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NewsNicholson faces 'silent protest' outside board meeting
Health campaigners who are demanding that senior managers are held to account for the Stafford Hospital “disaster” will on Thursday step up their calls for the resignation of Sir David Nicholson.
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NewsCommunity trusts seek payment system reform
Aspirant community foundation trusts plan to lobby for changes to the NHS finance system to prevent activity being driven into acute hospitals.
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NewsNHS 111 yet to go live in two out of three sites
Less than a third of England has fully launched the NHS 111 service, with just three weeks to go before the national rollout deadline.
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NewsHSJ Live rolling news 28.2.2013: Francis at the Commissioning Board
Robert Francis at the NHS Commissioning Board’s meeting in public and the rest of today’s news
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NewsConfed appoints GP as new policy chief
The NHS Confederation has appointed a former chair of the National Association of Primary Care and a former NHS Direct chief executive to senior executive positions, it announced today.
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DH opens door to NHS pension for private sector
Private companies providing NHS services are being allowed access to the NHS pension scheme ahead of anticipated Treasury action to widen eligibility, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCommunity services to be focus of extended competition
Community services worth billions of pounds are likely to be made subject to increased competition by guidance to be developed under controversial new secondary legislation, HSJ has learned.
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Further curbs on foreign NHS use likely
The government will take action to further restrict access to free NHS care for foreign patients, Jeremy Hunt has indicated.
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Darzi: CCGs will struggle to change 'big beast' providers
Clinical commissioning groups will struggle to challenge large “big beast” hospital providers to reshape services, former health minister Lord Darzi has said.
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NewsHSJ Live 27.2.2013: Death rate review panel named
Death rate review panel named, NHS Clinical Commissioners expresses “concern” about the government’s competition rules, and the rest of today’s news.
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NewsExclusive: Howe insists competition regulations protect commissioners
Health minister Earl Howe has insisted government assurances given during the passage of the Health Act on competition rules remain intact, after new regulations sparked accusations of backdoor privatisation of the NHS.
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NewsUnions agree to reduce staff terms and conditions
Health unions and NHS Employers have agreed a landmark deal to reduce the pay, terms and conditions of almost one million NHS staff.
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NewsKelsey plans iPad app to provide patient 'insight'
The NHS Commissioning Board has outlined fresh details of its drive to bring together information from a range of official and unofficial sources to provide a picture of NHS service providers’ quality.
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CCGs warn they risk being 'saddled with inherited debt'
Clinical commissioning groups have warned they are at risk of being “saddled with an inherited debt” when they take on their new powers, as a result of an onslaught of retrospective claims for NHS continuing healthcare funding.
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NewsExclusive: Merging Dorset trusts could be banned from talking
The two providers involved in the first merger of two foundation trusts could be prevented from freely communicating with each other while the Competition Commission reviews the case, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMinister defends tendering rules
Health minister Lord Howe has defended the government’s regulations on competition, which have been criticised after being laid before Parliament.
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NewsHSJ Live 26.2.2013: Competition rules raised in House of Commons
Controversial NHS regulations raised in Commons
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NewsAnalysed: The continuing care claims deluge
PCTs face a £600m bill for backdated claims for care funding, and this is causing anxiety for clinical commissioning groups too
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Senior physicians call for 'cultural change' in NHS
The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh has said there are problems across the NHS which could cause the care failures at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust to be repeated elsewhere.
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Government highlights new language control for doctors
Foreign doctors who want to work for the NHS in England will have to prove they can speak English well enough to treat patients, the government has said.