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Mixed results from first PLACE scores for Dartford and Gravesham
PERFORMANCE: Dartford and Gravesham Trust scored average for two of the four standards in the new patient-led ward inspection regime – for cleanliness, and food and hydration.
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Royal Free asks for £1.7m in Project Diamond cash
FINANCE: Royal Free London Foundation Trust has asked for £1.7m in Project Diamond funding in 2014-15.
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Imperial aiming for £34m in private and overseas income
COMMERCIAL: Imperial College Healthcare Trust is aiming for £34m in private and overseas income this financial year, board papers reveal.
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Chesterfield Royal sets itself £8.9m CIP target
FINANCE Chesterfield Royal Hospital Foundation Trust has set itself a cost improvement plan target of £8.9m for 2013-14.
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Barts appoints safeguarding nurse after HCAs convicted of abusing patients
WORKFORCE: Barts Health Trust has appointed to the newly-created role of safeguarding nurse at Whipps Cross hospital after three HCAs convicted of abusing patients.
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NewsHSJ Live 26.9.2013: HSJ Efficiency Awards winners revealed
The winners of HSJ’s Efficiency Awards are revealed, we hold a Live seven day working debate, and the rest of today’s news and comment
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HSJ Local
Central Surrey scores below average on PLACE standards
PERFORMANCE: Social enterprise Central Surrey Health scored below average for all four standards in the new patient-led ward inspection regime.
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NewsGP budgets could be added to pooled integration funds
NHS England may contribute additional funding to bolster the £3.8bn integration transformation fund announced in the 2013 comprehensive spending review, Sir David Nicholson has said.
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NewsExclusive: Competition rules hold back quality, says Nicholson
NHS England’s chief executive has said the government may need to change the law because competition rules are standing in the way of improvements to NHS services.
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NewsBurnham: NHS 'hearts and minds' behind my integration plan
NHS staff will back further reorganisation of the NHS by a Labour government because their “hearts and minds” are behind the party’s plans for integration of the health and social care systems, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has said.
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NewsGP commissioning not accountable, says Burnham
The shadow health secretary has said he opposes “GP control or domination of commissioning” because it is not “accountable” and compromises “the public interest”.
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LeaderRapid resolution needed for service change impasse
Competition rules are not having the desired impact
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HSJ LocalNorfolk and Norwich to spend £2.3m on pathology pay offs
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Foundation Trust is set to spend an estimated £2.3m on severance and redundancy payoffs directly related to a regional reconfiguration of pathology services.
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News'More time' on admin than patients
Doctors spend more than twice as much time on paperwork as they do on home visits, a survey suggests.
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HSJ LocalBaby's parents condemn 'cover-up'
A “cover-up” into failings surrounding the death of a baby girl who was treated at a scandal-hit health trust was “unforgiveable”, say the child’s parents.
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HSJ LocalLisa Rodrigues announces retirement
Lisa Rodrigues, chief executive of the Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust, has told HSJ she plans to retire next year.
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NewsHSJ Live 25.09.2013: Burnham lays out plans to Labour conference
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has addressed the Labour conference. See here for details, reaction and a round up of the rest of the health news.
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NewsExclusive: Employers seek to link pay rise to seven-day working
Next year’s pay rise for NHS staff could be linked to changes in their working practices to help force more seven-day working, it has emerged.
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NewsConcern over Monitor's Bristol 'merger' decision
Monitor has concluded that quality improvements borne of a recent reconfiguration of acute services in Bristol are not sufficient to outweigh the loss of patient choice resulting from the “merger”. The competition regulator said the decision would have “important considerations” for the “wider health system”.
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NewsPioneer database faces delay after watchdog intervenes
NHS England’s controversial plan to extract confidential information from patient records to build a national database faces a delay after an intervention by the information watchdog.