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Exclusive: Consultants could give up weekend working 'veto'
Hospital consultants could give up their veto on delivering non-urgent care at weekends if employers agree to safeguards
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NewsHSJ Live 24.06.2014: Help us find LGBT role models within the NHS
HSJ to publish special supplement in September exploring attitudes to, and experiences of, people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender in the NHS, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsCQC chief pledges action on inspection workloads
CQC chief executive David Behan has acknowledged that the heavy workloads of the new inspection regime have had a “negative impact” on staff morale
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NewsNew website to identify trusts with 'poor reporting culture'
Hospitals with low numbers of the most serious patient safety incidents are among those set to be highlighted as having a poor reporting culture on a website being launched by the health secretary later today.
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NewsHelp us find LGBT role models within the NHS
Make your nominations and complete our experience survey
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NewsNHS restructure was a 'step backwards' for IVF services, watchdog says
The coalition’s radical reshaping of the health service has been a “step backwards” for the commissioning of fertility services in the NHS, the chair of the national fertility watchdog has said.
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NewsTrust's response to toddler's death 'seriously inadequate', review concludes
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
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NewsKeep politics out of NHS, says poll
The vast majority of the public believe that MPs play political football with the NHS, a new poll suggests, as doctors called for the government’s controversial reforms of the NHS to be scrapped.
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NewsHSJ Live 23.06.2014: NHS restructure was a 'step backwards' for IVF services, watchdog says
The coalition’s radical reshaping of the health service has been a “step backwards” for the commissioning of fertility services in the NHS, the chair of the national fertility watchdog has said, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.
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NewsBMA: National GP contract will diminish in significance
The nationally agreed GP contract will diminish in significance as CCGs increasingly agree local deals with practices, the BMA’s GP committee chair has acknowledged
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What we learnt this week
NHS financial woe won’t wait until after next year’s general electionThe BBC majored this week on the prospect of an NHS “funding gap” of £2bn in 2015-16. While some politicians and officials will undoubtedly seek to hold off any cash crisis until after May next year, HSJ analysis this week ...
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NewsExclusive: Lord Carter appointed NHS 'procurement champion'
The Department of Health has appointed Labour peer Lord Carter as the NHS’s “procurement champion” to help the service save up to £2bn on its budget, HSJ has learned.
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News20 June issue of HSJ is ready to read on the app
This week’s issue of HSJ magazine is now available to read on our tablet app.Download the HSJ app for iPadDownload the HSJ app for AndroidIn this week’s issue HSJ analysis reveals that a number of trusts are struggling with shortfalls due to emergency demand, traditionally associated with winter, dragging into ...
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NewsHSJ Live 20.06.14: NHS England appoints new non-executive directors
Three new non-executive directors join NHS England from 1 July, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment
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NewsThe legacy of the Griffiths report: share your views
Share your thoughts on the impact of the landmark leadership report.
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NewsSingle online tool launched to aid mental health data models
Efforts to develop more sophisticated approaches to commissioning, funding and comparing mental health services could be helped by a new online database.
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NewsNHS England strategy director joins GP and urgent care provider
The recently departed strategy director of NHS England has been appointed as a partner at a large GP and urgent care provider.
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NewsExclusive: New health committee chair Sarah Wollaston's first interview
The new chair of the Commons health committee has named whistleblowing, patient safety and the safeguarding of patient records as key areas of attention for the committee under her stewardship, she told HSJ.
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Patients 'don't understand doctors'
Health workers must do more to ensure patients can understand the advice they have been given, leading doctors have said.
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NewsCCG’s break with QOF set to test integration and co-commissioning support
Allowing GPs in a single clinical commissioning group to break away from the nationally agreed quality and outcomes framework will test whether the approach could help drive integration and support co-commissioning, HSJ has been told.