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Exclusive: Trusts continue to forecast £2bn deficit as overspending worsens
The latest available figures show the NHS acute sector continuing to forecast a deficit in excess of £2bn for this financial year. Trusts’ year to date financial performance is even worse than planned, HSJ analysis has found.
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Exclusive: ‘Trusts with no future’ list on hold again
Plans to publish a list of NHS trusts unlikely to have a future as independent organisations have been put on hold, the NHS Trust Development Authority has indicated.
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London CCG could defy NHS England on QIPP demands
A London clinical commissioning group is considering whether it should refuse to make more primary care quality, innovation, productivity and prevention savings demanded by NHS England by the end of the year.
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Chief executive chosen for new provider sector regulator
Jim Mackey is to become the first chief executive of the new NHS provider regulator, NHS Improvement.
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Prime minister announces new contract for large GP providers
The government will introduce a new contract for large scale extended primary care providers, the prime minister announced today.
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Vanguards: More transformation funding 'critical' to success
Vanguard sites have warned that further rounds of transformation funding will be needed for next year and beyond to implement the Five Year Forward View. It comes despite there being no extra cash confirmed for the new care models project beyond March.
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FT chief executive appointment delayed amid Monitor investigation
WORKFORCE: A troubled foundation trust has delayed appointing a chief executive after Monitor launched an investigation into its finances.
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Exclusive: Treasury could replace free nursing education to boost workforce
Ministers could end free university education for student nurses in a bid to boost the numbers joining the NHS workforce, under proposals put forward by national education bodies.
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The better care fund will soon be redundant
If it lingers it will divert money away from efforts to fuse health and social care
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Vale of York to divert better care fund money
FINANCE: Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group has said that funding directed to the region’s better care fund from social care must be ploughed back into health providers to stop the local health economy deteriorating further.
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Mapped: Every NHS England vanguard project
HSJ has mapped all 50 vanguards that will introduce new care models across the country. Explore the map to see what changes each vanguard intends to make.
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Investigation: ‘Unwarranted and unfair’ disparity in elective surgery revealed
Wide variations in elective surgery rates among the most affluent and deprived areas in England raise serious questions about the use of NHS resources, a leading public health expert has warned.
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Royal Cornwall chief leaves for 'personal reasons'
WORKFORCE: Bill Shields, interim chief executive of Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust, has said he will step down at the end of the month for ‘personal and family reasons’.
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Devon integrated care organisation goes live following merger
STRUCTURE: Two NHS trusts have merged to create an ‘integrated care organisation’ in Devon.
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Monitor: Heart of England £30m deficit ‘not acceptable’
FINANCE: Monitor has launched an investigation into the finances of one of the country’s largest acute trusts after it reported a £29.5m deficit in the first five months of the financial year.
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Webinar on demand: Can cognitive computing support effective healthcare?
Watch HSJ’s webinar on demand
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Mental health contract could land CCGs with extra costs
COMMERCIAL: A controversial mental health procurement could land commissioners with added expense by leaving the existing provider, which bid unsuccessfully for the contract, with stranded costs, according to an external review.
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Oxfordshire's £175m mental health deal finally agreed
COMMERCIAL: Oxfordshire leaders have agreed the terms of a £175m outcomes based contract encompassing most adult mental health services in the county.
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Charts: Disparity in elective surgery commissioning
HSJ has examined the rates for elective surgery by the clinical commissioning groups covering the 10 most affluent and 10 most deprived populations in the country, revealing huge disparities.