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HSJ LocalLegionella found in teaching trust's water system
Eleven water outlets in an East Kent hospital have tested positive for legionella after a patient developed Legionnaire’s disease.
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NewsExclusive: Mental health services get £18m winter boost to support A&E
Mental health services are to be handed nearly £20m of the new £335m winter resilience funding to help take the pressure off beleaguered accident and emergency departments, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsMackey criticises NHS 'negativity' over budget
Jim Mackey has warned that negativity over the NHS’s budget settlement will have “pissed off” ministers, arguing the £1.6bn of new funding was a “serious investment” which could deliver real improvements – but only if stabilising chaotic emergency departments was prioritised.
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News'Ruthless' rationalisation of regulators and CCGs could save £1bn, says Mackey
The former chief executive of NHS Improvement has said £1bn could be saved by “ruthlessly” stripping back national bodies and local commissioners – and warned that plans to establish accountable care are “far too bloody complicated”.
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NewsInterest rates on bailout loans 'absolute madness', says former NHSI boss
Jim Mackey has criticised the Department of Health for applying “totally pointless” interest rates to the bailout loans that support financially struggling NHS hospitals.
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HSJ LocalUpdated: Major London trust chair resigns as trust put into financial special measures
The respected chair of one of the country’s largest trusts has resigned, saying government funding of the NHS left him no choice.
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NewsMackey 'irritated' over ongoing provider deficits
The former chief executive of NHS Improvement said he was “irritated and disappointed” in himself for not being able to clear the provider deficit – but the sector was also “let down” by some providers such as King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust.
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NewsBabylon CQC report published after injunction lifted
Babylon Health Services has failed to stop the publication of a Care Quality Commission report that states it is not providing a safe service in some areas.
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NewsDaily Insight: Travelling in the wrong direction
HSJ’s round-up of the day’s biggest health policy stories
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HSJ LocalNHS England hands down legal directions to island CCG
NHS England has issued legal directions to a clinical commissioning group that is struggling to deliver its savings plan.
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HSJ LocalTrust searches for 'imaginative' estates partner in £100m deal
An integrated foundation trust is looking to partner with a private company for up to 25 years in a bid to unlock capital funding for its future estates plans.
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HSJ LocalNHS trusts forced to find new transport services as firms exit market
London hospital trusts have been forced to bring patient transport services in house or re-tender them as incumbent firms exit the market.
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NewsDaily Insight: Pathology networks under the microscope
The must read stories and debate in health policy
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NewsGovernment ditches cap on social care costs
A plan to introduce a cap on social care costs by the end of the decade has been dropped, the care minister has announced.
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NewsUnion concern at linking pay rise to productivity as Hunt starts talks
The Royal College of Nursing today said it had “concern” over the link between productivity and pay increases in a letter sent by Jeremy Hunt formally beginning pay negotiations for 2018-19.
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HSJ LocalClinical chair appointed for biggest CCG merger in the country
Three merging Birmingham and Solihull clinical commissioning groups have appointed local GP Peter Ingham as their new clinical chair.
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HSJ LocalTrust spent £60,000 to find chief executive who left after four months
A teaching hospital trust spent £60,000 with a recruitment firm to recruit a chief executive who left after four months.
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HSJ LocalCCG pushes search for permanent chief into new year
Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group has hired an interim chief executive and will not seek a permanent replacement for the outgoing accountable officer until next year.
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HSJ LocalTrusts consider new pathology hub at university
NHS leaders in Lancashire are hopeful that four acute trusts will agree to consolidate pathology services on a university site in the north of the county, in a project that would cost £31m.
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NewsRoyal college concerned over lack of investment for pathology shake-up
The new president of the Royal College of Pathologists has said she is concerned about a lack of investment in new laboratory IT systems amid a national overhaul of NHS pathology departments.