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NewsNHS England restructure: new 'sub region' directors appointed
NHS England has appointed the directors of most of the organisation’s new ‘sub regions’ which are to be created as part of a restructure designed to cut costs by 15 per cent.
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NewsHSJ Live 28.11.2014: NHS England restructure: new 'sub region' directors appointed
NHS England appoints the directors of most of the organisation’s new ‘sub regions’, plus the rest of today’s new and comment.
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NewsExclusive: Francis whistleblowing review delayed
A review of NHS whistleblowing by Sir Robert Francis QC will be delayed until next year, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsParliament gives 'zero harm' bill financial backing
The government has given financial backing to a bill that legislates for zero harm in the NHS and changes the way professional regulators determine fitness to practise.
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NewsCCGs poised to defy pharma by switching to cheaper, unlicensed drug
Clinical commissioning groups across England are mulling the use of an unlicensed drug which could save the NHS millions of pounds, HSJ has learned
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NewsHSJ Live 27.11.2014: New NHS regulations come into force
Duty of candour and fit and proper person requirement come into for trusts, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsTariff reveals NHS savings targets for 2015-16
NHS pricing authorities will require all providers to deliver another 3.8 per cent in efficiency savings next year, while tweaking the controversial “marginal rate” for emergency admissions to ease the financial strain on smaller hospitals
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NewsSome trusts will not become FTs until 2018, says Flory
The chief executive of the NHS Trust Development Authority has said some trusts will not be authorised for at least another four years.
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NewsExclusive: Patient choice is not key to improving performance, says Hunt
Patient choice is no longer fundamental to improving NHS performance, the health secretary has told HSJ
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NewsGovernment considering 'incentives' for trusts to sell land
Jeremy Hunt has accepted the need for ‘investment in new primary care estate’ and revealed the government is examining how to encourage FTs to sell unused land
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NewsHunt: I want five years as health secretary
Jeremy Hunt has asked the prime minister to keep him in the health secretary post until 2017, claiming he ‘would be very happy if this is my life’s work’
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NewsHSJ Live 26.11.2014: Tariff reveals NHS savings targets for 2015-16
NHS pricing authorities will require all providers to deliver another 3.8 per cent in efficiency savings next year, while tweaking the controversial “marginal rate” for emergency admissions to ease the financial strain on smaller hospitals, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsDeficit for NHS providers swells to £630m
The NHS provider sector has plunged further into the red, the latest figures from Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority show
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NewsDorrell to leave parliament
Former health secretary Stephen Dorrell has announced that he will not be standing as an MP at the next election. Instead he will be joining consultant KPMG.
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NewsConcern over CCG dialysis transfer
The health secretary has come under fire from charities and MPs for agreeing to transfer the responsibility for renal dialysis commissioning from NHS England to clinical commissioning groups
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NewsHospital inspections in marginal seats could swing general election
Hospital inspections could play a role in deciding the outcome of next year’s general election, according to analysis shared exclusively with HSJ.
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NewsAspirant FTs could have option to become a mutual
NHS trusts could in future choose between becoming a foundation trust or an independent mutually owned company as the provider sector becomes increasingly ‘fluid and uncertain’, HSJ has been told.
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NewsHSJ Live 25.11.2014: Stephen Dorrell will step down from parliament
Former health select committee chair will not run for re-election next year, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsHSJ Patient Safety Awards to top congress
Next year’s Patient Safety Awards will provide the climax of the annual Patient Safety Congress, due to held in Birmingham on 7-8 July.
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NewsExclusive: Tariff delayed amid wrangling over extra NHS funds
Publication of the 2015-16 ‘tariff’ prices for NHS services has been held back amid high level political discussions about the possibility of securing extra funding for health in the autumn statement, HSJ understands.