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More CCGs mull rationing hearing aids
Four clinical commissioning groups in Staffordshire are poised to follow a neighbouring CCG in ‘rationing’ access to hearing aids.
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Is urgent action on health service digitisation 'a moral imperative'?
Civica to donate £5 to charity for every completed survey
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Treasury may redefine NHS ringfence, think tanks warn
The Treasury may redefine the ringfence on NHS spending to apply only to NHS England’s commissioning budgets – leaving billions spent on public health, training and research unprotected in the coming spending review, health think tanks have warned.
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Exclusive: Tim Kelsey to leave NHS England
Tim Kelsey, one of NHS England’s most high profile board members, is leaving the organisation to take a new job in Australia.
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HSCIC chief promises commissioners easier data access
Commissioners will be better able to obtain and use patient data from 2017, the chief executive of the Health and Social Care Information Centre has told HSJ.
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Trust exits special measures but must undergo radical change to save £28m
STRUCTURE: Monitor has lifted a troubled foundation trust out of special measures, after it agreed to make radical changes to achieve savings of £28m by 2020.
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Worcestershire trust faces £58m deficit
FINANCE: Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust has revealed it is facing ending the year with a £58m deficit if drastic action is not taken to improve its financial position.
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Surrey FTs merger gets green light from competition authority
STRUCTURE: The proposed merger between two Surrey foundation trusts has been given the go ahead by the Competition and Markets Authority.
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CCGs support controversial change to tariff veto power
The representative body for clinical commissioning groups has backed plans to make it more difficult for NHS providers to block national tariff proposals.
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Chief executive of highly regarded specialist trust to retire
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of Moorfields Eye Hospital Foundation Trust has announced he will retire at the end of November.
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Birmingham CCG removes £4m integration savings from QIPP plan
FINANCE: Commissioners in Birmingham have removed from their annual efficiency plan this year’s expected savings from the better care fund because the financial gains were unlikely to be realised this year.
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Trust-GP consortium wants to run Cornish community services
COMMERCIAL: A trio of providers has formally expressed interest in bidding to run community services across Cornwall once the incumbent provider pulls out next March, HSJ has learned.
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Low staff morale and high use of restraint at mental health trust, CQC says
PERFORMANCE: Low staffing levels and an ‘unacceptable variation’ in the use of restraint at West London Mental Health Trust has caused the Care Quality Commission to call for the trust to make improvements.
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Updated: Government to impose new contract on junior doctors
Junior doctors will be forced to work under new terms and conditions from August next year, the Department of Health has confirmed to HSJ.
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Leadership Academy boss joins trust as chief executive
WORKFORCE: Jan Sobieraj has been appointed chief executive of United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust.
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Midlands trust chief executive joins national A&E support team
The chief executive of South Warwickshire Foundation Trust has joined a new emergency support team set up by the national regulators and the Department of Health.
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Staffordshire trust served with performance notices over cancer failings
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust has been served with performance notices for failing to hit three cancer pathway waiting time targets.
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18 week waits, July 2015: explore the maps
See all NHS waiting lists around England by provider, CCG or specialty
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Catch up: Jeremy Hunt at the health committee
Catch up on the health secretary’s appearance facing the Commons health committee
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CCGs give scathing assessment of CSU competition process
Commissioners in the South West have given a damning verdict of NHS England’s lead provider framework for commissioning support services. They say it is likely to land them with a worse service that costs more.