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NewsHopson: Keeping trusts' deficit under £1bn would be 'extraordinary'
Chris Hopson says NHS had been “insufficiently celebratory” about stopping deficit from “running out of control” Provider deficit reduction shows trusts can deliver when given “sensible plans”, he says Refuses to rule out providers hitting £580m deficit target but says there is “risk” Keeping the provider sector deficit ...
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NewsHundreds of 'core' posts could be cut under STP proposal
Nottinghamshire STP indicative workforce changes include 12 per cent cut in band five and similar roles Workforce appendix suggests 24 per cent increase in community and primary care workforce Plan aims to cut 200 hospital beds over the next two years Hundreds of band five nursing, social worker ...
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HSJ LocalTrust seeks to terminate £200m contract
Nottingham trust says it is seeking “managed end” to the contract with Carillion Decision follows complaints that nurses were cleaning after Carillion staff to maintain standards Five year contract meant 1,500 staff transferred to Carillion in 2014 Nottingham University Hospitals Trust will look to terminate a five year, ...
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News'Ominous' social care warning from leading STP
Devolution leaders have forecast a £176m financial gap for social care services by 2021. Greater Manchester is better placed than most regions to deliver its STP, because of its £450m transformation fund. But demand and cost pressures ’significantly outweigh’ the government’s additional funding Health leaders in ...
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HSJ LocalTrusts create joint executive board
City Hospitals Sunderland and South Tyneside foundation trusts appoints joint executive leadership team The 12-strong executive management team is made up of directors from both trusts and went live on 21 November It will be responsible for running all hospital and community services across the region, but with boards ...
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LeaderNHS funding is becoming a game of chicken
Many in the NHS believe that a bailout is just one or two scandals away – it is a dangerous assumption
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HSJ LocalExclusive: STP chair resigns before plan is published
Staffordshire STP chairman John MacDonald has resigned The Staffordshire STP may be one of the last to be published and is expected to be revealed next month Mr MacDonald, chairman of UHNM, said he wanted to focus on the “immediate challenges” facing the trust The leader of ...
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Analysed: The CCGs with the biggest overspends
Four of the five most overspent clinical commissioning groups so far in 2016-17 are in the West Midlands, but most still expect to recover their positions by March.
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HSJ LocalPrivate providers back on course to land £1.2bn deal
Staffordshire CCGs to press ahead with £1.2bn cancer and end of life care contracts No stand alone NHS provider is bidding for either contract due to be awarded within months NHS England review prompted by collapse of Cambridgeshire’s £750m UnitingCare contract A major £1.2bn procurement for cancer and ...
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HSJ LocalFraudsters forced to pay £650k in compensation after conning trust
Four Basildon technicians ordered by court to pay for 14,000 hours fraudulently claimed The senior operating technicians used private firm to con NHS out of over half a million pounds Final ruling follows case which has gone on for years Ringleader derided ‘Bas Vegas’ trust ‘like euphoric gamblers after ...
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HSJ LocalScandal-hit FT 'starting to get to grips' with safety, says CQC
CQC says Southern Health “starting to get to grips” with patient safety risks Follows inspection in September, following up on serious concerns raised earlier this year Leaders at Southern Health Foundation Trust are “starting to get to grips” with underlying issues putting patients at risk, according ...
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NewsNew urgent care deal covers only part of STP patch
Luton CCG and Befordshire CCG sign five year contract for integrated urgent care service across their region Despite also being part of the region’s STP, Milton Keynes CCG was not involved in the procurement due to differing specifications Appears to call into question how urgent care can be integrated ...
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HSJ Local
Two FTs in line to take over services of scandal-hit trust
Services run by Liverpool’s scandal-hit community provider look set to be split between two foundation trusts.
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HSJ LocalFT drops legal challenge to CCG over lost contract
Humber Foundation Trust drops legal challenge to CCG over contract award Commissioners say successful bidder will be announced “shortly” A struggling foundation trust has withdrawn a High Court legal challenge over its losing out on a five-year community services contract.
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NewsNational officials 'ensuring' STPs plan 'right skilled' staffing
NHS England “ensuring” an STP “will put in place the right skilled workforce” Draft STP plan proposed savings through “reduction of nursing grade input” NHS England has told HSJ it is working with a sustainability and transformation plan on ”ensuring they will put in place the right skilled ...
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NewsHSJ Awards 2016 winners revealed
Marianne Griffiths of Western Sussex Hospitals Foundation Trust has been named Chief Executive of the Year at the 2016 HSJ Awards.
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NewsCCGs overspend budget by £240m but NHS England 'on course'
84 CCGs overspent their allocations but NHS England says majority expect to recover their positions Year-end forecast for CCGs is a £190m overspend, compared to a £10m overspend forecast in July Forecast for overall commissioning budgets has improved due to expected underspends and extra income within central budgets ...
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HSJ LocalFormer hospital trust director pleads guilty to corruption
A former hospital trust director has admitted corruptly awarding an IT contract while in the role.
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NewsInterim managers to pay equal tax under new rules
Autumn statement document reveals plan to make “off-payroll” workers pay more tax Treasury says public sector employers will be responsible for tax after April 2017 Concerns over costs of off-payroll workers have increased in recent years Explainer: The rules on off-payroll payments “Off-payroll” workers in the NHS, such ...
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NewsHSJ Live 23.11.16: No extra money for NHS or social care
Coverage and reaction to chancellor Philip Hammond’s first autumn statement