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NewsHSJ Live 06.03.2014: Increase in procurement and competition challenges
HSJ analysis identifies six of the first legal challenges to emerge from providers, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.
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NewsHunt says NHS on track for patients' access to their GP records
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said 95 per cent of NHS patients will be able to access their GP care records online, free of charge, by the time of the next general election.
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NewsLarge providers dominate clinical senates
HSJ analysis has given the most detailed picture so far of the make-up of clinical senates, revealing the extent of large acute trusts’ influence over the advisory bodies.
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NewsOmbudsman criticises 'unreasonable and unfair' patient ban
A foundation trust has been ordered to apologise to a patient for wrongly banning her from accessing NHS services and using a template letter to imply she was abusive and violent.
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NHS England accuses Monitor of "unpicking" choice and competition framework
A disagreement between NHS England and Monitor appears to be delaying the release of resources to help commissioners navigate choice and competition issues in the NHS, recent board papers reveal.
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HSJ Local
West Midlands trusts partner to deliver breastfeeding support
South Warwickshire Foundation Trust has announced it is working with George Eliot Hospital Trust to provide a new breastfeeding support service for mothers across Bedworth, Nuneaton and North Warwickshire.
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HSJ Local
New chair at Coventry and Warwickshire
WORKFORCE: A new chair has been appointed at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust, the NHS Trust Development Authority has confirmed.
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HSJ Live 05.03.2014: BMA consultants' leader calls for 'principled' contract negotiations
The Chair of the BMA Consultant Committee calls for contracts to recognise “excessive hours worked”, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment.
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NewsLabour review: councils must prove "readiness" to take on care of "frail" patients
A report commissioned by Labour on how to bring about integrated care has backed an evolutionary approach to giving health and wellbeing boards the lead role in planning local services.
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NewsVoluntary redundancy unavailable to CSU staff
NHS England has instructed commissioning support units not to offer voluntary redundancy to employees as they undertake a redundancy programme to cut 300 jobs.
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HSJ LocalCQC reports Medway emergency department 'in crisis'
A Care Quality Commission inspection report on the emergency department at Medway Maritime Hospital concluded it was “effectively in a crisis situation”.
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NewsMoore: Nursing directors should 'over-recruit' by 10pc
Hospital managers should “over-recruit” nursing staff by 10 per cent in order to ensure the best quality care for patients, according to a former nurse who now leads one of the UK’s leading acute trusts.
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NewsArea teams told tariff deflator is non-negotiable
NHS England has told its local area teams they must impose a lower tariff price for mental health and community providers than for their acute counterparts. This is despite it previously indicating that clinical commissioning groups had the freedom to devise their own tariff level.
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‘Health campus model’ considered to save hospital
STRUCTURE: East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group is considering co-locating a wider array of services, including some which are not health services, at a district hospital to ensure its sustainability.
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NewsTwo-thirds 'not informed' on NHS data plan
Almost two-thirds of people do not think patients have been well informed about the controversial NHS data scheme, a poll suggests.
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NewsFailing A&E pay incentives urged
Specialist emergency care doctors should be paid more to work in struggling hospitals, MPs have suggested.
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NewsNicholson: ‘Not speaking to Mid Staffs relatives my biggest mistake’
Outgoing NHS England chief executive Sir David Nicholson has said he “bitterly” regrets not doing more to engage with the families of patients who died as a result of care failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.
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NewsHSJ Live 04.03.2014: Voluntary redundacies unavailable to CSU staff
CSUs will have to make cuts using compulsory redundancies or by not filling vacancies, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Call for investigation into 'bullying' at cancer trust
The doctor who blew the whistle on care failings in the Baby P scandal has demanded an independent investigation into claims of bullying, intimidation and dismissal of whistleblowers at a prestigious cancer specialist trust.
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NewsFTs urged to resist procurement price increases
The Department of Health and Monitor have written to foundation trusts encouraging them to take a tough stance towards suppliers who attempt to impose “blanket inflationary price increases”.