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NewsBlood products company sold to US firm
Private equity firm Bain Capital has bought a majority stake in the government-owned blood products company Plasma Resources UK.
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NewsLabour's 'whole person care' commission seeks input from service
The independent commission created by Labour to make recommendations for delivering “whole person care” has begun an open consultation.
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HSJ LocalMid Staffs survey reveals claims of continuing poor care
Some patients at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust are continuing to suffer poor care more than four years after widespread failures at the trust first emerged.
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NewsNHS England told to lead general practice 'scale up'
NHS England has been advised to encourage GP practices to “scale up” by creating a new type of contract and delegating more primary care budgets.
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Royal Surrey in first wave of new CQC inspections
PERFORMANCE: Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is among the first 18 hospital trusts to be test the Care Quality Commission’s new inspection regime.
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Dartford in first wave of new CQC inspections
PERFORMANCE: Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is among the first 18 hospital trusts to be test the Care Quality Commission’s new inspection regime.
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Harmoni still unpaid for poor performance on Bristol 111 contract
COMMERCIAL: Harmoni has still not received any payment for the NHS 111 service it provides in Bristol, three months after it soft launched.
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Merged Barts trust records £16m in-year deficit amid savings struggle
The £1.2bn turnover Barts Health Trust has recorded a £15.7m in-year deficit, and has serious concern about making required cost savings in 2013-14.
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Frimley Park in first wave of new CQC inspections
PERFORMANCE: Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is among the first 18 hospital trusts to be test the Care Quality Commission’s new inspection regime.
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RUH appoints new A&E consultants
WORKFORCE: Royal United Hospital Bath has appointed two new emergency medicine consultants.
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Bristol mental health procurement enters next stage
COMMERCIAL: Pre-qualification questionnaires have gone out to all organisations that expressed an interest in providing mental health services in Bristol.
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NewsHSJ Live: 19.7.2013: NHS England issues end of life care guidance
NHS England sets out how trusts should treat patients who are dying following the announcement that the Liverpool Care Pathway is to be scrapped.
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NewsBaumann: NHS needs 'heroic' savings to pay for integration fund
Government plans to create a £3.8bn pooled fund for health and social care commissioning will take the level of savings needed by the health service in 2015-16 to at least 6 or 7 per cent, NHS England’s chief financial officer has warned.
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NewsHSJ's most inspirational women in healthcare revealed
HSJ has published its first ever celebration of healthcare’s most inspirational female leaders.
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Bolton missing pressure ulcer targets
PERFORMANCE: Bolton FT missed most of its targets for reduction of the incidence of pressure ulcers in the first two months of 2013-14, its latest performance report states.
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Monitor gives Heatherwood three-month deadline
PERFORMANCE Monitor has given Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust three months to correct “poor care and shortfalls in accident and emergency”, the regulator has announced.
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NewsExclusive: GMC reveals 16 A&Es with concerns
HSJ can reveal the names of 16 emergency departments about which the General Medical Council has current significant concerns.
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NewsCare cap 'to spark huge rise in demand'
More than 50,000 extra people could demand social care assessments from councils in 2016 when a £72,000 cap on care costs is introduced, according to Department of Health figures.
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NewsNHS emergency care 'unsustainable'
NHS emergency care is “unsustainable”, leading doctors have said.
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NewsCall to reshape primary health care
Increasing numbers of GPs are building organisations that are capable of preserving the personal, local nature of general practice while also offering patients and communities a greater range of services, a review has said.