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Trust chief steps down days before CHI report
Epsom and St Helier Hospital trust has confirmed that its longserving chief executive Nigel Sewell is to step down just days before the Commission for Health Improvement publishes its review of the trust.
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Bedford bodies in chapel photo was set up say security probe
The chief executive forced to step down over the 'bodies in the chapel' furore at Bedford Hospital trust has said his version of events has been vindicated by publication of a summary of a security report into the incident.
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Modernisers go back to front line
Members of the NHS Modernisation Board are heading 'back to the floor' in a bid to give themselves a taste of life on the front line and to help engage staff in the process of change in the health service.
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'Whistleblower' claim against London trust
A clinical governance manager has launched a tribunal case against a major teaching hospital in one of the first cases under new 'whistleblowing' legislation.
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'Scapegoat'claim after Tayside vote
The chair of Scotland's most troubled health body, NHS Tayside, has denied he was put under pressure to act over individuals named in a damning report on the area's health services.
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Triumph for best practice as A&E trolley waits are slashed by NPAT
Trolley waits at 16 accident and emergency departments have been slashed through an initiative headed by the National Patient Access Team.
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Morale lifts at troubled Oxford A&E
Commission for Health Improvement reviewers last week visited the troubled accident and emergency department at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford where staff are reporting improvements in morale.
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Devious ways to get shot of union activists without even a whimper
MACHIAVELLI RETURNS FOR THE SUMMER WITH HIS BLUFFER'S GUIDE TO MANAGING THE NHS
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Evolution not abolition for CHCs
Government proposals for a revamped patient and public involvement system will see a shift in emphasis from the abolition of community health councils to a 'transfer' of their responsibilities, HSJ understands.
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Pounds, shillings and sense
OPEN SPACE: Trusts should be able to spend money according to their own priorities, free from central control, says Tom Caulcott
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Route planner
NEWS FOCUS: Care trusts are the preferred model for joint working between health and social services.Or are they? Paul Stephenson reports
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Picking up the pieces
NEWS FOCUS: Shifting the Balance has appeared at last, showing how all the structural changes in the NHS 'jigsaw'fit together.Laura Donnelly compares the final cut with an earlier draft, leaked exclusively to HSJ
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Stories in the making
JOINT WORKING: Joint working means different things to different people but the idea is hemmed in by misconceptions, argue Sally Bigwood and John Lucy.They set out to explode some myths