All NHS Confederation articles – Page 16
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Comment
Put NHS finances on the front line
The importance of clinical engagement to delivering better value
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News
Care sector seeks crisis meeting with George Osborne
Leading figures from health and social care have called for a crisis meeting with chancellor George Osborne and other senior ministers after finding last month’s spending review left them unable to meet rising demand.
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Comment
It pays to behave like an investment partner
How can the NHS influence local growth strategies to its advantage? Michael Wood offers five ideas
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Comment
Value-based care needs to be supported by value-based regulation
The Care Quality Commission’s plans for a fees hike are worrying but could herald major shifts in the regulator’s relationship with trusts, argues Johnny Marshall
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Comment
Women are 80 pc of the NHS workforce but only a third of the board
We need to encourage women
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News
Trust CQC fees could increase by 75 per cent next year
The fees NHS trusts pay to the Care Quality Commission could be hiked by as much as 75 per cent next year.
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News
DH raises threshold for blocking national tariff
The Department of Health has confirmed measures that will make it more difficult for providers to block the national tariff payment system.
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Clinical commissioners attack 'oppressive' regulatory regime
Clinical commissioning groups have hit out at what they describe as an ever growing bureaucracy and an ‘oppressive’ reporting process imposed by national bodies, which they say is making their jobs more difficult.
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News
Exclusive: Dorrell calls for NHS ‘change fund’ and social care ringfence
The NHS needs a transformation fund and social care money should be ringfenced, Stephen Dorrell has said.
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News
Former health secretary appointed NHS Confederation chair
Stephen Dorrell has been appointed chair of the NHS Confederation, it has been announced.
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News
CCGs support controversial change to tariff veto power
The representative body for clinical commissioning groups has backed plans to make it more difficult for NHS providers to block national tariff proposals.
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News
NHS Providers lodges objection to controversial tariff proposals
NHS representative bodies have expressed strong concerns about government plans to raise the bar provider objections must clear to block tariff proposals.
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Comment
If the government really wants to help it must support NHS staff
Taking a cue from the Samaritans
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News
Drug pricing scheme ‘must be more transparent’, says commissioning chief
The deal struck between the government and the pharmaceutical industry to limit the amount the NHS spends on branded drugs must become ‘more transparent’, the director of NHS Clinical Commissioners has said.
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HSJ Local
Chief executive of Broadmoor trust stepping down
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of West London Mental Health Trust is stepping down in November.
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Leader
The dominance of white men at the very top shames the NHS
It is unacceptable and unsustainable
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News
Keogh to review elective waiting time targets
NHS England medical director Sir Bruce Keogh is to review the current waiting times standards for elective care, the organisation’s chief executive Simon Stevens has announced.
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Confed 2015 tweets from the HSJ team
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