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NewsHealthcare assistants to ease budget pressures
Providers will need to see a big growth in the number of healthcare assistants over the next decade, the health skills advisory body has said.
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NewsDH figures showing private sector disadvantage 'almost certainly' wrong - Monitor
Department of Health figures showing NHS providers enjoy a significant advantage over the private sector are “incomplete” and may hide a net disadvantage to the NHS, Monitor has said.
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HSJ Local
Sunderland sees three consortia emerging
STRUCTURE: Sunderland Teaching PCT has identified three emerging commissioning consortia.
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HSJ Local
Two consortia emerging in South Tyneside
STRUCTURE: There are two emerging commissioning consortia in the South Tyneside PCT area.
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Gateshead pathfinder to take on urgent care and prescribing
STRUCTURE: The pathfinder consortium covering all Gateshead practices is likely to be delegated urgent care and prescribing budgets from April.
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NewsFoundation Trust Network to split from Confed
The Foundation Trust Network has decided to split from the NHS Confederation.
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HSJ Local
SHA arbitrates after dispute between trust and NHS Greenwich PCT cluster
FINANCE: A primary care trust has seen the contract value of services with its local acute rise by £10m for the second half of the financial year after arbitration.
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HSJ Local
Trusts court GPs ahead of consortia engagement
WORKFORCE: Hospital trusts in London are investing in courting GPs ahead of policy changes which will see consortia take over commissioning NHS services.
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HSJ Local
Bed-blocking NHS Sefton patients will get 48 hours to vacate
PERFORMANCE: Bed blocking patients in Sefton who turn down transitional placements will be given 48 hours to make their own arrangements.
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HSJ Local
South west London cluster negotiates below-tariff prices for urgent admissions
FINANCE: Commissioners in London plan to shave millions off what they pay for urgent care with a package of measures including locally-negotiated below-tariff prices.
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HSJ Local
The Christie could face red rating due to 'flawed' cancer waiting times target
PERFORMANCE: Care services minister Paul Burstow has written to the foundation acknowledging that its difficulties meeting the 62 day cancer treatment waiting times target are due to problems in the Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cancer Network ‘as a whole’.
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HSJ Local
Admissions to Derby Hospitals halved following GP referral drive
PERFORMANCE: Admissions to Derby Hospitals Foundation Trust following GP referrals have reduced by 50 per cent in a week.
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5 Boroughs chief exec warns white paper has robbed his area of strong PCT leadership
STRUCTURE: The foundation’s chief executive warned his board that all of their commissioners were lacking ‘substantive leadership’ as a result of the Liberating the NHS white paper.
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NewsPCT non-execs to hold clusters to account
The Department of Health has had to revise its guidance on primary care trust non-executive directors amid concerns their role is being squeezed in the move to group 151 PCTs into clusters.
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HSJ Local
GPs expected to bust Liverpool PCT’s prescribing budget
FINANCE: The primary care trust has reported that its GPs are due to overspend on prescribing budgets by £5.7m.
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HSJ Local
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals look to become global brand through merger
COMMERCIAL: The boards of Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre plan to use the merger to create a powerful, globally recognised brand.
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NewsPCT chiefs fight loss of accountable officer status and right to redundancy
Primary care trust chief executives are fighting attempts to withhold redundancy payments from those moving into jobs lacking “accountable officer” status.
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NewsFair funding change 'threatens' poorer areas
Changes to the formula used to determine fair funding allocations to primary care trusts constitute a “threat” to tackling health inequalities, inner city PCTs are being told.
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NewsGP services face scrutiny under competition system
Community services provided by GPs worth nearly £400m will have to go through a competition approval process as part of the transition to consortium commissioning, HSJ has been told.
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NewsDH to drop workforce section in slim down
The Department of Health’s workforce directorate could disappear as part of a restructure designed to slim down the department.