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Chair appointed for Sussex PCT cluster
WORKFORCE: Denise Harker has been appointed as the chair of the NHS Sussex board.
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NHS Surrey provider arm seeks to boost bank workforce
WORKFORCE: Surrey Community Health is holding a series of special open days this month to recruit healthcare staff “on the spot”.
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Monitor's role to be softened in bid to quell competition fears
The government has backed proposals to strike Monitor’s duty to “promote competition” from the Health and Social Care Bill, and to give the NHS Commissioning board a mandate to determine how competition applies in the health service.
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NewsGovernment accepts 'core' Future Forum proposals
The government has accepted most of the NHS Future Forum’s recommendations, including watering down Monitor’s role on competition and scrapping the foundation trust deadline.
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NewsCameron: parts of Health Bill to be recommitted
“Parts” of the Health Bill will be sent back to committee stage of the Commons, the government is to say imminently.
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NewsOne million to strike over public sector pensions
Industrial action across the rest of the year has grown more likely after the leader of one of the country’s biggest unions warned that more than one million public sector workers were set to take strike action unless the government pulls back from its controversial pension changes.
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NewsIn full: government responds to NHS Future Forum
The government has responded to the NHS Future Forum, confirming agreed changes to its overhaul of the service.
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NewsAssisted suicide documentary defended by Pratchett
Sir Terry Pratchett has defended his documentary about assisted suicide, which showed the moment a millionaire hotelier with motor neurone disease took a lethal dose of barbiturates to end his life.
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NewsFewer young blood donors prompts 'generation gap' fears
Fears are growing of an “alarming generation gap” in blood donors after figures showed a 20 per cent drop in the number of young blood donors over the last decade.
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Specialised services spending risk at South West Essex
FINANCE: South West Essex PCT is at risk of not meeting its savings target for “volatile” specialised services spending, it has warned.
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Consortium lead elected for Brighton and Hove
WORKFORCE: A local GP has been elected to lead Brighton and Hove Transitional Consortium.
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Independent review into Norfolk PMS provider
PERFORMANCE: An independent review has been announced into a provider of primary medical services in Norfolk.
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NewsPatients 'being coded as palliative to cut death rates', inquiry told
Patients with diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis are being coded under palliative care to reduce death rates, a leading expert has told the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry.
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NewsGovernment scraps 'pipeline' deadline to become a foundation trust
The government has ducked a self-imposed deadline for creating an all-foundation trust provider sector, and scrapped its proposals for safeguarding specific services.
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NewsBeefed up health and wellbeing boards extend council powers
Councils have been handed greater influence over healthcare commissioning following the government’s decision to bolster the power of health and wellbeing boards.
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NewsFuture Forum: government should stop 'slagging off' managers
The government should stop “slagging off” managers and urgently establish the NHS Commissioning Board to give them more certainty, the NHS Future Forum has said.
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NewsExclusive: ministers set to overrule Future Forum
A new coalition agreement on NHS reform will put the Competition and Co-operation Panel on a statutory footing, leaving Monitor with a duty to “protect and promote patients’ interests”, HSJ understands.
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'Room for improvement' in Stockport FT cancer waiting times
PERFORMANCE: NHS Stockport has identified “scope for further improvement” in Stockport Foundation Trust’s performance against 62 day referral-to-treatment targets for cancer patients.
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Quality premiums and Any Qualified Provider supported by Future Forum
Quality premiums for commissioning consortia and the “any qualified provider” policy both escaped censure or proposed modification in the Future Forum’s report.
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NewsConsortia should have governing bodies, says Future Forum
The Health Bill should be amended to require commissioning consortia to have “a governing body that meets in public”, the NHS Future Forum has said.