All News articles – Page 847
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NewsCommissioners delay cuts to practices’ income
Commissioners in south-west London are delaying significant cuts to the income of some overfunded GP practices in Wandsworth and Croydon to avoid “destabilising” them.
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NewsConsultant quits over diagnostic 'failures'
A whistleblower has resigned from his job as a consultant at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, complaining about a “complete failure of corporate leadership” at the trust.
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NewsNon-acute services see rise in transfer delays
The level of delayed transfers of care attributed to non-acute NHS services has been rising consistently over the past two years, HSJ analysis has revealed.
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NewsEngland 'could learn integration lessons from Wales'
The NHS in England could learn lessons from Wales when it comes to getting different parts of the health service to work together, the chief executive of NHS Wales has said.
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NewsLocal area team budgets dwarf CCG funds
Several of the NHS Commissioning Board’s local arms will have enormous budgets - dwarfing those of most clinical commissioning groups - HSJ estimates show.
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NewsCall for £1.3bn CCG funding handover
Senior NHS figures are calling for £1.3bn of funding to be handed to clinical commissioning groups, amid signs the NHS Commissioning Board is wavering over whether to topslice the sum from local budgets.
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NewsMandarins' procedures to be reviewed
Whitehall civil servants may take lessons from their New Zealand counterparts in a shake-up of how government works.
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NewsGames drug testing labs to become research centre
A £10m scientific research centre is to be based on the site of Olympic drug testing laboratories, David Cameron has announced.
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Sharp fall in hospital infections
The number of people catching a killer bug during their stay in Welsh hospitals has dropped by more than a third in a year, a new report has revealed.
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NewsChildren's ward 'fully staffed again'
A children’s ward that did not admit patients for three weeks because of a staff shortage has returned to full service.
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NewsNHS regulator drops 'Chinese walls' plan
Foundation trust regulator Monitor has scrapped its plan to build “Chinese walls” within its organisation to separate its existing role from its future responsibility to regulate the entire NHS healthcare sector.
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NewsCommissioners could be incentivised not to give services additional protection
Commissioners may be given a “financial incentive” not to designate large numbers of NHS services for extra regulatory protection, future sector regulator Monitor has suggested.
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NewsMonitor drops controversial credit rating plan
Future healthcare sector regulator Monitor has scrapped many of the controversial restrictions it had proposed placing on providers of essential NHS services, including debt caps, external credit ratings, and curbs on dividend payments.
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NewsSome 'abolished' PCT and SHA staff to stay on after April 2013
Some primary care trust and strategic health authority staff may be kept on for up to a year after April 2013 to help “close down” the abolished organisations, it has emerged.
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NewsHospitals face 'voting booths' in A&E to measure patient experience
Hospitals may have to install voting booths in inpatient wards and A&E to measure patient experience, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsOlympic beds donated to Tunisia
More than 300 hospital beds which featured in the Olympic Games opening ceremony are to be donated to hospitals in Tunisia.
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NewsPatient dies in legionnaires' outbreak
One of the patients affected by a legionnaires’ disease outbreak has died in hospital, the Health Protection Agency has said.
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NewsCQC whistleblower to stay on the board
The Care Quality Commission non-executive director who gave highly critical evidence to the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust Public Inquiry will stay on the regulator’s board, despite attempts by its chair to remove her.
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Caution urged on referrals to private centre
A local medical committee has taken the unprecedented step of warning local GPs to consider whether an independent treatment centre is the right choice for their patients.
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NewsAlder Hey Children's Trust responds to court case decision
Alder Hey Children’s Foundation Trust has told HSJ it recognises consultant surgeon Edwin Jesudason as a whistleblower.