All BIRMINGHAM EAST AND NORTH PCT articles – Page 3
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HSJ Local
Birmingham East and North rapped over lax data security
PERFORMANCE: Inadequate IT security at NHS Birmingham East and North left data relating to “thousands of individuals” exposed, as well as “high level information” concerning patients.
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HSJ Local
Former Walsall PCT boss appointed to Birmingham cluster role
WORKFORCE: NHS Walsall’s former chief executive has been appointed to the top role at the Birmingham primary care trust cluster.
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HSJ Local
PCTs fearful of £9.5m overspend on continuing care
FINANCE: Birmingham’s three primary care trusts are warning they could end the year £9.5m overspent on continuing healthcare.
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HSJ Local
NHS Birmingham East and North overspent by £9.7m
FINANCE: NHS Birmingham East and North is overspent by £9.7m against plan.
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HSJ Local
Solihull Care Trust investigating Heart of England's A&E performance
PERFORMANCE: Solihull NHS Care Trust is carrying out an investigation with NHS Birmingham East and North into accident and emergency performance at Heart of England Foundation Trust.
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HSJ Knowledge
Smoking cessation
NHS Birmingham East and North and Dr Foster Intelligence are currently working in partnership on exploiting the joint capabilities and networks available to both organisations to tackle health inequalities in the local community.
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HSJ Knowledge
The NHS Health Check programme
Due to a high prevalence of cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality, both NHS Stoke on Trent and NHS Birmingham East & North have implemented their NHS Health Check programmes since 2008 by piloting various delivery strategies to ensure population-wide coverage.
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News
Home care ‘could save NHS more than £1bn a year’
The health service could save more than £1bn each year by increasing the number of patients it treats at home rather than in hospital, according to a report seen by HSJ.
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HSJ Knowledge
Health improvement collaboration: top tips
Health and care professionals from the eight biggest cities outside London are collaborating to share expertise in tackling inequalities, reports Stuart Shepherd
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HSJ Knowledge
Telehealth and telecare
With the UK’s ageing population and ever more effective treatments for long-term health conditions placing immense amounts of pressure on public sector budgets, the urgency to deliver more-for-less has never been greater.
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News
Recession forces Birmingham PCTs to consider merger
The commissioning arms of the three primary care trusts in Birmingham are to consider merging as a result of the impending public spending freeze.
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News
Secure service referrals surge as prisons overfill
Commissioners are under significant financial pressure from a surge in referrals to secure mental health services fuelled by the recession and crowded prisons.
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News
PCTs defend closer working with NICE
Primary care trusts and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence have defended a £300,000 a year contract designed to help PCTs influence NICE appraisals.
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HSJ Knowledge
A guide to decommissioning NHS services
World class commissioning has to include deciding when current services no longer fit the bill. Helen Mooney looks at how to decommission services successfully
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News
GP commissioning shows little sign of life - David Colin-Thomé
The government’s primary care tsar has admitted that efforts to “resuscitate” the “corpse” of practice based commissioning have had little effect.
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News
World class commissioning: efficiency made a core competency
Assessing how effectively NHS commissioners spend their funding receives greater importance in the latest government guidance on world class commissioning.
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News
Mental health killing prompts call for services to share information with police
Mental health services in Birmingham should review how they share information about service users with the police, an independent report into the fatal stabbing of a police officer has recommended.
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Comment
Sophia Christie: in the NHS, information is power
“When I started in 2006… my health was of low standard, I was overweight and had low self esteem due to several strokes.
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News
NICE rebuffs PCTs’ call to help identify more areas for savings
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has rejected calls to identify more drugs and treatments that should be used less - or not at all - ahead of NHS investment cuts.
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Comment
Sophia Christie on NICE and lifesaving myths
Last year, journalist Adam Wishart approached me about taking part in a television documentary, The Price of Life, which aired on BBC2 last week.
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