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HSJ LocalLisa Rodrigues announces retirement
Lisa Rodrigues, chief executive of the Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust, has told HSJ she plans to retire next year.
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NewsHSJ Live 25.09.2013: Burnham lays out plans to Labour conference
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has addressed the Labour conference. See here for details, reaction and a round up of the rest of the health news.
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NewsExclusive: Employers seek to link pay rise to seven-day working
Next year’s pay rise for NHS staff could be linked to changes in their working practices to help force more seven-day working, it has emerged.
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NewsConcern over Monitor's Bristol 'merger' decision
Monitor has concluded that quality improvements borne of a recent reconfiguration of acute services in Bristol are not sufficient to outweigh the loss of patient choice resulting from the “merger”. The competition regulator said the decision would have “important considerations” for the “wider health system”.
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NewsPioneer database faces delay after watchdog intervenes
NHS England’s controversial plan to extract confidential information from patient records to build a national database faces a delay after an intervention by the information watchdog.
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HSJ LocalMerging Dorset trusts start work on plan B
STRUCTURE: The Dorset foundation trusts waiting for a decision on their merger plans have agreed to stop meetings about the merger and are developing alternative plans, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMiliband backs integrated health service
Labour leader Ed Miliband has said his party will seek to create an integrated healthcare system if it wins power in 2015.
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HSJ LocalJunior doctor numbers tripled at struggling A&E
Extra government funding will be used to trebled the number of junior doctors at the accident and emergency department of a trust affected by the closure of services at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, it has been announced.
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Ambulance Service records highest absence rate in region
WORKFORCE East of England Ambulance Service Trust had the highest average sickness absence rate for the first three months of 2013 across the East of England region, according to HSJ analysis of official data published in July.
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Taunton chief welcomes scrutiny by chief inspector
PERFORMANCE: The chief executive of Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust has welcomed the trust’s inclusion in the first wave of hospitals to be inspected under the new chief inspector of hospitals’ regime.
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NewsWales braced for hospital care review decision
A panel of experts is set to reveal its findings on divisive proposals to overhaul hospital services in west Wales.
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St Helens and Knowsley plans £15.4m savings in 2013-14
FINANCE: St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals Trust aims to make cost improvement programme savings of £15.4m in 2013-14.
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South London and Maudsley IAPT services sees increase in advice calls regarding sexual abuse
PERFORMANCE: South London and Maudsley’s Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies services have seen an increase in calls regarding historical sexual abuse, board papers report.
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South West hospitals perform well against SHMI
PERFORMANCE: Five trusts in the south west had higher than expected mortality under the standardised hospital mortality indicator.
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North Essex Partnership extends mental health support phone line
PERFORMANCE North Essex Partnership and Mid Essex Mind, has secured funding to extend an out of hours mental health support line service it has been piloting for the last year.
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Complaints stay level year-on-year at South west London and St George's Mental Health Trust
PERFORMANCE: Complaints have stayed level year-on-year at South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust, a board report reveals.
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Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust planning to re-model community services
STRUCTURE: Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust is planning to re-structure Enfield community services, which it took over in the Transforming Community Services programme in 2010.
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Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust sets up new services after GP concerns
PERFORMANCE: Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust has set up two new services in response to access concerns from GPs.
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NewsHSJ Live 24.9.2013: Ed Miliband pledges to 'rescue the NHS'
Labour leader blames fragmentation of services on the current government, and describes mental health as a “one nation issue”.