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NewsDevastating fire prompts checks on 3,500 NHS buildings
NHS Property Services is to carry out a review of all the clinical buildings it owns after a report into a devastating fire which destroyed a community hospital.
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NewsSolicitor general backs CCG bid for new inquest after HSJ exposé
The attorney general’s office has backed a bid for a new inquest into the death of a three-year-old boy at Stafford Hospital following an alleged “cover up”.
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NewsCarillion staff transferred to NHS as PFI provider collapses
A mental health trust is taking “urgent action” by moving dozens of estates and facilities management staff to a newly-formed subsidiary company after its PFI provider went into administration.
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NewsTheresa May: Top NHS leaders ‘waste too much time' on bureaucracy
The prime minister has said “the most outstanding NHS leaders” face “competing incentives”, excessive “negotiations”, “templates that seem to put process ahead of patients”, and waste “too much time on reporting”.
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NewsDaily Insight: May sets out her vision
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership
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NewsTargets under review and NHS legislation open to change - PM
The prime minister has said the government is prepared to legislate to roll back the NHS “internal market” where it is found to be inhibiting integration.
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NewsTaskforce chair says new funding must target mental health
The government’s funding settlement for the NHS should focus on raising mental health workforce levels, addressing health inequalities and boosting prevention strategies, HSJ has been told.
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NewsTrust takes over A&E streaming from private provider after CQC concerns
A trust in the West Midlands has taken over the A&E streaming service run by a private provider following “concerns” raised by the CQC
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NewsMay expects new money to deliver improvements in key services
The prime minister has said NHS England will be tasked to draw up a “ten year plan” to make improvements to key services with the extra funding announced today by government.
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NewsHunt: NHS deal was 'a moment of choice for government'
The new NHS funding deal had been a “moment of choice for the government and the country”, health and social care secretary Jeremy Hunt has told HSJ.
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Secret Cabinet Office report was key to unlocking Treasury coffers
The run-up to agreement on an NHS funding deal.
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NewsTreasury ‘agrees to support social care'
The Chancellor and prime minister have agreed the NHS should not have to foot the bill for knock-on pressures from rising demand for social care, senior sources told HSJ.
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NewsNHS gets 3.4pc a year in major new funding deal
The government has agreed to increase NHS England’s budget by an average of 3.4 per cent in each of the next five years.
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NewsDaily Insight: Must try harder
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership
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NewsCQC warns providers over bogus inspectors
The Care Quality Commission has issued an alert to providers after two examples of people impersonating inspectors.
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NewsRegulator explores standardised designs for new NHS buildings
Plans for new standardised NHS buildings are being drawn up by efficiency directors in a bid to speed up much needed improvements to ageing estate.
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NewsLocal plans still not good enough, says A&E boss
Local NHS providers and commissioners were given a fresh warning this week that their plans will not deliver the “capacity, productivity or length of stay” improvements required for 2018-19.
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NewsFunding settlement linked to 'simple goals' - Hunt
Jeremy Hunt has said that talks within government about a long-term settlement for the NHS are “difficult and ongoing” and any deal would be linked to new “simple goals”.
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NewsNHS funding deal may be imminent
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership
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NewsShelford Group trust signs £107m IT deal
Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust has signed a £107m contract with Northern Ireland company to provide IT support services.