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Emergency medicine in 'crisis'
The Department of Health is to seek reassurances on medical staffing levels in emergency departments amid claims the specialty is in a recruitment and retention “crisis”.
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NHS to double private patients - Burnham
Some NHS hospitals are planning to use new freedoms granted them by the coalition government to double the number of patients they treat privately this year, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has warned.
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ESyDoc CCG appoints 'patient member' as interim accountable officer
STRUCTURE: NHS East Surrey CCG - which has said it will be known locally as ESyDoc - has appointed Elaine Jackson, who has been a patient lay member on its board, as interim chief officer.
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CSU private partnerships 'essential' for QIPP
Partnerships between commissioning support units and the private sector will have an “essential” role in driving integrated care to enable the NHS to meet its efficiency challenge, HSJ has been told.
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UK ovarian cancer survival rate 'lower'
Women are less likely to survive ovarian cancer in the UK than in other comparable countries, researchers have said.
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Leeds North CCG names managerial nurse as accountable officer
STRUCTURE: NHS Leeds North CCG has designated a senior PCT managerial nurse as its accountable officer.
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Senior nurse manager made accountable officer of NHS Leeds West CCG
STRUCTURE: A senior PCT managerial nurse has been appointed as designate accountable officer of NHS Leeds West CCG.
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NEW Devon CCG names Tim Burke as chair and appoints managerial accountable officer
STRUCTURE: NHS North, East and West Devon CCG has named GP Tim Burke as its chair, and named a manager as designate accountable officer.
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Sam Barrell named as South Devon and Torbay CCG accountable officer
STRUCTURE: GP Sam Barrell has been named as NHS South Devon and Torbay CCG’s designate accountable officer.
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EXCLUSIVE: NHS Employers backs pay freeze
Patient care will suffer unless the NHS pay freeze is extended into a third year, the body representing all major NHS employers is to warn.
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Trust bosses call for pay deal changes
HSJ’s disclosure of NHS Employers’ move to extend the pay freeze coincided with a warning from the acute sector that existing pay agreements were unsustainable.
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DH abandons plan to stop 'cherry picking' through tariff change
The Department of Health has abandoned plans to prevent the “cherry picking” of straightforward patients and cases by independent sector providers by making further changes to the payment by results tariff, it has emerged.
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Wolverhampton FT bid fails as CQC finds failings
The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals Trust’s bid for foundation trust status has been deferred by Monitor after a recent Care Quality Commission inspection found essential standards were not being met, HSJ can reveal.
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EXCLUSIVE: Worst performing London boroughs for GP outcomes revealed
An internal report on the quality of GP practices in London has found one cluster performing significantly worse than the other five.
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Planning, complaints and collaboration are common problems for CCGs
Early feedback from the clinical commissioning group authorisation process has highlighted planning, complaints and collaboration as some of the most difficult issues.
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We must resist the siren voices to achieve pay reform
Pay reform in the NHS requires the wisdom of Solomon
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Trusts 'fail on patient openness'
The families of patients who are victim of a “serious incident” at an NHS organisation may be waiting for a year before they are given any explanation, researchers found.
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Cuts 'threaten drug abuse progress'
Funding cuts and reforms to public services risk reversing the declining trend in drug abuse among young people, campaigners have warned.
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HSJ Local
Analysed: the future of South London Healthcare Trust
What happens next for South London Healthcare Trust - the first to be placed in the failure regime?
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Capacity ‘crisis’ hits Brighton and Sussex
PERFORMANCE: A state of “business continuity” was declared at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust on 24 September, after it admitted many more patients than were discharged.