All Specialist care articles – Page 12
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Comment
A successful NHS merger is the exception, not the rule
They should not be a response to failure
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News
Royal college warning over staffing 'pressure' on maternity wards
A second medical royal college has told HSJ it is concerned over the extent of gaps in rotas for junior doctors, with some maternity wards having a vacancy rate of 15-20 per cent.
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News
Monitor readies itself to refer tariff row to CMA
Monitor’s pricing team are readying themselves to be able to refer rejected tariff proposals for 2015-16 to the Competition and Markets Authority as soon as next month, should the regulator’s board decide to do so.
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Comment
Stamping down on pay belittles our top jobs
The Daily Mail putting the boot in makes NHS leadership harder
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News
Labour's 'profit cap' policy faces European legal hurdles, say lawyers
Ed Miliband’s proposal to cap the profits of private sector providers of NHS services at 5 per cent would come up against EU legislation, lawyers have told HSJ.
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Supplements
Forward view survey: NHS leaders are sceptical of new care model delivery
In an HSJ/KPMG poll
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News
CQC will miss own inspection deadlines, regulator admits
The Care Quality Commission will fail to hit a high profile target to inspect all acute trusts before the end of this year, the watchdog’s chief executive has said.
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Comment
HSJ commission: Social care and housing are important to put older people first
Issues facing older people
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Supplements
HSJ commission final report: Are you doing enough for frail older people?
Putting questions to politicians, citizens and providers
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Comment
The NHS contract means an even more perverse sanctions regime
Perversity arguments have fallen on deaf ears
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Supplements
Commissioning supplement: Health inequalities tell a tale of data neglect
Health inequalities
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News
Lord Willis launches blueprint for the future of nursing
A radical blueprint to reshape the nursing workforce calls for nurses to follow a medical style model of training and the creation of a new ‘advanced healthcare assistant’ role.
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News
Exclusive: NHS England offered £124m fund to tariff objectors
NHS England offered a group of trusts access to a £124m fund on the condition they dropped their opposition to its latest tariff offer, HSJ can reveal.
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Leader
There are no winners to be found in the battle over NHS prices
The NHS pricing dispute has raged for months
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News
Biggest hospital trusts absent from care model 'vanguard'
England’s most powerful acute trusts are absent from the new care model “vanguard” sites revealed today by NHS England, but will take part in a forthcoming project on how they can work with small hospitals, HSJ has been told.