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Exclusive: Delayed transfer rate soars to highest level
The national rate of delayed transfers of care has soared to its highest ever level, threatening the better care fund’s ambition to cut costs by improving the transfer of patients from hospital to other care settings.
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HSJ Live 18.11.2014: Foundation Trust Network to change its name
Network to be rebranded as NHS Providers, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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One in 10 GP practices pose greatest perceived risk
One in 10 GP practices have been assigned the highest category of risk in an ‘intelligent monitoring’ system devised by the Care Quality Commission.
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Morecambe Bay under fire on cancer screening services
A foundation trust has pledged to shake up the management of its breast screening unit after a probe found an “extremely poor” working environment that must be having an “impact on patient care”
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Senior information centre official to depart
The Health and Social Care Information Centre’s director of information and analytics is leaving the organisation, HSJ has learned.
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CQC reveals first general practice ratings
The first two GP practices to be rated under the Care Quality Commission’s inspection regime have been assessed as ‘outstanding’.
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Staffordshire CCG to hand £280m contract to private sector
Two private firms have been shortlisted for a £280m ‘prime provider’ contract in East Staffordshire in a competition that has seen all NHS bidders squeezed out of the race.
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HSJ Live 17.11.2014: Morecambe Bay under fire on cancer screening services
A foundation trust has pledged to shake up the management of its breast screening unit after a probe found an “extremely poor” working environment that must be having “impact on patient care”, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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Hunt sets out proposals for £10bn savings
The health secretary has pinpointed the areas where the NHS could save £10bn to help close a looming financial gap in the health service
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Smaller GP practices fared worse under inspections, CQC finds
Smaller GP practices have fared worse under the Care Quality Commission’s inspections so far because of the “splendid isolation” in which some are operating, Professor Steve Field has said
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HSJ Live 14.11.2014: Take part in HSJ's technology survey
We are looking to explore readers’ views about the NHS’s progress on its digital journey, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.
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Accident and emergency bailout fund increases to £700m
Hospitals are to receive an extra £300m in government cash in a bid to arrest further decline in A&E performance over the winter
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CSU boss appointed NHS England regional director
A former commissioning support unit boss has been appointed NHS England’s regional director for the south
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Guidance falls short on anti-bullying rules
New guidance that demands doctors and nurses are open about their mistakes does not include an explicit warning against staff obstructing or bullying their colleagues, sparking concern from campaigners.
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NHS England extends drive for equality in senior posts
NHS England’s drive to boost the representation of ethnic minorities in senior positions will be followed by an equalities push on disability, sexual orientation and gender, its head of equality has said
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HSJ Live 13.11.2014: Hunt sets out proposals for £10bn savings
Health secretary to say NHS can save £10bn through better use of innovation and technology, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.
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FTs will resist forced expenditure on primary care
Foundations trusts will ‘furiously resist’ any attempt to push them into ploughing their accumulated surpluses into primary care as envisaged by the NHS Five Year Forward View
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National tech blueprint sets greater role for regulators
Wide ranging proposals aimed at making the NHS fully digital by 2020, including new regulatory powers and allowing patients to write in their care records from 2018, have been revealed
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Kelsey: Digital ambition will need carrots as well as sticks
NHS England’s information director has acknowledged trusts will need ‘incentives’ as well as ‘consequences’ to encourage them to hit new national standards for information technology
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Patients to be able to write in their records from 2018
Patients will be able to add comments into their care records from March 2018 under new plans to make the NHS fully digital by 2020