All Policy and regulation articles – Page 89
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HSJ Local
Trust agrees short term deal over £26m property dispute
An interim deal has been struck between a mental health and community provider and NHS Property Services amid a row over liability for millions in estates maintenance costs.
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News
Exclusive: NHS trusts branding care staff as 'advanced nurses'
Unregistered care assistants are working in the NHS with job titles describing them as nurses with advanced skills, new research has revealed.
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NHSI investigates trust over financial governance concerns
NHS Improvement is investigating financial governance at a London hospital trust after management consultants raised concerns over how it produced its 2017-18 plan.
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NMC: All graduate nurses should be ready to prescribe
Nurses could be able to prescribe medication “much sooner” in their careers than they currently can under plans being consulted on by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
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Comment
How much localism in healthcare is too much?
Though localism has its benefits, policy makers should tread with caution, as handing health fully over to local government has thrown up challenges in the past.
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Comment
Could Brexit change competition and procurement in the NHS?
Post-Brexit the UK may gain some freedom to redefine the application of competition and procurement in the NHS but any change will depend on the political choices of the government of the day, writes Cristina Sarb
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News
Exclusive: Patient record opt-outs risk blocking improvements in cancer care
The UK’s two leading cancer charities have written to Jeremy Hunt to raise concerns that changes to patient data opt-outs may put at risk the ability to deliver a cornerstone of the national cancer strategy.
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NHS England 'unethical' to propose withdrawing life changing drug
NHS England has been accused of being “totally unethical” after proposing to stop paying for a thyroid drug that is the “difference between living properly and not doing so” for patients.
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Brexit: Government must pay for impact on NHS, alliance warns
The government must pay for any financial impact of Brexit on the NHS, a former top civil servant has said, warning of risks to the UK economy if costs spiral without extra funding.
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Jeremy Hunt urged to rethink 'backwards' DTOC targets
County councils have written to health secretary Jeremy Hunt urging him to rethink ‘undeliverable’ targets for reducing delayed transfers of care from hospitals that could reuslt in vital funding being withdrawn.
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Regulator chief promises new 'rigour and consistency'
The new head of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has admitted the regulator still struggles to relate to complaining patients and families, but has pledged to bring “rigour and consistency” to its work.
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NHS managers think admitting mistakes is wrong, says PHSO
Senior leaders in the NHS have believed owning up to mistakes was not the right thing to do for too long, the new health service ombudsman has told HSJ.
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HSJ Local
NHS England to take 'light touch' approach to CCG collaboration
Three clinical commissioning groups could create a joint committee after one ruled out a merger and sharing a single accountable officer.
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NHS England defeated in court again over 'life changing' drug
A High Court judge has rebuked NHS England for denying a life changing drug to a seven year old boy in the face of “overwhelming” clinical evidence.
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NMC to be scrutinised over handling of care scandal witnesses
A regulator’s handling of witnesses and freedom of information requests are being put under the spotlight in an inquiry ordered by the health secretary.
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HSJ Local
Regulator clears landmark teaching hospitals merger
The Competition and Markets Authority has cleared the planned merger of two major teaching trusts in Manchester.
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News
Exclusive: Fall in EU doctors countered by influx of global medics
The numbers of European Union doctors applying to work in the UK has fallen since last year’s Brexit referendum but has been mitigated by an influx of international doctors.
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Exclusive: Just three NHS finance staff reported to professional body in six years
Just three NHS CIPFA members taken to disciplinary comittee over breach of professional codes over six years Sanctions range from expulsion to “reprimand” News comes after accounting scandal at foundation trust saw late payment of suppliers Only three NHS finance staff have been referred to their professional body ...
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'Undeliverable' DTOC reduction targets revealed
More than a third of councils have been told to reduce delayed transfers of care from hospital attributable to social care by 50 per cent or more by September, raising the possibility they could lose better care fund money if they fail.
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Richards: NHS must protect waiting times and access to treatment
The NHS must protect waiting times for planned treatment and maintain access to evidence based care despite ongoing austerity, the outgoing chief inspector of hospitals has insisted.