All HSJ Local articles – Page 186
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HSJ LocalKing's Lynn to remain in special measures
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has recommended that Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn Foundation Trust remains in special measures.
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HSJ LocalCentral London GP practices to close
STRUCTURE: Two central London GP practices will be closed, leaving 6,000 patients forced to find an alternative provider.
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HSJ LocalTaunton chief exec to retire
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust has announced her retirement after six years running the south western hospital.
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HSJ LocalCQC finds safety failures at Avon and Wiltshire
A mental health trust that was found to have a “controlling” leadership culture two years ago has been ordered to make urgent improvements to the safety of its services by the Care Quality Commission.
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HSJ LocalCCG to withhold acute payments in contract row
A clinical commissioning group is to withhold over £75,800 in monthly contract payments from an acute trust following a row over the trust’s accident and emergency performance.
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HSJ LocalStrained ambulance service to cut call-outs by 15 per cent
PERFORMANCE: London Ambulance Service Trust has announced it will cut the number of emergency calls that receive an ambulance response by 15 per cent, in response to staff shortages and rising demand.
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HSJ LocalCCG given NHS England legal direction over waiting list backlog
PERFORMANCE: A legal direction has been placed on a clinical commissioning group by NHS England following the discovery of a large backlog of elective patients at its main provider.
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HSJ LocalCommissioners should join CQC inspections, says CCG leader
A clinical commissioning group leader has called on the Care Quality Commission to allow CCGs to join inspections of their local hospitals.
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HSJ LocalOxford trust sees 11 per cent jump in patient complaints
PERFORMANCE: Oxford University Hospitals Trust saw an 11 per cent jump in in the number of complaints it received from patients last year, it has emerged.
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HSJ LocalNottinghamshire CCGs mull tender for continuing healthcare support
Five clinical commissioning groups in Nottinghamshire are considering tendering for part of the area’s continuing healthcare service due to problems with the current support provider.
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HSJ LocalNorfolk trust applies for mutual programme
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Foundation Trust is bidding to be one of 10 trusts to receive grant funding to investigate the potential scope for becoming a mutual, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalHerts Valleys CCG seeking partner to undertake ‘strategic review’
STRUCTURE: Herts Valleys Clinical Commissioning Group is looking for an “independent partner” to help it conduct a “strategic review” to ensure the sustainability of the West Hertfordshire healtheconomy.
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HSJ LocalCCG leader steps down
WORKFORCE: The managing director of South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group has stepped down from his role, it has emerged.
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HSJ Local18 week waits, July 2014: explore the maps
See all NHS waits around England by provider, CCG or specialty
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HSJ LocalDeputy chief medical officer joins troubled trust
WORKFORCE: University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust has announced the deputy chief medical officer for England is to be its new medical director.
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HSJ LocalMonitor to 'help FT become an integrated care organisation'
Health sector regulator Monitor has claimed it will for the first time attempt to help a foundation trust hospital become “a full integrated care organisation”.
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HSJ LocalFirst mental health trust given CQC rating
PERFORMANCE: A West Midlands provider has become the first mental health trust to receive a published rating from the Care Quality Commission under its new inspection regime.
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HSJ LocalCommissioners issue warning over North West London merger
STRUCTURE: Commissioners have raised concerns that an imminently expected merger between Ealing Hospital Trust and North West London Hospitals Trust will not produce an organisation financially strong enough to attain foundation status.
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HSJ LocalFoundation trust plans to bring in new urgent care provider
COMMERCIAL: Heart of England Foundation Trust is partnering with a local commissioner to find a new provider to run the front door of one of its hospitals.
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HSJ LocalCCG considers flexing 'running cost' rules
FINANCE: A clinical commissioning group may redesignate the cost of clinicians’ involvement in service redesign as a ‘programme’ cost to help retain capacity while staying within its running allowance.