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HMRC investigating trusts over drug tax schemes
HM Revenue and Customs is examining hospital trusts’ tax arrangements amid a growing trend to lawfully avoid paying VAT on outpatient drugs, HSJ has learned.
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Wilson made permanent chief executive at SASH
WORKFORCE: Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust has appointed its chief executive on a substantive basis after more than two years as an interim.
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Dorset launches 'immediate' nurse recruitment
WORKFORCE: An acute trust in the south west has begun immediate recruitment of extra qualified nurses in response to concerns the wards were short staffed.
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Care UK acquires UK Specialist Hospitals
Care UK has acquired UK Specialist Hospitals, a provider of elective surgery centres for NHS funded patients, for an undisclosed sum, it has announced.
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Anna Dixon appointed as DH quality and strategy director
King’s fund director of policy Anna Dixon is to join the Department of Health as director of quality and strategy.
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NHS faces a potential nursing drought, study warns
A government-commissioned report has revealed the NHS could be crippled by a shortage of nearly 200,000 nurses in just three years’ time.
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College of Emergency Medicine raises concern over Lewisham A&E plan
The College of Emergency Medicine has raised concerns over proposals for changes to Lewisham Hospital’s accident and emergency unit, and indicated they do not fit its definition of an emergency department.
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James Paget appoints new CEO
WORKFORCE James Paget University Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed Christine Allen as its new chief executive.
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FT governor resigns after raising concerns about blood stain
A governor of North Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals Foundation Trust has resigned after raising concerns about a blood stained chair with local media.
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Solihull virtual ward praised as 'exemplar'
STRUCTURE: A “virtual ward” for patients in Solihull has been held up as an “exemplar” in the long term conditions quality, innovation, productivity and prevention workstream.
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Trust records five unexpected deaths in three months
PERFORMANCE: South Essex Partnership Foundation Trust has recorded five unexpected deaths and a suspected homicide among patients in a three-month period, HSJ has learned.
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Solihull QIPP on track despite slippages
FINANCE: Efficiency savings are above plan in Solihull even though half of local schemes are “off plan” in terms of delivering savings.
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Trust launches live feedback phone application
Birmingham Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust has launched a real-time feedback application, allowing patients to post comments on its website.
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‘High risk’ pathology restructure delayed by a year
The introduction of a controversial reconfiguration of pathology services in the east of England has been delayed by a year, HSJ has learned.
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Trust sued over surgery blunder
PERFORMANCE: Salisbury Foundation Trust is being sued by a patient who had the wrong testicle removed during surgery and can no longer have children.
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HSJ Live: rolling news 21.2.2013
Results of the latest wave of CCG authorisation decisions, the Nicholson debate continues and the HMRC is looking at trusts’ drug tax schemes, plus the rest of today’s news
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Exclusive: Major London trusts unveil cancer and cardiac shake-up
Three major teaching hospitals have unveiled a ground breaking service reorganisation under which they will exchange responsibility for providing key specialised services.
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Exclusive: 'Gagging' agreements in numbers
Figures obtained by Health Service Journal - presented below - paint a picture of the extent of use of compromise agreeements and confidentiality clauses - or gagging orders - in the NHS.
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Compromise agreements 'should not silence safety concerns'
The vast majority of compromise agreements in the NHS are not the result of whistleblowing disputes, while confidentiality clauses cannot be used to directly prevent patient safety concerns being raised, HSJ has been told.
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Quarter of CSU recruits come from outside transition pool
Around a quarter of staff appointed to commissioning support units have come from outside the pool of NHS commissioning staff affected by reorganisation.