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Mental health trust urged to improve in post-Francis inspection
The Care Quality Commission has issued a warning notice to Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust - the first mental health provider inspected under its new inspection regime.
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NewsDoctors 'know best' on resources
Doctors are the best judges of when public resources should be used for patient care, a leading medic has declared.
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NewsGSK and Novartis agree tie-up deal
GlaxoSmithKline and Swiss rival Novartis are to create a consumer healthcare powerhouse as part of a string of deals affecting their oncology and vaccines portfolios.
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NewsHSJ Live 23.04.2014: HSJ bids to identify top 50 service integrators
Project launched with sister title LGC to identify most influential people in the integration of health and care services, plus the rest of today’s comment and news.
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HSJ Local
Chief departs Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust is to step down, the trust has announced.
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HSJ LocalHeart of England appoints new chair
WORKFORCE: Heart of England Foundation Trust has appointed a new chairman.
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NewsPatient safety scheme piloted
A “ground-breaking” scheme which aims to improve patient safety by ensuring better communication between GPs and pharmacists is to be piloted by health boards in Scotland.
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NewsWarning issued over hospital kidney deaths
At least 1,000 hospital patients in England die each month from avoidable kidney problems, according to a new study commissioned by the NHS.
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NewsCQC to probe end of life care
The Care Quality Commission is to launch an investigation into inequalities in end of life care this summer.
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HSJ LocalNurse training review gets under way in the east
A major review of £100m of nurse training and education in the East of England has been launched, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsTax rules raise doubts over CSU autonomy
NHS England’s plan to make commissioning support units autonomous could be rendered financially unviable by government tax rules, HSJ has learned.
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NewsData video: A&E performance 2013-14 analysed
HSJ reporter Sophie Barnes talks about English A&E departments’ performance, with emergency admissions at major A&E units at their highest level in a decade
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HSJ Local
Management shake-up at East Midlands trust
STRUCTURE: Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust has appointed a pair of senior managers to join its new chief executive, David Sissling.
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NewsHSJ Live 22.04.2014: Nurse training review gets under way in the east
Major review of nurse training and education in the East of England launched, and the rest of today’s news and comment.
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NewsCancer trust embarks on pathology joint venture
One of Europe’s biggest pathology firms has secured its first NHS contract as the Christie Foundation Trust becomes the latest trust to join up with a private provider to deliver pathology services.
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HSJ LocalSerco well positioned for combined call centre contract
Suffolk commissioners plan to create a single “care co-ordination centre” as part of a contract bundling proposal which could make outsourcing giant Serco well positioned for the role.
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NewsCCG ordered to review egg freezing policy
A Clinical Commissioning Group has been told by a High Court judge that its policy on assistive reproduction technique - is “unlawful”.
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News18 week target breached for first time in three years
The NHS has breached the target for 90 per cent of admitted patients to start treatment within 18 weeks for the first time since 2011, the latest figures from NHS England reveal.
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New doctor rota in death rate link
Staggering junior doctors’ training rotations could help to prevent the “black Wednesday” phenomenon, medical experts have said.
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NewsHigh infection rates 'unacceptable', says NICE
The number of patients getting an infection while under NHS care is “unacceptably high”, health officials have warned.