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NewsTransformation fund will pay for council 'dowries'
Part of NHS England’s £200m transformation fund will be spent on ‘dowries’ for councils taking over responsibility for the care of some people with learning disabilities and autism, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalSocial enterprise’s professional services venture made £500k loss
A professional services firm set up as a subsidiary of Medway’s community healthcare social enterprise lost more than £500,000 in its first two years, accounts show.
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HSJ LocalTrust ignored legal advice in making extra non-exec payments
FINANCE: A major hospital trust ignored its own legal advice by handing extra payments to its chair and non-executive directors, according to the findings of an independent review.
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NewsPrior resigns as CQC chair to join government
David Prior has stepped down as chair of the Care Quality Commission to become a health minister in the new Conservative government.
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NewsJunior doctors told they must negotiate new contract
The chief executive of NHS Employers has warned the British Medical Association ‘there is no alternative’ to negotiation over a new contract for junior doctors.
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News'Record breaking' number of long waiting patients admitted
Trusts have admitted a ‘record breaking’ number of patients waiting over 18 weeks for treatment, according to the latest data.
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NewsNumber of ambulance staff leaving doubles in five years
The number of frontline staff leaving ambulance services across England has almost doubled in the last five years, analysis by HSJ has found.
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HSJ LocalTDA urges trust to go ‘further and faster’ on reconfiguration
FINANCE: The NHS Trust Development Authority has challenged one of the largest teaching hospitals in the country to move ‘further and faster’ with reconfiguration plans designed to cut costs and improve care.
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NewsPatient Safety Awards shortlist announced
We are recognising and rewarding outstanding practice within the NHS
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NewsExecutive Summary: From crisis springs integration
HSJ’s daily digest of significant developments for healthcare leaders
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NewsExclusive: New NHS company reveals outcomes based targets
A new NHS owned company overseeing an £800m integrated older people’s services contract will have to hit outcomes based targets to secure up to 15 per cent of its income, its chief has told HSJ.
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HSJ LocalExpanding ‘super-practice’ wants GPs to work across secondary care
COMMERCIAL: A GP ‘super-practice’ is seeking doctors to work in urgent care centres, accident and emergency and other secondary care settings across the East Midlands as part of ambitious expansion plans, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalRegional spinal specialist unit rated 'inadequate'
PERFORMANCE: A regional centre for spinal injuries has been rated ‘inadequate’ by the Care Quality Commission.
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HSJ LocalKettering trust fined for employee burns
WORKFORCE: Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust has been fined £7,000 after an employee received serious burns while stripping down a steam boiler.
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HSJ LocalFT becomes ‘emergency caretaker’ of GP surgeries
STRUCTURE: An East Midlands foundation trust is to take over all GP services in three local surgeries under ‘exceptional circumstances’, its commissioners have said.
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HSJ LocalAmbulance trust makes interim chief permanent
WORKFORCE: Yorkshire Ambulance Service Trust has appointed Rod Barnes as its chief executive.
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HSJ LocalTrust delays new hospital decision after forced land sale
STRUCTURE: A foundation trust that shelved plans to build a new hospital until after the election has given itself a six month deadline to decide whether to abandon the project, its chief executive has told HSJ.
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NewsExecutive Summary: Deficit double vision for King's
HSJ’s essential digest of Tuesday’s significant developments for healthcare leaders.
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HSJ LocalPFI company could ban hospital staff from trust restaurant
Hospital staff could be banned from an NHS foundation trust restaurant under plans by one of the FT’s private finance initiative partner companies, HSJ has learned.