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HSJ Live 03.02.2014: Leading cancer centre to support Colchester
Royal Marsden drafted in to improve Colchester Trust’s cancer services, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment
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How important is clinical research in the NHS?
Help HSJ to find out the status of clinical research in the NHS by completing our survey
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Twitter chat: What is the best way to commission end of life care?
Join an HSJ Twitter chat in association with Marie Curie Cancer Care on 14 February
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National equality lead resigns following tribunal ruling
NHS England has announced that its national lead for equality and diversity Paula Vasco-Knight has left her post.
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Prince Charles backs hospital income link to food quality
Prince Charles has encouraged NHS organisations to introduce pay for performance for the quality of hospital food.
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Monitor competition probe closed after NHS England changes process
Monitor has closed its investigation into the commissioning of specialist cancer surgery services in Greater Manchester and Cheshire, after NHS England said it would change its process.
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BT plans to make Cornwall its ‘telehealth hub’
The company in charge of managing 12,000 users of telecare and telehealth services in Cornwall has revealed it intends to use the county as a base for all its future telemonitoring work in England.
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Midwife shortage 'truly worrying'
The safety of pregnant women and their babies may be put at risk by a lack of NHS funding and a national shortage of 2,300 midwives, MPs have said.
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HSJ Live 31.01.2014: Former Heatherwood and Wexham chief joins Care UK
Philippa Slinger, the former chief executive of the troubled Heatherwood and Wexham Park Foundation Trust is to join Care UK, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment
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Alert system will name and shame unsafe providers
The names of organisations that fail to comply with patient safety alerts are to be published online each month as part of a revamped warning system being introduced by NHS England.
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Trust 'hid nepotism claim' against national equalities chief
South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust attempted to cover up a report that contained accusations of “nepotism” against its chief executive, who also holds a major NHS England role, a tribunal has found.
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Mortality ratio information identifies new 'outliers'
Six trusts have been identified as having a “persistently” higher than expected mortality rate according to the summary hospital-level mortality indicator.
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Government accused over mesothelioma legal costs
The government has been accused of purposefully “overturning” the will of Parliament and of giving false assurances that mesothelioma sufferers would be made exempt from having to use their damages payments to cover their legal costs.
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Judicial review to take place into 'do not resuscitate' policy
A judicial review will examine whether the lack of a national policy on ‘do not resuscitate’ notices is illegal, following a Court of Appeal ruling.
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HSJ Live 30.01.2014 Information watchdog reviews key guidelines for care.data
The Information Commissioners’ Office has launched a consulation on the standards which will govern how data will be anonymised by the care.data project, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment
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Exclusive: Monitor interventions double in response to Francis
The number of regulatory actions taken by Monitor against foundation trusts so far in 2013-14 is already more than double the level of the whole of last year, HSJ analysis reveals.
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Chief inspector 'shocked' at lack of out of hours information
The chief inspector of general practice has said he has been “shocked” at some clinical commissioning groups’ apparent lack of knowledge about which bodies provide out of hours GP services in their area.
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Councils row with DH over deferred care bill
The Local Government Association has claimed a key part of the government’s social care reforms could cost councils five times more than estimated, triggering a row with the Department of Health.
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