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Analysed: The way ahead for Wye Valley Trust
HSJ Local Briefing is our in-depth analysis of key issues facing some of the major NHS health economies. This week we examine the potential plans for Wye Valley Trust after it admitted it will not be able to achieve foundation trust status.
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Merging foundation trusts sign competition undertakings
The providers involved in the first merger between two foundation trusts have signed up to undertakings restricting how they can communicate with each other.
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Commissioning board names Barbara Hakin as interim deputy chief
The NHS Commissioning Board has announced that Dame Barbara Hakin will step up to be its interim chief operating officer and deputy chief executive.
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Yorks and Derby trusts plan joint work on viability, quality and staff terms
STRUCTURE: A group of seven hospital trusts in Yorkshire and Derbyshire are developing plans for joint working on issues including viability, service quality and staff terms and conditions.
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CMO notes 'catastrophic' antimicrobial resistance
The threat posed by antibiotic resistance should be ranked alongside terrorism on a list of threats to the nation, the government’s chief medical officer has said.
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Ex-older people's tsar criticises out of hospital obsession
Planning for large reductions in older people in acute hospitals is “absolute la la land”, the government’s former older people’s tsar has told HSJ.
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Carruthers seeks to 'raise the bar' for reconfiguration referrals
Councils will need to provide “more convincing” evidence when they oppose NHS reconfigurations such as hospital closures, according to the health chief in charge of a review on the subject.
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Aylesbury Vale CCG heading for deficit
FINANCE: Aylesbury Vale clinical commissioning group is forecasting a £1m deficit for 2012-13, driven largely by demand for unscheduled care services.
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Oxfordshire QIPP plan behind target
FINANCE: The Oxfordshire quality, innovation, productivity and prevention plan was £1.3m below its savings target at month nine.
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Epsom and St Helier plans 5.4 per cent saving next year
FINANCE: Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust are planning savings of £19.9m in 2013-14.
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HSJ Live: 11.3.2013 Controversial competition legislation amended
NHS budget protection under question, and the rest of today’s news
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Exclusive: Government confirms CCG quality premium rules
Legal regulations are expected to confirm shortly that the clinical commissioning group quality premium bonus can be paid to individual GP practices but must “improve services for patients”, HSJ has learned.
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GP claims his CCG is pressing savings 'beyond point of safety'
STRUCTURE: Doctors at a Nottinghamshire GP practice have warned they are being “pushed beyond the point of safety” to save money for their clinical commissioning group.
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Kelsey plans action on health technology education
The NHS Commissioning Board will work with a charity to offer 100,000 people access to training in online health literacy over the next year, it has announced.
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Leeds campaigners win heart surgery case
STRUCTURE: Campaigners have won a high court challenge over the decision to remove children’s heart surgery services from Leeds.
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Call for more emergency surgeons
Leading doctors have warned that two few surgeons are trained to handle emergency cases.
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Review suggests reducing Redditch A&E
A major review of acute services in Worcestershire has recommended reducing the number of patients being seen at Alexandra Hospital in Redditch by around a quarter.
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HSJ Live 8.3.2013: Hunt and Keogh on care quality
Coverage of speeches by Sir Bruce Keogh and Jeremy Hunt at the Nuffield Trist, and the rest of today’s news
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Board approaches Mark Britnell over deputy chief role
Former NHS director general Mark Britnell has been approached about the possibility of becoming the NHS Commissioning Board’s deputy chief executive, it has emerged.
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Exclusive: Regulators team up on 'failure and distress regime'
Monitor and the Care Quality Commission are developing a “single failure and distress regime” which aims to increase the consequences of quality failures for trusts.