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Somerset commissioners propose single health and social care budget
STRUCTURE: Commissioners across Bath and north east Somerset plan to create a pooled budget across health and social care as part of a review into community services in the region.
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Worcestershire trust’s bullying policy ‘not fit for purpose’
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust’s policy for dealing with bullying and harassment is ‘not fit for purpose’, an independent review has found.
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No more savings can be made, trusts tell regulators
Trusts have told regulators they will not be able to improve their financial positions without affecting frontline services, senior acute trust leaders have told HSJ.
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NHS Supply Chain makes Carter savings pledge in new deal
NHS Supply Chain has pledged that it will use the ‘opportunities’ for greater savings highlighted in the Carter review as part of a deal that will see its contract extended until 2018.
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Royal Cornwall looks to bring in improvement director
WORKFORCE: Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust has had discussions with the NHS Trust Development Authority about bringing in an improvement director to help turnaround performance, HSJ has learned.
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NHS Commissioning Assembly shut down
The NHS Commissioning Assembly is to be closed down with immediate effect, HSJ has learned.
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£100m Devon procurement did not break rules, Monitor confirms
Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group did not break procurement regulations when it selected a preferred provider for a £100m community services contract without going to tender, Monitor has concluded.
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Durkin: IPSIS will give patients ‘effective answers’
The new independent body to look into clinical incidents in the NHS will improve the quality of investigations and provide families with ‘effective answers’, NHS England patient safety director Dr Mike Durkin has said.
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Exclusive: Royal college exposes widespread rota gaps on paediatric wards
More than one in 10 hospital rotas for paediatricians in the UK have vacancies, with some hospitals seeing vacancies of almost a quarter in specialist units.
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Smallest trust in country rated 'inadequate' for safety
PERFORMANCE: A South West trust has been rated ‘inadequate’ for safety by the Care Quality Commission.
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Treasury says some workers could be denied 1pc pay rise
Unions reacted with anger today after the Treasury warned there should be ‘no expectation’ that every worker will receive a pay rise in line with the 1 per cent ceiling George Osborne set for public sector pay.
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Exclusive: Leading FTs lay groundwork for hospital chains
Three of England’s most well respected foundation trusts are working on a partnership through which they can lay the groundwork to build and run hospital chains, HSJ has learned.
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Outside scrutiny has become ‘unforgiving’, warns longest serving NHS chief
The NHS’s longest serving chief executive, who has just marked 50 years in the service, says regulation and unreasonable expectations are making senior leaders’ roles more difficult than at any other point in his career.
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Thousands of mental health patients still detained in police cells
Almost 4,000 people detained under the Mental Health Act are still being forced to stay in police cells rather than a hospital, despite a 54 per cent fall over the last three years.
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Drug pricing deal change 'cuts NHS England's ability to provide care'
NHS England faces a ‘direct cut’ in its ability to provide care to patients as a result of a change to the deal that caps the price the government pays for branded medicines, a senior health economist has said.
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NHS England nursing director takes Guernsey post
Professor Juliet Beal has been appointed as the new chief nurse for Guernsey, just a few months after leaving NHS England on secondment.
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NHS staff to face new sanctions under ‘Sunshine rule’
NHS staff who fail to disclose payments and hospitality received from drug suppliers and medical device makers will be sanctioned under new regulation, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.
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Exclusive: CSU procurements paused amid uncertainty over costs
At least two procurements for commissioning support services have been paused, HSJ has learned. This comes amid uncertainty over how stranded costs will be paid for if a commissioning support unit loses a contract.
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Exclusive: Vanguards urged to quickly become ‘battering ram of change’
The urgent and emergency care vanguards are the ‘battering ram of change’ and should quickly test new ideas to be replicated nationally, the director of NHS England’s new care models programme has said.
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Public health cuts 'short sighted, short term and unwarranted'
Cutting public health budgets by £200m is ‘short sighted, short term and unwarranted”, according to the Local Government Association and the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers.