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GP surgery faced closure in property wrangle
Landlords came close to closing a GP surgery amid a lease renewal blunder involving NHS Property Services and NHS England, HSJ has learned.
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Keogh review trust's chief resigns
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of East Lancashire Hospitals Trust has announced he is resigning with immediate effect.
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NewsLabour: bring back GP appointment target
The target for GPs to guarantee patients an appointment within 48 hours should be restored to help ease the pressure on accident and emergency departments, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said.
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Mutual assurance 'joins up commissioning process'
PERFORMANCE: The chair of Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning Group, the first to introduce a “mutual assurance process” with NHS England, has said the process has helped to join up commissioning.
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CQC lifts warning notice against Basildon and Thurrock
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has lifted a statutory warning notice it placed against Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust with immediate effect.
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Monitor probes Lancashire Teaching Hospitals
PERFORMANCE: Monitor has launched an investigation into failure to hit waiting time to treatment targets at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust.
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Liver surgeon suspended by GMC
Health chiefs have suspended a specialist liver surgeon linked to the “avoidable deaths” of eight patients he operated on in south Wales.
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West Hertfordshire Hospitals Trust recruits 84 nurses from Spain and Portugal
WORKFORCE: West Hertfordshire Hospitals Trust has recruited 84 nurses and midwives from Spain, according to board papers from its November governing body meeting.
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New rapid access medical unit reduces A&E admissions
Princess Royal Hospital has launched a rapid access medical unit in an attempt to reduce accident and emergency admissions and long stays.
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New non-executive director joins Kent and Medway Trust
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust has appointed a new non-executive director.
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NewsHSJ Live: 11.12.13 The 100 most powerful people in health
The HSJ100 was announced today and the rest of today’s news
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Serco chief admits mistakes
Outsourcing giant Serco underestimated how long it would take to restructure community health services in Suffolk, its health managing director has told HSJ.
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'Brave' South Gloucestershire CCG plans referred to health secretary
STRUCTURE: Councillors in South Gloucestershire have voted to refer plans to axe outpatient and diagnostic services at a local site to the health secretary.
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NewsDH paid £1.5m to financial advisers on blood company sell-off
The Department of Health paid £1.5m to the financial advisers who acted for the government in the sale of the majority stake in Plasma Resources UK, the blood products company.
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NewsFlory: Commissioning uncertainty hitting trusts' finances
Unpredictable financial flows caused by unsettled commissioning structures are causing problems for trusts, according to Trust Development Authority chief executive David Flory.
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NewsMonitor to increase supervision of FT A&E performance
Monitor is increasing its scrutiny of foundation hospitals’ accident and emergency performance this winter, after being requested to do so by the health secretary.
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NewsCancer care 'postcode lottery'
Cancer patients are facing a postcode lottery of care within the NHS, with patients in some areas four times less likely to get an early diagnosis, it has been reported.
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NewsNew guidance on IV drip prescribing
Up to one in five patients could be suffering unnecessarily in hospitals across the UK because medics are making basic blunders in prescribing drips, experts have warned.
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NewsHSJ Live: 10.12.2013 Specialised commissioning £196.7m behind plan
NHS reports a deficit of £136.8m in specialised commissioning, and the rest of the day’s news and comment