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Trust medical director takes on top job
WORKFORCE: Northampton General Hospital has appointed Dr Sonia Swart as chief executive with immediate effect.
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NewsCQC official accused of cover-up is cleared
One of the Care Quality Commission officials accused of covering up a report criticising the regular has been exonerated by an internal investigation.
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NewsMulti-year allocations could aid local contracting, Monitor review finds
Multi-year budget allocations could help commissioners develop local contracting more effectively, Monitor has said.
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HSJ LocalLabour accused of hospital cover-up
The Department of Health under Labour tried to stop details emerging of a hospital scandal involving higher-than-normal death rates, emails have revealed.
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Trust accidentally circulates details of Ashworth Hospital volunteers
PERFORMANCE: Mersey Care Trust has published details of a confidentiality breach in which a member of staff accidentally circulated the personal details of volunteers who had visited patients at the high-security Ashworth Hospital.
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News4 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 feature Andy Burnham’s plans to repeal the Health Act if Labour are elected in 2015. Also in this week’s issue:Research suggests delayed ...
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Cambridge signs £120m deal to build private hospital and hotel complex
Laing O’Rourke will build the £120m Forum development on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus after a joint venture between John Laing and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust was agreed, HSJ sister title Construction News has reported.
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NewsHSJ Live 04.10.2013 Delay to 'damp squib' value based pricing
Lansley’s flagship drug pricing scheme behind schedule, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham under pressure and the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsProviders hit with raised efficiency requirement
Providers will lose hundreds of millions of pounds in income under Monitor and NHS England plans to raise the efficiency assumptions that govern how much they are paid under tariff.
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NewsNearly half of acute hospital trusts predict deficit
The NHS hospital trust sector is predicting a deficit at the end of this financial year, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsExclusive: Delayed hospital discharge to blame for A&E pressure
Poor accident and emergency performance this year has not been caused by GP out of hours provision, increased attendances or a lack of doctors, exclusive analysis shared with HSJ shows.
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NewsChanges to emergency admissions tariff planned
The marginal tariff for hospital emergency care will be retained in 2014-15, but the policy will be modified.
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NewsNew effort to confront north-south divide
England’s public health body is preparing to “make noise” about the north-south divide in health outcomes.
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East Lancs publishes post-Keogh improvement plan
WORKFORCE: East Lancashire Hospitals has hired 30 additional nurses and 30 extra healthcare assistants following the Keogh review of trusts with high mortality rate, the trust reported last week.
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NewsGPs 'facing financial black hole'
GP services are facing a £400m financial “black hole” that could have catastrophic consequences, the Royal College of General Practitioners has warned.
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Basildon and Thurrock reports larger than forecast deficit
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust has posted a £2.1m deficit for the first four months of 2013-14 – £1.9m more than forecast.
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Portsmouth's withdrawal scuppers local pathology plan
STRUCTURE: Portsmouth Hospitals Trust has frustrated its neighbours by pulling out of a proposed local pathology consortium weeks before it was due to go live, citing concerns over governance arrangements and the savings potential of the project.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England may outsource further functions to CSUs
NHS England is to carry out a fundamental review of its use of commissioning support units, which could see more of the national commissioning body’s back office functions being outsourced, HSJ has been told.
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Pennine Acute misses hospital acquired infections target
PERFORMANCE: Pennine Acute has failed against its target of having no cases of MRSA in 2013-14, its latest performance report states.
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Imperial yet to identify 18 per cent of savings
FINANCE: Imperial College Healthcare Trust has yet to identify £9.2m in cost-cutting programmes.