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HSJ LocalTrust warns controversial reconfiguration could mean £14m redundancy bill
A trust is warning of a potential redundancy bill of £13.5m if NHS England accepts proposals to close its congenital heart disease services.
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NewsExclusive: Trust bosses call on government to confirm sustainability cash beyond 2019
NHS trust leaders have called on the government to protect the £1.8bn sustainability fund beyond 2018-19, but say it should not be channelled into commissioning allocations until problems with the national tariff are addressed.
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NewsHunt plans 25 per cent increase in student nursing placements
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt will today outline plans to create an extra 5,000 training posts for student nurses from next year, an increase of 25 per cent.
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NewsDaily Insight: Threats, cuts and a culture of bullying
HSJ’s essential round-up of the day’s biggest stories
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NewsCQC issues list of A&E safety inspection targets
The Care Quality Commission has set out the eight major priority areas which will underpin its regulation of urgent and emergency care providers this winter
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NewsExclusive: Government threatens to intervene over DTOCs performance
Ministers are set to issue a fresh warning to councils deemed to have made insufficient progress tackling delayed transfers of care, amid a bitter row over the withholding of funding.
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HSJ LocalCCGs 'anticipate' formal merger next year
Two Buckinghamshire clinical commissioning groups are expected to merge next year after seeking permission from NHS England.
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NewsRevealed: How much NHS trusts made from land sales
Sales of land or physical assets by NHS trusts generated cash receipts of £220m in 2016-17.
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NewsDaily Insight: Director investigated over bullying allegations
HSJ’s round-up of the must read stories from Friday
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Trust executive director under investigation for bullying
An ambulance trust executive director has been seconded to two national organisations after being accused of bullying by senior operational staff.
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NewsDH completes team assessing £730m procurement after last minute plea
The Department of Health has managed to recruit new evaluators for a £730m procurement after two people left the team tasked with assessing bids at late notice.
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HSJ LocalTrust chief retires ahead of CQC inspection report
The chief executive of a struggling trust has announced his retirement, shortly before the publication of an inspection report.
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HSJ LocalIreland's chief information officer joins teaching trust
The chief information officer for the Irish Health Service Executive is to join one of England’s largest teaching hospital trusts.
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NewsCapital's trusts to introduce 'maximum' caps on agency rates
Hospitals in London struggling to recruit medical locums to tackle staff shortages are to limit the amount they can spend even when safety is a factor from this weekend, HSJ can reveal.
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CCGs find no link between GP hours and A&E attendance
Two Nottinghamshire clinical commissioning groups, which also lead a national vanguard, have found there is no direct link between extended GP opening hours and accident and emergency attendances.
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HSJ LocalNational leaders warned over lack of services for personality disorders
A coroner has warned national health leaders about a lack of commissioned services to support patients with borderline personality disorder.
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NewsRoundtable: The war on variation could cause 'stagnation'
The NHS’s drive to instil best practice across the service risks suppressing innovation, experts heard at HSJ’s latest event
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NewsDaily Insight: Mack doesn't want to give you the sack
The must read stories and debate from Thursday
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NewsStevens: NHS will be forced to open extra beds if DTOCs aren't cut
The NHS will have to open more beds – but would struggle to staff them – if there are not sufficient reductions in delayed transfers of care ahead of winter, Simon Stevens has said.
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HSJ LocalFT appoints former trust chief executive as chair
A former trust chief executive with more than 20 years’ NHS leadership experience has been appointed chair of a foundation trust.