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UPDATED: CSU 'axed' amid complaints from CCGs over cost and quality
Anglia Commissioning Support Unit will not continue as a standalone organisation following complaints from its customers over costs and the quality of its services.
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Royal Cornwall FT application on hold
STRUCTURE: Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust has withdrawn its request to reactivate its foundation trust application due to board resignations earlier this year.
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Hospital hygiene slammed in reports
Hundreds of hospital kitchens are dirty, have infestations of pests or are stocking out-of-date food, it has been reported.
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Plaid Cymru demands paperless health service
Paper records for hospital patients should be scrapped and replaced with iPads, Plaid Cymru’s health spokeswoman has said.
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Sheffield Hospitals agrees main contracts
FINANCE: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust has agreed contracts with its main commissioners, more than a quarter into 2013-14.
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Oxfordshire delayed transfers three times the normal rate
PERFORMANCE: Delayed transfers of care are three times the target rate at Oxford University Hospitals Trust.
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Epsom and St Helier spending more on agency medics than last year
WORKFORCE: Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust is spending more on agency medics than it did last year, board papers reveal.
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HSJ Live: 14.10.2013: Labour thinking of free social care plan
Andy Burnham wants it to be free at the point of need, he tells local authority chief executives
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Politicians challenged to back service change ahead of election
Politicians and political parties will be put on the spot in the run-up to the 2015 general election to support major changes in the health service, under a plan developed by the NHS Confederation.
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Duty of candour moves closer with bill amendment
The government has paved the way for the introduction of a duty of candour through an amendment to the Care Bill – but the key question of when the duty would apply has been left open.
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Hospitals 'face £2bn cuts and financial cliff edge' - Nicholson
Hospital funding is set to be cut by £2bn as the NHS faces a potential “financial cliff edge”, NHS England’s chief executive has said.
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Oxford trust removes specialisms from the Horton amid high complication rates
PERFORMANCE: Oxford University Hospitals Trust has stopped gall bladder surgery at its Horton General Hospital after a Royal College of Surgeons review found higher than expected complication rates.
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Monitor to probe CCGs' block contract
Monitor is to investigate a complaint that referrals to a private hospital dropped after two clinical commissioning groups entered into a block contract with a local NHS hospital.
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Judge blocks review of reconfiguration scheme
Ealing Council has been refused permission to take a hospital reconfiguration plan to judicial review.
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Working time directive for doctors to be reviewed
The government has ordered a review of how European rules limiting the number of hours doctors can work is affecting the NHS.
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11 October 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.Download the HSJ app for iPadDownload the HSJ app for AndroidOn the cover, we analyse commissiong support units’ chances of survival and look at where they need to improve. Also in this week’s issue:We reveal a ...
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MP raises further concern over NHS gagging clauses
One of Britain’s leading children’s doctors has been asked to submit evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into gagging clauses, after controversy over the terms under which she left the renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital.
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DH rejects criticism of delayed transfer of care measure
The Department of Health has rejected criticism of the measure it uses to track delayed transfers of care between NHS providers and social care.
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A&E target being met at Sheffield hospitals
PERFORMANCE: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust met the accident and emergency waiting target in the year to the end of July, despite greater than expected demand.
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HSJ Live 11.10.2013: DH announces preferred candidate for next chair of Monitor
Hunt calls for a review of the implementation of the Working Time Directive on doctors and the NHS, plus the rest of today’s news and comment