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Healthcare leaders attack 'scapegoating' of managers
Leading clinicians and patient campaigners have joined two former health secretaries to call for a change in attitude towards NHS managers
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Monitor to review why taking over troubled trusts goes wrong
Heart of England Foundation Trust is “struggling” because it has “never fully recovered” from its takeover of a failing organisation, the chief executive of Monitor has said.
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Trusts’ spending on private healthcare providers rockets by 25pc
Foundation trusts increased the sums they spent buying healthcare from non-NHS bodies by almost 25 per cent last year
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Autumn statement confirms increase in NHS spending
Experts estimate that the additional NHS funding outlined in the autumn statement amounts to a 1.5 per cent real terms increase in 2015-16
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Revealed: FTs' £92m spend on exit packages
Almost one tenth of foundation trusts’ entire £92.4m spend on severance packages last year was paid by a single provider, HSJ analysis reveals
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Simon Stevens to give first HSJ annual lecture
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens will reveal his latest thinking on the future of the service in next week’s inaugural HSJ annual lecture.
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North Bristol sees further emergency performance dip
PERFORMANCE: North Bristol Trust has seen its performance against the four hour accident and emergency standard dip to 80.7 per cent last month.
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Chancellor warns of further public sector pay restraint
Pay restraint for public sector staff including NHS workers will continue into the next parliament, chancellor George Osborne told MPs today.
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HSJ Live 03.12.2014: Trusts’ spending on private healthcare providers rockets by 25pc
HSJ analysis reveals that Foundation trusts increased the sums they spent buying healthcare from non-NHS bodies by almost 25 per cent, plus the rest of the day’s news andcomment.
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Cornwall trust appoints Bill Shields as interim chief
WORKFORCE: Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust has appointed Bill Shields as its interim chief executive.
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Exclusive: NHS England delays treatment choices after legal threat
NHS England has cancelled key meetings at which it was due to decide whether to fund a series of treatments for serious conditions following a threat of judicial review, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Live 02.12.14: Clegg announces £150m investment to eating disorder treatment
The deputy prime minister has announced a £150m investment into the treatment for eating disorders, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment
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Mental health providers face finding £40m to meet new targets
At least half of the additional £80m investment pledged to mental health providers to help them deliver new access targets will come from existing budgets
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Four in 10 GP practices need modernisation
More than 40 per cent of GP practices are unlikely to be capable of providing modern primary care services, according to analysis by construction consultants.
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Academic health science networks bid for greater strategic role
The most advanced academic health science networks should play a greater strategic role in service reconfigurations, leading AHSN figures have said.
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OOH providers warn over rising indemnity costs
Out of hours providers are struggling to find GPs to cover shifts because of spiralling insurance premiums.
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Hunt calls for more nurses in community services
The health secretary has called for a significant increase in community and primary care nursing posts as part of the drive to boost services outside of hospitals
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HSJ Live 01.12.14: Reaction to Osborne's £2bn NHS funding pledge
Experts in the sector have set out their responses to the government’s funding announcement, plus the rest of today’s new and comment.
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Farrar: GPs will move away from CCGs in long term
The new generation of beefed up primary care organisations envisaged in the NHS Five Year Forward View will attract GP leaders away from clinical commissioning groups.
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GPs should urgently discuss new care models
GPs should begin talking about the new models of care in the NHS Five Year Forward View ‘very soon’, one of their leaders has said.