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Older patients are having to wait for a month before they are transferred from hospitals to care homes, a charity has warned.

Rotherham Foundation Trust is planning to save £5m from its “corporate overheads” as it battles to deliver £50m cost cuts in the next three years.

How the troubled implementation of a new IT system exacerbated financial woes at Rotherham and what lies ahead for the trust

Today HSJ live will cover our exclusive in depth interview with Robert Francis QC and the debate around it, the first day of the NICE conference, MPs hearing evidence on the NHS reforms, and the healthcare news

Today HSJ live will cover our exclusive in depth interview with Robert Francis QC and the debate around it, the first day of the NICE conference, MPs hearing evidence on the NHS reforms, and the healthcare news

Health economies have been invited to bid to become integration “pioneers” running large-scale experiments in integrated care, in an initiative launched by health minister Norman Lamb.

The absence of an ability to prosecute individual NHS staff in cases of serious patient neglect would cause “public confidence” in the service to “evaporate”, Robert Francis QC has told HSJ.

The refusal to merge NHS provider regulation into a single organisation could leave the system open to mistakes, Robert Francis QC has told HSJ.

Robert Francis QC has cautioned the government against allowing its review of safety in the NHS to “disappear beneath the long grass”. He also called for an “honest” conversation between the NHS and the public about which health services could be safely provided.

NHS leaders who fail to make improvements in response to the Francis report should not have “a place in that system”, Robert Francis QC has told HSJ.

The leaders of the nursing profession have been criticised by Robert Francis QC, who told HSJ he has seen little to “give him cause for optimism”.

The most recently published accident and emergency figures show the English hospital sector is still missing the national target for 95 per cent of patients to be seen within four hours.

Clinical commissioning groups will be encouraged to experiment with different ways of paying for care next year, in what could be the start of the biggest reform of NHS payment systems since the introduction of payment by results.

NHS England and Monitor today said they wanted to allow “more widespread local experimentation” with novel ways of paying for NHS services “straight away”, as the first step in a major reform of payment by results.

“Unprecedented” central pressure and a procurement process focused more on cost than quality were two of the biggest factors in the failure of NHS 111’s launch, a new report has concluded.

Capita is in talks with the Department for Health over government plans to axe its NHS Choices contract, HSJ has learned.

Capita is in talks with the Department for Health over government plans to axe its NHS Choices contract, HSJ has learned.

Capita is in talks with the Department for Health over government plans to axe its NHS Choices contract, HSJ has learned.

NHS England and Moniotr have announced plans to overhaul payment by results, continuing concern over A&E performance and the rest of the days news.