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EXCLUSIVE: Low paid staff offered route to top clinical jobs
Thousands of lower-paid NHS support staff could be given a path into top clinical jobs after Health Education England revealed plans to redirect part of the service’s training budget
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NHS England to rethink children's heart surgery plans
NHS England is under pressure to swiftly develop new plans for children’s heart surgery after a controversial reconfiguration was today suspended by the health secretary following an independent review.
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Struggling CSUs set to be told to outsource or lose accreditation
NHS England aims to provide CSU quality assurance
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Libel conundrum leads to confusion over patient feedback plan
Mixed signals over comment moderation
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HSJ Local
East of England Ambulance 'helpless', says report
PERFORMANCE: The East of England Ambulance Service Trust has been undermined by in-fighting, confusion and a “sense of helplessness” among senior managers, according to an independent report.
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HSJ Local
Night time confinement proposed for Ashworth patients
FINANCE: The introduction of night time confinement for patients at Ashworth Hospital could save Mersey Care Trust £3.5m by 2015.
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HSJ Local
Chair: North Cumbria must 'make real change' on culture
PERFORMANCE: The interim chair of North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust has described a Care Quality Commission report into the Cumberland Infirmary as “very disturbing”. He warned the trust to be prepared for similar findings in a forthcoming report on the West Cumberland Hospital.
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Leader
Leader: should a clinician fill Nicholson’s shoes?
The candidate may be in HSJ’s Clinical Leaders list
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HSJ Local
East Mids Ambulance fails on performance
PERFORMANCE The latest performance board papers for Hardwick CCG show that East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust failed to deliver the Category A 8 minute or 19 minute standards last year with performance of 73.7% and 93.5%.
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HSJ Local
North Cumbria investigates serious incidents
PERFORMANCE: A patient death and two cases where patients suffered severe harm are being investigated as serious untoward incidents by North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust.
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HSJ Local
Hindle leaves Leicester to take up AHSN role
APPOINTMENTS The chair of University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust is set to step down to lead East Midlands Academic Health Science Network after seven years at the trust.
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HSJ Local
Queen's performance drags Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hositals A&E results down
PERFORMANCE: A&E performance at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust is starkly divided at the trust’s two casualty units.
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Hunt heart unit statement expected imminently
Campaigners fighting to save a children’s heart unit are hoping health secretary Jeremy Hunt will reverse the decision today.
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HSJ Local
Central Manchester awaits MRSA escalation decision
PERFORMANCE: Central Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust is waiting to hear if it is to be escalated within Monitor because of nine MRSA cases last year.
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HSJ Local
North Cumbria fails to cut waiting list to intended level
PERFORMANCE: More than 700 patients had been waiting more than 18 weeks for treatment at North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust at the end of April – despite plans to reduce this to less than 500.
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HSJ Local
North Cumbria redesigns paediatrics
SERVICES: North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust has redesigned its paediatric diabetics service and is recruiting additional specialists.
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HSJ Local
AHSN set up in East Midlands
RESEARCH NHS England has confirmed the East Midlands as one of 15 new Academic Health Science Networks.
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HSJ Local
Leicester hospitals underperform against cancer target
PERFORMANCE Recent performance board papers for West Leicestershire CCG reveal that University Hospitals of Leicestershire NHS Trust under-performed against the its 62 day cancer referral to treatment time target for 2012/2013.
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HSJ Local
Hardwick's suppliers fail on A&E target
PERFORMANCE Recent performance board papers for Hardwick CCG show that the A&E 4 hour target was missed quarter three and four last year.