All Monitor articles – Page 37
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LeaderPoliticians aren’t the only cause of the NHS’s uncertain future
Lack of collaboration across the service
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NewsBennett promises flexible Monitor
The Monitor chief executive has emphasised the need for its regulation to be flexible to respond to new types of provider, and to the need for change in the NHS.
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HSJ Local
West Suffolk FT faces risk summit after performance failings
West Suffolk Hospitals Foundation Trust’s poor performance against various targets led it to face a risk summit with its NHS England local area team, it has emerged.
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NewsFTN urges Hunt to prioritise trust sustainability over competition
The Foundation Trust Network has urged Jeremy Hunt to prioritise trusts’ financial and clinical sustainability over concerns relating to competition.
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HSJ LocalMonitor to probe CCGs' block contract
Monitor is to investigate a complaint that referrals to a private hospital dropped after two clinical commissioning groups entered into a block contract with a local NHS hospital.
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NewsMonitor: NHS must 'change radically' in order to survive
Even if the NHS achieves the highest possible savings it cannot close the £30bn funding gap predicted by 2020-21, a Monitor analysis has predicted.
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NewsEmergency care could move off tariff
Monitor and NHS England are considering moving away from the tariff payment system for emergency and urgent care, it emerged last week.
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NewsMonitor seeks solution to competition impasse
Monitor is in with talks with the Office of Fair Trading to try to prevent trusts which want to merge from facing drawn out inquiries under competition law, HSJ has been told.
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CommentHealthy teams lead to healthy cultures
The time is right for rapid cultural change across the NHS workforce
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NewsMulti-year allocations could aid local contracting, Monitor review finds
Multi-year budget allocations could help commissioners develop local contracting more effectively, Monitor has said.
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NewsProviders hit with raised efficiency requirement
Providers will lose hundreds of millions of pounds in income under Monitor and NHS England plans to raise the efficiency assumptions that govern how much they are paid under tariff.
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NewsChanges to emergency admissions tariff planned
The marginal tariff for hospital emergency care will be retained in 2014-15, but the policy will be modified.
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HSJ Local
Chair of Dorset Healthcare stands down
PERFORMANCE: The chair of a south west foundation trust has tendered his resignation, just a week after Monitor intervened to ensure its board was operating effectively.
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HSJ Local
Monitor takes more action at Dorset Healthcare
PERFORMANCE: Monitor has imposed an additional condition on Dorset Healthcare University Foundation Trust’s licence due to concerns its leadership is failing to get a grip on ongoing quality and governance concerns.
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NewsMonitor suspends FT pipeline over quality assurance concerns
Monitor has decided not to grant foundation trust status to any further NHS trusts until it can receive “robust assurance” from the Care Quality Commission that the applicants are providing good quality care, the health sector regulator will announce later today.
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CommentCommentary: trust chiefs are like football managers
Monitor and the TDA should hold their nerve over leadership changes
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NewsMore than a third of hospital chief executives in post less than a year
More than a third of England’s hospital chief executives have been in post for less than a year, HSJ/Capsticks research reveals.
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LeaderRapid resolution needed for service change impasse
Competition rules are not having the desired impact
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NewsConcern over Monitor's Bristol 'merger' decision
Monitor has concluded that quality improvements borne of a recent reconfiguration of acute services in Bristol are not sufficient to outweigh the loss of patient choice resulting from the “merger”. The competition regulator said the decision would have “important considerations” for the “wider health system”.