All articles by Dave West – Page 90
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Monitor reports 'lack of appetite' for foundation trust status
An “apparent lack of appetite” for foundation status is more of an obstacle to authorising all trusts than the recession, Monitor has said.
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Community
Media Watch: hospital parking charges report
The measured reasoning of the NHS Confederation’s hospital parking charges report is failing to quell a mini rebellion in Lancashire.
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Foundation trust fights London centralisation
A London foundation trust is rallying members to help protect services against centralisation.
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Care Quality Commission rules lack teeth on patient experience
Proposed registration rules for NHS providers are “far too weak” to make sure they take account of patient experience, the Picker Institute has warned.
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Health observatories dampen plans for commissioning umbrella body
Commissioning Support for London was established last week as part of region-wide efforts to improve commissioning.
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East of England trust offered up for merger
NHS organisations are being invited to bid to merge with a trust in the East of England.
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London ambulance service chair to step down
The chair of the London Ambulance Service trust is to step down after 10 years in the post.
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Department of Health 'fails to support' association of LINks networks
A national organisation formed by members of local involvement networks has accused the Department of Health of failing to support the groups, which were established just a year ago.
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Child diabetes figure 'higher than expected'
A national survey has found that almost 23,000 children and young people in England have diabetes.
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Foundation trust appoints new chief executive
Tom Cahill has been announced as the new chief executive of the Hertfordshire Partnership foundation trust.
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'Corporate failure' of ex-Bromley chief at Cornwall
An independent report has accused the chief executive and board members at Royal Cornwall Hospitals trust of serious failures.
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Mid Staffs prompts call for review of regulation
The Conservatives have called for strengthened public and patient involvement following revelations about “appalling” care at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust.
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Enquiry appoints first non-clinical chair
The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death has appointed the first non-clinical chair in its 20-year history.
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Foundation trusts challenged to use freedoms
The foundation trust sector is celebrating its achievements in the five years since its creation - but NHS chief executive David Nicholson has said the trusts have much more to do.
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Private board meeting risks spelled out
Less than a quarter of foundation trusts are holding their board of directors’ meetings in public, an HSJ straw poll suggests.
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Super trusts to join up acute and primary care
Academic health science centres should lead to better integration of primary and secondary care, leaders of two of London’s centres believe.
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London names 'inner cabinet' PCT chiefs
NHS London has named the six primary care trust chief executives who will lead commissioning and performance management of hospital services for the whole city.
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Who let standards fall so low at Mid Staffordshire?
A damning Healthcare Commission review of emergency care at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust last week found that money was put before patient care. Dave West investigates what went wrong
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Second review damns Royal Cornwall chief
A suspended hospital trust chief executive - already accused of “serious failings” in his previous post - led his present organisation towards “corporate failure”, an independent review has concluded.
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C difficile outbreak leaves three hospital patients dead
Three patients have died as a direct result of a C difficile outbreak at hospital in the South East.