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Virgin set to run children's services in Devon
COMMERCIAL: Virgin Care has been named preferred bidder for a children’s services contract worth £44m a year, it has been announced.
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DH pipeline tsar appointed special administrator at failure regime trust
Matthew Kershaw has today been confirmed as trust special administrator at South London Healthcare Trust.
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West Mercia CCGs choose new support providers
COMMERCIAL: West Mercia clinical commissioning groups have chosen an alternative supplier of commissioning support services after plans to establish a local provider in their area were abandoned.
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Arden commissioners plan to axe children's services at George Eliot
STRUCTURE: Commissioners in Warwickshire are consulting on plans to close children’s services at the troubled George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton.
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More than half of FTs behind plan on 2011-12 savings
More than half of foundation trusts missed their savings plan targets, according to Monitor’s review of last financial year.
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Trust says it has 'learnt lessons' from stabbing case
PERFORMANCE: Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust missed three chances to identify the risk to the public posed by a patient who went on to stab a woman in a supermarket, according to an independent review
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Health minister faces vote of confidence
Wales’ health minister, Lesley Griffiths, is to face a vote of no confidence from opposition parties in the Welsh Assembly.
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DH approves £298m rebuild of Broadmoor
STRUCTURE: The Department of Health has approved a multi-million rebuild of the Broadmoor high-secure psychiatric hospital.
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Queen to open £545m QEHB hospital
The Queen will officially name a new £545 million NHS hospital as she continues the latest leg of her national Diamond Jubilee tour.
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Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals anticipate needing £17.7m 'cash support' from SHA
FINANCE: The Surrey/London borders trust’s latest board papers said: “The operating plan recently approved by NHS London had a projected cash support of £17.7m.”
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Commissioning support market faces heavy regulation
The NHS Commissioning Board has revealed the future market in commissioning support services is likely to be heavily regulated, potentially including restrictions on firms making a dividend.
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No social care funding settlement until next spending review
Ministers have confirmed they cannot commit to a cap on the cost of social care unless they can find an extra £2.2bn at the next comprehensive spending review – and suggested the cap could be higher than the level recommended by an independent review of care funding.
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HSJ retains Publication of the Year award
Health Service Journal was last night named Publication of the Year by the Medical Journalists’ Association for the second year in a row.
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Anger over failure to agree social care funding
The government’s failure to agree a funding plan for social care have been greeted with disappointment from across the health sector.
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Competition panel to probe referral management
The NHS Cooperation and Competition Panel has begun a probe of the competition implications of providers operating systems to manage patient referrals.
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Royal Brompton rules out merger after losing heart services
STRUCTURE: The specialist hospital at the centre of a High Court battle over paediatric heart surgery has ruled out merging with a large London neighbour.
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Stability trumps choice in the birth of commissioning support
Commissioning board is singing a different tune on CSSs.
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New quality of life indicators reveal long term condition inequalities
A major new health information collection has highlighted the worse quality of life suffered by people with long-term conditions in poorer areas.
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Social care cuts pile pressure on NHS
Two thirds of NHS leaders believe cuts to council spending have impacted on their services over the past year, prompting warnings that the system is “heading for collapse”.
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Analysed: reconfiguration planned for Merseyside vascular services
HSJ Local Briefing is our new in-depth analysis of key issues facing some of the major NHS health economies. This week’s HSJ Local Briefing looks at proposals to reconfigure vascular services in Cheshire, Warrington and the Wirral.