All articles by Ben Clover – Page 68
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HSJ Local
Royal college criticises SHA for moving mental health funds
FINANCE: The president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists has said she is “deeply concerned” by a strategic health authority’s decision to cut a mental health budget in favour of cancer spending.
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News
Trusts needing bailout support almost double in 2011-12
Thirty-one trusts received bailout payments in 2011-12, information released to HSJ under the Freedom of Information Act reveals.
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HSJ Local
Analysed: reform of education and training budgets in London
HSJ Local Briefing is our new in-depth analysis of the key issues facing the NHS’s major health economies. This week, HSJ looks at reform of education and training budgets in London.
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News
Burstow attacks move to close his local A&E
A panel appointed to look at the options for downgrading a hospital in south west London has recommended closing health minister Paul Burstow’s local A&E and maternity department.
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Monitor admits credit ratings agency plan may not be feasible
Monitor is reviewing its controversial proposals to require key service providers to receive external credit ratings or have limits placed on their debts.
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Trusts reveal further delays to the FT pipeline
Four more trusts have confirmed delays in their dates for submitting applications to become foundation trusts, HSJ has discovered.
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Comment
'In 10 years' time, doctors will require a second opinion from a computer'
Devi Shetty – nicknamed the Henry Ford of heart surgery – believes developments such as computerised diagnoses and technicians doing the work of highly trained medics are just around the corner. Ben Clover hears his ideas for the future of medicine.
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HSJ Local
SHA's proposed cut to mental health funding 'disgraceful'
FINANCE: A strategic health authority has asked staff to plan for a cut of nearly two-thirds in its mental health research and analysis budget to make up a shortfall on cancer projects.
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News
NHS Trust Development Authority chair appointed
The body responsible for pushing NHS trusts through the foundation trust authorisation process has appointed a chair.
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News
Libyan injured 'brought dangerous bacteria to UK hospitals'
Civilian patients who were injured in the Libyan conflict last year and taken to the UK for treatment brought a dangerous bacteria with them, newly released documents reveal.
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News
New chief executive for the NHS Litigation Authority
The NHS Litigation Authority has a new chief executive.
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News
Royal Brompton loses reconfiguration case at the High Court
A foundation trust has lost a High Court case it brought against a consultation on the national configuration of paediatric heart surgery services.
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HSJ Local
London acute joins UCL Partners academic health science centre
RESEARCH: The board of Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust has agreed to become part of a north London academic health science centre.
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News
Monitor tightens efficiency targets for acute trust
Monitor has issued a bleak assessment of the efficiency savings acute trusts must prepare to make over the next three years.
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News
King's Health Partners chief calls for academic health groups' protection
The head of a leading academic health science centre has called for the partnerships’ status to be protected ahead of the publication of authorisation conditions for a new wave of academic health science networks.
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News
London trusts could cut nurse expenditure by up to half
Some London hospital trusts could safely cut their spending on nurses by half, NHS London documents have claimed.
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News
Larger trusts warn over C difficile rules
New Monitor rules on C difficile infections could still mean foundation trusts are downgraded by the regulator for relatively small outbreaks, HSJ has been told.
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Information tribunal judgment says DH should have released risk register
An information tribunal has ruled the Department of Health’s transition risk register should have been released because of the “general alarm at what was happening”.
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News
Exclusive: London and Manchester to get beam therapy investment
Andrew Lansley will tomorrow announce two hospitals that will offer Proton Beam Therapy for the treatment of cancer.
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News
Exclusive: Lansley rejects hospital merger case
The health secretary has ruled there is insufficient evidence of the benefits of formally merging Chase Farm Hospital with North Middlesex University Hospital, HSJ understands.