All NHS Improvement articles – Page 71
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HSJ LocalCouncil 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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News'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 BriefingPerformance 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 LocalTrust 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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NewsNHS 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 LocalTrust 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 LocalTrust 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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NewsStevens 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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News'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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News'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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NewsTroubled 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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News‘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.
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NewsTroubled acute seeks permanent FD as another interim departs
A troubled acute trust says it will look to recruit a substantive finance director after the departure of another interim from the role.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: The Treasury’s new financial rules for the NHS
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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NewsExclusive: Tariff set to cut payments for traditional outpatient appointments
NHS leaders are proposing to cut the payments made to hospitals for traditional outpatient appointments, HSJ understands.
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CommentFive legal changes the health service needs
Tom Kibasi and Toby Lambert argue the health service should seize on the government’s offer of legislative reform, and set out five changes it needs to take integration forward.
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NewsWhistleblower named chief executive at scandal hit hospital trust
An executive director who blew the whistle at Wirral University Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust has been named today as the trust’s news substantive chief executive.
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NewsHSIB demands national implant reform in first report
A new national system of scanning prosthetic implants before they are put into patients should be created by the government, the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch has said.
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NewsExclusive: Ministers drawing up plans for new staff 'offer'
Ministers and NHS leaders are holding discussions to draw up a new “offer” to the NHS workforce to help boost staff retention, HSJ understands.