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NewsSuicide prevention funding pledged
The government has promised to pump £1.5m into research exploring how to prevent suicides among those most at risk of taking their own lives.
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NewsFour CSU networks to supply communications support
Four networks of commissioning support units will provide communications services to clinical commissioning groups, officials have confirmed.
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NewsJo Williams resigns from CQC
Care Quality Commission chair Jo Williams has announced she is to step down from the regulator.
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NewsTenders for sexual health contracts could leave HIV services 'unviable'
Plans to put sexual health services out to competitive tender could make it “unviable” for some NHS trusts to continue offering HIV treatment and care, the Department of Health has warned.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Behan says CQC will 'comment on quality' as cuts bite
The Care Quality Commission will not be afraid to speak up if the continued financial squeeze impacts on patient care, the regulator’s new chief executive has told HSJ.
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HSJ LocalPeer review finds 'serious concerns' at Mid Staffs
A peer review of breast cancer surgery services at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has uncovered a catalogue of concerns and safety fears - despite the trust assessing them as being largely compliant with national standards.
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Competition from the US shrinks private paediatric work at Guy's
COMMERCIAL: Guy’s and St Thomas’s Foundation Trust has downgraded its earnings forecast for work at its Evelina Children’s Hospital, after losing business to US providers.
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SHA investigation highlights Leicester concerns
A lack of vision and clinical strategy risks “inhibiting improvement in clinical care” at the University Hospitals of Leicester, according to a Midlands and East strategic health authority cluster investigation.
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NewsStruggling FTs may face insolvency regime in 2013-14 - Hay
Monitor may need to place some NHS foundation trusts in administration as soon as 2013-14 – the first year its powers to do so take effect, the regulator’s chief operating officer has suggested.
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Pensioner jailed over chief executive harassment
A 74-year-old woman who harassed a hospital chief executive and turned up at a doctor’s house with a meat hammer has been jailed for four weeks.
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Heatherwood and Wexham Park finances off target
FINANCE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust reported an adverse financial position of £351,000 in the year to June.
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Guy's and St Thomas' has nursing shortfall of 111
WORKFORCE: Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust has a shortfall of 111 nurses, a report reveals
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A&E target missed at Guy's and St Thomas'
PERFORMANCE: Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust has missed its A&E target for quarter one of this financial year.
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Guy's and St Thomas's planning on £13m in Project Diamond funding
FINANCE: Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust is planning on receiving £13m in Project Diamond funding, the top-up payment NHS London makes to trusts that do a lot of specialist work.
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North East NHS 111 go live delayed
STRUCTURE: The first go live date for NHS 111 has been delayed due to a lack of local GP engagement and outstanding contractual issues with the provider, HSJ has learned.
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Heatherwood FT slips on waiting list backlog
PERFORMANCE: Bosses at Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust have warned that their ability to cut a backlog in long waiters could be “in jeopardy” as extra cash to deal with the issue runs out.
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Monitor warns of risks to Yeovil's plans
PERFORMANCE: Monitor has judged Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust is a “high risk” due to recent personnel changes and lack of financial headroom.
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Proposal to centralise pathology at St George's
STRUCTURE: The London review of pathology services has proposed centralising pathology in south west London at St George’s Hospital.
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Fifteen nurse hours per bed day at Shelford Group trusts
WORKFORCE: Research carried for the Shelford Group, which represents England’s most powerful teaching hospitals, shows each patient bed day accounts for an average of 15 nurse hours.
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OUH named as worst performer in the south on A&E
PERFORMANCE: Oxford University Hospitals Trust was the worst performer on accident and emergency in the south of England in quarter one of 2012-13.