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Surrey and Sussex wins maternity services grant
FINANCE: Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust has won a £400,000 grant to spend on its maternity department at East Surrey Hospital.
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HSJ Live rolling news 28.2.2013: Francis at the Commissioning Board
Robert Francis at the NHS Commissioning Board’s meeting in public and the rest of today’s news
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Confed appoints GP as new policy chief
The NHS Confederation has appointed a former chair of the National Association of Primary Care and a former NHS Direct chief executive to senior executive positions, it announced today.
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Community services to be focus of extended competition
Community services worth billions of pounds are likely to be made subject to increased competition by guidance to be developed under controversial new secondary legislation, HSJ has learned.
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Exclusive: Howe insists competition regulations protect commissioners
Health minister Earl Howe has insisted government assurances given during the passage of the Health Act on competition rules remain intact, after new regulations sparked accusations of backdoor privatisation of the NHS.
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Bolton FT chief steps aside amid probe of mortality coding
PERFORMANCE: The acting chief executive of Bolton Foundation Trust has agreed to “step aside” while a probe is conducted into possible “discrepancies” in the way the trust has coded mortality information.
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DH opens door to NHS pension for private sector
Private companies providing NHS services are being allowed access to the NHS pension scheme ahead of anticipated Treasury action to widen eligibility, HSJ has learned.
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Mid Yorkshire introduces criminal checks for stakeholder forum
SERVICES: Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust is setting up a stakeholder forum to get input on how services should develop locally - but it does not want to hear from criminals.
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Darzi: CCGs will struggle to change 'big beast' providers
Clinical commissioning groups will struggle to challenge large “big beast” hospital providers to reshape services, former health minister Lord Darzi has said.
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Leader
Abandon pious certainties and ask what Francis means for you
How NHS organisations react is what matters
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Further curbs on foreign NHS use likely
The government will take action to further restrict access to free NHS care for foreign patients, Jeremy Hunt has indicated.
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HSJ Local
Southend CCG accountable officer lands place on national panel
WORKFORCE: Southend clinical commissioning group accountable officer Dr Paul Husselbee has been selected to join Sir Bruce Keogh’s advisory group to review 14 hospitals which have had higher than expected mortality rates.
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HSJ Local
High A&E attendances in Sheffield
PERFORMANCE: Less than nine out of 10 A&E patients at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust were treated or discharged within the four hour standard in December.
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New nursing director at Mid Yorks
WORKFORCE: Sally Napper has been appointed director of nursing at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust. She is currently chief nurse and chief operating officer at Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust.
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HSJ Local
North Lincs and Goole identifies 13/14 savings gap
FINANCE: North Lincolnshire and Goole Foundation Trust faces a tough 2013-14, with the need to make extensive savings.
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Largest hospital reconfiguration in England signed off by commissioners
The most significant proposed acute services reconfiguration in England has been approved by commissioners.
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Hillingdon plans whole health economy review
FINANCE: The west London borough is planning a review of the entire health economy, a report to the board of the hospital trust reveals.
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Sheffield Children’s Hospital may record £5.5m surplus
FINANCE: Sheffield Children’s Hospital may end the year with a surplus of £5.5m, well above its original plans.
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Delays in contract settlement Sheffield Children’s FT
FINANCE: Delays in deciding allocations for the NHS Commissioning Board and clinical commissioning groups are holding up contract settlements at Sheffield Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust.
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Sheffield Hospitals exceeds MRSA target
PERFORMANCE: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust has already exceeded its MRSA target for the year with three cases in the year-to-date.