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New beds for Lincolnshire trauma patients
FINANCE: An East Midlands trust has spent more than £15,000 to purchase 15 new high-tech beds for trauma patients.
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NewsDoctor recruitment drive off to slow start
A recruitment drive to increase the number of doctors in Wales has seen just five vacancies filled in six months, a government document shows.
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NewsNo revalidation of nurses for three years
Revalidation for nurses will not be introduced for at least three years, despite the head of the Nursing and Midwifery Council admitting current arrangements are “not fit for purpose”.
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Virgin community services begin in Sussex
COMMERCIAL: A new community musculoskeletal service has been launched across Hastings and Rother following a tender exercise won by Virgin Care.
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New AQP providers get go-ahead for CBT in Kent
COMMERCIAL: New organisations have been given the go-ahead to provide talking therapy, including cognitive behavioural therapy, across Kent and Medway.
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Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals misses A&E target
PERFORMANCE: Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals has now missed the A&E four-hour wait target for each month of the financial year.
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New vascular surgery service for Derbyshire
STRUCTURE: Two East Midlands foundation trusts have joined forces to provide an integrated vascular surgery service to the whole of Derbyshire.
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Norovirus outbreak at Mid Staffordshire
PERFORMANCE: Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has closed one ward and its acute stroke unit to admissions, transfers and discharges to nursing homes after an outbreak of norovirus.
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Hillingdon Hospitals earns same revenue year-on-year with '120 fewer staff'
WORKFORCE: A report to the board of Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation Trust said its revenue was £1m ahead of plan in August, with costs £838,000 higher than plan, with £500,000 “directly linked with the higher NHS clinical income achieved”.
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Swale CCG seeks lay members
WORKFORCE: Two independent lay members are being sought to join the governing body of Swale Clinical Commissioning Group.
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HSJ LocalGloucestershire community services to stay in the NHS
COMMERCIAL: A primary care trust whose plans to transfer community services to a social enterprise were halted by a legal challenge has decided to keep the services within the NHS.
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HSJ LocalBristol children's heart surgery faces CQC concerns
PERFORMANCE: Children’s heart surgery services at the Bristol Children’s Hospital face likely criticism from the Care Quality Commission following an investigation, HSJ understands.
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NewsCuts pose risk to infection control gains, nurses warn
Progress on tackling healthcare associated infections could be lost as services come under increasing financial pressure, infection control nurses fear.
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News'No substance' to clinical network claims
The NHS Commissioning Board has denied the jobs of 600 staff working on clinical networks are at risk but concerns remain that uncertainty over their future will lead to a loss of expertise.
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News'Whistleblowing' charter launched
A whistleblowing charter has been signed by health unions, employers and regulators, which pledges to support staff who raise concerns.
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LeaderEaston’s move stokes debate on private sector’s value to NHS
Should Jim Easton be censured for taking a job at Care UK?
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Wolverhampton trust faces £6m pay-out
PERFORMANCE: The family of a disabled boy will receive a £6m pay out from the NHS after doctors and midwives at the Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals Trust failed to recognise he was being starved of oxygen during his birth 11 years ago.
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NewsWarning against surgery age limits
Thousands of older patients are needlessly dying because they are being denied treatment on the grounds of their age, a report has found.
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NewsGuidance on hospital food revealed
Some hospitals are failing to provide patients with high quality and healthy meals, the health secretary has warned.
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NewsNicholson fears 'carpet bombing' privatisation
A warning by the head of the NHS that the government’s controversial health reforms could end in “misery and failure” sparked fresh Labour calls for parts of the shake-up to be halted.