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HSJ Awards 2015 ceremony - watch the highlights
Winners, finalists and judges talk about what it means to take part in the largest celebration of excellence in UK healthcare.
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GPs warned to prepare for cuts to rent payments
GP practices in high value areas could face large cuts to notional rent payments from NHS England, surveyors warn NHS England preparing to change the way it calculates premises payments GP practices have been advised to set aside a proportion of the “notional rent” they receive from NHS ...
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HSJ Women Leaders network to launch 'plan for action' on inequality
HSJ will host its second Women Leaders network event tomorrow.
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Executive Summary: HSJ editor calls for minister to go
HSJ’s roundup of the day’s essential stories and talking points
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Exclusive: NHS England attempts to halt judicial review in drug funding row
NHS England faces threat of judicial review over refusal to fund treatment for teenager DH and NHS England are funding Xyrem for hundreds of other narcolepsy patients Lawyers argue the decision is unlawful and discriminatory NHS England has asked doctors to resubmit a bid for funding to treat ...
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Warning A&Es will 'fly blind' with less performance data this winter
NHS England winter daily situation reports will not include key performance data Royal College of Emergency Medicine president says “somebody has decided to glaze over the windscreen” NHS England says less weekly data will “minimise the bureaucratic burden on frontline hospitals and GPs” NHS England will not publish ...
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CCGs could pick 'min' or 'max' roles under NHS England strategy
NHS England has begun a commissioning strategy programme It will seek to define CCGs’ roles in “accountable care systems” Seeks to create “place based commissioning” bringing together acute, primary and specialised Purchaser/provider split will become “thinner and less defined” Clinical commissioning groups could decide between having a “minimal” ...
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BMA cancels strike as government suspends imposition threat
Government agreed to drop imposition threat in exchange for “time limited” negotiations Agreement to negotiate follows Acas talks and months of acrimony after BMA walkout in October 2014 Hunt tells MPs strike action could have led to 20,000 operations being cancelled The British Medical Association has suspended strike ...
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Selbie: Councils can absorb public health cuts
Public Health England’s chief executive has told councils he is confident they can absorb a nearly 10 per cent cut while making progress “protecting and improving the public’s health”.
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New tariff objection threshold faces Lords challenge
Labour peers to challenge government’s plans to raise objection threshold needed to trigger tariff arbitration this afternoon Lord Hunt to move amendment claiming proposed changes to secondary legislation are “fundamentally unfair” Lords scrutiny committee warned public consultation on the changes was too short NHS Providers has raised concerns with ...
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Revealed: London CCGs dominate requests for consultancy spending over £50k
More than half of permissions sought by CCGs for consultancy spending of over £50,000 from London No requests rejected by NHS England as of October Explore the data More than half of the requests from clinical commissioning groups for management consultancy contracts worth more than £50,000 have come ...
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Executive Summary: Five things we learnt in a pivotal week for the NHS
HSJ’s roundup of the essential stories from a busy week in health policy
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Exclusive: DH agrees £1.2bn raid on its 2016-17 capital budget
Department of Health has agreed to transfer £1.2bn from its capital budget to support revenue spending in 2016-17, HSJ has learned The switch will substantially reduce the expected cash cut to non-NHS England revenue spending next year In following years, much of the reduction in non-NHS England spend expected ...
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Exclusive: NHS England U-turn over national midwifery audit
NHS England reverses decision to keep national midwifery investigations audit secret Decision follows criticism from the parents of baby Kate Stanton-Davies who died in March 2009 Review of her death highlighted multiple failings and similarities with Morecambe Bay NHS England has reversed a decision to keep secret a ...
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Government lacks reliable data for GP workforce planning, says NAO
Neither the Department of Health nor NHS England know how many GPs will be required to meet patient demand over the next five years due to a lack of reliable data, the National Audit Office has found.
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Mapped: More than half of providers missing emissions targets
Less than half of NHS providers are on track to meet carbon reduction targets enshrined in law.
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Executive Summary: Transparency, what transparency?
HSJ’s roundup of the day’s essential health policy stories and debate
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David Fish to head up Essex success regime
UCLPartners managing director Sir David Fish has been appointed to chair leaders’ group for Essex success regime. Group has to oversee the production of a “detailed implementation plan” by February Success regime was launched to turn around areas with serious care quality, performance and financial challenges UCLPartners ...
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Exclusive: NHS England faces judicial review over narcolepsy drug refusal
NHS England has until tomorrow to decide whether to fund narcolepsy treatment for teenager 194 patients have already received NHS funding for Xyrem Lawyers claim the refusal to fund the drug is discriminatory and unlawful NHS England has until tomorrow to decide whether to fund for a teenager ...