{"id":4942,"date":"2016-09-23T14:55:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T13:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/?p=4942"},"modified":"2016-09-23T14:58:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T13:58:36","slug":"knowledge-lert-for-friday-23rd-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/2016\/09\/23\/knowledge-lert-for-friday-23rd-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge @lert for Friday 23rd September"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Following the publication of yesterday\u2019s planning guidance, here are the six must read articles<\/a> from HSJ\u2019s comprehensive coverage:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Planning guidnce: Funding to shore up NHS deficits will continue until 2019 – Health Service Journal. <\/strong>A further \u00a33.6bn of \u201csustainability funding\u201d will be used to plug NHS provider deficits over the next two financial years, according to NHS planning guidance published.<\/li>\n
  2. ‘System control totals’ to be issued for STPs – Health Service Journal. <\/strong>NHS England will issue overall financial targets to each regional health system in the coming weeks, in what will be a significant change to the regulation of local organisations.<\/li>\n
  3. Stevens and Mackey will intervene over local contract disputes – Health Service Journal. <\/strong>Providers and commissioners that cannot resolve contract disputes by the end of the year face \u201cintervention\u201d by the NHS England and NHS Improvement chief executives and may see funding withheld.<\/li>\n
  4. GP services must expand into evenings and weekends under NHS England plans – Health Service Journal. <\/strong>Standard GP opening hours should be increased by an hour and a half per day on weekdays, and extended to Saturdays and Sundays as standard under a major access drive announced by NHS England.<\/li>\n
  5. NHS told to stick together or hang separately – Health Service Journal.<\/strong> Two themes characterise today\u2019s pithy new planning guidance, writes Dave West.<\/li>\n
  6. CCGs supported to merge leadership and governance – Health Service Journal. <\/strong>NHS England has said it will work with clinical commissioning groups to help them integrate and work across larger geographical areas to build capacity in the commissioning system.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    New whistleblowing protection for doctors in training – NHS Employers<\/strong>
    \nHealth Education England has released     details of the enhanced whistleblowing protection <\/a>agreement for doctors in training.<\/p>\n

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    Trusts told to join ‘coalition of the willing’ on standardised procurement – NHE<\/strong>
    \nNHS Improvement (NHSI) has told trusts to     follow standardised specifications<\/a> on procuring certain key supplies in order to deliver savings. In a letter to all NHS trust chief executives, seen by NHE, NHSI\u2019s executive director of operational productivity Jeremy Marlow said that NHS Supply Chain and the NHS Business Services Authority…<\/p>\n

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    CCGs must draft local Forward View implementation plans by December – NHE<\/strong>
    \nNHS England\u2019s new two-year planning guidance, released yesterday, requires CCGs to produce plans by 23 December about how they will deliver the     GP Forward View<\/a> as part of the ongoing sustainability and transformation plans (STPs). This will need to set out how CCGs will invest funds to support and transform general practice in…<\/p>\n

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    The planning guidance for 2017-19 is useful and needs to see ongoing alignment – NHS Confederation<\/strong>
    \nPhil McCarvill, Deputy Director of Policy at the NHS Confederation, has     responded <\/a>to the publication of NHS England and NHS Improvement’s Planning Guidance for 2017-19.<\/p>\n

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    ‘Block payment’ plan for outpatients scaled back – Health Service Journal<\/strong>
    \nPlans to reduce inappropriate outpatient follow-ups by introducing a block payment system from 2017-18 have been scaled back by NHS England.<\/p>\n

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    Trusts allowed to miss 2016-17 targets in ‘rare’ cases – Health Service Journal<\/strong>
    \nTrusts will be allowed to miss performance targets this year if it was a result of \u201cexceptional circumstances outside [their] control\u201d and they are back on track in 2017-18, the latest NHS planning guidance says.<\/p>\n

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