News – Page 1006
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NewsCQC moves to assess trust leadership in response to Francis
The Care Quality Commission is to assess the leadership, culture and governance of acute services in the NHS and the corporate governance of private sector care providers, HSJ has learned.
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NewsPrivate sector and trusts vie for £500m pathology contracts
A radical shake-up of community pathology services which will see NHS trusts compete with private firms for contracts worth £500m has taken a major step forward after commissioners started a procurement process.
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NewsRegulator to cap Queen's Hospital A&E admissions
The Care Quality Commission is to place a restriction on the number of patients that can be treated at an east London emergency department.
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Lewisham decision sparks fresh debate on future NHS
The announcement that accident and emergency and maternity services are to be downgraded at Lewisham Hospital has sparked a fresh round of debate of the future of the NHS.
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Protest against trust's plans to cut £24m
Around 70 Unison members, clerical and administration staff, protested outside Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust’s headquarters in Wakefield against proposed cuts to job losses and pay cuts.
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Staffing crisis prompts transfer of troubled maternity unit
WORKFORCE: The troubled Furness General Hospital’s consultant-led maternity services are to be temporarily moved to a neighbouring county in a bid to avert potentially dangerous levels of understaffing.
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NewsJoin tech revolution or face 'serious repercussions', hospitals told
Hospitals face “very serious repercussions” if they do not have electronic patient records systems in place by 2014-15, the NHS Commissioning Board’s national director for patients and information warned last night.
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NewsIan Dalton quits NHS Commissioning Board for BT
Ian Dalton, the NHS Commissioning Board’s deputy chief executive, is leaving the organisation to join BT Global Health.
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NewsHunt compromises on Lewisham Hospital downgrade
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced a compromise solution to the downgrade of services at Lewisham Hospital.
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NewsCare 'could consume half spending'
Health and social care could consume half of government spending in 50 years’ time, the King’s Fund has predicted.
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News'No correlation found' between quality and responsiveness to online complaints
Researchers have found no correlation between trusts’ responsiveness to online complaints and the quality of patients’ experience.
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NewsCCGs warned not to penalise mental health success
Clinical commissioning groups have been warned not to “reward failure” by siphoning money away from mental health services to support struggling acute trusts.
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NewsAt least 10 PCTs to be bailed out by peers in 2012-13
At least 10 primary care trusts would face finishing 2012-13 in the red without loans or bailouts from their neighbouring commissioners, HSJ research has found.
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Ashford and St Peter’s has HSMR of 103
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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East Sussex has HSMR of 101
PERFORMANCE: East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust performed slightly below expected for patient mortality rates, according to this year’s Dr Foster “hospital guide”.
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North East Essex CCG has been authorised with one condition
STRUCTURE North East Essex CCG has been authorised with one condition in the NHS Commissioning Board’s second wave of CCG authorisations.
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The Royal Marsden misses cancer referral target
PERFORMANCE: The Royal Marsden has failed to achieve the 85 per cent threshold for the 62-day standard of urgent referral to treatment, an NHS London report said.
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Homerton sees spike in non-elective episodes
PERFORMANCE: Homerton University Hospital saw an increase in non-elective episodes for the year-to-date, 9 per cent higher than last year.
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Barking, Havering And Redbridge Hospitals breaches health care associated infections target
PERFORMANCE: Barking, Havering And Redbridge Hospitals has breached its health care associated infections limit, according to an NHS London report, recording eight infections.
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Epsom And St Helier Hospitals breaches health care associated infections target
PERFORMANCE: Epsom And St Helier Hospitals University Trust has breached its health care associated infections limit, according to an NHS London report.