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NewsFriends and family test changes announced
NHS England is to change how the friends and family test is implemented and presented after a major review concluded it cannot be used as a “single measure” for the quality of care across the health service as originally intended.
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NewsAgency costs jump £300m at foundation trusts
FTs saw the cost of agency and contract staff shoot up by £300m last year, according to their annual accounts
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NewsCouncil warned to end legal battle over North Yorkshire maternity reconfiguration
QC advises Richmondshire to drop judicial review
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NewsComplaints against doctors double
The rise in the use of social media has contributed to a doubling of complaints against doctors in five years, it has been reported.
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HSJ LocalCash strapped CCG proposes major restrictions to fertility services
FINANCE: A cash strapped clinical commissioning group has proposed significantly restricting access to fertility services to help halt its fall even further into the red.
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NewsMonitor signals the end of mental health block contracts
Monitor has signalled the end of block contracts currently used to fund NHS mental health providers as part of a major shake up of the national payment system due to be introduced next year.
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NewsControversial emergency care payment rules to stay put
There will be no change next year to controversial rules that restrict the payments hospitals receive for emergency admissions and readmissions
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NewsEfficiency savings proposed for next financial year
Monitor and NHS England have proposed a single efficiency factor of between 3 and 5 per cent for 2015-16 across the health service
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NewsPricing authorities to tighten grip on specialist service payments
Monitor and NHS England have floated plans to tighten their grip on specialist services pricing while mounting a push for local commissioners to move away from national NHS prices
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HSJ LocalLeicestershire bid to plug £400m gap
STRUCTURE: Widespread changes to the Leicestershire Health economy have been agreed between the University Hospitals of Leicester and its local commissioners to plug an estimated £400m funding gap over the next four years.
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NewsNew body to control healthcare reconfigurations under Labour plans
A Labour administration would establish a new agency to oversee reconfigurations of NHS services, the shadow health minister has told HSJ.
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NewsNew minister's 'war on superbugs'
New science minister Greg Clark has started his job with a declaration of war against superbugs.
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HSJ Local
Substance misuse clinic faces closure as costs mount
FINANCE: Central and North West London Foundation Trust could close a high performing clinic that treats adults for substance misuse because it can no longer afford to run the service.
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NewsCommissioning system belatedly balances £97bn budget
NHS England has belatedly managed to set plans to balance its £97bn budget for 2014-15.
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News18 July 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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NewsNHS finances 'stretched to limit'
NHS finances have been ‘stretched to the limit’, influential think tank The King’s Fund has warned.
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NewsThird of CCGs do not plan to retender community services
More than a third of CCGs have no plans to retender their community services, an HSJ investigation has revealed.
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HSJ LocalColchester 'failed to tell CQC' about further waiting list allegations
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has criticised the trust at the centre of a scandal over cancer waiting data manipulation for failing to tell inspectors it had received further allegations of waiting lists being manipulated.
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HSJ LocalDelay to Mid Staffs dissolution could be 'disastrous', administrators warn
STRUCTURE: Failure to secure changes to services at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust before winter could be “potentially disastrous” for the local health economy, the trust’s special administrators have claimed.
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