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DH accounts show NHS ‘clearly in underlying deficit’
The Department of Health underspent its revenue budget by just £1.2m in 2014-15 – a fraction of its £110bn budget – the department’s accounts reveal.
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Keogh: New research confirms 'weekend effect' on mortality
NHS England medical director Sir Bruce Keogh will shortly publish research showing a ‘weekend effect’ in NHS services including higher mortality, he told MPs today.
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Updated: £579m drawdown to commissioning system
NHS England will draw down a further £579m of historic surpluses to help the commissioning system this year, new board papers reveal.
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HSJ 21.07.15: Stevens, Keogh and Cummings at the health committee - catch up
Simon Stevens, Sir Bruce Keogh and Jane Cummings face MPs, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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Executive Summary: Midlands and East feels the financial heat
HSJ’s roundup of Monday’s key stories
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CCGs expected to fund 2.3 per cent rise in emergency activity
Clinical commissioning groups are expected to fund a 2.3 per cent increase in emergency activity this year compared to 2014-15, NHS England has confirmed.
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Exclusive: DH funds private prescriptions for drug denied to NHS patients
Taxpayers’ money is being used by the Department of Health to pay for private prescriptions for a £12,000 a year drug to treat narcolepsy, HSJ has learned.
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Analysis: Huge regional variation in NHS financial health
There is wide regional variation in the financial health of the NHS, HSJ analysis of the performance of clinical commissioning groups, providers and specialised commissioners in 2014-15 reveals.
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HSJ Live 20.07.15: Huge regional variation in NHS's financial health
Comprehensive HSJ analysis of the performance of CCGs, providers and specialised commissioners, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment
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Cancer commissioning overhaul could save 30,000 lives
The NHS can save 30,000 more lives a year by overhauling cancer commissioning and treatment funding, a national taskforce has said.
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Executive Summary: Running before putting your trainers on?
HSJ’s roundup of Friday’s key stories
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Updated: NHS England halts cancer drugs working group
A group tasked by NHS England to examine how cancer drugs can be evaluated and commissioned in future has had its work ‘paused’ after just six months in operation.
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DH starts search for NHS Improvement chief executive
The Department of Health has begun advertising for the chief executive of new combined provider regulation body NHS Improvement.
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HSJ Live 17.07.2015: Exclusive - NHS England halts cancer drugs working group
Group tasked by NHS England to examine how cancer drugs can be evaluated and commissioned in future has had its work ‘paused’, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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Executive Summary: What we learnt from Hunt’s '25 year vision' speech
HSJ’s roundup of the key points from Jeremy Hunt’s vision for the NHS for the next 25 years
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Experts question financial implications of seven day working
Leading health thinktanks have questioned where the money for seven day working will come from, following the health secretary’s ultimatum to doctors on the issue this morning.
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New safety investigation body 'will operate without fear or favour'
A new body to investigate clinical failure and incidents of patient harm in the NHS will “operate without fear or favour”, the government has said.
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Watch the speech: Jeremy Hunt on making healthcare ‘more human’
Highlights from his ‘25 year vision’ speech
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Rose review: NHS graduate scheme should expand tenfold
The health service should increase the size of its graduate scheme tenfold, the Rose review into NHS leadership has concluded.
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Pay review says doctors should lose weekend opt-out
There is a ‘compelling’ case for seven day services in the NHS and medical consultants should lose their contractual opt-out for weekend work, according to an independent pay review.