News – Page 959
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NewsFirst local government vision for care is produced
Councils and the NHS must help reduce “dependence on the state” for health and care services in order to avoid a “grave crisis” sparked by rising demand and falling resources, a commission set up by Essex County Council has concluded.
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NewsExclusive: Huge variation emerges in CCGs' efficiency ambition
There is a 23-fold variation in the scale of clinical commissioning groups’ efficiency targets, with at least 11 groups planning to make savings of under 1 per cent, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsExclusive: CCGs dip into non recurrent fund to stay in the black
Clinical commissioning groups are dipping into funds intended to be set aside for making one-off investments in order to stay in the black, an HSJ investigation has found.
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NewsShare your views on mental and physical healthcare, locally and nationally
There is a general acknowledgement that the NHS should be a service of equal access, equal quality and equal resources.
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Dorset CCG highlights continuing care risk
FINANCE: Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group has set aside £4.9m for risks associated with continuing healthcare claims and over performance on acute contracts during 2013-14.
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NewsHelp us find the most innovative people in healthcare
HSJ is launching a search for the most innovative people in healthcare and is inviting your nominations.
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NewsPhysios call for changes to NHS treatment
Leading physiotherapists have issued a list of recommendations they believe should be implemented to improve care for NHS patients.
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NewsSurvey suggests staff concern about quality and pressure
A survey suggests healthcare workers are concerned their organisation could have similar problems to those seen at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, and worries about pressure and bullying.
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NewsFurther complaints to NHS competition watchdog 'almost guaranteed'
A number of private providers are likely to take complaints to the NHS’s new competition regulator Monitor over the next three years, the chief executive officer of Ramsay Health Care UK warned last week.
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East Kent hospitals awarded £2m for renal study
RESEARCH: Researchers at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust have been awarded £2m to lead a multicentre study investigating different ways of assessing kidney function.
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NewsMonitor deputy chair issues warning on failure regime
The outgoing deputy chairman of Monitor today suggested the NHS still did not have an effective failure regime and called on politicians to relinquish ultimate control over what happened to financially failed trusts.
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East Surrey radiotherapy unit due to open in spring
STRUCTURE: Staff at East Surrey Hospital performed a traditional “topping out” ceremony for its new state of the art radiotherapy facility in Redhill this month.
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Sussex community provider pays all staff ‘living wage’
WORKFORCE: Sussex Community Trust has become the first NHS organisation in Sussex to achieve accreditation as a “Living Wage Employer”.
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NewsGovernment announces A&E fund winners
The government today announced the allocation of its £250m fund for the trusts thought to be most at risk of failing their accident and emergency targets this winter.
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NewsMike Farrar to leave NHS
Mike Farrar is to step down from the NHS Confederation and will not apply to become NHS England chief executive, he announced today.
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Mid Staffs plans £5.5m savings in 2013-14
FINANCE: Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust aims to make cost improvement programme savings of £5.5m in 2013-14.
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Mid Cheshire plan £5.9m savings in 2013-14
FINANCE: Mid Cheshire Hospitals aims to make cost improvement programme savings of £5.9m in 2013-14.
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Oxford trust targets workforce cost savings
FINANCE: Oxford University Hospitals Trust is to focus its cost improvement programme on workforce savings.
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Devon Partnership looks to save with nurse prescribing
WORKFORCE: Devon Partnership Trust plans to save money by rolling out non-medical prescribing for certain drugs. However, nurses and other clinicians who take on the extr responsibility will not be paid more.
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Coventry and Warwickshire chalks up £4.6m deficit
FINANCE: University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire reported a deficit of £4.6m in July - £400,000 better than the plan submitted to the NHS Trust Development Authority at the beginning of the year.