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NewsStevens sets out NHS devolution 'tests'
Councils hoping to gain Greater Manchester style devolved powers over health and social care must convince NHS England that the benefits of the move would go beyond integration of the two services, the body’s chief executive has said.
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NewsHSJ Live 02.07.15: NAO finds mistakes in GP data extraction project led to 'losses of public funds'
National Audit Office finds that GP data IT system “significantly delayed” and mistakes led to “losses of public funds”, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsFrustration over delay to specialised access policy
A process for deciding which new specialist treatments NHS England will fund will not be developed until the end of the year at the earliest, it has emerged.
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NewsExclusive: National director says NHS 'can’t afford' new drugs
The NHS will not be able to afford many new drugs and treatments in the next few years because it is prioritising out of hospital care, a senior NHS England director has warned.
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NewsPublic perceptions of the NHS: 12 key facts
The standout findings from the latest government survey of public perceptions of the NHS and care.
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NewsExclusive: 'Candour' law may change after legal threat
The government is considering changing the duty of candour law just three months after it came into effect, following a threat of judicial review by a patient charity, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsHSJ Live 01.07.2015: Hunt speech to LGA Conference - reaction
The latest reaction to health secretary’s Local Government Association Conference speech, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.
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NewsExclusive: Agency spending clampdown team will be made up of temporary staff
Details have emerged of the Monitor team that will drive the clampdown on agency staff spending.
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NewsCall for student nurses to lose taxpayer grant funding
Academics have called for an ‘urgent’ overhaul of the funding system for training nurses and midwives.
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NewsNHS England tells regions to create urgent care networks
NHS England has said urgent and emergency care networks should be set up across the country to set and monitor standards of care and ‘designate urgent care facilities’.
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NewsStorified: Frustration at NHS email system outage
The NHSmail email system used by 650,000 people across the health and care sectors suffered technical problems due to a network issue, taking it offline for most of yesterday.
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NewsHEE to deliver 23,000 new nurses by 2019
More than 23,000 extra nurses will be trained over the next four years to help meet growing demand in the NHS, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsConsultancy giant awarded £60m NHS email contract
Consultancy firm Accenture has been awarded a £60m contract to deliver a replacement for the health service’s secure email system by the Department of Health.
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NewsHSJ Live 30.06.2015: White paper calls for single health regulator
A white paper from health policy experts calls for a single regulator, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsFines for breaching final elective target to be boosted
The penalty imposed on providers who breach the remaining elective waiting time target is to be increased, regulators have told all NHS providers and clinical commissioning groups.
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NewsRevealed: Which CCGs are paying GP practices to form federations
A third of clinical commissioning groups with control of their primary care budgets plan to fund member GP practices to get them to form federations, HSJ has found
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NewsNHS England hits back at highly critical Care.data report
NHS England has hit back the assertion by an independent watchdog that delivery of the controversial Care.data patient record sharing initiative has been dogged by ‘unresolvable problems’.