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Nurses warn of doctors on 'safari rounds' to find 'lost' patients
Rising pressure in accident and emergency departments across the UK is leaving patients queuing on trolleys in corridors for hours or getting “lost” in hospitals due to repeated moves, senior nurses from the Royal College of Nursing have warned.
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Circle sees operating loss increase to £29m
Circle, the private company running Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust, has posted an operating loss of £29.3m for 2012, according to company accounts.
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Ealing Council to seek judicial review of reconfiguration
STRUCTURE: Ealing Council has begun the process of starting judicial review proceedings against the Shaping a Healthier Future reconfiguration.
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The warning signs in NHS emergency care
Long waits are down, but pressure is building elsewhere
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HSJ Live 24.04.2013: Build up to Lords bid to kill competition rules
HSJ Live will today cover the build up to the crunch Lords debate which - if Labour peers are successful - could see the government’s controversial competition regulations defeated. It is due to take place this evening.
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Exclusive: Dramatic increase in emergency 12 hours 'trolley waits' uncovered
Pressure on accident and emergency departments has seen a large increase in the number of hospital trusts reporting patients waiting more than 12 hours to be admitted, an HSJ analysis has found.
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Exclusive: Experts identify urgent need for 'balanced guidance' on NHS competition
New guidelines from the NHS’s competition watchdog may lead commissioners to “perceive the scope for regulatory action as being so wide that it inhibits service redesign”, an influential think tank has warned.
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Exclusive: Majority believe hospitals 'tolerate poor standards'
A majority of the public believe some hospitals have a “tolerance of poor standards”, according to respondents to a national survey shared exclusively with HSJ.
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Labour care review lead not 'tied down' by NHS budget handover
Sir John Oldham, the chair of the Labour commission set up to examine ways of joining up health and social care, has pledged to keep an “open mind” on how the integration could be best achieved.
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HSJ Live 23.04.2013: Hunt appears in front of health select committee
CQC will get as much money as they need to run the new inspection regime, Jeremy Hunt tells MPs; need for “balanced guidance” on NHS competition and the rest of today’s news
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John Oldham to lead Labour 'commission' on integration
Labour will set up an independent commission to examine how health and social care can be integrated to meet what Ed Miliband claims is the biggest challenge in the history of the NHS.
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North Cumbria leans on strategic support to show surplus
FINANCE: North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust was reporting a small surplus of £198,000 a month before the end of 2012-13, its latest finance report shows. However, in order to record a surplus the trust needed to include a disproportionately large chunk of the strategic support it had received for the ...
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Addenbrooke's Hospital wards offered cash to discharge patients
PERFORMANCE Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust wards have been offered cash incentives to discharge patients under a controversial new scheme to alleviate bed blocking.
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Furness General MAU closed amid escalating norovirus outbreak
PERFORMANCE: University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust today closed the medical assessment unit of its Furness General Hospital to admissions and visitors, in a bid to curb an “escalating outbreak of suspected norovirus”.
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Surrey and Sussex CSU deemed unviable
STRUCTURE: The Surrey and Sussex Commissioning Support Unit is to be closed after being deemed unviable.
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Consultant contract talks could hinge on seven-day working
Employers’ representatives hope to begin negotiation of the medical consultant contract focused on enabling significantly more services to operate at weekends, HSJ has been told.
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Portsmouth ends year on plan despite overspends
FINANCE: Portsmouth clinical commissioning group ended 2012-13 in surplus despite overspending on its major acute contract.
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Mental health trust announces job cuts
STRUCTURE Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust has announced plans to cut 41 staff posts as it embarks on a controversial restructure which will see hundreds more jobs go.
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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG forecast to break even for 2012-13
FINANCE Cambridgeshire and Peterborough clinical commissioning group will break even for the 2012-13 financial year, according to a forecast in its April board papers.
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Analysed: Changes and challenges for Leicester’s health economy
The changing face of Leicester’s health economy