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Kettering sets itself £12.5m CIP target
FINANCE Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust has set itself a cost improvement plan target of £12.5m for 2013-14.
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HSJ Local
Colchester sets itself £9.4m CIP target
Colchester Hospital Hospital Trust has set itself a cost improvement plan target of £9.4m for 2013-14.
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HSJ Live 11.7.2013: Hunt backs two reconfigurations
Jeremy Hunt accepts proposals for Trafford A&E downgrade, reaction to £30bn NHS funding gap warning, and the rest of today’s news and comment
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Monitor issues fresh warning on NHS funding gap
Monitor’s chief executive has said that even if the NHS did everything the regulator could think of to make savings it would not be enough to close the funding gap facing the service by 2021-22.
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Exclusive: NHS England to take control of investment spending
NHS England is drawing up plans to centralise control of spending on estates and information technology in the health service, including proposals to sign off spending by bodies over which it has no formal power.
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HSJ launches tablet app and digital-only subscriptions
HSJ is now available for iPad.The new iPad app means you can access HSJ’s award-winning journalism on the move or save it to read offline. It contains every story from the most recent issue of the magazine, plus all the latest content from hsj.co.uk.An Android version of the app will ...
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CCGs 'unable to fulfill statutory functions'
Clinical commissioning groups have told NHS England that they are unable to fulfill their statutory functions due to data privacy laws.
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NHS 'paid £435m in redundancies'
The NHS has spent more than £435m making staff redundant as part of its controversial health reforms, official figures show.
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Government 'likely to need legislation' to change NHS merger rules
The government is likely to have to legislate if it wants to change the regulation of NHS provider mergers, HSJ has been told.
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HSJ Local
Conflicts of interest stymie CCG decision making
COMMERCIAL: The governing body of Blackburn with Darwen Clinical Commissioning group was unable to take a decision on its contract for GP out-of-hours services because too many of its GP members had to leave the meeting due to conflicts of interest.
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Safety fears as junior doctors abandon A&E
Junior doctors are turning their backs on emergency medicine, exacerbating patient safety risks in accident and emergency departments, the General Medical Council has warned.
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Healthcare assistants should obtain care certificate, says review
All healthcare assistants should complete a certificate before they can care for patients unsupervised and that would act as a “badge of honour”, a government commissioned review has recommended.
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HSJ Local
North West London Hospitals Trust predicts £20.3m deficit
FINANCE: North West London Hospitals Trust is predicting a £20.3m deficit for 2013-14.
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HSJ Local
East Cheshire makes nine compulsory redundancies
WORKFORCE: East Cheshire Trust made nine compulsory redundancies in 2012-13, at a cost of £666,000, according to its annual accounts.
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Leader
NHS innovators get their due reward
Celebrating the pioneers of patient safety and care integration
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HSJ Local
North Bristol disagrees with commissioner QIPP plans
FINANCE: North Bristol Trust is planning for income £6.5m above commissioner plans due in part to a lack of confidence in activity reduction plans and disagreements over waiting list backlogs, board papers reveal.
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HSJ Local
Western Sussex rolls out antibiotic prescribing app
PERFORMANCE: Pharmacy staff at Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have helped develop an app for prescribing antibiotics.
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New Medway orthotics pathway cuts patient waits
PERFORMANCE: The orthotics department at Medway Maritime Hospital has dramatically reduced waiting times, according to Medway Foundation Trust.
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HSJ Local
Salisbury recruits nurses from Portugal
WORKFORCE: Salisbury Foundation Trust has recruited 47 nurses from Portugal to address Care Quality Commission concerns about staffing.
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HSJ Local
East Sussex introduces coloured lanyards for staff
WORKFORCE: An acute hospital trust in Sussex is introducing a new way of trying to help patients identify the different types of staff that work there.