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Trusts ‘unanimously’ reject NHS England's reduced specialist funding offer
London teaching hospitals have turned down an offer from NHS England to pay just a quarter of their previous allocation for highly specialist treatments.
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Exclusive: Dementia care still 'inadequate', report finds
Care for people diagnosed with dementia is ‘inadequate and still not fit for purpose’, three years after the government launched its dementia challenge, a new report for the Alzheimer’s Society has said.
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'Pioneering' cancer care buddying scheme launched
A new scheme has been launched to ‘buddy’ trusts struggling to deliver a good care experience to cancer patients with higher performing trusts.
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HSJ Local
Trust and GPs bid to create primary care joint venture
PRIMARY CARE: A group of Hampshire GPs has teamed up with the country’s largest mental health and community services trust in a bid to create an integrated primary care centre.
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Independent inquiry due into trust’s handling of whistleblower
An independent investigation into the handling of whistleblowing concerns at a West Midlands trust, commissioned by the NHS Trust Development Authority, is expected to report soon, HSJ has learned.
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200 North Bristol patients still waiting over a year for spinal surgery
PERFORMANCE: More than 200 patients have been waiting over a year for spinal surgery at North Bristol Trust, figures for December reveal.
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Bassetlaw CCG awards talking therapies contract
COMMERCIAL: Not-for-profit organisation Insight Healthcare has won a contract to provide talking therapies for Bassetlaw Clinical Commissioning Group.
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HSJ Local
Cancer patients miss out on surgery due to winter pressures
PERFORMANCE: Elective surgery in “many specialties” - including cancer – has been postponed or cancelled in Leeds because of excess demand for services over winter.
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HSJ Live 20.02.2015: FTs spent £419m more on staff than planned due to high use of agency cover
The use of agency workers and contract staff contributed to FT providers spending £419m more on staff than planned, plus the rest of today’s news
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Exclusive: Providers win £500m in new tariff deal
Providers will be given just a fortnight to decide whether to sign up to a new set of ‘voluntary’ prices for the coming year, with concessions made expected to cost commissioners up to £500m.
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HSJ Local
Chief executive of £1bn-turnover trust resigns
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of one of England’s largest trusts resigned this morning.
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HSJ Local
Norfolk and Suffolk FT placed into special measures
PERFORMANCE: Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust has become the first mental health trust to be placed into special measures, Monitor has announced.
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HSJ Local
18 week waits, December 2014: explore the maps
See all NHS waiting lists around England by provider, CCG or specialty
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HSJ Local
Calderdale reconfiguration rejected in council report
STRUCTURE: There is ‘not convincing evidence’ that proposals to reconfigure services hospitals services in Calderdale and Greater Huddersfield would ‘produce better health outcomes for our population or represent good value for money’, a council commissioned report has found.
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HSJ Local
CCG 'rewinds' tender process after legal threat
A London clinical commissioning group has decided to retender its integrated urgent care and out of hours services contract after it was threatened with a legal challenge from an unsuccessful bidder.
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SUS data collection to be suspended
The Health and Social Care Information Centre will suspend the collection of the secondary uses service data for nearly two weeks as part of a process to bring collection of the vital NHS dataset in-house.
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HSJ Local
Yorkshire trust looks to India to fill nurse vacancies
WORKFORCE: Managers from Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust plan to go to India later this month with the aim of recruiting 70 nurses.
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£500m risk transfer will not end the search for financial stability
Risk transfer signals “years of ad hoc approaches”
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HSJ Local
Children at risk because of failure to share records, says CQC
PATIENT SAFETY: Care Quality Commission inspectors have told commissioners in Barnsley they must connect up the health and social care records systems to ensure the safety of children in local authority care.
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Pharmacies step in to help ease pressure on GP surgeries
PRIMARY CARE: Pharmacies in the North East have started to provide free pain killers so that patients with minor ailments do not have to make appointments with their GPs.