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NewsMinisters ‘listening’ to competition concerns
Health minister Daniel Poulter has said the government is listening to criticism of competition rules which have been blamed for thwarting much needed hospital reconfiguration projects.
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Chair of Dorset Healthcare stands down
PERFORMANCE: The chair of a south west foundation trust has tendered his resignation, just a week after Monitor intervened to ensure its board was operating effectively.
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Royal Berkshire records six 'trolley waits' in a single week
PERFORMANCE: Royal Berkshire Hospital Foundation Trust was responsible for six accident and emergency “trolley waits” of more than 12 hours in a single week.
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NewsHelp us find the NHS's black and minority ethnic pioneers
Nominations open for BME pioneers list
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NewsConcerns over single-specialism 'integration' plans
Senior figures in healthcare have questioned moves by clinical commissioning groups to introduce “integrated” care pathways for single clinical specialisms, such as cancer or cardiology.
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NewsJeremy Hunt speaks at Conservative Conference - HSJ Live 01.10.13
How to develop the role of healthcare assistants, and the rest of today’s news and comment
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HSJ LocalTrust report reveals 14 year dispute over harm to patients
PERFORMANCE: A troubled foundation trust has commissioned performance reports on each of its surgeons after an internal audit uncovered a 14-year feud among clinical staff and 48 cases of possible harm to patients that were never investigated.
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NewsHunt prioritises frail older people’s care
Jeremy Hunt has said he will prioritise improvements in the care of frail older people over the next year, prompting the head of one royal college to express concerns that start-of-life care is being neglected.
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NewsTrusts to get further £200m for absorbing South London Healthcare Trust services
The Department of Health and NHS England have agreed to nearly double the amount paid to trusts taking on parts of the soon-to-be-dissolved South London Healthcare Trust.
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NewsHunt: GPs must improve elderly care
Jeremy Hunt has called on GPs to “rediscover family doctoring”, and again said he wants to make changes to their contracts to encourage them to “take better care of older patients and ensure that fewer of them end up in hospital”.
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NewsCouncil chiefs urge cross-party care consensus
Local authority efforts to reform health and social care has been put at risk by the pace of government cuts, council chiefs have warned.
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NHS 111 implementation hit Yorkshire Ambulance finances
FINANCE: Yorkshire Ambulance Service Trust has reported spending more than budgeted this year, partly because of unexpected costs associated with NHS 111.
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Overspend on private and voluntary services leaves ambulance trust in £2.5m deficit
East of England Ambulance Service Trust has posted a year to date deficit of £2.5m after it overspent on private and voluntary ambulance services, according to trust board papers.
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Central Manchester surplus £80k behind plan
FINANCE: Central Manchester University Hospitals recorded a surplus of £664,000 for the first four months of 2013-14, £80,000 behind plan to that point in the year, its latest finance report states.
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Royal Cornwall and Peninsula win joint funding
FINANCE: Peninsula Community Health and Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust have secured funding of £1.3m to improve the care experience for people with dementia.
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Countess of Chester plans £7.4m savings in 2013-14
FINANCE: Countess of Chester Hospital Foundation Trust aims to make cost improvement programme savings of £7.4m in 2013-14.
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NewsMonitor suspends FT pipeline over quality assurance concerns
Monitor has decided not to grant foundation trust status to any further NHS trusts until it can receive “robust assurance” from the Care Quality Commission that the applicants are providing good quality care, the health sector regulator will announce later today.
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NewsBurnham sets out plans for repeal of Health Act
Labour would force clinical commissioning groups to include a wider range of clinicians and reverse the increased private patient income cap, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has told HSJ.