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7 March issue of HSJ is ready to read on the app
This week’s issue of HSJ magazine is now available to read on our tablet app.Download the HSJ app for iPadDownload the HSJ app for AndroidIn this week’s issue we speak exclusively to Care Quality Commission chief inspector Sir Mike Richards who says the CQC must do more to improve the ...
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Mental health trust 'implementing value based healthcare'
STRUCTURE: Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust has begun a programme to redesign its mental health services based on the concept of “value based healthcare”.
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Community trust out of running for £800m integrated care contract
STRUCTURE: Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust’s bid for a £800m older people’s services contract for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough has been rejected, while implementation of the project has been delayed by six months.
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Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells specialist cancer surgery suspended
PERFORMANCE: Patients from the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells area are being sent to St Thomas’ Hospital in London for upper gastro intestinal cancer surgery procedures amid concerns about services in the area, it has emerged.
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HSJ Live 07.03.2014: Monitor launches investigation into Manchester trust
The Christie Foundation Trust will be investigated by the regulator, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.
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Richards: CQC must improve inspection consistency
The Care Quality Commission must do more to improve the consistency of its judgements, the chief inspector of hospitals has said. He spoke after it emerged a leading London teaching hospital successfully challenged the regulator’s plan to issue it a warning notice.
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First three trusts rated in new-style CQC regime
The Care Quality Commission has published its ratings of three hospital trusts, the first to receive judgements under its new inspection regime.
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Duty of candour set to be extended to 100,000 incidents
NHS providers will be required to tell patients about all but the very least serious patient safety incidents under the new statutory duty of candour, if the recommendations of a government commissioned review are adopted into law.
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King's Fund calls for 'urgent shift' in elderly care
Budget-squeezed health and care provision for a rapidly ageing population needs to change urgently, a leading health charity has warned.
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Analysis: Increase in procurement and competition challenges
Providers are increasingly willing to use the procurement, patient choice and competition regulations to challenge decisions, experts have stated, after HSJ analysis identified six of the first legal challenges to emerge.
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Too many trust challenges will undermine CQC inspections
Regulator is on a learning curve with new regime
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Increase in private ambulances causes problems for trust
An increase in the number of private ambulances arriving at Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation Trust’s accident and emergency department has led to “operational difficulties”, the trust has disclosed.
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Border hospitals 'under pressure'
Pressure is increasing on hospital accident and emergency departments in England because of care failures in Wales, the health secretary has said.
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Monitor closes Wirral probe
FINANCE: Monitor has closed its investigation into Wirral University Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust, the regulator has announced.
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HSJ Live 06.03.2014: Increase in procurement and competition challenges
HSJ analysis identifies six of the first legal challenges to emerge from providers, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.
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Hunt says NHS on track for patients' access to their GP records
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said 95 per cent of NHS patients will be able to access their GP care records online, free of charge, by the time of the next general election.
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Large providers dominate clinical senates
HSJ analysis has given the most detailed picture so far of the make-up of clinical senates, revealing the extent of large acute trusts’ influence over the advisory bodies.