News – Page 750
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No cash for co-commissioning running costs, NHS England confirms
Clinical commissioning groups will not be awarded extra funding to run primary care co-commissioning, NHS England has confirmed.
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Expensive drugs to be cut from cancer drugs fund
NHS England is to start evaluating the cost effectiveness of medicines available through the cancer drugs fund in a bid to bring the budget under control
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Better care fund planning 'a shambles'
The planning process for the £5.3bn better care fund has been branded a “shambles” after a National Audit Office report pinpointed a series of problems with its implementation
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Three more trusts impose out of area referral restrictions
Three further trusts have imposed controversial curbs on patient access to services by restricting referrals from outside of their catchment areas
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Hospital chief executive steps down after regulatory action
The chief executive of a large Midlands hospital trust has announced he is stepping down
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Whistleblowing claimant 'not acting in good faith', tribunal finds
A psychologist who claimed she faced detriment at the hands of an NHS trust after whistleblowing about patient care has lost her case.
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Shrewsbury and Telford set to breach deficit target
FINANCE: Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust looks set to exceed its deficit target as it struggles with higher than expected staff costs, its board papers reveal.
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Liverpool CCG funds hospital GPs
FINANCE: Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group has approved new funds to put GPs in two local hospitals in an attempt to alleviate pressure on accident and emergency services.
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Primary care 'in foothills' of modernisation, says NHS England director
Primary care has only reached the ‘foothills’ of transformation, Mike Bewick has said during an interview in which he predicts a “steeper fall” in the number of individual GP practices
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Bewick: Up-skilled GPs should support emergency and acute services
Emergency and acute services in some areas could increasingly be supported by up-skilled GPs, working across hospital and community settings, NHS England’s deputy medical director has said
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18 week waits, September 2014: explore the maps
See all NHS waiting lists around England by provider, CCG or specialty
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CCG delays decision on hearing aid charging proposals
FINANCE: A West Midlands clinical commissioning group has delayed a decision on controversial proposals to cut funding for hearing aids.
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Addenbrooke's A&E performance slumps to record low
Cambridge University Hospital Foundation Trust has recorded the worst weekly accident and emergency waiting time performance by any NHS provider for three and half years, a statistician has calculated.
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NHS finances ‘absolutely on the knife edge’
The health service is “absolutely on the knife edge” with no reserve left to cushion against unforeseen pressures, NHS England officials have warned
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NEW Devon presses ahead with procurement plans
COMMERCIAL: A South West clinical commissioning group has agreed to award community services contracts worth more than £90m without going out to tender.
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Bedford refuses to sign Circle MSK contract
An NHS hospital has pledged to compete with Circle Partnership, the private provider appointed to run Bedfordshire’s £120m integrated musculoskeletal service, after refusing to become its subcontractor, HSJ can reveal.
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Hinchingbrooke finance director steps down
WORKFORCE: The chief financial officer of Hinchingbrooke Healthcare Trust has stepped down from her position.
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Kent organisations step in to relieve pressure on Medway
STRUCTURE: Medway Foundation Trust could see some of its work moved to a neighbouring trust to relieve pressure on the struggling organisation.
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NHS bailouts under fire in 'deeply alarming' NAO study
Government bailouts for financially troubled hospitals have come under fire in a report laying bare the deteriorating financial state of the NHS
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HSJ reveals healthcare’s BME Pioneers
Clinicians, managers, patient advocates and diversity champions are among the names on HSJ’s second BME Pioneers list