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NewsRevealed: Thousand incidences of specialised services failing standards
NHS England has agreed more than 1,000 temporary contract variations when providers of specialised services have failed to meet new service standards, HSJ has learned.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Integration pioneers among winners from £260m technology fund
Three plans to join up patient records across a number of health and social care organisations are among 135 projects to have secured a share of NHS England’s £260m technology fund.
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NewsPatients in ambulance wait ordeal
Some patients are being forced to wait in ambulances outside hospitals for hours because accident and emergency departments are too busy to take them, according to research.
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NewsCommunity providers urge Monitor to divert resources from acute sector
Community providers have urged Monitor to support the development of new payment systems which will take investment away from the acute sector.
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NewsPROMs show no evidence of inappropriate surgery
Patient reported outcome measures have not driven expected improvements in treatment during their first three years and do not support claims the NHS is treating too many patients, researchers have found.
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NewsFriday operations death risk 'greater'
People having a routine operation on a Friday are 24 per cent more likely to die than if they had one earlier in the week, according to a major report.
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Review recommends Portsmouth Hospitals loses vascular services
A review of specialised vascular services in Hampshire has recommended centralising surgery in Southampton, meaning that neighbouring Portsmouth would lose some services.
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HSJ Local
Walsall reduces paperwork by 80 per cent
A West Midlands trust is claiming to have reduced the total number of forms nurses need to complete by 80 per cent, down from 1,500 to just 300.
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HSJ Local
North Tyneside CCG in deficit
FINANCE: North Tyneside clinical commissioning group is showing a year to date deficit of £278,000 as of 30 September 2013, according to board papers from its November governing body meeting.
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HSJ Local
GP surgery manager prosecuted for illegally accessing patient data
A former GP surgery manager in Maidstone has been prosecuted by the Information Commissioner after illegally accessing approximately 1,940 patients’ medical records.
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HSJ Local
Capital spends and CIP slippage at Ashford and St Peter's
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals Foundation Trust is predicting that it will fall short of its cost improvement programme delivery by £1.2m by the end of the year.
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NewsHSJ Live: 09.12.2013 Patients forced to wait in ambulances
Ambulance waits outside hospitals, and the rest of the day’s news and comment
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NewsExclusive: Health Act to be changed to boost joint commissioning
The Health Act 2012 is set to be changed to make it easier for clinical commissioning groups to come together with each other – and with NHS England – to jointly commission services, HSJ has learned.
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NewsDr Foster identifies 13 trusts with high mortality ratios
Thirteen hospital trusts have higher than expected mortality indicator scores, according to an extract from the latest report by health analytics firm Dr Foster which has been shared exclusively with HSJ.
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NewsKnee, hip and eye ops 'rationed'
Surgery for knees, hips and eyes is under pressure across the NHS, with evidence of rationing to save money, a report suggests.
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NewsDeaths from three cancers 'to fall'
The number of people dying from breast, prostate and bowel cancer will almost halve in the three decades up to 2020, new figures suggest.
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6 December issue of HSJ is ready to read on the app
This week’s issue of HSJ magazine is now available to read on our tablet app.Please note: if iPad users have been experiencing difficulties with the app recently we recommend you delete it from the homescreen and download the latest version from www.hsj.co.uk/tablet-appDownload the HSJ app for iPadDownload the HSJ app ...
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Trust's data problem may extend beyond 18-week waits
North West London Hospitals Trust has admitted its data recording problem may extend wider than performance on the 18-week wait for elective surgery.
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HSJ Local
Trust chief’s warning over A&E targets
The chief executive of Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust has warned it is likely to miss its four hour A&E waiting targets due to the level of demand placed upon it.
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HSJ Local
£10.7m overspend at Oxfordshire CCG
Waiting list pressures at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust have resulted in a £10.7m overspend for Oxfordshire clinical commissioning group in the financial year to October 2013.