All Monitor articles – Page 61
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy EU competition law is still a central issue in healthcare reform
Since its publication, and despite ongoing revisions, the debate as to whether the Health Bill opens the NHS up to European competition law to a previously unseen level remains a “live” issue. Beachcroft partner Robert McGough and BDO adviser Dr Rupert Dunbar-Rees discuss.
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NewsGovernment launches provider choice for community and mental health services
Commissioners have been told to offer a choice of “any qualified provider” for some community and mental health services from next year. It is part of government plans which amount to a slowing down of the extension of choice in the NHS.
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2gether FT reports high rate of delayed transfers
PERFORMANCE: Delayed transfers of care have increased “significantly” at 2gether Foundation Trust due to the lack of availability of social care or housing packages.
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SHA tells Monitor to push Suffolk and Norfolk mental health merger through
STRUCTURE: NHS East of England has asked Monitor to reject recommendations by the Cooperation and Competition Panel and “expedite” the merger of two mental health providers in the region on patient safety grounds.
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Fall in activity at Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases
FINANCE: A fall in activity has left the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases Foundation Trust £155,000 behind plan on its PCT income after the first two months of 2011-12.
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NewsFT delays will create near impossible challenge, Monitor warns
Authorising aspirant foundation trusts by 2014 will be an “almost impossible challenge” if the Department of Health decides to “backload” applications, Monitor’s chair has warned.
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CommentHealthWatch: local scrutiny and national tension
Although the listening exercise was meant to encompass every aspect of the proposed changes to the NHS, an important part of the reforms has been slipping under everyone’s radar - HealthWatch.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: the finance director's job interview
“May I recap,” she said. “If I’m appointed finance director of the trust, my main deliverable is a financial strategy for foundation trust status within two years?”
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Derby Hospitals missing five Monitor targets
PERFORMANCE: Derby Hospitals Foundation Trust is missing five Monitor targets including referral to treatment times for admitted patients, and accident and emergency waiting times
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NewsSouthern Cross failure could speed handover of social care regulation to Monitor - Bennett
The collapse of care homes operator Southern Cross is likely to prompt the government to hand healthcare regulator Monitor responsibility for social care “sooner rather than later”, Monitor’s interim chief executive said on Tuesday.
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NHS London brings in the DH's pipeline tsar one day a week
STRUCTURE: The Department of Health’s head of provider delivery Matthew Kershaw will be working with the strategic health authority one day a week to help push the capital’s non-FTs through the authorisation process.
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Barnet and Chase Farm report on Lansley's desk
STRUCTURE: The Department of Health has confirmed it has received the Independent Reconfiguration Panel’s report into hospital configuration in north London.
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NewsMonitor delays chief executive appointment until bill is clarified
Monitor, the foundation trust regulator, has announced a delay in its appointment of a chief executive.
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NewsMonitor directors say FTs 'opportunistic' in acquiring community services
The foundation trust regulator has criticised the “opportunistic” approach of trusts to absorbing community services.
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NewsAspirant FTs to have debt 'restructured'
Aspirant foundation trusts with liquidity or debt problems could have their debt restructured, the Department of Health’s head of provider development has said.
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CommentClinical concerns in the South West rumble on
The aftershocks of last year’s independent inquiry into Bristol’s histopathology services are still being felt across the city through a series of reviews.
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NewsDH to review FT application process to avoid 'embarrassment'
The Department of Health is overhauling the process for checking whether a trust is ready to apply for foundation status to avoid “embarrassing” the health secretary, HSJ has discovered.
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Foundation trusts borrowing over £1bn from DH
Foundation trusts have secured loans worth more than £1bn from the Department of Health, HSJ can reveal, prompting concern about the impact of increased debts on foundation trust independence.
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Monitor downgrades Somerset Partnership on governance
PERFORMANCE: Monitor has downgraded Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust’s governance risk rating from amber-green to amber red.
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Monitor downgrades Royal Devon
PERFORMANCE: Monitor has downgraded the Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust’s governance risk rating for quarter four.