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NewsCircle chief places emphasis on consolidation
Healthcare operator Circle has said the timing of NHS contracts and the current debt financing environment may delay the expansion plans it outlined last year.
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NewsAnalysed: Sheffield’s Right First Time reforms of urgent care
This weeks HSJ Local Briefing examines the work by NHS organisations and the city council in Sheffield on a programme to reform services, particularly use of urgent care for older people and those with long-term conditions
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NewsFriends and family test will be ‘opaque and confusing’, says provider
The Friends and Family Test could end up being “opaque, puzzling and confusing”, one of the leading providers of the new patient satisfaction survey has told HSJ.
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HSJ LocalCCP to consider acute services 'merger' in Bristol
COMMERCIAL: A planned reconfiguration of acute services in Bristol could be disrupted after the Co-operation and Competition Panel decided the changes constituted a merger and announced it would assess the plans.
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NewsHunt to outline £75,000 social care cap
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt is to announce details of a plan to cap social care costs at £75,000.
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NewsCircle wins Nottingham contract
Circle has been selected as preferred bidder to provide services from the Nottingham NHS treatment centre for a further five years, the company has announced.
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NewsHunt: Managers and clinicians should be 'struck off' over Mid Staffs scandal
The managers and clinicians responsible for poor care that led to hundreds of deaths in the Mid-Staffordshire Foundation Trust scandal should be struck off, the health secretary has said.
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NewsCalls for action to tackle sharp rise in emergency readmissions
Campaigners have called for renewed efforts to tackle inappropriate discharges after new analysis found the number of elderly patients requiring emergency readmission to hospital had nearly doubled in the past decade.
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NewsHSJ Live: rolling news 11.2.2013
Nine further trusts face probe of mortality rates and the rest of today’s news
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HSJ LocalLewisham Council gives Hunt deadline to backtrack on hospital downgrade
STRUCTURE: Lewisham Council has given Jeremy Hunt a deadline of February 22 to backtrack on the downgrade of Lewisham Hospital or face a judicial review.
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NewsFrancis: Status of management needs to be enhanced
The status of healthcare management as a profession needs to be enhanced in order to bridge the gap between managers and clinicians, according to Robert Francis QC.
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Good nurses should be rewarded with more pay says Francis
Nurses who “demonstrate a commitment to patient care” could receive more pay under recommendations made by Robert Francis QC.
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HSJ Local
Guy's and St Thomas' predicting deficit for 2012-13
FINANCE: Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust is predicting a year-end loss of £7.7m on income and expenditure, a finance report said.
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NewsNew criminal powers for CQC would need a higher level of proof
The Care Quality Commission would need to increase its standards of proof if it is to make use of new powers to bring criminal prosecutions as proposed in the Francis report, lawyers have warned.
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HSJ Local
Frimley Park in talks to take over Heatherwood and Wexham Park
STRUCTURE: Frimley Park Hospital Foundation Trust is considering taking over Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals Foundation Trust, it was announced today.
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HSJ Local
Monitor compliance chief moves to Guy's and St Thomas'
WORKFORCE: Monitor’s former head of compliance has taken up a post at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust running their integrated care programme.
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HSJ Local
Peterborough and Stamford appoints new chair
WORKFORCE: Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed Robert Hughes as its new chairman.
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HSJ Local
Sheffield Children's Hospital decides against Lorenzo
COMMERCIAL: Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has decided against adopting the Lorenzo electronic patient record system.
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NewsCommissioners intervene to prevent Furness maternity transfer
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay has dropped plans to temporarily shut maternity and neonatal services in Furness after commissioners intervened to resolve its staffing crisis.
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NewsLabour MP calls for moratorium on A&E closures
A Labour MP has called on ministers to impose a moratorium on closures of hospital emergency departments until the NHS Commissioning Board’s national review on the subject has been carried out.