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NewsDaily Insight: Commissioning pioneers and budget blunders
HSJ’s round up of Wednesday’s must read stories
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NewsRevealed: Only three trusts hit 'reset' A&E targets
Just three hospital trusts have hit their lowered targets for accident and emergency performance, the latest data reveals.
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NewsPay crackdown: Trust chiefs to sign off all agency shifts above £120
NHS Improvement says annual pay costs to increase by 3.3 per cent in 2016-17 But real terms reduction in costs against activity suggests productivity gains Trust chief executives must sign off agency shifts of £120 per hour or more Hospital chief executives are now expected to personally sign ...
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NewsNew London devolution deal postponed
A planned announcement on devolution in London, which was due tomorrow and expected to involve devolving health powers, has been halted less than a week after the “deal” was revealed in the budget.
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NewsNew immigration charges could cost NHS millions
Immigration and skills charge could cost NHS millions of pounds from April NHS England chief nurse Jane Cummings says EU staff must be supported Government has overturned protections for EU staff ahead of Brexit talks NHS England’s chief nurse has called on the NHS to support European nursing ...
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NewsInterim managers demand higher rates to offset tax losses
NHS Improvement says trusts have been asked to pay higher rates to agency workers to “offset their tax losses” Under new rules, agency workers must pay the same level of tax as substantive employees Changes will affect interim senior managers, locum doctors and other agency staff who set up ...
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NewsCQC risk monitoring 'wrong more than right', study warns
Research finds the CQC’s risk monitoring could leave poor care undetected The CQC’s tool failed to identify more than half of inadequate trusts Analysis found the tool had an accuracy rate of 48 per cent The Care Quality Commission’s new system for identifying high risk NHS trusts could ...
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NewsExclusive: Warning over 'neglected' elderly mental health services
New royal college president elect vows to address neglected mental health services for older people Wendy Burn takes over as president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in June The president elect of the Royal College of Psychiatrists has warned mental health services for older people are being ...
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NewsPioneering trust and GP tie-up to bid for new care model contract
Northampton Healthcare FT creates new organisation with 3Sixty Care GP federation New partnership will bid and deliver contracts together and is “keen” to secure a local MCP contract once released The organisations have an “equal” share in the new company with three board directors each A Midlands trust ...
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News18 week waits, January 2017: explore the maps
NHS waiting lists around England, updated for January 2017
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NewsVirgin Care starts legal proceedings against NHS
Virgin Care issues legal proceedings after losing £82m, three year contract to provide children’s services Virgin spokesman complains of “serious flaws in the procurement process” Commissioners say they they “have confidence in the process” A private provider has launched legal proceedings against eight NHS commissioners after losing a ...
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NewsCouncils must agree targets for rapid help to hospitals, say NHS Providers
NHS Providers has urged councils and NHS leaders to agree targets for short term reductions in hospital bed days, after the announcement of £1.2bn extra in social care funding for 2017-18.
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NewsAnalysis: Over 100 trusts report rise in E coli infections in a year
106 trusts report increase in E coli rates, with more than 10 per cent increases at 60 PHE data casts doubt over feasibility of government target to halve infections by 2020 Across England the infection rate has increased by 6.7 per cent in 12 months and by 12.7 per ...
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NewsFormer trust chief guilty of fraud avoids jail
A former hospital trust chief executive has been given a 16 month suspended jail term after she had pleaded guilty to fraudulently paying her husband more than £11,000.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England warns CCGs over ‘arbitrary rationing’
NHS England says some CCGs are using “arbitrary” methods to “ration” hip and knee surgery and restricting treatment for smokers and obese people CCGs must report on whether they have implemented restrictions, and in future seek NHS England’s permission National RighCare team has also written to CCGs about hip ...
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NewsBailout delays force trusts to take out extra loans
Further uncertainty over the timing of payments from £1.8bn sustainability and transformation fund This could leave more hospitals struggling to pay suppliers and relying on interest bearing loans from the Department of Health Trusts complain of “unnecessary extra cost and administrative burden” Dozens of NHS trusts face having ...