All NHS Improvement articles – Page 89
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HSJ Local
New trust chief prepared to 'take a hit' on funding over winter
An acute trust is preparing for winter by reducing elective inpatient orthopaedic work for up to six months despite knowing its finances will “take a hit”, its chief executive has said.
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News
Experts challenge NHS Improvement claims on theatre efficiency
Experts have questioned a claim by NHS Improvement that the NHS could conduct an extra 280,000 operations a year if theatres were more efficient.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: The brown stuff and the bulletproof
Once nobody in NHS management is bulletproof anymore, everybody in NHS management is bulletproof. By Andy Cowper
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News
New NHS Improvement chair urged to retire Tory whip
The Commons health committee has endorsed the appointment of Baroness Dido Harding as NHS Improvement’s new chair, but recommended she relinquish the Conservative whip.
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Expert Briefing
Following the Money: The only way is ethics
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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News
'Worrying' staff survey reveals impact of NHS Improvement merger on morale
The negative impact of continued organisational change on employees at NHS Improvement has been revealed in damning staff survey results obtained by HSJ.
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News
Dalton rules himself out of NHS Improvement chief executive job
Sir David Dalton has said he is committed to leading the newly structured “group” of five hospitals in Greater Manchester and does not want to be the next chief executive of NHS Improvement.
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News
Revealed: Culture in all English maternity units to be assessed
EXCLUSIVE: The culture of every maternity unit in England will be assessed as part of a nationwide drive to improve safety, HSJ has learned.
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News
System is at 'full stretch' warns new NHS Improvement chair
The new chair of NHS Improvement has told MPs it is “obvious” the NHS is at “full stretch” and needs more money.
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News
HSJ Live 17.10.17: Dido Harding faces health committee grilling
Baroness Dido Harding answers questions from MPs at pre-appointment hearing
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News
Doctors threaten legal action against NHS over IR35 tax rules
Unions representing locum doctors have threatened to seek a judicial review against NHS Improvement claiming the NHS is continuing to wrongly apply new tax rules.
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Comment
Dalton and Mackey: Do everything you can to hit the four hour target
David Dalton and Jim Mackey outline why leaders should try to meet the four hour standard to provide safe care
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Comment
Cowper's Cut: Productivity and pressure
With Jeremy Hunt saying that future pay rises might be partly linked to productivity improvements, Andy Cowper points out that measuring productivity in healthcare is hard, even as the pressure increases cheating instances
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News
'No systematic bullying' of NHS finance staff, says second professional body
A second body representing NHS finance staff has described reports of senior managers feeling bullied into reporting unachievable numbers “disturbing”, but does not believe there is a “systematic” problem.
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HSJ Local
Trust re-enters special measures after less than a year
Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust has been placed back in quality special measures, less than a year after it exited them, after a new inspection found the number of serious incidents “remained high”.
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Expert Briefing
The Commissioner: Winter, deaths and inequality
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight for commissioners, by Dave West.
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News
Trusts miss NHS England A&E performance milestone
Trusts have fallen short of NHS England’s first milestone towards hitting the national emergency performance waiting time target, official figures reveal today.
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News
NHS Improvement deputy chief leaving to run STP
NHS Improvement’s director of resources and deputy chief executive Bob Alexander will step down next year to run a sustainability and transformation partnership.
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News
Last minute talks fail to stop trust pulling doctors from neighbour hospitals
A major teaching trust is pulling its oncology consultants out of two neighbouring hospitals because of longstanding concerns about their “operational standards” – meaning the service will close this month.
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News
Finance directors 'feel bullied' by NHS regulators to agree targets
The professional body representing public sector accountants has warned experienced NHS finance staff are “often feeling bullied by regulators to publicly report numbers they do not think are achievable”.