South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 969
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'Nearly all' CCGs to take on primary care commissioning by 2018
NHS England director says he expects nearly all CCGs to take on delegated primary care commissioning by 2017-18 Board meeting expected to approve delegated commissioning responsibilities to an additional 51 CCGs on Thursday NHS England has said that it expects “nearly all” clinical commissioning groups to have taken ...
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Comment
Are hospital chains a sustainable NHS delivery model?
If the NHS is serious about getting behind hospital chains, then obstacles of resource, regulation and commissioning need to be addressed, writes Ian Baxter
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HSJ Local
Document suggests trust may recruit HCAs 'to cover nursing gaps'
WORKFORCE: Public minutes from a Gloucestershire Hospitals Foundation Trust board meeting suggested the trust intends to recruit healthcare assistants to cover gaps in its qualified nursing rotas.
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Updated: CQC to hike trust fees by 75 per cent
CQC fees for smaller trusts to increase by £58,656 next year Fees for GP practices to triple but government will cover extra cost CQC chooses most bullish of the options it consulted on, moving to “full cost recovery” from providers over two years The Care Quality Commission will ...
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HSJ Local
Ambulance trust to review use of GPs following patient death
PATIENT SAFETY: An ambulance trust is to review how it uses GPs in its emergency operations centres after a patient died when a GP downgraded the response.
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Comment
Lord Carter: improved medicines management is key to achieving the vision
Lord Carter has thrown down the gauntlet to pharmacy departments
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Revealed: The leaders chosen for 41 of England's STPs
NHS England confirms the leaders for 41 of 44 “sustainability and transformation plan” footprints List includes 18 provider chief executives, 18 CCG leaders and three from local authorities Three areas yet to confirm their STP lead NHS England has confirmed the individuals who will lead five year transformation ...
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How a specialist care vanguard may design ‘experimental tariffs’
As the NHS begins to visualise the capabilities of new care models, two briefings written by HSJ’s experts look at how vanguards are implementing service redesigns.
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Comment
Sustainability and transformation plans: an opportunity to see the wood for the trees
STPs are the first time the NHS has got serious about populations, rather than organisations
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Government urged to create ‘level playing field’ for mutuals
Government must “level the playing field” for mutuals that wish to provide acute services, says DH sponsored review Seven hospital trusts that piloted increased staff ownership found barriers to mutualisation including VAT and corporation tax liabilities Estimated productivity savings dwarfed by £20m VAT payments The government should “level ...
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Comment
We must be brave and tackle the workforce tiger
We need a bigger vision if we are to survive the workforce storm that is rumbling around us
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A 15 Year Forward View can lead to transformation in the NHS
Jessica Studert on how a Fifteen Year Forward View needs to be in place to move from crisis intervention to preventative models
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Transparency league table problems not a 'question of competence'
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has dismissed as “harsh” a suggestion that problems with the recently published “learning from mistakes” league table raised a “question of competence” over the government’s handling of improvement initiatives.
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Video: 'My job as health secretary is to do the right thing for the NHS, however difficult'
HSJ invited the health secretary to discuss the government’s health policy and his leadership with three senior healthcare figures.
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Hunt: my biggest mistake
Jeremy Hunt has said that his biggest mistake to date as health secretary was to rely too heavily on inspection to improve poor care before he realised that culture change would have a greater impact.
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Hunt: Pension increase is 'more bearable' for NHS
Jeremy Hunt says pension cost increase should be “more bearable” than thought for employers Cites lower than expected inflation Health secretary believes £22bn savings target “possible” The increased pension contributions expected from NHS employers will be a “more bearable burden” than previously thought, Jeremy Hunt has said.
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Leader
Locked in a deadly embrace with junior doctors, Hunt’s end appears nigh
The health secretary should go big on patient safety and keep quiet on that disputed contract
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Comment
Video: The NHS 'should offer the safest, highest quality care anywhere in the world'
HSJ invited the health secretary to discuss the government’s health policy and his leadership with three senior healthcare figures.
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Video: 'To say that austerity is self-imposed is to assume that money grows from trees'
HSJ invited the health secretary to discuss the government’s health policy and his leadership with three senior healthcare figures.