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11 April issue of HSJ is ready to read on the app
This week’s issue of HSJ magazine is now available to read on our tablet app.Download the HSJ app for iPadDownload the HSJ app for AndroidIn this week’s issue Monitor chief executive David Bennett tells HSJ the regulator needs to play a significant role in “turbo-charging change”. Plus:HSJ has launched an ...
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Haringey's sexual health service put out to tender
Sexual health services currently provided by Whittington Health are to be put out to tender by the north London authority that took over the role of commissioning the services last April.
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Tariff payment options explored by Monitor
Outpatient attendance payments could be combined under proposals currently being considered by Monitor’s pricing team for tariff payment changes that may come into effect from 2015-16.
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Coventry and Warwickshire CCGs collaborate on five-year plan
Three clinical commissioning groups in Coventry and Warwickshire are to draw up a joint five-year strategic plan for their health economy.
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HSJ Live 11.04.2014: UK performance gap closing, study reveals
The performance divide between the NHS in England and the rest of the UK has narrowed in recent years, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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Interim chief executive for South Devon
South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust has appointed medical director Dr John Lowes as its interim chief executive following the suspension of incumbent Paula Vasco-Knight.
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Exclusive: New Monitor strategy to ‘turbo charge’ change
The huge uncertainties facing NHS providers mean Monitor will have to focus less on “the numbers” in trusts’ financial plans and more on their capability to deal with change, the regulator’s chief executive has said.
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Exclusive: Study reveals NHS failure on diversity at senior levels
A new study has found the proportion of senior NHS positions held by people of black and minority ethnic backgrounds has barely changed in eight years, with progress towards better representation labelled as “glacial”.
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New NHS England chief 'more sympathetic' to competition, says Bennett
Monitor’s chief executive has told HSJ it will be easier for the regulator to assuage commissioners’ concerns about NHS competition rules now that Sir David Nicholson is no longer in charge of NHS England.
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Liverpool funds social enterprise to improve parent-baby bond
A clinical commissioning group in the North West is to part fund a £470,000 service for parents struggling to form relationships with their babies, becoming one of the first CCGs in the country to fund such a service.
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5 Boroughs Partnership refuses to sign up to NHS England price cut
FINANCE: A North West mental health trust has secured the price cut recommended for acute trusts from its local commissioners, trust board papers show.
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Essex County Hospital stripped of services
Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust
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Four in 10 areas to pool extra health and care cash
At least 57 local areas will see better care fund budgets rising, figures show
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Review calls for Tamiflu rethink
Ministers should review the use of a widely used anti-flu medication, scientists have said after new research questioned the efficacy of the drug.
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Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby CCG appoints new chair
WORKFORCE: Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby Clinical Commissioning Group has appointed David Williams as its lay chair.
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HSJ Live 10.04.2014: Study reveals NHS failure on diversity at senior levels
Progress towards better representation of people of black and minority ethnic backgrounds at senior levels labelled “glacial”, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.
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Winter pressures monies fund extra admissions
Performance against the four hour accident and emergency target did not improve in 2013-14, despite a huge political focus on the issue, as emergency admissions reached record levels, HSJ analysis has found.
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Serco estimates £18m losses on health contracts
Embattled outsourcer Serco has estimated it will rack up losses of nearly £18m on three flagship NHS contracts in the coming years, the company has told investors.
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Monitor launches investigation into Barnsley FT
PERFORMANCE: Monitor has launched an investigation into Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust, following concerns about the trust’s finances and its accident and emergency waiting times.