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NewsJeremy Hunt appoints special adviser on policy
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has appointed a special political adviser for policy.
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NewsDetails of Savile investigations announced
A former barrister has been brought in to oversee the investigations into Jimmy Savile’s activities at Stoke Mandeville, Broadmoor and Leeds General Infirmary.
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NewsOutside groups could vie with NICE over guidance
Professional organisations and interest groups could take on a formal role producing clinical commissioning guidance - potentially sidestepping the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
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NewsFTs 20pc short of savings target
Monitor will today reveal that foundation trusts missed savings targets by nearly 20 per cent in the first quarter of 2012-13.
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Trust 'run like school, not a hospital'
WORKFORCE: A report to the board of Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust said the organisation was “run like a school, not a hospital”, with staff taking “assuming” they could take the school holidays off.
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North Durham CCG names council manager as chief operating officer
WORKFORCE: Nicola Bailey, currently acting chief executive of Hartlepool Borough Council, has been appointed as chief operating officer of North Durham CCG.
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Hospital sacks four workers over death outside A&E
Two nurses, a receptionist and a hospital porter have been sacked by Walsall Healthcare Trust for failing to respond to a man who collapsed and died outside the trust’s accident and emergency department.
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Mental health reconfiguration consultation nears end
STRUCTURE: A consultation on the reconfiguration of mental health services across Kent is due to end on 26 October.
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Herts hospital bids to cut energy costs
FINANCE: Hertfordshire-based Lister Hospital has changed the way it buys its energy from the National Grid in a move which could substantially cut its energy bills.
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Four directors appointed to Durham, Darlington & Tees LAT
WORKFORCE: Four directors have been appointed to the NHS Commissioning Board’s Durham, Darlington & Tees Local Area Team.
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Three directors appointed to North Yorkshire and Humber LAT
WORKFORCE: Three directors have been appointed to the NHS Commissioning Board’s North Yorkshire and Humber Local Area Team.
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Hillingdon Hospitals wins ophthalmology and GP pathology contracts
COMMERCIAL: Hillingdon Hospitals has won community ophthalmology and GP pathology contracts worth £2.3m and £6m respectively, board papers reveal.
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Colchester faces cancer target ‘challenge’
Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust “anticipates” it will hit all national cancer targets by the middle of 2012-13 after missing a first quarter target.
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Care UK wins Suffolk care home contract
Suffolk County Council has awarded Care UK a contract to develop 10 new care homes and 10 new wellbeing centres.
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Peter Edwards on the latest Chief Executive Barometer: Not quite the brave new world
Peter Edwards assesses the latest Chief Executive Barometer
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NewsHospital activity 'will rise'
Four out of five hospital chief executives believe their trust will do more work this financial year than it did in 2011-12. The finding casts doubt on commissioners’ hopes of controlling demand.
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NewsAvoidable harm in NHS drops for six months
There have been six months of continuous reductions in the proportion of patients avoidably harmed under NHS care, latest data shows.
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NewsNew healthcare rules 'nonsensical'
Labour has hit out at the “nonsensical” rules that will determine who can sit on the governing boards of the new organisations responsible for commissioning healthcare.
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Two never events at Hampshire Hospitals
PERFORMANCE: Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust recorded two “never events” in June, including one caused by clinicians getting an x-ray back to front.
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Stephen Dalton named as head of Mental Health Network
Stephen Dalton, chief executive of Cumbria Partnership Foundation trust, has been appointed as chief executive of the NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network.