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NewsExclusive: Loss-making UnitedHealth UK plans rebrand
UnitedHealth is to wind up its UK arm and plans to shift staff into another subsidiary with a more pan-European focus, HSJ understands.
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NewsMonitor warning on foundations' A&E performance
The number of NHS foundation trusts failing to meet the target for seeing patients within four hours of arriving at accident and emergency departments has doubled in the last year.
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Cambs and Peterborough CCG faces 'significant financial challenge'
FINANCE: The clinical commissioning group which has put up to £800m of older people’s services out to tender is reporting it faces a “significant financial challenge”.
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NewsExclusive: London A&Es already struggling before winter pressures begin
Emergency performance in London has declined sharply since mid August, and has now fallen to a level not normally seen until December, a leaked report shows.
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NewsHSJ at the Labour conference – follow it live
Follow HSJ’s reporters, who are tweeting live from the Labour conference in Brighton
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NewsHealth experts to 'mine' GP notes
British researchers have begun work analysing doctors’ notes in a “big data” project which it is hoped could revolutionise healthcare and treatments.
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Great Western 'disappointed' over A&E bail out
FINANCE: The chief executive of Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust has expressed her disappointment that the trust missed out on a share of the government’s accident and emergency bailout fund.
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GMC abandons case against four Mid Staffs doctors
WORKFORCE: The General Medical Council has abandoned fitness to practise investigations into four senior doctors at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust due to insufficient evidence.
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Poor showing in PLACE scores for Royal Surrey
PERFORMANCE: Royal Surrey County Foundation Trust scored below average for all four standards in the new patient-led ward inspection regime.
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Sussex Community Trust below average in PLACE scores
PERFORMANCE: Sussex Community Trust scored below average for all four standards in the new patient-led ward inspection regime.
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Strong first showing in new PLACE scores for Frimley Park
PERFORMANCE: Frimley Park Hospital Foundation Trust scored well average for all four standards in the new patient-led ward inspection regime.
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Great Western recruits nurses from Spain
WORKFORCE: Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed more than 50 nurses from abroad.
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George Eliot relies on agency staff for A&E
WORKFORCE: More than a third of George Eliot Hospital Trust’s pay bill in accident and emergency and acute medicine is being spent on agency staff.
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Kent Partnership falls below average in PLACE scores
PERFORMANCE: Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust scored below average for all four standards in the new patient-led ward inspection regime.
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PLACE scores give mixed message for Maidstone and Tunbridge
PERFORMANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust scored below average for dignity and estates in the new patient-led ward inspection regime, but above average for cleanliness and food.
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Above average PLACE scores for Surrey and Borders
PERFORMANCE: Surrey and Borders Partnership Foundation Trust scored average for all four standards in the new patient-led ward inspection regime.
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Western Sussex pegged back by PLACE score for appearance
PERFORMANCE: Western Sussex Hospitals Foundation Trust scored well above average for three of the four new standards in the new patient-led ward inspection regime, but fell short on appearance and maintenance.
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Good performance in PLACE scores for Ashford and St Peter’s
PERFORMANCE: Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals Foundation Trust narrowly missed out on scoring average for all four standards in the new patient-led ward inspection regime.
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East Sussex below average on privacy and dignity, and appearance
PERFORMANCE: East Sussex Healthcare Trust scored below average for three of four standards in the new patient-led ward inspection regime but above average for food and hydration.
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Sussex Partnership scores above average in all but one PLACE score
PERFORMANCE: Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust scored above average for all of the standards in new patient-led ward inspection regime except for those on the appearance and maintenance of its buildings.