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HSJ Live 12.9.2013: Morcecambe Bay inquiry terms of reference announced
Health secretary announces independent investigation’s terms of reference, RCP publishes Future Hospital report, Monitor’s decision on Peterborough, plus the rest of today’s news
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Help us find the most innovative people in healthcare
HSJ is launching a search for the most innovative people in healthcare and is inviting your nominations.
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Further complaints to NHS competition watchdog 'almost guaranteed'
A number of private providers are likely to take complaints to the NHS’s new competition regulator Monitor over the next three years, the chief executive officer of Ramsay Health Care UK warned last week.
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General practice is the NHS’s great strength, which it has to review
Reviewing the role of GPs will be worthwhile
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Physios call for changes to NHS treatment
Leading physiotherapists have issued a list of recommendations they believe should be implemented to improve care for NHS patients.
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Survey suggests staff concern about quality and pressure
A survey suggests healthcare workers are concerned their organisation could have similar problems to those seen at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, and worries about pressure and bullying.
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Dorset CCG highlights continuing care risk
FINANCE: Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group has set aside £4.9m for risks associated with continuing healthcare claims and over performance on acute contracts during 2013-14.
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HSJ Live 11.09.2013 Twitter chat: Is A&E on the brink of crisis?
Take part in HSJ and the NHS Confederation’s Twitter chat from 1pm today.
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Government announces A&E fund winners
The government today announced the allocation of its £250m fund for the trusts thought to be most at risk of failing their accident and emergency targets this winter.
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Mike Farrar to leave NHS
Mike Farrar is to step down from the NHS Confederation and will not apply to become NHS England chief executive, he announced today.
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Monitor deputy chair issues warning on failure regime
The outgoing deputy chairman of Monitor today suggested the NHS still did not have an effective failure regime and called on politicians to relinquish ultimate control over what happened to financially failed trusts.
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Coventry and Warwickshire chalks up £4.6m deficit
FINANCE: University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire reported a deficit of £4.6m in July - £400,000 better than the plan submitted to the NHS Trust Development Authority at the beginning of the year.
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Royal college to say hospital reconfiguration is 'inevitable'
Reconfiguration of hospital services is “inevitable” if better standards of hospital care are to be achieved, a major Royal College of Physicians report is expected to say.
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Oxford trust targets workforce cost savings
FINANCE: Oxford University Hospitals Trust is to focus its cost improvement programme on workforce savings.
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GPs failing elderly patients: Hunt
A “much better way” is needed for “vulnerable old people to journey through the NHS”, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.
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'Opt-out' organ system becomes law in Wales
A new law creating the first opt-opt organ donation system in the UK is to be rubber-stamped at a special ceremony on 10 September.
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Sussex community provider pays all staff ‘living wage’
WORKFORCE: Sussex Community Trust has become the first NHS organisation in Sussex to achieve accreditation as a “Living Wage Employer”.
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Three south west trusts launch joint IT procurement
COMMERCIAL: Three south west trusts have launched a joint tender for a new electronic health record system.
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Mid Cheshire plan £5.9m savings in 2013-14
FINANCE: Mid Cheshire Hospitals aims to make cost improvement programme savings of £5.9m in 2013-14.
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Devon Partnership looks to save with nurse prescribing
WORKFORCE: Devon Partnership Trust plans to save money by rolling out non-medical prescribing for certain drugs. However, nurses and other clinicians who take on the extr responsibility will not be paid more.