All NHS Improvement articles – Page 70
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GIRFT announces first mental health clinical lead
The Getting It Right First Time programme has today announced four new clinical leads, including its first for the mental health sector.
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Patients 'pressurised' into treatment to hit cancer target
GIRFT report finds some clinicians believe patients “pressurised” into unnecessary treatment to hit target Small number of providers “demoralised” by “constant failing” at targets despite doing their best for patients Report recommends networking services Some prostate cancer patients are “pressurised into receiving treatment within 62 days” even where ...
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HSJ Local
Regulators refuse to relax scandal trust's control total
NHS Improvement has refused to relax a trust’s financial “control total” despite the local finance director arguing that “mistakes of the past” had resulted in the target being missed.
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Turnaround director appointed to troubled health economy
An off-payroll turnaround director has been appointed to one of the most financially challenged health economies, as two of its clinical commissioning groups were placed under legal directions by NHS England.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: What does a new health secretary mean?
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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Young people stuck in mental health services 'void', says HSIB
The long term plan for the health service must address the “void” which leaves young people with serious mental health problems unable to access support when they turn 18, according to a new report.
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HSJ Local
Hospitals merger goes live
Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust and Ipswich Hospital Trust have completed their merger to create East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust.
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HSJ Local
Council offers £2m to stop FT's subsidiary plan
A hospital trust in the north west has dropped plans to transfer hundreds of non-clinical staff into a subsidiary company, after a financial deal was struck with the local authority.
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'NHS Assembly' will not get input to long term plan
The launch of an “NHS Assembly” has been moved back to November, meaning it will not contribute to the contents of the NHS long term plan.
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Expert Briefing
Performance Watch: Can more chairs save beds?
Welcome to HSJ’s Performance Watch expert briefing, James Illman’s fortnightly newsletter on the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders. Contact me in confidence here.
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HSJ Local
Trust meets financial target after 'technical fix' to stock levels
A leading acute trust met its financial control total for the second month of the year after a “technical fix” to its stock levels.
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NHS Improvement takes action against major teaching hospital
NHS Improvement has taken action against a leading teaching hospital for failing to meet national targets.
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HSJ Local
Trust loses £26m arbitration with commissioners
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust loses dispute with clinical commissioning groups Money owed to CCGs will have to be part of 2018-19 balance, HSJ understands A hospital trust has lost its £26m arbitration challenge with its main commissioners, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
Trust to restart construction of hospital in autumn as government ends PF2 contract
A trust hopes to restart construction work on its new hospital in October after the government terminated the private finance contract which funded the project.
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Stevens outlines new funding commitments to MPs
Funding from the NHS’s new settlement will be “earmarked” for cancer programmes including prostate, lung and colorectal cancer, the NHS England chief executive told MPs today.
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'CQUIN should be scrapped or overhauled', say local leaders
A national payment system which rewards improvements in clinical quality and transformation should be scrapped or radically overhauled, local leaders have argued.
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Ministers consider capital injection to head off winter crisis
Ministers are considering an injection of capital funding to increase the NHS’s capacity after warnings that the system is set for further operational problems this winter, HSJ has learned.
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'Clear irregularities' in recruitment of trust chair
Regulators have been asked to provide new guidance on board appointments after concerns were raised about “clear irregularities” in the recruitment of Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust’s new chair.
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Troubled STP appoints high profile chair
A high profile regulator and quango chief has been appointed as the new independent chair of a troubled health economy.
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‘Vulnerable’ patients die after food terminology confusion
NHS Improvement has issued an alert following the death of two patients and hundreds of other incidents where people with swallowing difficulties were given inappropriate food due to staff confusion.