All Health Service Journal articles in 22 November 2013 – Page 2
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NewsHospital boarding should end says study
Forcing hospital patients into other wards because of overcrowding should be eliminated in the NHS to improve standards of care, according to a report by senior medical professionals.
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NewsNursing leaders divided over minimum staffing levels
Three of the NHS’s most senior nurses have spoken out against the introduction of minimum staffing levels as the profession becomes increasingly divided over the issue ahead of the government’s response to the Francis report.
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NewsLegal move over hospital asbestos
A Scottish health board is facing legal action due to asbestos being found at a hospital.
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NewsNHS England to move into DH offices to save £1m
NHS England is to move its London office into a building with the Department of Health to save around £1m a year.
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HSJ Local
Yorkshire Ambulance Service misses target for third consecutive month
PERFORMANCE: Yorkshire Ambulance Service faces a financial penalty after missing its target for responding to the most life-threatening calls for three successive months, according to board papers from Airedale, Wharfdale and Craven clinical commissioning group.
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HSJ Local
Dementia consultation launched by Central and North West London FT
A public consultation to determine the future of older people’s services in Harrow has been launched by Central and North West London Foundation Trust.
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CommentLawyers are not just ambulance chasers
Clinical negligence law can help increase transparency
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HSJ KnowledgeLocal integrated care receives a massive lift
Analysis of the LIFT programme’s benefits
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HSJ LocalColchester faces fresh data fiddle claims
Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust faces fresh claims that senior managers put pressure on staff to alter data, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsHSJ Live 19.11.13: Government response to Francis is published
The government’s full response to the Francis inquiry rejects statutory duty of candour for individual NHS employees.
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NewsThinktank urges more NHS charges
Ministers should consider extending prescription charges, as well as introducing new charges on visits to NHS GP surgeries and some elements of hospital care, to raise £3bn a year for the health service, a think-tank has said.
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NewsMaternity services 'run deficit'
Many of England’s maternity services run at a deficit and have to be subsidised by other departments, the Foundation Trust Network has told MPs.
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CommentMichael White: Constant reform is reminiscent of Thatcher
Rarely a week passes without a major health announcement
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NewsBureaucracy burden 'bigger' than previously thought
National bodies should reduce the amount of data they collect from NHS providers by 10 per cent over the next two years and contribute to the cost of any new information requests, a review of bureaucracy in the NHS is set to say.
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NewsCover-up trusts could lose litigation cover
NHS organisations which fail to be open and honest with patients and families when they suffer poor care could be forced to pay the costs of any litigation, the government has announced today.
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NewsGovernment accepts all but nine Francis recommendations
The government has at least partially accepted all but nine of Robert Francis QC’s 290 recommendations to improve care in the NHS, it has announced.
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NewsUpdated: trusts face new wilful neglect offence
Hospital managers and non-clinicians could be drawn into the scope of a new criminal offence of wilful neglect and abuse of patients along with their organisation, it has emerged.
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NewsThe nine rejected Francis recommendations
The government has rejected nine of Robert Francis’ 290 recommendations.
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NewsNHS England to launch new ‘hospital safety’ website
A dedicated hospital safety website will be launched next year as part of the government’s response to Robert Francis QC’s report, ministers have announced.
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Francis response: trusts to decide on 'named nurse' for patients
Allocating named or key nurses to individual patients is not to be made mandatory, the government response to the Francis report has said.
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