News – Page 1504
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NewsProductivity gains elude NHS trusts
The NHS failed at the twin challenges of reducing emergency admissions and providing more care outside hospital in the last financial year, according to an Audit Commission report.
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NewsPCTs identify roles to hand on speedily
Primary care trusts should be allowed to give up responsibility for maintaining lists of all GPs working in their area, as well as a range of other duties, as soon as possible, according to the Primary Care Trust Network.
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NewsRCN 'extremely disappointed' at lack of nurse inclusion in reforms
Government reforms will “struggle to succeed” without more engagement with nurses, the Royal College of Nursing has warned.
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NewsMore criminals will get psychiatric help
Teams to divert criminal offenders with mental health needs to NHS services will be rolled out nationally by 2014, the government has announced.
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NewsHereford integrated care organisation approved
A new form of integrated care organisation has received approval from the cooperation and competition panel.
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NewsCommissioning group rapped for rules breach
The NHS competition watchdog has recommended the North West specialised commissioning group is barred from entering into long term “framework agreements” with providers.
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NewsComputer models could help NHS save £20bn
The NHS could use computer simulations to help find £20bn savings needed by April 2015.
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NewsAnother reconfiguration passes Lansley's 'four tests'
One of the reconfigurations stopped under Andrew Lansley’s post-election moratorium on hospital closures has been approved by a strategic health authority.
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NewsMore powers for health ombudsman and local health forums
The health service ombudsman is to get more powers to share information in a bid to prevent another Mid Staffs while local HealthWatch groups will have a direct link to the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsKey details added to radical reform plan
The government has added key details to its plans for wholesale reform of the NHS, while committing to pressing ahead with the changes.
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NewsTariff to be cut by 1.5 per cent
The tariff, which prices thousands of procedures commissioned in the NHS, will be cut in cash terms by 1.5 per cent in 2011-12 compared with this year, the Department of Health has revealed.
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NewsNHS operating framework reasserts central 'grip'
Strategic health authorities will hold back 2 per cent of primary care trusts’ allocations next year to ensure funds are available to meet the “costs of change”.
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NewsNew Provider Development Authority to govern non-FTs
All non-foundation trusts will be governed and performance managed by a new central agency by April 2012.
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Providers freed to set their own referral to treatment targets and set prices below tariff
The revised operating framework has freed providers to set prices below the tariff and set their own referral to treatment targets, opening the field further to competition.
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NewsNHS given another year to hit £20bn savings target
The NHS will have another year to achieve the quality, innovation, productivity and prevention savings target of £20bn, the operating framework has announced.
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NewsDH sticks to guns on removal of FT income cap and borrowing controls
The government will push ahead with plans to free up foundation trusts from control, according to its response to the white paper consultation.
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NewsHSJ exclusive: Lansley appoints first commissioning board chief
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has formally appointed Sir David Nicholson as the first chief executive of the NHS commissioning board.
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NewsBMA criticises government for 'disregarding' the concerns of doctors
The government has ignored doctors’ “major concerns” about its radical health service reforms, the British Medical Association has claimed.
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NewsConsortia should not inherit debts from PCTs, says government
Commissioning consortia will not inherit debts from primary care trusts when they take over in 2013, the government has announced in its white paper response.
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NewsNo roles for PCT and SHA staff with new health and wellbeing boards
Former primary care trust and strategic health authority staff should not expect to find jobs with the new health and wellbeing boards, the Department of Health has warned.