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Constitution review set to promote compassion and evidence-based commissioning
A government-commissioned review is likely to recommend all new nurses and healthcare assistants are screened for their values and ability to be compassionate.
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Birmingham CCGs set to merge
STRUCTURE: Two Birmingham clinical commissioning groups have “expressed a preference” for merging.
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St Helens and Knowsley FT bid 'escalated' to Department of Health
PERFORMANCE: St Helens and Knowsley’s bid for foundation trust status has been “escalated” for Department of Health scrutiny, after the trust’s progress along the FT pipeline was red-rated for three months in a row.
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Robert Francis should be the next CQC chair
History is a guide for who should be Jo Williams’ successor
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Specialised service review highlights risks to integration
An official review of specialised services has highlighted the risks in having three separate commissioners for the NHS and public health, warning of a potential threat to integration of some care pathways.
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Attitude change needed to increase organ donation
The UK’s transplant waiting list will never be significantly reduced in size unless public attitudes towards organ donation change, according to a charity.
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Miliband tells unions not to strike
Labour leader Ed Miliband has told union leaders that their members and the public did not want strikes, amid the growing prospect of industrial action against the government’s austerity measures.
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UHBristol sells land to Pieminister
COMMERCIAL: University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust has sold four acres of land to local firm Pieminister for a seven figure sum.
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Behan: all managers should spend time at CQC
New CQC chief speaks to HSJ, urging managers to have career stint at regulator, in his first interview since replacing Cynthia Bower
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Hakin: Quality premium will not come from £25 per head management allowance
Clinical commissioning groups’ “quality premium” performance bonus will be separate from - and not funded by - their £25 per head management fund, the national commissioning lead has told HSJ.
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Transition redundancies hit women hardest
A disproportionate number of women have been made redundant during the reorganisation of the NHS, latest figures obtained by HSJ reveal.
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Suicide prevention funding pledged
The government has promised to pump £1.5m into research exploring how to prevent suicides among those most at risk of taking their own lives.
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Four CSU networks to supply communications support
Four networks of commissioning support units will provide communications services to clinical commissioning groups, officials have confirmed.
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Jo Williams resigns from CQC
Care Quality Commission chair Jo Williams has announced she is to step down from the regulator.
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Tenders for sexual health contracts could leave HIV services 'unviable'
Plans to put sexual health services out to competitive tender could make it “unviable” for some NHS trusts to continue offering HIV treatment and care, the Department of Health has warned.
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EXCLUSIVE: Behan says CQC will 'comment on quality' as cuts bite
The Care Quality Commission will not be afraid to speak up if the continued financial squeeze impacts on patient care, the regulator’s new chief executive has told HSJ.
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Peer review finds 'serious concerns' at Mid Staffs
A peer review of breast cancer surgery services at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has uncovered a catalogue of concerns and safety fears - despite the trust assessing them as being largely compliant with national standards.
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Competition from the US shrinks private paediatric work at Guy's
COMMERCIAL: Guy’s and St Thomas’s Foundation Trust has downgraded its earnings forecast for work at its Evelina Children’s Hospital, after losing business to US providers.
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SHA investigation highlights Leicester concerns
A lack of vision and clinical strategy risks “inhibiting improvement in clinical care” at the University Hospitals of Leicester, according to a Midlands and East strategic health authority cluster investigation.
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Struggling FTs may face insolvency regime in 2013-14 - Hay
Monitor may need to place some NHS foundation trusts in administration as soon as 2013-14 – the first year its powers to do so take effect, the regulator’s chief operating officer has suggested.