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First accountable care system managing director revealed
An NHS England director has been appointed to the first managing director post of an “accountable care system”.
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Stevens: NHS could create new national 'council' to share decision making
The NHS England chief executive wants to create a standing group of national and local health leaders so “the national bodies and frontline NHS leaders… can better connect and align”.
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Exclusive: Treasury must provide transformation funding, insists Simon Stevens
The government will have to provide nearly all the capital funding for service transformation in the next year or two because raising it from land sales and the private sector will take several years, Simon Stevens has said.
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Exclusive: NHS to recruit 2,000 GPs from abroad
NHS England will seek to recruit around 2,000 GPs from overseas, representing a huge expansion of previous efforts, HSJ can reveal.
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Stevens: Capped expenditure areas must 'get on with' savings
The NHS England chief executive has said organisations in the capped expenditure process “need to get on with” making planned savings, with the current search for further “hard choices” completed in most of them.
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Troubled specialist trust to lose paediatric surgery service
Birmingham’s specialist orthopaedic hospital will stop providing paediatric surgery after an external review recommended moving the service to a bigger site.
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Director referred to CQC after trust investigation
An NHS director who agreed an “irregular” payoff deal with a Morecambe Bay midwife has been referred to the CQC by his trust following an investigation.
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CCG and council appoint 'first of its kind' joint chief
A CCG and local authority have appointed the council’s chief executive to head a single leadership team across both organisations.
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Trusts could face sanctions if they fail to comply with new A&E standards
Hospitals must meet best practice standards around improving patient flow this financial year or they could face sanctions, as system leaders try to avert another A&E winter crisis.
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Revealed: DH civil servants' performance related pay
More than 440 civil servants at the Department of Health were paid nearly £780,000 in 2016 as a result of performance related pay, it has emerged.
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Hospitals given new bed occupancy target as NHS braces for winter
NHS bosses have set out a range of new targets for providers and commissioners, amid concerns about the system’s performance against the four hour target and the upcoming winter.
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No 'magic bullets' for A&E, improvement chiefs warn
The NHS’s more challenged hospitals could take around 18 months to return to 95 per cent on the four hour accident and emergency standard, improvement leaders have warned.
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CCGs avoid tender process with £57m contract award
Two incumbent community providers have been named as the lead contractors for a new £57m out of hospital services model proposed for Coventry and Warwickshire.
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GPs 'too tired' to work out of hours shifts
GPs in the Isle of Wight are “too tired” to staff its out of hours primary care service, commissioners have warned.
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Extra £86m to fund NHS technology and innovation
The government has announced an extra £86m to boost uptake of technology and innovation in the NHS, including £35m to be paid directly to small and medium sized enterprises.
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Trust employee arrested on suspicion of tampering with saline bags
Police have arrested an employee of an acute hospital trust on suspicion of tampering with saline bags.
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New chief nurse for teaching trust
Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed Sam Foster as chief nurse.
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MP calls for debate on 'revolving door of failed NHS managers'
An MP has called for a debate on “the revolving door of failed NHS managers” after claiming a former trust chief had set up a consultancy firm “offering his services to the NHS”.
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More trusts fail cladding fire safety tests
Two more hospital trusts have now failed cladding fire safety tests carried out in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.
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Jeremy Hunt signs off changes to 'dysfunctional' ambulance targets
A shake-up of “dysfunctional” ambulance response times has been approved by the health secretary today.