All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 187
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HSJ Local
Somerset Partnership reopens mental health ward
STRUCTURE: A mental health ward where three patients died has reopened following a £3m refurbishment.
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NewsExclusive: NHS Commissioning Board to redesign local structure
The NHS Commissioning Board is planning to redesigning its structure of local offices, and is considering having fewer branches than the 50 which had previously been expected.
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NewsExclusive: Circle deal means Hinchingbrooke needs over £70m to clear debts
The deal struck between Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust and its private sector operator means the trust needs surpluses of at least £70m over the next decade to pay off its £40m debts.
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NewsDH reveals swift year-of-care tariff plans
The Department of Health has revealed details of its plans to “quickly but carefully” introduce year-of-care tariffs in a bid to cut hospital admissions and encourage community based treatment.
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NICE guidance on cost-saving drug not sought by DH
The Department of Health failed to act on expert advice to commission an appraisal of a drug which could lead to savings of £100m for the NHS, it has emerged.
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HSJ LocalLondon Ambulance chief leaving for New Zealand
WORKFORCE: London Ambulance Service chief executive Peter Bradley has announced he is leaving the post to take up a role in New Zealand.
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NewsTrusts 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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NewsCivil service pensions provider becomes first Whitehall mutual
The first mutualised company to be spun off from Whitehall will be launched today, with former Labour cabinet minister John Hutton its chairman.
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NewsPublic health transition chief wins new job in Wales
The woman leading public health’s transition from the health service to local government is quitting the English NHS after securing a major new job in Wales.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: acute hospitals are living in Monitor's 'downside'
The regulator’s effciency savings target is worsening.
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LeaderThe DH continues to dance around the issue of CCG freedoms
What will CCGs do with their “assumed liberty”?
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CommentThe duty of communicating information to patients
Healthcare regulators need to communicate risks loud and clear.
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HSJ Local
Locum costs and bed pressures key risk to Weston budget
FINANCE: Expenditure on locum staffing is one of the key risks to the delivery of Weston Area Health Trust’s 2012-13 budget, papers presented to April’s board reveal.
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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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NewsMandate will test government's 'political grip' on NHS
The government must use its first “mandate” to prove its “willingness to truly release a tight political grip from the NHS”, Malcolm Grant said.
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NewsLibyan 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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CCGs excluding local medical committees, says GP leader
GPs have attacked what they claim is a determined attempt to ignore the views of local medical committees in the developing NHS commissioning world.
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NewsRoyal 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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NewsPatients safer on trolleys in wards than in A&E
Patients should be moved to trolleys in ward corridors to wait for a bed to become free rather than wait in overcrowded accident and emergency departments, according to the College of Emergency Medicine.
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NewsDemand for lifesaving treatment could outstrip supply
Demand for a blood component vital in the treatment of cancer and diseases of the immune system is set to outstrip supply unless thousands more donors can be found, HSJ has been told.