All Policy articles – Page 115
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NewsBig Society mutuals scheme underwhelms NHS staff
A flagship Big Society programme to set up a new wave of NHS mutuals has yielded just 19 proposals, less than half the figure set up under the transforming community services programme in 2010 and 2011.
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NewsMandate aims to spark a 'revolution in transparency'
The NHS will be required to measure and publish outcomes data for all major services by 2015, to enable commissioners and patients to make more informed choices about care providers.
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NewsMandate requires board to guarantee CCG autonomy
Clinical commissioning groups have received a strengthened commitment from ministers to ensure their autonomy, and new powers to rate the performance of the NHS Commissioning Board.The board will be held to account on whether it achieves “the best health outcomes for patients by strengthening the local autonomy of CCGs”. The ...
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Trusts to be rewarded for friends and family test success
For all the talk of easing top-down control of trusts, the mandate mentions some levers that could hit providers.
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CommentIt's time to rethink payment by results
The landscape has changed, and with it so should the tariff system
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NewsCarnall calls for service reconfigurations to be accelerated
The head of NHS London has warned the government risks “stifling the ambition” of clinical commissioning groups if it does not find a way to speed up service reconfigurations.
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NewsCommissioner behaviour is main barrier to independent sector providers
Tendering behaviour is preventing a more diverse provider landscape, Monitor has indicated.
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CommentLet's find the political will to integrate care
The NHS should focus on integration not more fragmentation
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CommentMichael White: MPs anxious to right a wrong
Ed Miliband made a rare leader’s speech on mental health
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NewsEnd of life care controversy leads to constitution amendment
The Department of Health inserted a passage into the revised NHS constitution in response to a recent controversy about end of life care, sources close to the changes have told HSJ.
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NewsRevised NHS Constitution emphasises staff rights and 'duty of candour'
A planned revision to the NHS constitution would place a stronger emphasis on creating a “supportive open culture” among staff, ahead of the Francis report into failings in care at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.
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Private providers see 11 per cent growth in NHS elective work
The number of NHS-funded elective procedures carried out in the private sector rose 10.5 per cent last year, NHS Information Centre data shows.
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NewsBennett appointed to permanent chief executive role at Monitor
The Monitor board has appointed interim chief executive David Bennett to the permanent role at the foundation trust regulator.
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NewsUPDATED: Hunt advised to break up South London Healthcare
The trust special administrator this morning issued his draft report into the first organisation to face the NHS’s failure regime, recommending the trust is broken up.
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Who are the most influential people in the NHS and health policy?
The HSJ100 is our annual list of the most influential people in the NHS and English health policy.
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NewsCCG veto kills off trust's FT application
The chief executive of a community services trust has spoken of his “bitter disappointment” after a clinical commissioning group vetoed his organisation’s foundation trust bid.
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NewsDH tracker shows cluster confidence
Primary care trust leaders are overwhelmingly confident about the progress being made towards setting up the new NHS structure, internal reports obtained by HSJ reveal. However, many areas are experiencing difficulties establishing the local operations of the NHS Commissioning Board.
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NewsProductivity is low at urgent care centres
Urgent care centres appear to have low productivity rates and lack clear data allowing commissioners to tell whether they are value for money, according to a report published today.
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NewsMonitor has 'concerns' over pension plan
Monitor has revealed it has “significant concerns over the affordability” of a plan to build a new hospital with a ground-breaking loan from a pension fund.