Latest news – Page 659
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HSJ LocalHinchingbrooke gets new chair in board shake-up
WORKFORCE: A new board has been appointed to run Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust, led by former strategic health authority boss Alan Burns as chair.
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NewsGMC to challenge 'lenient' misconduct decisions under new powers
The General Medical Council will be able to challenge ‘lenient’ decisions against doctors suspected of misconduct for the first time.
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HSJ LocalBath praised for pharmacists in GP surgeries scheme
PRIMARY CARE: A mobile pharmacy team in Bath and North East Somerset that provides patients with access to a pharmacist’s expertise at their local GP has been praised by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
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HSJ LocalFoundation trusts sign children’s services deal
STRUCTURE: Two foundation trusts in Derbyshire have signed a three year agreement to deliver services for children, young people and families together to improve ‘quality, productivity and efficiency’.
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HSJ LocalTrust to move some services to leisure centre
STRUCTURE: Leicester Partnership Trust and West Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning Group are to relocate community nursing and musculoskeletal services from Ashby and District Hospital to a leisure centre.
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HSJ LocalTrust borrows £3m to cover capital ‘slippage’
FINANCE: Northumberland Tyne and Wear Foundation Trust plans is to loan £3m from the Department of Health’s independent trust finance facility to cover a shortage of funds for capital projects this year.
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HSJ Local
New chair for London mental health trust
WORKFORCE: Oxleas Foundation Trust has appointed a new chair with a background in policing.
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HSJ Live 25.03.2015: 'Opportunity map' for efficiencies drawn up by DH and leadership bodies
Efficiencies plan drawn up by DH and leadership bodies to span the next five years, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsExclusive: NHS Improving Quality expected to close
NHS Improving Quality is expected to be substantially cut back and could well be abolished under proposals being considered by a national review of the health service’s improvement organisations, HSJ understands.
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NewsExclusive: Councils withheld millions intended for NHS complaints
Sixteen local authorities failed to pass on hundreds of thousands of pounds specifically allocated by central government to fund NHS complaints advocacy services, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsExclusive: Morecambe Bay inquiry chair 'disappointed' by response
The chair of the inquiry into poor maternity care and deaths at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust has said he was ‘disappointed’ by the response of professional bodies to his report.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Winner of ‘blueprint’ locum agency contract named
COMMERCIAL: A service to manage locum recruitment across nine South West hospital trusts will be managed by the Accident and Emergency Agency, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsHSJ to reveal top provider chief executives
This week HSJ will reveal its second annual list of the exceptional chief executives leading NHS provider organisations.
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LeaderHow a new government can ride the 'crisis' tide to effect change
Leading the health service out of difficulty
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NewsStevens: There will not be a single commissioning model
There will not be a single commissioning model across England over the next five years, with local authorities and accountable care organisations increasingly taking on these functions, Simon Stevens has said.
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HSJ LocalInvestment firm funds first NHS social impact bond
FINANCE: An investment firm has put £1.65m into what it claims to be the first social impact bond in the health service.
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HSJ LocalTrust falls short on nursing provision in 20pc of shifts
WORKFORCE: One in five shifts at West Suffolk Foundation Trust did not have enough nurses during January, trust board papers show.
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HSJ LocalParents angry about travel costs to see children placed out of area
PERFORMANCE: A lack of inpatient mental health facilities for young people in Cornwall has brought complaints from families forced to travel long distances ‘out of county’ to see their children.
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HSJ LocalYorkshire trust enters final stages of FT status bid
STRUCTURE: Bradford District Care Trust has submitted over 2,000 documents to Monitor for its ‘historical due diligence test’ as one of the final stages to reach foundation status.