All News articles – Page 349
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Secret Cabinet Office report was key to unlocking Treasury coffers
The run-up to agreement on an NHS funding deal.
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Treasury ‘agrees to support social care'
The Chancellor and prime minister have agreed the NHS should not have to foot the bill for knock-on pressures from rising demand for social care, senior sources told HSJ.
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NHS gets 3.4pc a year in major new funding deal
The government has agreed to increase NHS England’s budget by an average of 3.4 per cent in each of the next five years.
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Daily Insight: Must try harder
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership
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CQC warns providers over bogus inspectors
The Care Quality Commission has issued an alert to providers after two examples of people impersonating inspectors.
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Regulator explores standardised designs for new NHS buildings
Plans for new standardised NHS buildings are being drawn up by efficiency directors in a bid to speed up much needed improvements to ageing estate.
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Local plans still not good enough, says A&E boss
Local NHS providers and commissioners were given a fresh warning this week that their plans will not deliver the “capacity, productivity or length of stay” improvements required for 2018-19.
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Funding settlement linked to 'simple goals' - Hunt
Jeremy Hunt has said that talks within government about a long-term settlement for the NHS are “difficult and ongoing” and any deal would be linked to new “simple goals”.
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NHS funding deal may be imminent
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership
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Shelford Group trust signs £107m IT deal
Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust has signed a £107m contract with Northern Ireland company to provide IT support services.
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NHS 'must turn on all the taps' to meet workforce gap
The NHS workforce needs to grow by between 3 and 5 per cent a year for the next decade but is on course to fail that target, the head of Health Education England has warned.
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Updated: Government to scrap visa cap for non-EU doctors
The government is to remove its tier two visa cap for non-EU doctors and nurses, the Home Office has confirmed.
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'System approach' helps trust boost A&E performance by 40 percentage points
Extra beds, more staff at night, and twice-daily meetings with health economy chiefs are among the factors that caused an “inadequate” trust’s A&E performance to rocket by nearly 40 percentage points in two months.
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Leading information lawyer joins panel at HSJ webinar
Information law specialist Andrew Latham, from Capsticks, will be joining the panel at next week’s HSJ webinar on the General Data Protection Regulation.
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Daily Insight: Waiting for the real number
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership
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NHS will be in 'managed decline' without at least 4pc growth
NHS Confederation chief executive predicts “managed decline” without sufficient funding Any funding deal worth less than 4 per cent in real terms each year would see the service in ”managed decline”, NHS Confederation chief executive Niall Dickson has told HSJ.
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NHS outpatients model obsolete, says Stevens
The NHS outpatients model is obsolete, NHS England boss Simon Stevens said today as senior health bosses laid the ground to up the ante on local systems to reconfigure services.
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NHS England orders trust to improve bed tracking ahead of winter
NHS England has ordered hospital trusts to move to electronic bed tracking before winter, claiming “walking around wards” searching for empty beds was contributing to urgent care delays.
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Regulator has to apologise for 'plainly wrong' comments
The chairman of the Nursing and Midwifery Council has made an embarrassing climbdown after claiming incorrectly on national TV that the regulator had not put patients’ lives at risk.
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Council chief takes accountable officer role at CCG
A local authority chief executive has taken the accountable officer role at the local clinical commissioning group.