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New NED at Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospitals
STRUCTURE: An businesswoman has been appointed a Non-Executive Director of Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospitals Foundation Trust.
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Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital offers new national blood cancer service
CLINICAL RESEARCH: The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Trust has launched the new service to patients suffering from a blood cancer that affects the spine.
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Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust appoints new nursing director
WORKFORCE: Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust has appointed a part-time interim nursing director.
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Cumbria Partnership launches research into disorders
Cumbria Partnership Foundation Trust is looking for people who have been diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder, schizophrenia or alcoholism to take part in a research project into the genetics behind these disorders.
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Liverpool Community Health pilots electronic 'secure mailbox'
COMMERCIAL: Liverpool Community Health Trust is piloting a new electronic “secure mailbox” that it believes will speed up the process for screening babies under the Healthy Child Programme by two to five days.
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Increase in mortality rate at Royal United Hospital Bath
PERFORMANCE: Royal United Hospital Bath saw a slight increase in its hospital standardised mortality ratio during 2011-12.
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Nottingham Trust launches new basic care checks
PERFORMANCE: An East Midlands trust is rolling out a new version of hourly rounding on its in-patient wards to ensure basic care needs are met.
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Derby Hospitals launches second resignation scheme
WORKFORCE: Derby Hospitals Foundation Trust has launched a second mutually agreed resignation scheme to help it deliver savings of £24m in 2012-13.
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NHS 111 launched in Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire residents will now be able to call NHS 111, NHS Hertfordshire has announced.
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Exclusive: Jim Easton resigning to join Care UK
Exclusive: Jim Easton is resigning as the NHS Commissioning Board’s director of transformation, HSJ can reveal.
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Royal Berkshire Hospital subjected to 'stage two review' of annual plan
FINANCE: Monitor has undertaken a “stage two review” of Royal Berkshire Hospital Foundation Trust’s annual plan.
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Nurses 'warned children about Savile'
Nurses advised young patients to “pretend to be asleep” when Sir Jimmy Savile was visiting their hospital, it has been claimed.
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Fresh concerns over NHS data protection
The information watchdog has raised fresh concerns about the NHS’s ability to protect sensitive personal data, warning trusts of further fines and adverse publicity if they fell short of their duties.
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Big drop in GPs lined up for CCG leader roles
Less than a quarter of the clinical commissioning groups created under the government’s NHS reforms will have GPs as their accountable officers, an HSJ investigation has found.
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Birmingham and Solihull MH chief retires
WORKFORCE: Sue Turner has announced she is to retire from Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust.
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Protocol required to prevent information use 'surprises'
New information governance rules must ensure patients are no longer “surprised or shocked” about how their records are being used or shared, the chair of a national review has said.
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New acute care guidance launched
Acutely ill hospital patients should have access to consultant doctors for at least 12 hours a day, seven days a week to reduce the number of hospital deaths which occur out of hours, leading physicians have said.
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Making integration happen
Integration will be as important as competition, Jeremy Hunt has declared
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The alternative to centralisation
In rural areas a different set of solutions to care delivery are being explored
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Northampton asks for more time on FT bid
PERFORMANCE: Northampton General Hospital Trust has negotiated a delay in its application for foundation trust status.