All Policy and regulation articles – Page 96
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NewsPHSO admits it failed to follow rules for £100k contract
PHSO accepts errors in handling of contract worth more than £100,000 The board should have approved contract for onsite cafe last year The regulator was criticised by the NAO for contract failings in 2015 The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman failed to follow its own procurement guidance when ...
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Competition and 2,000 year-plus waiters
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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CommentJail for CV shows need for regulation
A statutory regulatory regime for registering and authenticating physiologists could avoid serious threats to patient safety
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News80 hospitals in GMC 'special measures' over safety and training concerns
GMC chief executive urges government to accelerate reform of professional regulators, including mergers Medical watchdog is developing a new intelligence system to analyse data and act faster over concerns Seventy-nine hospitals are being monitored because of concerns over standards of training or safety Almost 80 hospitals are being ...
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CommentCriminalisation of healthcare professionals: do patients benefit?
Internal assurance processes are vital to ensure criminal liability is not unfairly biased against healthcare professionals in the event of an accident
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CommentWhat could Theresa May do about the 'burning injustice' of health inequality?
Theresa May has said she wants to address the life expectancy gap linked to poverty. We asked leading experts where she should start
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NewsAgency cap expected to save NHS up to £800m in first year
NHS Improvement says agency cap is delivering substantial savings Regulator says no evidence of systematic impact on safety or staff supply Nine out of 10 NHS trusts are breaching the cap every week to maintain safety The cap on agency rates for temporary staff in the NHS is ...
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NewsExclusive: Trusts fail to report hundreds of mental health patient deaths to coroners
Discrepancies in official data examined by HSJ suggest more than 700 deaths of patients detained under the Mental Health Act were not reported to coroners between 2011 and 2014 All deaths in state detention should be reported to the CQC and examined by a coroner DH could not rule ...
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CommentThe NHS must move from ‘no blame’ to a ‘just culture’
A ‘no blame’ culture in the NHS runs the risk of exonerating genuine wrong-doers - it’s time to move rapidly to a ‘just culture’
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Expert BriefingDeep South: The cost of Kernow
Weekly updates and essential insight into the NHS in the South West, by Will Hazell
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NewsMackey: Pay bill growth list was 'intended to start a discussion'
NHS Improvement says its list of trusts with high pay bill growth was “intended to start a conversation” Jim Mackey says asking for total “excess” of £356m to be cut would be “unworkable and unsafe” Mr Mackey says providers will not “be penalised financially over pay growth” NHS ...
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NewsReport behind PHSO resignation held up by 'legal process'
No date set for publication of report by Sir Alex Allen which led to Dame Julie Mellor’s resignation PHSO says it must follow “proper legal process” before it can publish Director of investigations recently resigned but PHSO says this is not linked to the review Legal issues are ...
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CommentHunt's task is to focus on population health now
The headlines usually focus on deficiencies of NHS funding but Jeremy Hunt’s focus must equally be on the way we live
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NewsCQC admits failings over patient experts contract
CQC says it should have involved incumbent experts in contract procurement from the “outset” Detailed breakdown of costs in bid proposals should have been sought Review found CQC had “no contractual power” to get data from previous suppliers The Care Quality Commission has admitted “earlier engagement” and greater ...
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NewsMapped: The trusts and CCGs in new special measures regime
NHS Improvement and NHS England have launched a new financial special measures regime for trusts and clinical commissioning groups which are not meeting their performance commitments.
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NewsSystem-wide failure identified in damning report into child's death
Second investigation report into death of Sam Morrish calls for change in culture to improve local NHS investigations PHSO report says NHS trust failed to “accept that no view other than their own was the right one” Report follows criticism of PHSO, which took two years to carry out ...
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HSJ KnowledgeInto the great wide open: looking beyond your organisation
At the first of three events linked to HSJ’s Top Chief Executives list, healthcare leaders gathered to discuss the need for collaboration across organisations
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CommentHunt stays put - but faces a whole new set of challenges
Mike Birtwistle assesses how Jeremy Hunt might handle the very different demands of the new ministerial team
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NewsMay shakes up DH ministerial team
Junior defence minister Philip Dunne appointed minister of state for health Nicola Blackwood and David Mowat appointed parliamentary under-secretaries of state at Department of Health Life sciences minister George Freeman to chair new prime minister’s policy board Theresa May has implemented a substantial restructure of the Department of ...
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NewsDH director to become head of medical watchdog
The Department of Health’s director general for strategy and external relations Charlie Massey has been appointed as the new chief executive of the General Medical Council.