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Monitor suspends FT pipeline over quality assurance concerns
Monitor has decided not to grant foundation trust status to any further NHS trusts until it can receive “robust assurance” from the Care Quality Commission that the applicants are providing good quality care, the health sector regulator will announce later today.
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Keogh recommendation on cosmetic surgery is ignored
Cosmetic surgery clinics are still offering perks such as chauffeurs and package deals despite NHS England recommending they should be banned.
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Burnham sets out plans for repeal of Health Act
Labour would force clinical commissioning groups to include a wider range of clinicians and reverse the increased private patient income cap, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has told HSJ.
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27 September issue of HSJ is ready to read on the app
This week’s issue of HSJ magazine is now available to read on our tablet app.Download the HSJ app for iPadDownload the HSJ app for AndroidOn the cover this week, Craig Barratt argues that the NHS spend more time thinking about its historical failures, and imagines what exhibits might be on ...
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Revalidation warning for doctors
More than 8,000 doctors have been warned their licence to work is at risk unless they submit details to a key appraisal programme.
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HSJ Live: 27.9.2013 The £1,000 a day NHS interims revealed
Top NHS interims’ salaries revealed, new twist in NHS patient data debate, and the rest of today’s news and comment
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Exclusive: DWP attempt to obtain drug treatment data rings 'alarm bells'
The Department for Work and Pensions attempted to obtain access to confidential patient data so that it could be linked to information about employment, tax credits and benefits claims, HSJ has learned.
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Lack of support for health information producers
Many health information producers are not equipped to create understandable and usable products for the public, research suggests.
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Hunt's US fast-track management scheme will cost £10m
The government will spend £10m on its programme to boost failing hospitals’ management by drafting in new leaders who receive training in America, it has emerged.
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Neighbouring trusts go through 14 chief executives in five years
Two neighbouring trusts that had been considering a merger have seen five substantive and nine interim or acting chief executives over the past five years, an HSJ/Capsticks survey reveals.
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More than a third of hospital chief executives in post less than a year
More than a third of England’s hospital chief executives have been in post for less than a year, HSJ/Capsticks research reveals.
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Patients 'self-funding treatment'
Hospital patients are being allowed to pay for treatments that are no longer available for free, the shadow health secretary has claimed.
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HSJ Live 26.9.2013: HSJ Efficiency Awards winners revealed
The winners of HSJ’s Efficiency Awards are revealed, we hold a Live seven day working debate, and the rest of today’s news and comment
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GP budgets could be added to pooled integration funds
NHS England may contribute additional funding to bolster the £3.8bn integration transformation fund announced in the 2013 comprehensive spending review, Sir David Nicholson has said.
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Exclusive: Competition rules hold back quality, says Nicholson
NHS England’s chief executive has said the government may need to change the law because competition rules are standing in the way of improvements to NHS services.
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GP commissioning not accountable, says Burnham
The shadow health secretary has said he opposes “GP control or domination of commissioning” because it is not “accountable” and compromises “the public interest”.
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'More time' on admin than patients
Doctors spend more than twice as much time on paperwork as they do on home visits, a survey suggests.
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Burnham: NHS 'hearts and minds' behind my integration plan
NHS staff will back further reorganisation of the NHS by a Labour government because their “hearts and minds” are behind the party’s plans for integration of the health and social care systems, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has said.
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HSJ Live 25.09.2013: Burnham lays out plans to Labour conference
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has addressed the Labour conference. See here for details, reaction and a round up of the rest of the health news.