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NewsExclusive: DH 'pressure contributed to 111 failure', Alliance report finds
“Unprecedented” central pressure and a procurement process focused more on cost than quality were two of the biggest factors in the failure of NHS 111’s launch, a new report has concluded.
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NewsExclusive: Capita challenges NHS Choices 'insourcing'
Capita is in talks with the Department for Health over government plans to axe its NHS Choices contract, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Live 13.05.13: Care Bill debated in House of Commons
NHS England and Moniotr have announced plans to overhaul payment by results, continuing concern over A&E performance and the rest of the days news.
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NewsCare bill extends CQC's powers
The Care Quality Commission will be able to order Monitor to put trusts into special administration over quality failures, under new powers set out in the Care Bill.
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NewsTrusts submit deficit plans for 2013-14 amid 'going concern' worries
The NHS Trust Development Authority has written to trusts assuring them they can be classed as “a going concern” by auditors, despite submitting deficit plans for this financial year, HSJ has learned.
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DH director general warns over diversion of social care funds
A senior Department of Health official has warned about NHS funds which are being transferred to local authorities being diverted to other services.
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News750 patients suffer 'never events'
Hundreds of hospital patients have suffered basic, preventable mistakes that should “never” happen in the NHS during the last four years including having surgical instruments left inside them and operations being carried out on the wrong body part, figures suggest.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England to begin work on 'Expedia' style booking system
NHS England is to begin an ambitious move to create an “Expedia.com” style system for electronic booking of NHS appointments, to replace the unpopular Choose and Book.
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NewsHSJ Live 10.05.13: Ministers announce legal moves in response to Francis
The government has revealed details of its Care Bill today, it includes a new criminal sanction for NHS organisations who supply false information, and the rest of todays news
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NewsHospitals leader: NHS reorganisation 'coming home to roost' in A&E failure
The organisation representing English hospitals has said the government’s NHS reorganisation is in part to blame for the failure to maintain low accident and emergency waiting times.
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NewsHSJ Live 9.5.2013: Row grows over A&E performance
What a statutory duty of candour will mean for the NHS, Nick Seddon appointed Dowining Street’s new health and social care policy adviser, and the rest of today’s news
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NewsHigh cost of fines for long waits revealed
English hospitals would have been fined £227m in 2012 if they had been subjected to the penalty regime written into their contracts for the current financial year, according to analysis shared exclusively with HSJ.
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Trusts ease pay savings in Francis aftermath, analysis shows
Hospital trusts are disproportionately targeting non-pay costs and seeking extra income as they embark on a £2.4bn savings drive in 2013-14, an exclusive HSJ analysis reveals.
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NewsExclusive: Panic over Hunt plan to 'announce' A&E rescue fund
Jeremy Hunt is seeking to announce a £300-£400m fund to “solve” the accident and emergency performance dive, but the money may not be available, according to emails seen by HSJ.
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NewsHealth adviser to prime minister appointed
Nick Seddon, deputy director of right-leaning think tank Reform, has been appointed health and social care adviser to the prime minister.
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NewsQueen's speech: Criminal sanctions for misleading NHS providers
The government will use its forthcoming Care Bill to make it a criminal offence for NHS providers to provide false and misleading information about their performance, it said today.
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Junior doctors 'unaware' on reforms
Junior doctors have poor knowledge about health politics and NHS reforms, research suggests.
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Medical device assessment 'inconsistent' claim
The European Union process of assessing whether medical devices are fit for public use are “inconsistent and opaque”, researchers have claimed.
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NewsHundreds of NHS directors to be taught 'compassion'
Hundreds of senior NHS managers will be taught how to be “more inclusive, compassionate and caring” as part of the response to the Francis inquiry.
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NewsExclusive: Competition ‘jeopardy’ for icon of integration
Commissioners of Torbay’s pioneering integrated care organisation are taking legal advice amid fears its progress could be placed “in jeopardy” by a requirement to competitively tender some services, HSJ has learned.