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NewsExclusive: Details on surgeon rankings plans revealed
Fresh details about how rankings of individual consultants on metrics such as how many patients die in their theatres each year will be devised have been shared with HSJ.
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NewsHow HSJ has covered the DH's history of underspending
The 2013 Budget showed the Department of Health is on course for its biggest annual underspend this parliament. In October last year HSJ exclusively revealed the DH had returned almost £3bn to the Treasury in the previous two years. Here is how HSJ has covered the department’s recent history of ...
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NewsExclusive: Delay to 111 go live in third of country
NHS Direct has been asked to provide a contingency service in almost a third of England due to delays in rolling out the government’s flagship 111 urgent care phone number, HSJ has learned.
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NewsOnly half health and wellbeing boards consider end-of-life care
Concerns have been raised that some bodies introduced under the NHS reforms have not considered the needs of dying people.
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NewsBan on gagging clauses is 'smoke and mirrors'
High level announcements about restrictions on the use of confidentiality clauses have “limited significance” but may help to clarify their effect for staff, lawyers have told HSJ.
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NewsHSJ Live 21.3.2013: Rolling healthcare news
The Labour party responds to the Department of Health’s large underspend today, government gagging clause commitments are described as “smoke and mirrors”, and live coverage of today’s other news.
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Morecambe Bay reveals former chief’s compromise agreement
WORKFORCE: The foundation trust today released details of the ‘compromise agreement’ it reached with former chief executive Tony Halsall, who stepped down last February amidst a care quality scandal.
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NewsNumber 10 health adviser joins Care Quality Commission
Paul Bate, the Prime Minister’s health adviser, is leaving his role to become the Care Quality Commission’s director of strategy, the watchdog has announced.
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NewsDH on course for biggest underspend this parliament
The Department of Health is this year on course for its biggest annual underspend in the current parliament – with none of the unused budget due to be carried over for future use, today’s Budget revealed.
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NewsNHS national communications director resigns
Colin Douglas, director of NHS communications for the Department of Health, has resigned, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCommissioning board and Monitor: competition 'not about ideology'
Healthcare sector regulator Monitor and the NHS Commissioning Board this week issued a joint statement of intent on how competition would work in the reformed health service, amid continuing political controversy about the government’s NHS competition regulations.
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NewsHSJ Live 20.3.2013: NHS coverage of the Budget
Live coverage of the government’s Budget today in relation to health and care, the health adviser leaving Number 10 for the Care Quality Commission, and the rest of today’s news
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NewsExclusive: Weakest CSUs given three months to improve
Struggling commissioning support units are to be given just three months to improve their business practices or face intervention by the NHS Commissioning Board, HSJ has been told.
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NewsExclusive: Nicholson forced to correct evidence to MPs over Gary Walker
Sir David Nicholson has been forced to write to MPs to correct comments he gave in relation to sacked hospital chief executive during evidence to the Commons public accounts committee, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsGary Walker says he was threatened and removed from job
Former hospital chief executive Gary Walker has told MPs he was threatened and removed from his job in a row with then health authority boss Dame Barbara Hakin.
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NewsExclusive: Gary Walker did tell Nicholson he was a whistleblower
Former United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust chief executive Gary Walker did seek to be treated as a whistleblower when he approached Sir David Nicholson with patient safety concerns, a document seen by HSJ reveals.
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NewsNicholson says gagging order ban will be applied retrospectively
Sir David Nicholson has told MPs a ban on “gagging” of NHS staff will be applied retrospectively, suggesting relevant confidentiality agreements no longer apply to those who have signed them in the past.
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NewsAnalysed: rising temporary nursing costs
HSJ Briefing is our in-depth analysis of key issues facing some of the major NHS health economies. This week we examine this year’s rise in temporary nursing costs at a time when agency spending seemed to be under control.
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NewsNew contract to be imposed on GPs
The government has confirmed it will begin imposing significant changes to the GP contract at the end of the month.
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NewsHSJ Live 19.3.2013: Gary Walker tells story to health committee
Coverage of the appearance of the sacked former United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust chief executive at the health committee, and today’s other news.