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NewsBennett: Monitor ‘struggling’ to get message across on competition
Monitor is struggling to combat influential commentators’ claims that competition rules hamper service change in the NHS, its chief executive has said
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HSJ LocalCCG trio face governance probe
STRUCTURE: NHS England has prompted a review into the governance arrangements of three clinical commissioning groups following concerns around accident and emergency performance within the local health economy.
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HSJ LocalWest Hertfordshire announces senior appointments
WORKFORCE: West Hertfordshire Hospitals Trust has announced a number of senior appointments.
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HSJ LocalRoyal Cornwall chief to retire
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust has announced plans to retire before the end of the year in a move that has surprised people locally.
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HSJ LocalCommissioners called to council meeting over MSK contract concerns
STRUCTURE: Coastal West Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group have been called before a local authority scrutiny committee to respond to concerns about the £235m contract it awarded to a private provider joint venture.
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NewsExclusive: CQC flags serious concerns about privately run Hinchingbrooke Hospital
The Care Quality Commission has raised serious concerns about care quality, management and culture at the UK’s only privately run NHS hospital, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsUnison to strike on turnout of just 16 per cent
The NHS Confederation has questioned the legitimacy of next month’s planned NHS strike after it emerged that just 16 per cent of Unison members took part in the vote.
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HSJ LocalGeorge Eliot fails to find new chief executive
WORKFORCE: A financially troubled trust in the West Midlands has failed to recruit a new chief executive after failing to find candidates with suitable experience.
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NewsExclusive: HEE spends £4.7m to tempt nurses back to NHS
Health Education England plans to spend almost £5m to attract thousands of nurses back into the NHS, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsOne in 10 trusts lack permanent finance chief, reveals HSJ analysis
Almost one in 10 trust boards does not have a permanent finance director amid one of the biggest ever NHS funding squeezes, HSJ analysis has revealed.
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News26 September issue of HSJ is ready to read on the app
This week’s issue of HSJ magazine is now available to read on our tablet app.
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NewsExclusive: Hospitals offered bonus payment for extra operations
Acute providers will be paid at a bonus rate for carrying out additional operations as part of national officials’ ongoing attempts to cut waiting lists, HSJ has learned.
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NewsBurnham: I will ‘not mandate’ structural change
EXCLUSIVE: A Labour government would ‘not mandate’ organisational change to drive through its plans for a fully integrated national health and care service, Andy Burnham has told HSJ
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NewsRegulator rejects private hospital's complaint against CCGs
Monitor has concluded its first and only investigation into an allegation of anticompetitive behaviour by a clinical commissioning group
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Burnham outlines new role for Monitor
A Labour government could put Monitor in charge of overseeing the financial sustainability of whole health economies, Andy Burnham has told HSJ
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NewsWest London Mental Health Trust employment tribunal begins
A psychologist wept as she told an employment tribunal she thought about suicide because of bullying she allegedly suffered working at the West London Mental Health Trust
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NewsSystemic barriers hold back London mental health services, report finds
London lacks a ‘collective vision’ for improving mental health services, according to a new report by the King’s Fund which identifies systemic barriers to improving services in the capital.
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NewsDH weighs into baby death probe
The Department of Health has begun brokering talks between NHS England and the Care Quality Commission in a bid to close the “gap” in the care complaints regime revealed by an HSJ investigation.
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NewsFirst foundation trust takeover approved
The first successful takeover one foundation trust by another has received final approval, it has been announced.
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NewsLamb proposes new laws to empower health and wellbeing boards
New laws should be introduced in the next parliament to give health and wellbeing boards extra powers including the ability to independently hold budgets, Norman Lamb has told HSJ.