All HSJ Local articles – Page 149
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HSJ LocalStop-start vascular services shake-up creaks back into action
STRUCTURE: A long running and controversial process to reconfigure vascular services in south Hampshire has resumed this week with the dispatch of a specialist team to assess services in Southampton and Portsmouth.
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HSJ LocalCCGs widen access to IVF treatment
FINANCE: Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin clinical commissioning groups will increase the age at which women can be eligible to NHS funded IVF treatment from 37-and-a-half to 40.
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HSJ LocalStaffordshire transformation body appoints chair
WORKFORCE: The new body in Staffordshire created to draw up a region-wide transformation programme has appointed an ‘independent’ chair to oversee its work.
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HSJ LocalCCGs cut short struggling patient transport firm's contract
COMMERCIAL: A company providing non-emergency patient transport services in the South West is to have its contract cut short by two years.
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HSJ LocalCCG blames NHS Shared Business Services for missing financial target
FINANCE: Telford and Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group has blamed NHS Shared Business Services for an error which caused the CCG to fail to meet its cash balance target in June, according to board documents.
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HSJ LocalNew GP federation and trusts in collaboration talks
STRUCTURE: A new GP federation covering North Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent is in talks with local health bodies to examine proposals for more integrated working.
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HSJ LocalEast London maternity service 'inadequate' for safety
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has told Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust to improve its maternity services following an inspection triggered by the deaths of five mothers over 18 months.
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HSJ LocalTwo more directors off sick for months at troubled trust
WORKFORCE: Two directors at a struggling acute trust have been off sick since at least May – the same period of sick leave as the former chief executive who resigned last month, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalLincolnshire trust performs ‘deep dive’ into liver disease death rates
PERFORMANCE: United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust is performing a ‘deep dive’ review into the deaths of some liver disease patients after mortality rates were found to be much higher than expected.
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HSJ LocalVirgin in running for Bristol children’s community services contract
COMMERCIAL: Virgin Care Services is in the running to be the interim provider of children’s community services in Bristol and south Gloucestershire, after the incumbent NHS provider announced it would end its contract in March.
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HSJ Local18 week waits, June 2015: explore the maps
See all NHS waiting lists around England by provider, CCG or specialty
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HSJ LocalCQC finds poorly staffed wards at Wirral hospital
PERFORMANCE: Wirral University Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust has been told it must make improvements after the CQC identified patient safety concerns.
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HSJ LocalEast of England Ambulance appoints new chief executive
WORKFORCE: East of England Ambulance Service Trust has appointed Robert Morton as its new chief executive.
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HSJ LocalEast London CCG chair to stand down
WORKFORCE: The chair of Newham Clinical Commissioning Group will step down from his role at the end of September.
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HSJ LocalPolice clear Colchester trust of data ‘manipulation’ claims
PERFORMANCE: Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust has been cleared of wrongdoing, following a police investigation into allegations of cancer data ‘manipulation’.
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HSJ LocalCountry's biggest CCG subject to NHS England ‘directions’
FINANCE: The biggest clinical commissioning group in the country has been issued with NHS England ‘directions’ because of its longstanding financial troubles.
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NHS England takes action against financially troubled CCGs
FINANCE: NHS England has imposed legal directions on two clinical commissioning groups after they built up large deficits.
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HSJ LocalSouth Warwickshire FT and GPs plan joint contract bids
COMMERCIAL: South Warwickshire Foundation Trust has established a partnership with a large scale GP federation, with the intention of bidding together for a local community services contract.
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HSJ LocalVolunteer support programme 'cut admissions by a third'
Emergency admissions reduced by around a third in a group of patients which was given volunteer support to combat dependency on health and care services, an evaluation has said.
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HSJ LocalMonitor refuses to investigate tender process despite concerns
COMMERCIAL: Monitor will not investigate the awarding of a £190m mental health contract in Yorkshire, despite saying the commissioner ‘could have done more to mitigate a conflict of interest’.