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NewsExclusive: £10m of Healthwatch cash 'goes missing'
Nearly a quarter of the funding for local Healthwatch groups has gone missing, according to research by the national body representing them.
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NewsUpdated: scale of special measures leadership change revealed
There have already been nearly 50 leadership changes at the 14 hospital trusts placed in “special measures” last year, new figures show.
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NewsExclusive: Dalton to examine barriers to hospital chains
The health secretary has appointed Sir David Dalton to lead a team looking at getting trusts to group together into “chains”.
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NewsMinisters: better care fund cash will be spent on health
Health and local government ministers have insisted better care fund cash will not be diverted by councils into non-health projects.
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NewsIn his own words: Stuart Rose on leadership
Sir Stuart has spoken frequently about what it takes to be a leader.
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NewsProfile: The dapper charmer who restored M&S's fortunes
The retail leader who is leading the NHS’s review on how it can recruit top talent is profiled by George MacDonald, executive editor of HSJ’s sister title Retail Week.
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HSJ LocalOutgoing Heatherwood chief: 'This trust will not be fixed soon'
PERFORMANCE: The outgoing chief executive of Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust has said it will take “years” to fix the organisation, and predicted that a forthcoming Care Quality Commission inspection would find continuing failings in some aspects of care.
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NewsA short history of NHS leadership reviews
The NHS has a long history of official and unofficial reviews of leadership and management, some of them fronted by luminaries from the world of business.
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NewsStuart Rose: 'You can’t get anywhere unless people believe you'
Outspoken, controversial and never dull, Sir Stuart Rose is a retailer’s retailer. He tells George MacDonald about the mess he inherited in 2004, the highs and lows of his time in charge and his plans for the future. This interview first appeared in HSJ’s sister title Retail Week in 2011.
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LeaderThirty years on – the NHS returns to retail for inspiration on leadership
Sir Stuart Rose called in
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NewsChildren's hospital told to improve
A leading children’s hospital has been ordered to improve after inspectors found patients were being put at risk by a faulty emergency call alarm system, poor staffing and incidents going unreported.
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NewsCrisis over NHS database - GPs
GP leaders are warning of a “crisis of public confidence” in an NHS scheme set up to share details from people’s medical records.
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HSJ LocalTwo CSUs announce formal merger
STRUCTURE: Two commissioning support units have announced they are entering into a formal merger.
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NewsAnalysis: better care fund decision offers a universal solution
The Department of Health’s decision not to withhold better care fund cash from areas struggling to improve performance looks at first glance like a softening of central control.
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NewsHSJ Live 13.02.2014 Ministers: better care fund cash will be spent on health
Health and local government ministers have insisted better care fund cash will not be diverted by councils into non-health projects, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment
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NewsDH acknowledges 'first fall in life expectancy since 2003'
The Department of Health has acknowledged that life expectancy at 75 – one of its corporate indicators – fell in 2012 for the first time in many years.
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NewsExclusive: Hospital chains win backing
Discussions have begun between national NHS bodies on how the provider landscape can be radically reshaped, including on providers forming national chains of hospitals and services.
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NewsMPs back wellbeing boards to be 'system leaders'
The Commons health committee has called for health and wellbeing boards to be given a greater role in spearheading integration between health and social care to ensure the sectors make urgently required savings.
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NewsMiliband's CCG vision at odds with Burnham plan
Ed Miliband appears to have indicated that Labour would retain clinical commissioning groups as key decision making bodies in the NHS.
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NewsCare UK boss outlines expansion goal
The managing director of healthcare at Care UK has used an HSJ interview to express optimism that the company can increase its share of NHS provision, including through taking over the running of hospitals.