All Health Service Journal articles in 18 October 2012 – Page 4
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NewsAvoidable harm in NHS drops for six months
There have been six months of continuous reductions in the proportion of patients avoidably harmed under NHS care, latest data shows.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: tariff twister
Everyone knows which NHS hospitals are the most powerful, right?
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HSJ Local
New beds for Lincolnshire trauma patients
FINANCE: An East Midlands trust has spent more than £15,000 to purchase 15 new high-tech beds for trauma patients.
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HSJ Local
New AQP providers get go-ahead for CBT in Kent
COMMERCIAL: New organisations have been given the go-ahead to provide talking therapy, including cognitive behavioural therapy, across Kent and Medway.
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HSJ Local
Norovirus outbreak at Mid Staffordshire
PERFORMANCE: Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has closed one ward and its acute stroke unit to admissions, transfers and discharges to nursing homes after an outbreak of norovirus.
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HSJ Local
Two never events at Hampshire Hospitals
PERFORMANCE: Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust recorded two “never events” in June, including one caused by clinicians getting an x-ray back to front.
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HSJ Local
New vascular surgery service for Derbyshire
STRUCTURE: Two East Midlands foundation trusts have joined forces to provide an integrated vascular surgery service to the whole of Derbyshire.
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News
Stephen Dalton named as head of Mental Health Network
Stephen Dalton, chief executive of Cumbria Partnership Foundation trust, has been appointed as chief executive of the NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network.
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HSJ Local
Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals misses A&E target
PERFORMANCE: Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals has now missed the A&E four-hour wait target for each month of the financial year.
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NewsAcute FTs push their workforce reductions back to 2013-14
Acute foundation trusts are planning to increase staff numbers by more than 2,500 this financial year, latest figures released to HSJ show.
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CommentReaders' letters - 18 October 2012
Private patient units will be an important contributor to NHS trusts’ balance sheets
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Peter Edwards on the latest Chief Executive Barometer: Not quite the brave new world
Peter Edwards assesses the latest Chief Executive Barometer
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CommentMichael White: the Savile fallout begins now
My tabloid friends insist Jimmy proved too cunning, too litigious, too famous to nail
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CommentIs choice a blight or a boon for patient care?
Will choice hit the vulnerable or drive up standards?
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HSJ KnowledgeWeak links break handover chain
Pioneering a significant improvement to clinical handover
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HSJ KnowledgeHow CCGs can learn to innovate
Overcoming the barriers posed by strategy and procurement to work smarter
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HSJ KnowledgeOpening up to close scrutiny
How mutual public governance can help safeguard patient care
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CommentHow competition can help community services
Why choice does not always lead to privatisation
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CommentCompetition: waiting for that green light
We need to move the debate on from whether or not competition actually works