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NewsSUS data collection to be suspended
The Health and Social Care Information Centre will suspend the collection of the secondary uses service data for nearly two weeks as part of a process to bring collection of the vital NHS dataset in-house.
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HSJ LocalYorkshire trust looks to India to fill nurse vacancies
WORKFORCE: Managers from Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust plan to go to India later this month with the aim of recruiting 70 nurses.
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Leader£500m risk transfer will not end the search for financial stability
Risk transfer signals “years of ad hoc approaches”
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HSJ LocalChildren at risk because of failure to share records, says CQC
PATIENT SAFETY: Care Quality Commission inspectors have told commissioners in Barnsley they must connect up the health and social care records systems to ensure the safety of children in local authority care.
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HSJ LocalPharmacies step in to help ease pressure on GP surgeries
PRIMARY CARE: Pharmacies in the North East have started to provide free pain killers so that patients with minor ailments do not have to make appointments with their GPs.
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NewsHSJ LIVE 19.02.2015: Barts' chief executive and chief nurse resign
The chief executive and chief nurse of Barts and The London NHS Trust have resigned from their posts days after the trust declared a deficit of £93m plus the rest of the days news
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NewsCCGs taking on full primary care co-commissioning powers revealed
NHS England has revealed the 64 clinical commissioning groups that will take full control of their local primary care budgets from April.
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NewsGovernment ups pressure to bring down waiting list
Government focus has moved from accident and emergency performance to the NHS’s 3.2 million elective waiting list, senior trust sector sources have told HSJ.
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HSJ LocalUpdated: ‘Unique’ consortium wins Birmingham mental health contract
COMMERCIAL: A consortium involving public, private and voluntary sector providers has been appointed preferred bidder for a £124m contract to deliver joined up mental health services to children, adolescents and young adults in Birmingham.
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NewsTrusts surpass 100,000 extra elective treatments target
Trusts have gone beyond the government target to treat 100,000 extra patients waiting over 16 weeks for treatment.
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HSJ LocalCMA to investigate Surrey trusts' merger plan
The proposed merger between two trusts in Surrey has hit a stumbling block after the Competition and Markets Authority said the merger could have ‘adverse effects’ for patients and it has launched an investigation.
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NewsMonitor to road test payment systems for new care models
Monitor is to begin ‘co-designing’ and testing models for capitation based payment systems to help in the commissioning of new models for integrated care.
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Acute trusts mull marginal tariff complaint against CCGs
A number of acute trusts are considering launching an official complaint against their local clinical commissioning groups because of the way in which they have spent money designed to reduce emergency admissions.
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HSJ LocalCommissioners seek to expand pharmacists’ role
COMMUNITY SERVICES: Pharmacists in the North East may be expected to expand their role to help reduce hospital admissions and identify more patients with previously undiagnosed long term conditions, commissioners have said.
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HSJ LocalTrust pledges improvements after review of patients who committed murder
PERFORMANCE: South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust has drawn up an action plan to learn lessons from six historical cases involving patients who committed murders while under its care.
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HSJ LocalInvestigation into rise in unborn children requiring protection plans
PERFORMANCE: Safeguarding experts are investigating why the number of unborn children subject to a child protection plan more than doubled to 65 over one quarter during 2014.
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HSJ LocalBradford launches drive to tackle cardiovascular disease
PERFORMANCE: More than 200 extra patients in Yorkshire have started anticoagulation therapy through a programme to reduce the incidence of cardiovascular diseases and cut rates of stroke and heart attack.
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Academic health science network gives universities £250,000 grant
Ten universities across Sheffield and the East Midlands are to share in a £250,000 grant designed to help spread best practice in health education.
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NewsHSJ LIVE 18.02.2015: Full list of CCG primary care commissioners unveiled
NHS England has unveiled the first set of GP-led CCGs to take on responsibility for commissioning primary care services plus the rest of today’s news
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NewsHSJ Live 17.02.2015: Sheffield makes £260m bid for 'vanguard' status
Sheffield CCG and council hope to become ‘vanguard site’ for the new models of care outlined in the NHS Five Year Forward View plus the rest of today’s news