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Seven trusts combine leadership to accelerate vanguard changes
Seven trusts in Yorkshire to cede control over decision making to newly created federation board Leaders want new structure to help speed up transformation of acute services New board and south Yorkshire STP both headed by Sir Andrew Cash Seven trusts will cede authority over decision making on ...
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Daily Insight: Under fire trust boss stays put
The must read and most talked about stories in health from Thursday
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Personal maternity budgets worth up to £6,000, MPs told
Personal maternity budgets will be worth up to £6,000 Seven pilot groups are already trying out the new personal health budget Maternity review’s aim is for new midwifery pracices to provide continuity of care Personal budgets for women who wish to take charge of their own maternity care ...
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Department of Health shake-up revealed
DH unveils new directorate structure as part of cost cutting drive Social care and technology move into new community care directorate Four new directorates report to permanent secretary Chris Wormald The Department of Health has reorganised its directorate structure, HSJ has learned.
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Trust chiefs declare support for 'brave' EU staff following Brexit vote
Senior NHS leaders for organisations across the service have sought to reassure employees in the wake of the vote for the UK to leave the EU, and have restated their policies for zero tolerance towards racist abuse.
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Trusts could be graded on agency spend in new performance framework
NHS Improvement consulting on single performance framework for foundation trusts and non-FTs Agency spending among proposed measures in finance and governance categories Trusts would be banded into four grades NHS Improvement is consulting on a new performance framework that would see foundation trusts and NHS trusts subject to ...
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Exclusive: Paybills and planned care targeted in huge savings drive
NHS Improvement sets out plan for major interventions to bring provider sector deficit down to £250m in 2016-17 Warns that planned £550m deficit makes management of overall NHS financial position “very risky” Providers given a month to produce plans for consolidation of back office and pathology services across entire ...
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NHS providers on course for £500m deficit, says Mackey
Jim Mackey says NHS providers are on course to record deficit of £500m for 2016-17 NHS Improvement chief says this is a big improvement but “we can’t stop there” NHS Improvement to unveil measures aimed at further improving financial position Mackey promises he will abide by any “control total” ...
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Troubled CCGs spent hundreds of thousands on interim directors
CCGs in legal directions have each spent hundreds of thousands of pounds turnaround directors and other senior roles NHS England served directions to a number of CCGs in 2015-16 Groups say they have to appoint executives quickly as part of process NEW Devon spent £335,000 on off-payroll turnaround director ...
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Supplier chosen for Carter efficiency league table
A supplier has been chosen to provide the league table ranking NHS trusts on their efficiency.
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Daily Insight: Hunt seeks to reassure European NHS staff
HSJ’s round-up of Monday’s must read stories
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Hunt tells EU staff 'you are a crucial part of our NHS'
EXCLUSIVE: Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has spoken for the first time since the EU referendum result, calling on the country to value the contribution of EU workers in the health service.
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HSJ launches award to celebrate NHS’s European staff
The contribution to the NHS by staff from elsewhere in the EU will be honoured by a new category in the 2016 HSJ Awards.
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Former South Devon chief pleads not guilty to fraud charges
Former hospital chief executive Paula Vasco-Knight has pleaded not guilty to three counts of fraud.
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NHS Improvement creates new Carter review division
NHS Improvement is to take on responsibility for the Carter review with the creation of a new directorate of up to 100 staff.
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Daily Insight: What the UK leaving the EU means for the NHS
A round-up of HSJ’s stories looking at what Brexit could mean for the NHS
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What does Brexit mean for NHS funding?
The vote for Brexit and the economic and political turbulence that attends it have ushered in a period of huge risk and uncertainty for NHS finances, HSJ has been told.
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Brexit: How the political fallout will affect the NHS
HSJ considers how the political fallout from the vote to leave the European Union will effect the NHS in the next few months and beyond.