabilities.
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NewsTrusts ordered to delete incorrect datafields
The government body in charge of safeguarding patient information has ordered a significant number of trusts to delete a series of datafields.
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HEE 'undervalues' the role of doctors
Health Education England has been accused of undervaluing the role doctors play in the wider NHS after it revealed plans to switch funding to non-medical roles.
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NewsHunt moves to shield hospitals from integration fund failure
Jeremy Hunt warned that there must be a ‘proper risk sharing profile’ in all better care fund plans to protect hospital finances
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NewsElective waiting list at its longest in six years
The waiting list for planned healthcare treatments has grown to its longest length in six years, according to official figures.
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HSJ LocalColchester suspends employee over cancer data probe
Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust has begun a disciplinary investigation and suspended a member of staff in relation to alleged wrongful manipulation of cancer patients’ waiting time data.
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NewsExclusive: Somerset GPs get the go ahead to depart from QOF
GPs in Somerset have been given permission to ditch reporting against the majority of quality and outcomes framework indicators in favour of a locally developed approach, in a move seen as a “significant departure” for NHS England.
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NewsHSJ Live 12.06.2014: Colchester suspends employee over cancer data probe
Member of staf suspended in relation to investigation into alleged wrongful manipulation of cancer patients’ waiting time data, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.
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NewsWilful neglect offence to become law by 2015
Wilful neglect could become a criminal offence next year after the government last night tabled amendments to the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill.