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Staff consulted on terms and conditions changes
NHS staff are to be surveyed on controversial plans to reduce the pay bill by modifying their employment terms and conditions.
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Information Centre in talks over CCG data service
The NHS Information Centre could be chosen to provide “at scale” business intelligence services for clinical commissioning groups, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
GEM CSS rolls out new data dashboard for CCGs
COMMERCIAL: The Greater East Midlands commissioning support service has launched a new information tool to enable clinical commissioning groups to access local performance and financial data.
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HSJ Local
Delirium pathway drawn up by Essex trusts
PERFORMANCE: Two NHS organisations in Essex have drawn up a shared protocol on the diagnosis and treatment of elderly people with delirium.
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HSJ Local
North Essex chair to stand down
WORKFORCE: North Essex Partnership Foundation Trust is looking for a new chair to replace Mary St Aubyn, who is standing down in November after nearly 10 years.
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HSJ Local
Herts trust targets temporary staff savings
FINANCE: East and North Hertfordshire Trust hopes to save £700,000 this year by outsourcing bank, agency and locum staff to NHS Professionals.
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Clinical negligence claims top £35m despite fewer cases
Clinical negligence claims involving C difficile have remained steady despite a significant decline in cases of the infection over the past decade, a study has revealed.
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HSJ Local
Extra Admiral nurse support for Essex
WORKFORCE: Carers of patients with dementia in Essex are to get additional help from a new service.
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New clinical director at South Essex Partnership
WORKFORCE: Charles Olojugba has been appointed clinical director for old age psychiatry at South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.
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HSJ Local
Teversham practice gets stay of execution
STRUCTURE: NHS Norfolk is planning to keep a surgery on the outskirts of Norwich open, despite problems with staffing.
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HSJ Local
James Paget improving on medicines management
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has given James Paget University Hospitals Foundation Trust a clean bill of health over its medicines management, after raising concerns at an earlier inspection.
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HSJ Local
X-ray upgrade for West Suffolk
PERFORMANCE: Instant access to improved quality X-rays and scans should speed up clinics at West Suffolk Hospital.
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HSJ Local
Staff and student training upgade at James Paget
WORKFORCE: James Paget University Hospitals Foundation Trust is spending £500,000 upgrading education and training facilities for existing staff, and also medical and nursing students.
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Ian Cumming to lead Health Education England
National director of quality Ian Cumming has been named as the first chief executive of Health Education England.
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Clustering in part to blame for PCT's £28m blackhole
The move from primary care trusts to clusters was in part to blame for a £28m black hole opening up in the books of a PCT, a report has found.
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HSJ Local
Analysed: a new shape for acute services in north Kent
HSJ Local Briefing is our new in-depth analysis of key issues facing some of the major NHS health economies. This week we examine how acute providers in north Kent are being reshaped to ensure long term viability for acute services in the region.
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FTs warn of 'regulatory driven failure' under NHS reforms
Foundation trusts are lobbying Monitor to ensure financially challenged providers will be able to “temporarily” close protected NHS services under their new regulatory regime.
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HSJ Local
North Kent trusts look to London to boost market share
Two Kent trusts will seek to expand their market share in surrounding health economies, including becoming the main acute provider for a London borough, if their merger bid is successful.
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Leader
Leaders can help detoxify the BMA strike
The strike’s real threat is to relationships in the NHS.
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HSJ Local
MSA breaches at Southport and Ormskirk Hospital
PERFORMANCE: The trust had eight breaches of the national bar on mixed sex accomodation in March, according to its commissioners latest performance report.