All Health Service Journal articles in 06 December 2012 – Page 3
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HSJ KnowledgeLiaison psychiatry can bridge the gap
A joint approach to managing physical and mental care is a prime example of integration
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CommentCCG budgets: Challenging or naive?
Many CCG leaders are approaching important issues with a novel or naive attitude
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HSJ LocalNorth Bristol renews plans to go it alone
A proposal to merge two South West trusts, creating an organisation with a turnover of almost £1bn, appears less likely to proceed after one of the organisations confirmed it was still working on an alternative plan to go it alone.
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LeaderCSUs are heading for centre-stage
The vision for commissioning support units is expanding under Bob Ricketts
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NewsExclusive: 'Rapid reduction' in hospital care planned following Winterbourne View
The treatment of all people with learning disabilities or autism receiving inpatient care is to be reviewed, ahead of a drive to rapidly reduce hospital placements and increase community provision.
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CommentWe must beat our hospital addiction
Fresh thinking is needed to avoid a social care funding crisis, says Lord Warner
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NewsNext generation of PFI announced by Osborne
“Soft facilities management” services like cleaning and catering will be excluded from future NHS private finance projects, new government guidance reveals.
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Comment
Readers' letters - 6 December 2012
Support for Jeremy Hunt’s “technology revolution”, and an assertion that NHS providers are better placed than independent ones to provide integrated secure services
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NewsHealth budget ringfence extended to 2015-16
George Osborne today committed to extending the health budget’s relative protection from government spending cuts to 2015-16 – the first year of the next spending review period.
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News
Preferred candidate for CQC chair will be "hands-on"
The government’s preferred candidate to chair the Care Quality Commission will be “hands-on” and “visible” in the role, he has told MPs.
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HSJ Local
Hull & East Yorks chief is AHSN lead member
STRUCTURE: Phil Morley, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust chief executive, is a member of the Yorkshire and Humber Partnership AHSN steering group.
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HSJ Local
AHSN steering group includes Leeds chief executive
STRUCTURE: Maggie Boyle, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust chief executive, has become a member of the Yorkshire and Humber Partnership AHSN steering group.
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HSJ Local
Leeds, Bradford and Airedale CCGs take on quality and safeguarding functions
STRUCTURE: Clinical commissioning groups in Leeds and Bradford and Airedale are taking on functions of quality, safety and safeguarding for the area, following the departure of the PCTs’ director of quality and nursing.
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HSJ Local
Leeds & York Partnership chief joins AHSN steering group
STRUCTURE: Chris Butler, Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust chief executive, has been made a member of the Yorkshire and Humber Partnership AHSN steering group, which hopes to get the group approved next year.
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HSJ Local
Leicester trust hit with £620k fine for A&E target and never event failures
University Hospitals of Leicester has been hit by two contract penalties by commissioners totalling more than £620,000 after a series of never events and failure to hit accident and emergency targets.
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CommentHSJ100 2012: Under 'Baron' Nicholson, a new health aristocracy takes shape
Sir David Nicholson divides the world of healthcare leaders between “barons” and “knights”.
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Comment
How the HSJ100 is judged
The HSJ100 seeks to indicate who will have the greatest influence over English health policy and the NHS in the 12 months from November 2012.
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Comment
HSJ100 2012: Waiting for Mr Francis
The seventh year of the HSJ100 in the wake of the passage of the Health Act reveals a landscape under transition as well as scrutiny.
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ100 Interactive graphs
Click here to see the 2012 HSJ100 interactive charts (opens in a new window)