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NewsHunt: Trusts to be told how to do better investigations
Health secretary says problems around poor investigations seen at Southern Health likely to exist across the NHS Jeremy Hunt reveals plan to issue new guidance to trusts on how to carry out effective investigations NHS complaints system is “unfinished business” Jeremy Hunt has said “we are kidding ourselves” ...
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NewsHunt vows to act on NHS's 'biggest area of weakness'
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt brands children’s mental health services the NHS’s “biggest area of weakness” Mr Hunt took on mental health portfolio after being reappointed as health secretary He tells HSJ there were “big problems” with CAMHS capacity and one solution is integrating more NHS services into schools ...
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NewsHunt: I want to be health secretary until 2019
Jeremy Hunt has said he would “love to serve another two to three years” as health secretary. In a major interview with HSJ he also set out wide-ranging plans for the next phase of his tenure.
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NewsDaily Insight: Crown slips at Princess Alexandra
HSJ’s round-up of Wednesday’s must read stories and talking points
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NewsExclusive: Private firm quits high profile £120m NHS development
Ramsay Healthcare UK pulls out of high profile building project Firm was due to run a 90 bed private hospital on the new complex Partnership with Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust announced in 2013 Ramsey’s decision to withdraw was taken shortly after the EU referendum A private healthcare ...
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NewsReforms after Winterbourne View scandal hit by NHS funding inertia
The NHS’s failure to sufficiently fund the care costs of people with learning disabilities who are being transferred from long term health service placements has resulted in major overspends for many councils.
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NewsExclusive: CCGs expect 'evolution' and 'recalibration' of commissioning
Local clinical commissioning will see substantial evolution linked to new care models and moves to plan services across a larger footprint, but will remain important, NHS Clinical Commissioners will argue in a new report.
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NewsHospitals demand clarity over future of EU staff
Specialist hospitals have called for the government to clarify the rights of EU nationals to remain working in health and social care in the UK.
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NewsDaily Insight: Stevens and Hunt play word games
The must read stories and talking points in health
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News18 week waits, August 2016: explore the maps
NHS waiting lists around England, updated for August 2016
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NewsHSJ Live catch up: Hunt, Stevens and Mackey face MPs' questions
Summary: what happened at the health committee
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NewsSTP to appoint new chair
Suffolk STP footprint searching for chair days before submission deadline for plans Nick Hulme to remain as STP’s senior responsible officer Chair deemed necessary in light of Mr Hulme’s role as chief executive of two trusts in the patch The Suffolk and north east Essex sustainability and transformation ...
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NewsCQC to bust budget in effort to meet GP inspection deadline
CQC GP inspection programme almost £700,000 over budget Increased budget used to increase workforce to meet March deadline David Behan “not open to any other possibility” than adhering to the timeline The Care Quality Commission has admitted its GP inspection programme will be £700,000 over budget this year ...
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NewsExclusive: HEE to receive £20m for GP training places
Health Education England is to receive an additional £20m on top of its existing budget to help support the planned increase in the number of GPs in England
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NewsDaily Insight: More trusts get the special treatment
HSJ’s round-up of Monday’s must read stories
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NewsTrusts offered incentives to improve maternity safety
Insurance premiums to be linked to maternity service performance Up to £40,000 available for each trust for maternity training Trusts will be asked to commit to steps to improve safety Trusts that demonstrate better outcomes in maternity care will be rewarded with reductions in the premiums they pay ...
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NewsChris Ham: GPs do not want full integration into PACS
GPs are unlikely to give up their independence and fully integrate their services with other types of NHS provider “any time soon”, the King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham has said.
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NewsMore trusts put into financial special measures
Regulators have placed three more NHS trusts in financial special measures.
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NewsHospital director denies 'impropriety' over 'irregular' payoff deal
The trust director who agreed an unusual and “very irregular” exit deal for a senior midwife at the centre of a care scandal has denied any “impropriety”.
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NewsFirst digital health providers inspected by CQC
CQC publishes first pilot inspections of digital GP providers Full primary care digital provider inspections to begin next April NHS is seeking to push significant number of GP contacts to digital channels Former Circle chief Ali Parsa’s new venture Babylon one of first to get green light The ...