All Policy articles – Page 130
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NewsCameron demands improvements to frontline nursing 'red tape'
The prime minister has announced a series of moves to improve care standards and free nurses of “non-essential paperwork and excessive bureaucracy”.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to create a long-term strategy for better workforce planning
The Department of Health’s strategic vision for the NHS presents several workforce planning challenges for the service to tackle. Dulani Mendis suggests strategy tips for creating a culture of long-term improvement.
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NewsLansley vows to enforce drugs access rules
Legislation meant to end the variable access to drugs in NHS hospitals will be enforced, the health secretary has told the Commons.
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NewsFuture Forum: all commissioners should consider NHS and social care shared budgets
Commissioners should be able to override current payment rules and share budgets with local authorities in order to accelerate service integration, according to the NHS Future Forum.
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NewsNHS stuck in 'information dark ages', says Future Forum
The NHS needs a culture change to drag itself out of the “information dark ages” and avoid reputational damage, the NHS Future Forum has said.
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NewsIntegrated care needs 'ambitious' target to succeed, DH told
Ministers will be in a “difficult position” if they ignore advice to set a national target to drive integrated care, the chief executive of the King’s Fund has warned.
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CommentYour Humble Servant: the rallying cry for 2012
2012 is the year of the contract. Go back to your offices and prepare for contracting.
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NewsLords row over 'secret' file on NHS reform risk
The government has said it is highly unlikely that a tribunal judgment on releasing a confidential risk assessment of its health reforms would be delivered before the legislation’s next stage through parliament.
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NewsEU energy plan poses financial risk to NHS - Confed
Energy efficiency improvement plans proposed for EU countries could cost the health service millions of pounds a year, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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NewsClinical commissioning group boards should have tenure and size limits
A model constitution for clinical commissioning groups has recommended board members serve no longer than four years at a time, and boards should be limited to 12 people.
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NewsMergers will not make unviable trusts sustainable, warn MPs
The takeover or merger of troubled trusts in order for them to achieve foundation status “is not a convincing solution” that will ensure their future sustainability, according to MPs.
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NewsEmbrace NHS competition, Milburn tells Labour
Former Labour health secretary Alan Milburn has warned his successors in the party to back competition in the health service and adopt a more reformist outlook.
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NewsFarrar: innovation needs 'management culture' shift
NHS Confederation chief executive Mike Farrar has called for more tolerance of risk taking among NHS leaders to encourage innovation.
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NewsClinical senate role still unclear - DH
The function of clinical senates remains unclear, the NHS medical director has said, nearly six months after they were proposed.
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NewsDH to set out CCG behaviour guidance
The government is to set out how a clinical commissioning group can buy from its own practices, and set out expectations for their governance, in an imminent paper.
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NewsDH exerts pressure to merge on smaller CCGs
Smaller clinical commissioning groups are coming under increasing pressure to merge after the Department of Health announced a tight administrative allowance and a requirement for them to match local authority boundaries “as far as possible”.
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NewsWarning over status of nurses involved in NHS commissioning
Nurses involved in emerging clinical commissioning groups are being given little time and support and are being paid less than GP peers, according to an authoritative report published today.
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NewsHakin: pace of CCG development next year will 'be dramatic'
The Department of Health commissioning lead has warned that there will be a rapid step change in pace to establish clinical commissioning groups, equivalent to a “very big train coming down the track”.
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NewsGovernment will appeal risk register decision
The government is to appeal against a ruling that it should release confidential risk assessments of its controversial health reforms, it has been announced.
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NewsReforms will cost £3.4bn - Burnham
The coalition government’s reforms of the NHS will cost nearly £3.4bn, Labour’s shadow health secretary has claimed.