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Fun run field hospital blown into quarry
A marquee set up to house a field hospital was blown into a quarry by high winds last week.
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NewsLansley: QIPP savings 'on track'
The health secretary has said the NHS is “on track” to make the efficiency savings required over the next four years.
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NewsHSJ Efficiency Awards heralds the efficient organisations keeping quality high
The inaugural Health Service Journal Efficiency Awards last night identified and rewarded the outstanding healthcare organisations who have successfully demonstrated tangible efficiency improvements and cost savings this year - while maintaining the highest standard of patient care.
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NewsTrusts 'face £5bn rescue bill' to avoid hospital closures
Up to 40 hospitals will fail by 2013 without radical reform of their working practices, a report said today.
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NewsDH reinterprets research showing NHS has competition advantage
An economic study previously interpreted by officials as showing that the “majority” of market distortions worked against the private sector has been reinterpreted by the Department of Health.
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NewsDH paid £8m to exit private contract following suspension of services
The Department of Health paid £8m to end early a contract with a private health provider whose services had twice been suspended.
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NewsLansley told CCGs are frustrated over commissioning support
Clinical commissioners have told health secretary Andrew Lansley that they are frustrated with the support they are being offered, and called on him to ensure they can operate freely.
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HSJ Local
Clinical commissioners talk mergers in Pennine Lancashire
STRUCTURE: Clinical commissioning groups across Pennine Lancashire are discussing potential mergers, the primary care trust’s chief executive has reported.
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HSJ LocalWorcestershire gains new chief exec
WORKFORCE: Penny Venables has been appointed to lead the Alexandra, Kidderminster and Worcestershire Royal Hospitals, replacing John Rostill who has retired.
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NewsDH: Clinical senates will not ‘interfere with or constrain’ CCGs
The Department of Health has confirmed clinical senates – proposed new networks of clinicians – will not “interfere with or constrain clinical commissioning groups”.
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NewsHealth and Wellbeing Boards 'should drive integration'
Health and wellbeing boards should include the integration of commissioning in their “key success criteria”, according to a new guide published by the Good Governance Institute.
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HSJ Local
Bradford District Care Trust seeking foundation status
STRUCTURE: Bradford District Care Trust has begun consulting on a foundation trust bid.
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NewsDH launches 'engagement exercise' on social care policy
The government has embarked on a major consultation designed to involve patients, providers and professionals in re-designing social care.
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NewsGovernment drug treatment strategy questioned by new watchdog
A newly formed alliance of drug rehabilitation providers has accused primary care trusts of “strangling at birth” plans to tackle addiction and reduce crime.
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CCGs setting spending priorities urged to 'be brave'
Most primary care trust commissioners believe they have struggled with setting priorities for health spending in their area, according to a new research report.
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NewsCCP backs commissioners in care home procurement row
The Cooperation and Competition Panel has ruled against care home associations in two regions after they claimed procurement rules and prices for continuing healthcare were too low.
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HSJ Local
Northumbria and Newcastle FTs public clash over new hospital plan
STRUCTURE: Professionals and representatives of Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust and the Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust are publicly disputing the case for a proposed new hospital.
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HSJ Local
Primary care guru joins Guy's charity
WORKFORCE: Professor David Colin-Thomé, who was national clinical director for primary care for nine years, has become a trustee of the south London foundation trust’s charity.
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HSJ Local
NHS Blackpool nearly £1m under-spent by July 31
FINANCE: At the end of July the primary care trust was showing a year-to-date under-spend of £929,000, its latest finance report shows.
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HSJ Local
Zero MSA breaches in Augsust at Frimley Park Hospital
PERFORMANCE: The trust this month again recorded no breaches of the Department of Health’s guidelines on mixed sex accommodation.