All Children's services articles – Page 25
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NewsExclusive: NHS children's services 'not fit for purpose'
The NHS’s failure to reconfigure children’s services, has left it with a model of care not fit for purpose, the president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has told HSJ.
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HSJ LocalMorecambe Bay inquiry to hear from former trust chief
The former chief executive of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust is due to give evidence today to an independent inquiry examining infant and maternal deaths.
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CommentTragic tale of 'Baby P' shows we shouldn't play the blame game
Distinguish accountability from blame
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NewsExclusive: Ministers keen to extend joint commissioning
Ministers want to extend NHS joint commissioning with councils to public health and children’s services, after being convinced by the better care fund planning process that the model will reap service improvements and financial benefits
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SupplementsIntegration Summit: Family fortunes
How nutritional intervention can turn around troubled families’ lives
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SupplementsIntegration Summit: Tackling malnourishment in children
Poor nutrition can affect the growth and development of children
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SupplementsIntegration Summit: Early learning on nutrition
Why children’s nutritional needs are as important as their education
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NewsChildren's heart surgery review 'put centres in competition with each other'
The controversial review of children’s heart surgery in Leeds and Newcastle pitched trusts into an acrimonious competition, a report has concluded
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HSJ LocalPlan to shake up services at struggling North West trust revealed
STRUCTURE: Controversial proposals to transfer patients between hospital sites at a struggling North West trust have been revealed.
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HSJ LocalLeicester trust to reconfigure children’s service
STRUCTURE: One of the largest teaching hospital trusts in the country is in discussions to locate all of its children’s services on to one site.
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NewsWarning to NHS over paediatric reconfigurations
Hospital trusts should ensure adequate children’s community services are in place before closing in-patient units, a senior leader in paediatrics has warned
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NewsDH weighs into baby death probe
The Department of Health has begun brokering talks between NHS England and the Care Quality Commission in a bid to close the “gap” in the care complaints regime revealed by an HSJ investigation.
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NewsConsultation launched on heart surgery standards
NHS England has begun consultation on a new set of standards for congenital heart disease services, in the latest chapter of the long-running debate on the future of children’s cardiac surgery.
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CommentIt's time we did the right thing by the children of Rotherham
The response has been unbearably slow
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HSJ KnowledgeMake or break: How George Eliot secured a future for its paediatric service
Redesign turned it around
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NewsNHS England withdraws involvement from baby death probe
NHS England appears to have ruled itself out of direct involvement in patient care investigations after refusing to join the Care Quality Commission in a probe into the death of a baby girl.
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NewsDH sets health visiting services provision for local authorities
Department of Health sets out five services councils must run
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NewsLamb: Children's mental services 'stuck in the dark ages'
Care minister Norman Lamb said services available to young people are ‘not fit for purpose’
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NewsDrop in bans on hospital and care home workers
The Labour Party has voiced concern about a sharp drop in the numbers of people being barred from working with vulnerable adults in care homes and hospitals.