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NewsMSK procurement model could 'destabilise' local health economies
Clinical commissioning groups that commission elective and trauma musculoskeletal services separately risk destabilising their local health economies, the British Orthopaedic Association has warned.
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NewsCCGs target steep cuts in avoidable admissions and deaths
Clinical commissioning groups have set themselves ambitious targets to cut avoidable admissions and improve patient experience over the next five years, plans submitted to NHS England reveal.
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NewsPlans for nurse staffing data unclear
NHS England has still not worked out how to present trusts’ nurse staffing data on NHS Choices, less than two weeks before it is due to publish the information for the first time.
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NewsPrivate sector debate is 'utterly toxic', says Hunt
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said that the debate over the use of private providers in the NHS is “utterly toxic”, and that poor care is still unacceptable regardless of how it is provided.
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HSJ Local
East Kent CCGs consider merger
STRUCTURE: Two clinical commissioning groups in Kent are considering a merger in a bid to “strengthen clinical involvement” and help manage “future financial risks”.
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HSJ LocalMorecambe Bay chair and medical director stand down
WORKFORCE: The chair and the medical director of a troubled North West trust have resigned.
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NewsExclusive: CSU boss suspended amid governance investigation
A commissioning support unit managing director has been suspended from work for more than two months, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalColchester suspends employee over cancer data probe
Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust has begun a disciplinary investigation and suspended a member of staff in relation to alleged wrongful manipulation of cancer patients’ waiting time data.
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NewsExclusive: Somerset GPs get the go ahead to depart from QOF
GPs in Somerset have been given permission to ditch reporting against the majority of quality and outcomes framework indicators in favour of a locally developed approach, in a move seen as a “significant departure” for NHS England.
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NewsTrusts ordered to delete incorrect datafields
The government body in charge of safeguarding patient information has ordered a significant number of trusts to delete a series of datafields.
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NewsElective waiting list at its longest in six years
The waiting list for planned healthcare treatments has grown to its longest length in six years, according to official figures.
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HEE 'undervalues' the role of doctors
Health Education England has been accused of undervaluing the role doctors play in the wider NHS after it revealed plans to switch funding to non-medical roles.
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NewsNon-acute leaders join Dalton review panel
Two healthcare chiefs with experience in the non-acute sector have joined the Dalton review panel
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NewsHollins urges action on learning disabilities care
Exclusive: Ministers will today be accused of failing to implement recommendations from a damning report into the care of NHS patients with learning disabilities.
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NewsPolitical consensus grows on merging health and social care budgets
A political consensus is emerging in support of pooling all NHS and social care funding, with the idea now openly backed by both the shadow health secretary and his Liberal Democrat counterpart.
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NewsHunt moves to shield hospitals from integration fund failure
Jeremy Hunt warned that there must be a ‘proper risk sharing profile’ in all better care fund plans to protect hospital finances
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NewsWilful neglect offence to become law by 2015
Wilful neglect could become a criminal offence next year after the government last night tabled amendments to the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill.
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NewsLorenzo implementation linked to data delays
Three of the seven trusts that were unable to provide waiting times data in time for its planned publication by NHS England last month linked the delay to the implementation of the Lorenzo electronic record system, a technology the Department of Health has paid trusts to adopt.
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HSJ LocalCCGs could be caught out by 'technical' legal challenge
A South West clinical commissioning group has reached an out of court agreement with NHS campaigners who claimed its polices on patient and public involvement were unlawful – in a legal challenge lawyers warn could cause problems for other CCGs.
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HSJ Local
Colchester set to downgrade maternity units
An Essex trust which temporarily closed two maternity units sparking outcry from residents and MPs should re-open them but only as “on demand” birthing units, a trust director has recommended.