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NewsBupa and CSH Surrey pull out of £235m MSK contract
Private provider Bupa and social enterprise CSH Surrey have pulled out of a £235m contract to run musculoskeletal services in West Sussex.
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NewsExclusive survey: Low confidence that NHS will hit 2018 paperless goal
Health and IT professionals remain deeply sceptical that the NHS can be paperless by 2018, two years after health secretary Jeremy Hunt unveiled the ambitious target, exclusive HSJ research has found.
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HSJ LocalNorthamptonshire agrees revamped better care fund plan
FINANCE: Northamptonshire’s health bodies and its county council have finally agreed on the terms of its better care fund plan, following intervention from NHS England.
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NHS England resolves £50m dispute with CCGs
NHS England has settled a dispute with clinical commissioning groups in the south of England over its proposal to transfer £50m from their budgets to its own specialised commissioners.
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Future role of GPs in commissioning is ‘fragile’, report finds
GPs involved in clinical commissioning groups have doubts about whether they will be capable of taking on additional responsibility for primary care, health think tanks have warned.
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NewsThird of acute trusts do not display named clinicians above patient beds
Over a third of trusts are not displaying a named clinician above patient beds despite health secretary Jeremy Hunt introducing the policy 18 months ago.
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HSJ LocalLeicester Hospitals adopts automated drugs system
COMMERCIAL: University Hospitals of Leicester Trust is to adopt a hi-tech medicines management system which will use robots to pack individual drug doses.
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NewsHSJ Live 26.01.2015: BUPA CSH withdraws from Coastal West Sussex procurement
Joint venture pulls out of MSK procurement following trust impact assessment, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsMonitor angers CCGs with advice on community services
Commissioners have voiced concern that their efforts to integrate services will be hampered by ‘enforced competition’ after Monitor released a report warning them against simply rolling over existing community services contracts.
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HSJ LocalGPs privately urged to prescribe Tamiflu despite concerns
WORKFORCE: NHS England is encouraging GPs to prescribe Tamiflu to care and nursing home patients as a preventative measure, despite concerns about its effectiveness.
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NewsCCGs consider swapping GPs to avoid conflict of interest
Clinical commissioning groups are considering swapping GPs with their neighbouring groups to safeguard against potential conflicts of interest in commissioning primary care.
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HSJ LocalLiverpool trust stops delivering prison health service early
COMMERCIAL: Liverpool Community Health Trust has stopped delivering health services at a prison, following a Care Quality Commission inspection which found the trust was not meeting quality and safety standards.
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HSJ LocalSouth West trust sees increase in hospital acquired pressure sores
PERFORMANCE: South Devon Healthcare Trust recorded 172 hospital acquired pressure sores in grades 1 and 2 in the 12 months through to September.
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News'No evidence' to justify local midwifery regulation
Local regulation of midwives should be scrapped according to a report by the King’s Fund which has found “no evidence” to justify its existence.
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HSJ LocalColchester FT appoints new chair
WORKFORCE: Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust has appointed a new chair.
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HSJ LocalLambeth fails to reach standards for three out of seven Quality Premium measures
PERFORMANCE: NHS Lambeth CCG has reported that it has not achieved 2013-14 Quality Premium measures relating to cutting avoidable emergency admissions, reducing the number of years of life lost through amenable mortality and preventing healthcare acquired infections.
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West Lancashire CCG considers review of minor surgery
STRUCTURE: NHS West Lancashire may conduct a detailed review of minor surgery and orthopaedic services over the next six months, as part of an analysis of how services under its remit will be run in future.
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NewsHSJ Live 23.01.2015: Breaking - Two CSUs fail to make NHS England framework
Two commissioning support units have not made it onto NHS England’s procurement framework – placing their long term future in doubt
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HSJ LocalTavistock and Portman surplus higher than planned
FINANCE: The Tavistock and Portman Trust has announced a surplus of £1.66m for the first nine months of the financial year, £1.33m higher than its planned surplus for the year to date.
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NewsUpdated: Third of CCGs apply for full co-commissioning powers over GP members
Around a third of clinical commissioning groups are bidding to take over responsibility for performance management and budgets of their member GP practices from April, HSJ can reveal.