All HSJ Local articles – Page 164
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200 North Bristol patients still waiting over a year for spinal surgery
PERFORMANCE: More than 200 patients have been waiting over a year for spinal surgery at North Bristol Trust, figures for December reveal.
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Bassetlaw CCG awards talking therapies contract
COMMERCIAL: Not-for-profit organisation Insight Healthcare has won a contract to provide talking therapies for Bassetlaw Clinical Commissioning Group.
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Cancer patients miss out on surgery due to winter pressures
PERFORMANCE: Elective surgery in “many specialties” - including cancer – has been postponed or cancelled in Leeds because of excess demand for services over winter.
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18 week waits, December 2014: explore the maps
See all NHS waiting lists around England by provider, CCG or specialty
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Chief executive of £1bn-turnover trust resigns
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of one of England’s largest trusts resigned this morning.
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Calderdale reconfiguration rejected in council report
STRUCTURE: There is ‘not convincing evidence’ that proposals to reconfigure services hospitals services in Calderdale and Greater Huddersfield would ‘produce better health outcomes for our population or represent good value for money’, a council commissioned report has found.
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CCG 'rewinds' tender process after legal threat
A London clinical commissioning group has decided to retender its integrated urgent care and out of hours services contract after it was threatened with a legal challenge from an unsuccessful bidder.
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Norfolk and Suffolk FT placed into special measures
PERFORMANCE: Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust has become the first mental health trust to be placed into special measures, Monitor has announced.
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Children at risk because of failure to share records, says CQC
PATIENT SAFETY: Care Quality Commission inspectors have told commissioners in Barnsley they must connect up the health and social care records systems to ensure the safety of children in local authority care.
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Yorkshire trust looks to India to fill nurse vacancies
WORKFORCE: Managers from Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust plan to go to India later this month with the aim of recruiting 70 nurses.
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Pharmacies step in to help ease pressure on GP surgeries
PRIMARY CARE: Pharmacies in the North East have started to provide free pain killers so that patients with minor ailments do not have to make appointments with their GPs.
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Academic health science network gives universities £250,000 grant
Ten universities across Sheffield and the East Midlands are to share in a £250,000 grant designed to help spread best practice in health education.
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Commissioners seek to expand pharmacists’ role
COMMUNITY SERVICES: Pharmacists in the North East may be expected to expand their role to help reduce hospital admissions and identify more patients with previously undiagnosed long term conditions, commissioners have said.
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Investigation into rise in unborn children requiring protection plans
PERFORMANCE: Safeguarding experts are investigating why the number of unborn children subject to a child protection plan more than doubled to 65 over one quarter during 2014.
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Trust pledges improvements after review of patients who committed murder
PERFORMANCE: South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust has drawn up an action plan to learn lessons from six historical cases involving patients who committed murders while under its care.
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Bradford launches drive to tackle cardiovascular disease
PERFORMANCE: More than 200 extra patients in Yorkshire have started anticoagulation therapy through a programme to reduce the incidence of cardiovascular diseases and cut rates of stroke and heart attack.
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Updated: ‘Unique’ consortium wins Birmingham mental health contract
COMMERCIAL: A consortium involving public, private and voluntary sector providers has been appointed preferred bidder for a £124m contract to deliver joined up mental health services to children, adolescents and young adults in Birmingham.
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CMA to investigate Surrey trusts' merger plan
The proposed merger between two trusts in Surrey has hit a stumbling block after the Competition and Markets Authority said the merger could have ‘adverse effects’ for patients and it has launched an investigation.
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UHNM launches partnership with GP surgery
University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust has launched a partnership with local GP surgery Nantwich Health Centre for plastic surgery, gynaecology and neurology patients in south Cheshire.
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A&E consultants resign en masse from trust
Five accident and emergency consultants have resigned from a troubled West Midlands acute trust across two hospitals, including all four consultants from one department.