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NewsNHS England chief backs Monitor-TDA merger
Simon Stevens believes the NHS Trust Development Authority and Monitor should be merged.
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HSJ LocalHinchingbrooke applies for £9.6m government bailout
Privately run Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust has warned that its deficit could exceed £12m this year, and has applied for a government bailout of nearly £10m.
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NewsNHS managers face jail for publishing misleading information
NHS managers who publish false or misleading information could face up to two years in prison under new laws set to be confirmed by ministers this week, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalCapita in NHS staff data breach
WORKFORCE: The outsourcing firm Capita has been responsible for a breach of NHS employees’ personal data in Liverpool, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalTrust still waiting for £4m to clear elective backlog
FINANCE: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust is still awaiting £4m of funding to help it clear its large backlog of elective patients waiting for treatment.
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News£35m nursing tech fund shared among 60 bidders
More than 60 bids by NHS and other care providers have received a share of the second tranche of nursing technology fund, an NHS England director has told HSJ.
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HSJ LocalGloucestershire trust challenges CCG penalties
FINANCE: Gloucestershire Hospitals Foundation Trust has formally challenged a decision by its main commissioner to impose financial penalties worth a total of £2m this year.
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NewsHSJ Live 09.02.2015: Capita in NHS staff data breach
Outsourcing firm Capita responsible for breach of NHS employees’ personal data in Liverpool , plus the rest of the day’s news and comment
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News'Hard evidence' special measures worked at Keogh trusts, say researchers
There is ‘hard evidence’ that the special measures regime has reduced death rates at the 11 Keogh trusts and potentially saved hundreds of lives, researchers have claimed.
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NewsExclusive: 'Monopoly' fears over £350m scans contract
The decision to award a 10 year contract covering more than half of England’s PET-CT imaging service to a single company has created a ‘monopoly’ that could damage NHS interests, HSJ has been told.
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NewsSenior figures from three main parties back greater role for HWBs
Senior figures from the three main political parties have backed health and wellbeing boards as the main commissioners of integrated health and social care.
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News£1.2m fund for volunteers to help under pressure A&Es
Trusts will be given an extra £1.2m to fund 700 volunteers to help ease pressures on accident and emergency departments.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Memo reveals trust forced to 'scale back' specialist service
Emergency patients at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust who are in need of specialist dermatology treatment could be forced to wait more than a day to be seen, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCoalition health reforms 'damaging and distracting', says think tank
The coalition government’s flagship legislation on health was ‘damaging and distracting’, and ‘historians will not be kind in their assessment’ of its record on NHS reform, an influential think tank has claimed.
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HSJ LocalNorovirus forces trust to cancel all non-urgent operations
PERFORMANCE: North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust has been forced to cancel all non-urgent operations at one of its hospitals following an outbreak of norovirus.
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HSJ LocalLincoln Hospital begins £580k revamp
CAPITAL SCHEMES: Building work costing more than £580,000 has begun on Lincoln County Hospital’s outpatient department following investment from United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust.
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HSJ LocalShortlisted BME applicants less likely to be offered jobs at Royal Free
WORKFORCE: The proportion of applicants for jobs at Royal Free London Foundation Trust from black and minority ethnic backgrounds who end up being appointed is 11 percentage points lower than that for white applicants.
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HSJ LocalGPs to be trained to detect domestic abuse
WORKFORCE: GPs in Newham, east London, are to be trained in recognising domestic abuse and be expected to routinely question patients with sexually transmitted infections or unplanned pregnancies about whether they have experienced domestic violence.
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HSJ LocalWhipps Cross A&E pressures bring mixed sex breaches
PERFORMANCE: Whipps Cross Hospital in east London breached mixed sex accommodation guidelines 14 times in just one month as it grappled with high numbers of emergency admissions and bed shortages, according to commissioners.
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NewsHSJ Live 06.02.2015: Coalition health reforms 'damaging and distracting', says think tank
‘Historians will not be kind in their assessment’ of its record on NHS reform, says the King’s Fund, plus the rest of today’s news and comment