News – Page 937
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NewsCCGs and NHS England report growing budget shortfalls
The number of clinical commissioning groups expecting to record a deficit at the end of this year has nearly tripled to 24, while NHS England is also expecting to overspend its own budgets by £93m.
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NewsHSJ's inspirational women call for action
Senior health service figures are being asked to address the under-representation of women in leadership of the NHS, in the wake of HSJ’s Women’s Issue earlier this year.
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NewsPrimary care contracting faces cuts and possible outsourcing
NHS England’s primary care contract managers will be reorganised and reduced by September next year, with the services potentially being outsourced.
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NewsAnalysed: Lamb's integration pioneers
The Department of Health’s integrated care “pioneers” will be monitored centrally to check progress against their plans and could be stripped of their status if they lose their way, health minister Norman Lamb has said.
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NewsMinisters to legislate on £3.8bn pooled budget
The government will amend the Care Bill so it can force clinical commissioning groups to share a chunk of their budgets with local authorities, a health minister has told HSJ.
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C difficile cases in West Suffolk spark external review
West Suffolk Foundation Trust has commissioned an external review after C difficile infections in hospitals continued into September, according to board papers.
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A&E performance raised in County Durham FT contract meeting
PERFORMANCE: County Durham and North Darlington Foundation Trust failed to meet its 95 per cent four hour A&E wait target in September, and this was “formally discussed” at a contract meeting, according to board papers from North Durham CCG.
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NewsMorecambe Bay investigation will seek families' input
Further details have emerged of the independent inquiry into University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust’s maternity and neonatal services.
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NewsMore emergency departments breach waiting time targets
Increasing numbers of accident and emergency patients are being treated outside the maximum four hour wait year on year over the past four summers, an HSJ analysis shows.
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NewsHealth burden is greatest during moderately cold weather
The NHS has been urged to place greater emphasis on supporting vulnerable groups during periods of moderately cold rather than freezing temperatures after a study suggested this is when services come under greatest strain.
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NewsCQUIN bar 'set too low' says innovation chief
The standards required by trusts to receive incentive payments designed to drive innovation were “probably set too low”, NHS England’s innovation chief said last week.
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News'Large variations' in place of death
There are “large variations” across England in the proportion of people who die at hospital or in their own homes, figures show.
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NewsCancer survival rate highlighted
Cancer patients living in the most deprived parts of England are a third less likely to be alive five to 10 years after diagnosis than those in the most affluent areas.
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NewsHSJ celebrates innovation in healthcare
This week HSJ will announce our list of the 50 most innovative people in the sector.
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Coventry and Warwickshire trust slips on cancer waits
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire has failed to hit its cancer waiting time target for three months in a row.
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Corby CCG appoints acting accountable officer
Corby clinical commissioning group has appointed Carole Dehghani as acting accountable officer.
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Mid Yorkshire hospitals reconfiguration referred to Hunt
STRUCTURE: Plans to reconfigure Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust’s services have been referred to the health secretary.
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HSJ LocalCouncil leader accused of intimidating CCG staff
A council leader has reacted angrily to claims that he intimidated staff of Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby Clinical Commissioning Group.
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Trust errors result in hundreds breaching waiting time target
A hospital trust has revealed it failed to properly record the waiting times of 60 per cent of its elective inpatients, causing hundreds of them not to receive treatment within the 18-week deadline.