Latest news – Page 686
-
News
Monitor delays controversial tariff decision
Providers will have to wait to see if controversial tariff plans for 2015-16 will be enforced as Monitor wades through hundreds of responses to establish if it received enough formal objections to trigger a new consultation.
-
HSJ Local
Relations between Devon health organisations 'strained', TDA chief admits
COMMERCIAL: Relations between a Devon trust and its local clinical commissioning group are ‘strained’, the chief executive of the NHS Trust Development Authority has said.
-
News
Co-commissioning specialised services will lead to 'poorer access', group claims
Plans for NHS England to co-commission specialised services with clinical commissioning groups will lead to ‘poorer access’ because the ‘vast majority’ of services will be exposed to ‘competing local pressures’, a group representing patient organisations has claimed.
-
News
Cancer drugs fund will need to cut more treatments, chair warns
Treatments available through the cancer drugs fund will have to continue being cut, the NHS England official in charge of the fund has said.
-
News
Providers push to treat more elective patients
NHS providers made a concerted effort to treat more elective patients in November, delivering more treatments than were performed in that period in any of the preceding six years.
-
HSJ Local
Mid Cheshire rated 'good' by CQC
Mid Cheshire Hospitals Foundation Trust has been rated “good” by the Care Quality Commission.
-
HSJ Local
Peterborough and Stamford franchise decision delayed
STRUCTURE: A hospital chief executive has confirmed that the decision to have his trust taken over by a Hinchingbrooke style private management franchise will be deferred until after the general election.
-
HSJ Local
Sheffield CCG accountable officer steps down
WORKFORCE: The accountable officer of Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group has announced he is stepping down.
-
HSJ Local
CCG leader steps aside after being charged with assault
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of Norwich Clinical Commissioning Group has stepped aside from his position after being charged with assault.
-
News
Burnham attacks 'judgmental' restrictions on surgery for obese patients
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has attacked attempts by NHS commissioners to restrict routine surgery for overweight patients and smokers.
-
News
HSJ Live 15.01.2015: Burnham attacks 'judgmental' restrictions on surgery for obese patients
The shadow health secretary has attacked attempts by NHS commissioners to restrict routine surgery for overweight patients and smokers, as Labour launched its public health strategy today, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
-
News
Dalton: Hinchingbrooke collapse does not scupper franchise model
The author of a major government review on provider sector reform has rejected the suggestion that the collapse of the Hinchingbrooke contract should spell the end of franchising in the NHS.
-
News
Exclusive: NHS children's services 'not fit for purpose'
The NHS’s failure to reconfigure children’s services, has left it with a model of care not fit for purpose, the president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has told HSJ.
-
HSJ Local
Ambulance service downgrades more than 8,000 emergency calls
PERFORMANCE: More than 8,000 emergency calls were downgraded by East of England Ambulance Service Trust over two months.
-
News
Cambridgeshire system plans joint integration bid
The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough health economy is likely to submit a joint expression of interest to develop a new integrated model of care, HSJ has learned.
-
News
Director behind Hinchingbrooke deal defends decision
The former strategic health authority director who led the franchising of Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust has defended the decision.
-
News
Exclusive: Bidders shortlisted for £1bn primary care support contract
Three bidders have been shortlisted for a £1bn, 10 year contract to provide critical primary care support services, NHS England has confirmed.
-
-
HSJ Local
Trust chair resigns to run for parliament
WORKFORCE: The chair of Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust has stood down to run for parliament as a UKIP candidate.
-
HSJ Local
Tribunal to hear Great Western staff racial discrimination claims
WORKFORCE: Hospitality staff at Great Western Hospital in Swindon will be able to pursue claims of racial discrimination and harassment following a ruling by an employment tribunal.