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Updated: Greater Manchester aims to be new care models 'trailblazer'
The Greater Manchester area will be a ‘trailblazer’ for developing new models of care, and will be one of the first places to access two national transformation funds worth a combined £450m, according to draft proposals that emerged today.
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Complex governance questions remain over Manchester devolution plan
Complex questions of governance and accountability will have to be resolved over the coming year to allow the proposed full delegation of primary care and specialised commissioning budgets to Greater Manchester by April 2016.
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Greater Manchester stakes claim to 'lead regulation' of providers
Greater Manchester has staked a claim to take on responsibility for regulating local providers, under new plans to devolve sweeping powers over health and social care services to the region.
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Updated: Burnham warns Manchester plans could mean 'another reorganisation'
Shadow secretary Andy Burnham has warned plans to devolve £6bn of health and social care funding to Greater Manchester could mean “another reorganisation”.
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HSJ Live 25.02.2015: Chancellor reacts to Manchester's £6bn devolution deal
George Osborne gives his views on the £6bn Manchester devolution deal, Nigel Keohane of the Social Market Foundation on integrating care, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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Exclusive: Raid on DH's capital budget rises to £640m
The Treasury agreed a further £150m transfer from the Department of Health’s capital budget in the early months of 2015 to help the health service cope with ongoing revenue spending pressures, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Live 24.02.2015: NHS technology fund cut from £240m to £43m
Ministers raid technology fund to help hospitals struggling with winter pressures, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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Only two thirds of staff feel secure whistleblowing on poor care
Nearly one third of NHS employees do not agree that they would feel secure raising concerns about unsafe clinical practice, according to the 2014 NHS staff survey.
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Monitor extends FT planning deadline
Monitor has extended the deadline for foundation trusts to submit their planning submissions for 2015-16, in light of providers’ rejection of the proposed tariff for the coming year.
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NHS England regional director to join Wirral CCG
WORKFORCE: An NHS England regional director has been announced as the permanent accountable officer for a North West clinical commissioning group rocked by leadership turmoil last year.
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Monitor appoints improvement director at Norfolk and Suffolk FT
PERFORMANCE: Monitor has appointed an improvement director for Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust, which it placed into special measures last week.
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NHS technology fund cut from £240m to £43m
A flagship NHS technology fund has been slashed from £240m to just £43m after ministers raided it to bolster a separate fund to help hospitals struggling with winter pressures.
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HSJ Live 23.02.2015: The reasons why the 18 week target isn't on solid ground
Has the government achieved what it set out to? plus the rest of the day’s news.
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Exclusive: Digital pioneer bids to integrate NHS patient records for free
One of the NHS technology community’s leading experts is building a new system to integrate the health service’s myriad patient record systems, and he plans to give it to the NHS for free.
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FT chief executive to retire after 18 years in post
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of South Tyneside Foundation Trust is to retire after 18 years in the role.
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NEW Devon was 'pit canary' for CCG rationing plans
FINANCE: ‘Queues’ of clinical commissioning groups could have implemented controversial plans to restrict access to certain services had a high profile attempt at rationing in Devon been successful, a local commissioner has claimed.
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Lord Crisp: Money and beds are not the answer for mental health
Increased funding and more beds may not be the solution to capacity pressures in mental health services, according to Lord Crisp who is heading up a new inquiry into the sector.
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Liverpool Women's medical director resigns
WORKFORCE: The medical director of Liverpool Women’s Hospital Foundation Trust has stepped down from his post.
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CCG accused of 'lack of candour' over outsourced community service
Bedfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group has been accused of misleading GPs and the public over whether patients in a community based dermatology service run by a private healthcare provider are always seen by specialist consultants.
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Updated: FT sector deficit five times higher than planned
The foundation trust sector finished last calendar year with a deficit five times higher than planned, in the latest sign of the ‘exceptional pressure’ the NHS is under.