All articles by James Illman – Page 51
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Care.data will ‘reduce flow of confidential data around NHS’
The establishment of a new national patient database will “reduce the flow of patient identifiable data” around the NHS, the Health and Social Care Information Centre’s clinical director said yesterday.
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HSJ Local
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough considers £50m musculoskeletal tender
The clinical commissioning group running a £800m tender for older people’s services has revealed it could also tender a musculoskeletal service contract worth more than £50m a year.
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UnitedHealth UK posts £8.2m loss
UnitedHealth UK recorded a £8.2m loss and a 27 per cent fall in turnover in 2012 - its eleventh loss-making year in a row - the company’s annual accounts reveal.
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HSJ Local
Trust faces £2m bill to take over treatment centre
East and North Hertfordshire Trust faces a £2m bill following its takeover of a poorly performing privately-run treatment centre, HSJ has learned.
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Delay in pricing plan for new drugs
The introduction of a pricing system for new drugs which attaches greater value to how much they benefit patients is to be delayed until late 2014, HSJ has discovered.
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Supplements
Bryan Sivak: Persuading leopards to change their spots
As trusts move towards having electronic patient records, the challenge concerns people as much as technology
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Wollaston calls for data access deal with pharma firms
Drug companies wanting access to a new NHS patient database should be forced to make their clinical study reports data available to relevant bodies in return, an influential Conservative MP has told HSJ.
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DH paid additional £25m to Capita for Choices website
The Department of Health paid outsourcing giant Capita £108m to run the NHS Choices website, including £25m in additional charges, HSJ can reveal.
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Exclusive: DWP attempt to obtain drug treatment data rings 'alarm bells'
The Department for Work and Pensions attempted to obtain access to confidential patient data so that it could be linked to information about employment, tax credits and benefits claims, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Norfolk and Norwich to spend £2.3m on pathology pay offs
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Foundation Trust is set to spend an estimated £2.3m on severance and redundancy payoffs directly related to a regional reconfiguration of pathology services.
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Pioneer database faces delay after watchdog intervenes
NHS England’s controversial plan to extract confidential information from patient records to build a national database faces a delay after an intervention by the information watchdog.
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HSJ Local
Cambs and Peterborough CCG faces 'significant financial challenge'
FINANCE: The clinical commissioning group which has put up to £800m of older people’s services out to tender is reporting it faces a “significant financial challenge”.
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HSJ Local
Cambridge takes out £50m loan to fund IT project
Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust has taken out a £50m loan to partly fund its ambitious new electronic patient records system, HSJ has learned.
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Lorenzo sweetener deal finds few takers
The Department of Health has signed off just six of the sweetened deals to take the Lorenzo electronic patient records system in exchange for £12m grant funding, HSJ has been told.
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Exclusive: Flagship pathology shake-up left in tatters
A £500m pathology reorganisation has collapsed after another group of commissioners in the West Midlands opted to abandon a controversial procurement exercise, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Bedford’s future viability questioned by auditors
Bedford Hospital Trust faces “significant challenges” remaining sustainable in the future, its auditors have warned.
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Updated: Hunt says uncertainty about patient data will be resolved
Problems experienced by commissioners due to a restriction on how much patient identifiable data they can access will soon be resolved, the health secretary has said.
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HSJ Local
Peterborough and Stamford predicts £40m deficit
FINANCE Peterborough and Stamford Foundation Trust is on course to record a £40.3m budget deficit for 2013-14, in line with its forecast.
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Key telehealth group axed
A flagship group set up by the government to promote efforts to have three million patients using telehealth by 2017 has been disbanded amid growing evidence the programme is experiencing difficulty, HSJ has learned.
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Central costs of pathology reorganisations revealed
Three controversial regional pathology reorganisations have incurred £2m in central costs and experts estimate the total bill for NHS trusts and bidders to be about £10m and rising.