News – Page 554
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NewsNMC: All graduate nurses should be ready to prescribe
Nurses could be able to prescribe medication “much sooner” in their careers than they currently can under plans being consulted on by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
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NewsFirst national procurement contract aims for four per cent savings
The architects of the NHS’s new national procurement drive have suggested that the first element scheme should deliver savings of around four per cent.
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NewsExclusive: Former DH director leaves Google DeepMind
A former Department of Health director is leaving his lead role at Google’s British artificial intelligence venture after less than 12 months with the company.
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NewsExclusive: Third trust reveals large neurology backlog
A trust in the East Midlands has become the latest to reveal it has hundreds of neurology patients overdue follow up appointments due to a lack of capacity.
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HSJ LocalFormer Southern Health director takes up new executive role
A former regional adviser for the Care Quality Commission has been appointed executive medical director at a community and mental health trust.
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NewsWorkforce shortage delays mental health safety checks
The Care Quality Commission has increased pay for doctors carrying out essential safeguarding visits for mental health patients after a workforce shortage resulted in waiting time targets being missed.
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NewsExclusive: Mounting aftercare costs eat into mental health budgets
The mounting cost of caring for people after they have been detained under the Mental Health Act is eating up an increasing proportion of mental health budgets for more than two thirds of commissioners, HSJ analysis suggests.
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NewsHow to cut the cost of diabetes: an in-depth guide
Read HSJ’s digital guide on improving compliance by patients and providing services that better serve their needs, in association with Roche Diabetes Care
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Trusts report £700m deficit but expect improvement
NHS trusts have reported a deficit of £736m for the first three months of 2017-18, £30m worse than planned.
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NewsMackey calls for 'urgent' action over winter beds as DTOCs rise
Regulators have warned that urgent action is needed to ensure enough hospital beds are available over winter, saying that the government’s extra investment in social care failed to reduce the number of delayed discharges.
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NewsCCG and ICO probe pharmacy firm's access to patient details
A clinical commissioning group and the Information Commissioner are looking into concerns raised by a patient that a major online pharmacy has gained access to patients’ details to send out marketing material.
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NewsDH puts £730m NHS logistics contract on the market
Organisations are set to bid for a contract worth nearly three quarters of a billion pounds after the Department of Health published a tender as part of its new national procurement model.
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NewsSupreme Court decision forces NHS pension rule change
NHS trusts are to be asked for help in tracking down unmarried former partners of deceased NHS staff who were wrongly denied pension benefits, HSJ has learned.
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NewsDaily Insight: Competition is still relevant
The essential stories and talking points from Thursday
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NewsRegulator clears new hospital venture between trust and US provider
The Competition and Markets Authority has today cleared a major acute trust to partner with a US company to build a new hospital, after finding the region would benefit from more competition between private providers.
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NewsCourt orders Paula Vasco-Knight to detail financial assets
A disgraced former NHS chief executive has been ordered to reveal her financial assets
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NewsCompetition regulator orders five trusts to release private data
The Competition and Markets Authority has threatened to take action against five NHS trusts after they failed to hit a deadline for publishing private patient data.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England asks STPs to nominate clinical reps
NHS England is planning to establish a new “national network” of sustainability and transformation partnership clinical leaders to address a lack of clinician engagement in the programme to date, HSJ has learned.