News – Page 593

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    Long-serving FT chief announces retirement

    2016-07-04T16:09:00Z

    PROVIDERS: The chief executive of a community and mental health foundation trust in Yorkshire is to retire after nearly 10 years in the post.

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    Stevens: Government must deliver on Brexit funding promises

    2016-07-04T12:32:00Z

    Simon Stevens says public will want “new political leaders” to deliver on promise to increase NHS funding NHS England chief executive says health service will ”continue to need and benefit” from the service of migrants Mr Stevens will set out NHS “asks” for the government’s Brexit negotiations Simon ...

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    Exclusive: 14 practices on course to form ‘single partnership’

    2016-07-04T11:55:00Z

    Fourteen practices in Suffolk are close to agreeing to form a “single partnership” covering 155,000 patients, HSJ understands.

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    Exclusive: Watchdog resigns over deputy’s sexual harassment cover-up

    2016-07-04T10:36:00Z

    Dame Julie Mellor resigns after accepting she made mistakes in handling of correspondence over deputy Resignation follows the revealtion that she was made aware of a sexual harassment cover-up by Mick Martin in July last year Dame Julie resigned today after investigation into her conduct by Sir Alex Allan. ...

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    Brexit: Fall in the pound could create extra £900m bill for NHS

    2016-07-04T07:00:00Z

    Brexit could create extra £900m bill for the NHS as suppliers hike prices to protect themselves against slump in the pound Most NHS organisations buy products in the pound but at least half of goods originate outside the UK Procurement expert says NHS must take action to deliver the ...

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    Revealed: Children's services hardest hit by public health cuts

    2016-07-04T07:00:00Z

    Services aimed at children and young people are bearing the brunt of cuts to public health spending by local authorities, an HSJ investigation has revealed.

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    Daily Insight: Ditching the target, missing the point

    2016-07-01T18:42:00Z

    The must read stories and most important developments on Friday

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    New North East mental health inpatient unit approved

    2016-07-01T15:14:00Z

    New three ward mental health unit to open at St Nicholas Hospital Older people’s services to be consolidated at the same site Services at Gateshead’s Tramwell Unit and Newcastle’s Hardian Clinic to close Plans expected to save £3m a year STRUCTURE: NHS leaders in the North East have ...

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    Osborne to abandon surplus target

    2016-07-01T13:01:00Z

    Chancellor George Osborne has abandoned his target to bring government finances back into surplus by 2020.

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    Host trust quits financially 'fragile' NHS pathology venture

    2016-07-01T11:00:00Z

    Cambridge University Hospitals pulls out of flagship pathology project it was hosting Trust faces £5m bill to extricate itself from The Pathology Partnership Cambridge says partnership lost £15m last year, costing trust £3.7m Partnership insists it will “evolve” A flagship NHS joint venture has been left reeling after ...

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    Seven trusts combine leadership to accelerate vanguard changes

    2016-07-01T07:00:00Z

    Seven trusts in Yorkshire to cede control over decision making to newly created federation board Leaders want new structure to help speed up transformation of acute services New board and south Yorkshire STP both headed by Sir Andrew Cash Seven trusts will cede authority over decision making on ...

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    CCG rents overhaul mired in data problems

    2016-07-01T07:00:00Z

    NHS Property Services’ data problems stall new billing arrangements for CCG estates Overall CCG rent bill will rise in future years because of move to market rents Finance director says implementation is being “botched” NHS Property Services says it has “clear plan” to address problems Commissioners remain locked ...

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    Daily Insight: Under fire trust boss stays put

    2016-06-30T18:00:00Z

    The must read and most talked about stories in health from Thursday

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    Personal maternity budgets worth up to £6,000, MPs told

    2016-06-30T17:25:00Z

    Personal maternity budgets will be worth up to £6,000 Seven pilot groups are already trying out the new personal health budget Maternity review’s aim is for new midwifery pracices to provide continuity of care Personal budgets for women who wish to take charge of their own maternity care ...

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    Regulators approve landmark trust merger

    2016-06-30T16:11:00Z

    Regulators have approved the acquisition of England’s last standalone learning disability hospital trust, HSJ can reveal.

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    Lincolnshire sets out plans to tackle £60m deficit and performance

    2016-06-30T16:04:00Z

    RECONFIGURATION: NHS leaders in Lincolnshire will go out to public consultation later this year over plans to radically overhaul key services.

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    Southern Health to be split up but chief executive stays on

    2016-06-30T11:19:00Z

    Southern Health Foundation Trust’s learning disability services in Oxfordshire to transfer to Oxford Health Foundation Trust Interim chair Tim Smart says “other changes will occur” at troubled trust Chief executive Katrina Percy will stay on but her focus will switch from operational matters to strategy STRUCTURE: Southern Health ...

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    Teaching hospital pleads for any junior doctors to help staff A&E

    2016-06-30T09:25:00Z

    Leeds Teaching Hospital appealed for junior doctors regardless of experience or specialty to work in its A&E departments Agency and locum staff declined shifts at the trust despite offers to pay above capped rate Royal College of Emergency Medicine president says country is short of 1,000 A&E consultants ...

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    Department of Health shake-up revealed

    2016-06-30T07:00:00Z

    DH unveils new directorate structure as part of cost cutting drive Social care and technology move into new community care directorate Four new directorates report to permanent secretary Chris Wormald The Department of Health has reorganised its directorate structure, HSJ has learned.

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    Bristol heart review finds 'no evidence' of 1990s failures being repeated

    2016-06-30T00:01:00Z

    Children’s heart services review finds outcomes at University Hospitals Bristol “broadly comparable” with other centres However, parents sometimes “let down”, nursing staff “regularly under pressure” and managers took “unnecessarily defensive position” NHS England to publish plans for reconfigured congenital heart disease services next week PATIENT SAFETY: The independent ...