All News articles – Page 971
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NewsLansley U-turn on price competition
The government has performed a significant U-turn on allowing price competition between NHS trusts and independent providers.
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NewsPFI contracts to be squeezed by Treasury
The Treasury has launched a squeeze on contracts signed under the private finance initiative in the hope of finding savings worth millions of pounds.
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NewsGovernment bid to avoid herbal medicines rule
The government is to sidestep an EU directive designed to protect consumers from unlicensed herbal and Chinese medicines.
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NewsMinister 'cannot justify 999 times'
Welsh Assembly health minister Edwina Hart has said she “cannot justify” some of the problems with ambulance waiting times.
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NewsBill Moyes: competition can drive NHS innovation
The former executive chairman of Monitor Bill Moyes writes exclusively in HSJ today (17 February) about the opportunities facing the NHS following the government’s plans to reform the service.
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NewsJoint surgery redesign could save trusts £664m
NHS Trusts can save £664m from the total they spend on joint surgery over the next 10 years, according to an exclusive analysis made available on hsj.co.uk.
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News'Challenged' acute trusts abandon independent FT status plans
More than half of the Department of Health’s seven financially “challenged” trusts appear to have abandoned plans to become foundation trusts.
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NewsClarity needed on Monitor accountability, MPs told
Monitor’s accountability as the proposed NHS economic regulator is unclear and its requirements to involve the public appear to be “minimal”, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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NewsFT governors calls for CQC quality assessment
The Foundation Trust Governors Association has called for the Care Quality Commission to assess the quality of governors.
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NewsConfed future in doubt following FT network split
The Foundation Trust Network’s decision to become an independent body has sparked fears over the future of the NHS Confederation.
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NewsTrust falls foul of CQC twice in nine months
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust has failed to address concerns raised 10 months ago, according to the Care Quality Commission.
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News'Draconian' director scared staff at Mid Staffs
Union reps at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust have told of a culture where staff were too scared to speak out because of a “draconian” director of nursing.
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NewsDozens of hospitals at risk from PCT efficiencies
More than 50 trusts face being unable to cover the costs of entire inpatient departments, economic modelling by the Department of Health suggests.
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NewsYork PCT financial problems probed
A strategic health authority has launched an independent review into the finances of a cash-strapped primary care trust.
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NewsShake-up opposed by Lansley gets green light
A controversial reconfiguration criticised by Andrew Lansley before he became health secretary has finally been given the go ahead.
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NewsPCTs agree to consult on children's congenital heart services
A joint committee of primary care trusts has given the go-ahead for a consultation on plans for greater centralisation of paediatric cardiac care.
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NewsNHS boards to find £300m in savings
NHS boards in Scotland will have to find savings worth £300m to reinvest in frontline services, health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has said.
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NewsPost discharge death rates revealed
Nearly a fifth of deaths linked to hospital care occur after discharge, according to mortality figures published by the NHS Information Centre.
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NewsTrusts underestimating 'hidden' staff bank costs by 40 per cent
Trusts are underestimating the true costs of running in-house staffing banks by as much as 40 per cent, an NHS Professionals report has claimed.
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NewsPCT 'first' to look at commissioning social enterprise
NHS Western Cheshire staff may launch the first commissioning support social enterprise.