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NewsCouncils to lead key shift in care
The former council chief heading the sector’s efforts to improve living arrangements for people with learning disabilities has described the drive as a “seminal moment” in health and care services.
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Urinary tract infection issues hit Heatherwood and Wexham Park
PERFORMANCE: More than a fifth of catheterised patients at Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust had a urinary tract infection latest data shows.
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Heatherwood and Wexham Park fails on stroke target
PERFORMANCE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust has failed persistently to meet one of its main performance targets on stroke care.
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Text message reminders saves trust £84,000
FINANCE: A text message service reminding patients about their outpatient appointments at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has saved more than £84,000 in eight months.
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NewsHSJ live: rolling news 21.1.2013
Nicholson and Hunt both give national newspaper interviews and the rest of today’s news
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NewsNHS earmarks £300m to put hospitals through failure regime
Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority are planning a £300m joint contract to pay for failing trusts to go through the special administration regime.
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NewsNHS austerity drives income fall for private mental health hospitals
The income of privately-run mental health hospitals fell by 3.3 per cent in 2011, driven by the start of the NHS’s unprecedented savings drive, according to a new report by market analysts Laing & Buisson.
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NewsMid Staffs struggles with patient satisfaction test
Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has recorded the third-lowest score in the latest set of results from the midlands and east of England pilot of the friends and family test.
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Shortage of secondary care doctors for London CCG boards
STRUCTURE: Minutes presented to NHS London said there was a shortage of secondary care doctors “of appropriate calibre” to sit on clinical commissioning group boards.
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NHS London midwife vacancies below 10 per cent for frst time in decade
WORKFORCE: The rate of midwife vacancies in London has fallen beneath 10 per cent for the first time in 10 years, according to NHS London board minutes.
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Rape charge HCA remanded to crown court
WORKFORCE: A healthcare assistant who worked at Western Sussex Hospitals Trust has been remanded to appear before a crown court.
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NewsHSJ Live 18.1.2013: Commissioning board launches emergency care review
Future of ISTCs, emergency services review and the rest of today’s news
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The Min to close inpatient neuro services
STRUCTURE: The Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases Foundation Trust is to cease providing inpatient neurological rehabilitation services from the end of March.
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NewsMid Staffs Foundation Trust 'too small' to be sustainable
Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust − the first organisation to be taken through Monitor’s failure regime − will not be able to sustain its current services in the future, investigators have found.
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Morecambe Bay mulls judicial review bid over vascular row
STRUCTURE: University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay has warned it may seek judicial review of a decision to transfer its inpatient vascular services to a neighbouring trust.
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Three ‘never events’ at Wirral University Teaching Hospital
PERFORMANCE: There were three ‘never events’ reported by Wirral University Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust between July and September 2012, according to latest commissioner board papers.
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NewsOmbudsman to investigate more care failures
Hospitals and other health services are likely to face more investigations by the parliamentary and health services ombudsman after a review called for a change in its approach.
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New chief exec appointed by Brighton and Sussex
WORKFORCE: Matthew Kershaw has been appointed as chief executive of Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust.
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NewsHunt admits IT plans are ‘brave’ as report lays bare challenge
A report published alongside Jeremy Hunt’s announcement that the NHS should be paperless by 2018 has underlined the difficulties the NHS faces in hitting the target in just five years.
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NewsHospitals 'must tackle surgery infection rate'
People recovering from surgery get infections far more often than is being reported, according to a university-led study.