All Health Service Journal articles in December 2017 – Page 8
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HSJ Local
CCGs backtrack on £10.5m contract after legal challenge
Three clinical commissioning groups pulled out of a £10.5m fertility contract just weeks before the service was meant to start, after a legal challenge to the decision.
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News
Exclusive: Healthwatch warns Hunt over deep funding cuts
Statutory public involvement groups have seen such deep cuts they are failing to fulfil basic functions, Healthwatch England has warned the government.
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News
Nursing vacancies top 36,000, official analysis reveals
There are at least 36,000 vacancies for registered nurses in the English NHS, according to a new official analysis which has provided the first accurate picture of the issue for several years.
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HSJ Local
Cash-strapped trust withdraws community outpatient services
A cash-strapped teaching hospital trust has announced it will stop providing outpatient services at a community hospital because they are not financially viable.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: The fear, the network and the path
Why does a safety-critical industry such as the NHS have the level of bullying and fear running through it at so many levels, asks Andy Cowper
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: Ministers pledge an extra £300m for CAMHS
This is HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector. Feedback and comments are welcome, so please feel free to email me in confidence.
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News
Competition regulator warns over care home market
The care home market is not sustainable without additional public funding, the competition regulator has said.
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HSJ Local
Leader steps aside at legal directions CCG
The accountable officer of a clinical commissioning group under NHS England legal directions is to step aside to take a new role in the local “accountable care partnership”.
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Catch Up: NHS England presents difficult choices and NHSI gets new chief
Your essential update on health for the week
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News
Trust chief exec appointed to lead 'advanced' STP
A trust chief with more than 20 years experience has been appointed “executive lead” of the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West sustainability and transformation partnership.
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Expert Briefing
Performance Watch: The battle lines are drawn
Welcome to HSJ’s new Performance Watch expert briefing. Our new fortnightly newsletter will delve into the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders and provide unrivalled insight into what they plan to do about them.
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Comment
Caring for carers is the right thing to do
Julia Jones tells how her campaign is committed to promoting a welcoming approach to care givers as a policy and in practice
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HSJ Local
Patients died after chest x-rays went unreported
Two patients died and a third suffered “significant harm” after x-rays went unreported by radiologists resulting in missed opportunities to diagnose lung cancer.
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News
'Real risk of deaths' without national level e-prescribing changes
A national electronic prescribing system used in the treatment of millions of people needs to make changes to prevent patient deaths, a coroner has said.
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News
CQC flags up 'deep concerns' with independent rehab providers
People with drug and alcohol addiction are being put at risk of harm at many independent residential rehabilitation units, a new report has warned.
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News
STP region aims for huge savings across elective care
Commissioning leaders are aiming to save £50m a year by standardising policies in elective care across their sustainability and transformation partnership footprint.
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HSJ Local
CCGs to share chief officer
A single chief officer has been appointed across neighbouring clinical commissioning groups in West Yorkshire.
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News
Former health minister to chair major teaching trust
A former health minister is to chair a major London teaching hospital trust.
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News
NHS England to 'strongly resist' legal case against accountable care contract
A judicial review has been launched against NHS England, claiming its accountable care contract is “unlawful”, HSJ has learned.