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NewsCQC named as highest paying arm's length body
The Care Quality Commission employs the highest paid senior executives among the so-called NHS arm’s length bodies, it has emerged.
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NewsHSJ's inspirational women call for action
Senior health service figures are being asked to address the under-representation of women in leadership of the NHS, in the wake of HSJ’s Women’s Issue earlier this year.
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NewsAnalysed: Lamb's integration pioneers
The Department of Health’s integrated care “pioneers” will be monitored centrally to check progress against their plans and could be stripped of their status if they lose their way, health minister Norman Lamb has said.
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NewsCCGs and NHS England report growing budget shortfalls
The number of clinical commissioning groups expecting to record a deficit at the end of this year has nearly tripled to 24, while NHS England is also expecting to overspend its own budgets by £93m.
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NewsPrimary care contracting faces cuts and possible outsourcing
NHS England’s primary care contract managers will be reorganised and reduced by September next year, with the services potentially being outsourced.
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NewsMinisters to legislate on £3.8bn pooled budget
The government will amend the Care Bill so it can force clinical commissioning groups to share a chunk of their budgets with local authorities, a health minister has told HSJ.
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NewsMorecambe Bay investigation will seek families' input
Further details have emerged of the independent inquiry into University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust’s maternity and neonatal services.
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NewsMore emergency departments breach waiting time targets
Increasing numbers of accident and emergency patients are being treated outside the maximum four hour wait year on year over the past four summers, an HSJ analysis shows.
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NewsHealth burden is greatest during moderately cold weather
The NHS has been urged to place greater emphasis on supporting vulnerable groups during periods of moderately cold rather than freezing temperatures after a study suggested this is when services come under greatest strain.
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NewsCQUIN bar 'set too low' says innovation chief
The standards required by trusts to receive incentive payments designed to drive innovation were “probably set too low”, NHS England’s innovation chief said last week.
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News'Large variations' in place of death
There are “large variations” across England in the proportion of people who die at hospital or in their own homes, figures show.
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NewsCancer survival rate highlighted
Cancer patients living in the most deprived parts of England are a third less likely to be alive five to 10 years after diagnosis than those in the most affluent areas.
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NewsHSJ Live 4.11.13: NHS warned about greater dangers of moderately cold weather
Services come under most strain in these conditions, says Public Health England
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NewsHSJ celebrates innovation in healthcare
This week HSJ will announce our list of the 50 most innovative people in the sector.
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Trust errors result in hundreds breaching waiting time target
A hospital trust has revealed it failed to properly record the waiting times of 60 per cent of its elective inpatients, causing hundreds of them not to receive treatment within the 18-week deadline.
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NewsHealth board IT failure looked at
Computer problems which seriously disrupted hospitals in a major health board area for two days at the beginning of October are now being investigated.
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NewsNick Clegg defends A&E closures
Nick Clegg has defended the government’s decision to downgrade two accident and emergency departments.
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NewsHSJ Live: 1.11.13: Healthcare leaders react to 'integration pioneers' announcement
Hundreds of northwest London patients failed to receive treatment within specified time
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News1 November 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 AndroidDownload the appIn this week’s issue we launch HSJ’s first ever commission, on hospital care for frail older people. Read more about how it will work, ...