News – Page 384
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NewsSingle women IVF ban will be reviewed
South east London commissioners have pledged to carry out a “rapid review” of their policy to deny IVF treatment to single women.
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News‘Breakdown of trust’ at provider blamed on ‘unhelpful views and behaviours’
Relations between an NHS trust board and its council of governors broke down amid a “them and us” environment, an independent review has found.
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NewsNew CQC lead named
The Care Quality Commission has appointed a quality and safety leader from New Zealand to head up its inspection of mental health services.
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NewsBudget concerns over NHS England’s calls for diverted STP funding
Concern has been raised about what the impact on budgets will be of NHS England calling on health systems in the East of England to divert funding to address severe financial pressures in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
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News'New' capital funds will come from trust's own reserves
The capital spending announced by Boris Johnson will be largely funded by cash reserves already held by NHS providers, a letter to the service confirms.
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NewsDaily Insight: Neither a borrower nor a lender be
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsTrusts face ‘barriers’ to apprenticeship funding
Trusts are unable to take full advantage of subsidised training under the government’s apprenticeship levy because the scheme is not flexible, HSJ has been warned.
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NewsUnaccredited counsellors providing NHS-funded care
Counsellors without the required accreditation are providing NHS-funded therapy services, despite NHS England tightening the rules for providers.
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NewsNHS trusts owe government £14bn
Heavily-indebted NHS providers are bidding to restructure their loans with the Department of Health and Social Care, albeit with little prospect of them being written off.
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NewsPM’s new health adviser says ‘ill-equipped’ NHS does not need ‘more money’
The prime minister’s new senior healthcare policy adviser believes that “more money is not the solution” to transforming the “hopelessly ill-equipped” NHS from “the monolith we have today”.
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NewsDozens of patients admitted in feed supply emergency
Dozens of patients including children have now been admitted to hospital because of the national shortage of intravenous food supplies for patients who cannot eat normal food, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCQC criminal prosecutions jump by a third
The Care Quality Commission has increased the number of criminal prosecutions of health and social care providers by more than 32 per cent in a year.
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NewsNHSE director slams local authorities for ‘relentless retendering’ of health services
NHS England’s national director for mental health has reignited the debate over local government’s stewardship of public health services by claiming “relentless retendering” is damaging integration, quality and staff morale.
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NewsEight STPs say no ICS until 2021
Many sustainability and transformation partnerships will leave it to the April 2021 deadline to become integrated care systems, HSJ analysis suggests.
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HSJ LocalTrust starved of capital cash for maternity censured by CQC
A trust whose capital bid to improve its maternity services has been repeatedly turned down by government has been told by the Care Quality Commission to make urgent improvements to the obstetrics department after an inspection prompted by three serious incidents.
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NewsTrusts could pay consultants through companies to avoid pension tax
A group of NHS trusts had explored letting doctors set up their own companies as a workaround for consultants who have cut their additional hours to avoid being hit with “punitive” tax bills, HSJ has learned. Trusts have explored LLPs as a workaround to ’punitive’ pension tax bills problem ...
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NewsScandal-hit trust to leave special measures
A trust, which was at the centre of a scandal around diverting ambulances, is to exit special measures after nearly three years.