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Urgent call for clarification on commissioning rules
COMMERCIAL: A row between commissioners and a private midwifery service in Leeds has sparked calls for “urgent clarification” around commissioning rules.
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NHS England seeks to drop safety, revalidation and tech roles
NHS England is seeking to give up some of its patient safety functions, medical revalidation and responsibility for technology, its new chief executive has indicated.
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Stevens backs patient choice 'wherever possible' in NHS
NHS patients should be free to choose their provider whether public or private, Simon Stevens has said.
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Stevens on: Finance and health secretaries
Simon Stevens has indicated the NHS has early plans to meet about half of the looming £30bn gap; and has suggested greater transparency may be driving a trend toward “patient champion” health secretaries.
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Stevens steps back from '15 specialist centres' plan
The new NHS England chief executive has distanced himself from the organisation’s previously stated ambition to concentrate specialised services in “15-30 centres of excellence”.
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Simon Stevens’ first interview: parts of the NHS must be ‘completely reinvented’
Stevens uses first major interview to warn that “deep seated structural problems” will require parts of the NHS to “completely reinvent what we mean by a hospital”.
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Cambridge University Hospitals mulls children's service shake up
STRUCTURE: Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust has unveiled plans to reshape children’s services across the East of England after identifying an “urgent need” for extra bed and theatre capacity.
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New medical director for Imperial College Healthcare Trust
WORKFORCE: Imperial College Healthcare Trust has appointed a new medical director after Professor Nick Cheshire stepped down from the role.
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Notts trust biggest winner from tech fund
NHS England has published a comprehensive list of the winning bids from its first round of £182m technology funding.
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Review of 'overdefined' specialised services underway
Responsibility for commissioning some specialised services, such as chemotherapy and renal dialysis, could be handed to clinical commissioning groups as part of an NHS England review.
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Leader
Simon Stevens knows what difference he can make
Stevens hints at where he will make his stand
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HSJ Local
Hunt backs maternity reconfiguration in North Yorkshire
STRUCTURE: The health secretary has given the go ahead for a controversial shake-up of maternity services in North Yorkshire which was opposed by a cabinet colleague, according to local councillor.
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HSJ's older people's commission launches first report
HSJ’s Commission on Hospital Care for Frail Older People has published its first report today.
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Bristol mental health contracts awarded
COMMERCIAL: Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group has approved plans to award contracts for its community mental health services to 18 organisations under a “system leadership” model thought to be the first of its kind in the UK.
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Two CCG leaders step aside amid NHS England probe
WORKFORCE: The chair and accountable officer of Wirral Clinical Commissioning Group have temporarily “stepped away” from their posts while NHS England conducts a probe into the group’s leadership, the CCG confirmed this afternoon.
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Exclusive: Whitehall big hitter joins DH to lead on pharma and IT
Will Cavendish, who currently oversees policy implementation across government for the Prime Minister, is to join the Department of Health in a new director general post with responsibility for pharma, IT and life sciences.
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Thurrock one of only three CCGs still with legal directions
PERFORMANCE: Thurrock Clinical Commissioning Group is one of only three CCGs to still have legal directions following NHS England’s fifth review of authorisations in May.
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Hunt: Safety and technology are key to surviving squeeze
The NHS can withstand the financial squeeze it faces during the next parliamentary term by adopting new technologies and making care safer, the health secretary has claimed.
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Bridge the gap between GPs and acute care, says health secretary
Jeremy Hunt has called for new models of provision for primary care to help close the gap between general practice and acute care.
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Hunt dodges the tricky issues of NHS finance
Health secretary avoided talking about funding in HSJ interview