News – Page 491
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News'Too much poor care' in mental health providers
The Care Quality Commission is to “strengthen” its policy on using restraint in mental health services following a new report into the sector’s performance.
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NewsDaily Insight: Something for everyone at STP jamboree
The must read stories in health from Wednesday
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NewsInterview: Trust chiefs must be supported to change NHS culture
NHS regulators must do more to enable trust leaders to try and improve culture in their organisations, a leading expert on system safety and “just culture” has said.
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HSJ LocalTrust sees improvements after launching 'just culture' movement
An NHS mental health trust has seen improvements in the amount of disciplinary action and assaults on staff after developing a “just culture” approach to investigating incidents.
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NewsRevealed: 'Strongest' STPs share £325m of new investment
National leaders have announced which health economies will receive a share of the £325m of extra capital funding that was pledged to the NHS in the spring budget.
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Man guilty of NHS pension fraud
A man has pleaded guilty to claiming almost £28,000 from his dead mother’s NHS pension after being caught by a national fraud prevention programme.
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NewsFormer trust chief to chair STP 'undergoing refresh'
Sir Ron Kerr has been appointed as independent chair of troubled South West sustainability and transformation partnership.
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NewsNHS 'running ahead' of procurement savings plan, says DH director
The NHS’s new procurement model could result in greater savings than planned, a Department of Health official has said.
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NewsDH reports underspend of £563m
The Department of Health has reported an underspend of £563m for 2016-17, but auditors said it was still “some way from achieving financial sustainability”.
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NewsDaily Insight: Patching up the NHS's threadbare IT
The biggest stories and talking points in health policy
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HSJ LocalManslaughter charge for man who started hospital fire
Police have charged a 39 year old man who started a fire at an NHS hospital with manslaughter after the death of an elderly patient.
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HSJ LocalFirst NHS inpatient unit fails fire safety tests
A specialist cardiac centre has become the first NHS inpatient unit to fail fire safety tests carried out in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.
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NewsNHS quango faces shake up after critical review
NHS Digital has been criticised for relying on “out of date technology” and a culture that does not foster digital innovation, an internal review has found.
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NewsRegulators told to raise manager pay to close 'significant' gender pay gap
Pay increases for senior managers at the NHS arm’s length bodies should be used to reverse a widening gender pay gap, the Senior Salaries Review Body has said.
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HSJ Local'Battered and bruised' CCG chair resigns
The chair of under fire Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group has resigned, saying he has felt “battered and bruised” over the last few weeks.
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NewsNew interim chair of NHS Improvement named
A former director general at the Department of Health has been appointed as interim chair of NHS Improvement.
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NewsTrusts with high litigation costs to come under the spotlight
NHS litigation costs are to be scrutinised by a national programme to save millions in clinical negligence pay outs and improve patient care, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalCommissioners tell STP they 'remain sovereign'
Commissioners in north east London have told STP leaders they must remain sovereign organisations in wake of a new partnership agreement in the patch.
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NewsExclusive: One in five trusts did not make critical security updates before cyberattack
More than one in five trusts failed to properly apply security updates that would have protected them against the worst cyberattack in NHS history.
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HSJ LocalSpecialist hospital could relocate to teaching trust site
A specialist hospital threatened with losing services by a national shake-up of heart surgery services could move to a site owned by another London trust.