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Hunt approves South West ambulance merger
STRUCTURE: Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has approved South Western Ambulance Service Foundation Trust’s takeover of Great Western Ambulance Service.
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Yeovil appoints Fitness First finance director
WORKFORCE: Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust has appointed a new finance director direct from the private sector.
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Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust advertising for new chief executive
WORKFORCE: Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust is advertising for a new chief executive.
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NewsNicholson: leading hospitals to be reshaped by commissioning board
The board will use its position as “a big, powerful commissioner” to reshape England’s largest teaching and specialist hospitals, says Sir David Nicholson.
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NewsSir David embraces partnership but 'hasn't given up on grip'
The NHS commissioning board will not operate a “hierarchy of deference” but its chief executive has not “given up on having a grip”.
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NewsNicholson 'really sorry' for HR problems
NHS Commissioning Board chief executive Sir David Nicholson has told HSJ he is “really sorry” for the poor experience suffered by NHS staff whose jobs are under threat as a result of the reforms. However, he claimed that given the scale of the change, the human resources pprocess had been ...
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NewsNicholson: savings from integration 'already spent'
Policy makers should beware of thinking that integrating health and care services will save money, Sir David Nicholson has warned.
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New chair for North West London Hospitals Trust
WORKFORCE: North West London Hospitals Trust has appointed Peter Worthington as its new chair.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Aviva in talks with DH over LIFT fears
One of the biggest private sector lenders to NHS infrastructure projects is in discussions with the Department of Health over fears its investments are threatened by the abolition of primary care trusts, HSJ has learned.
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NewsSavile used hospitals to commit decades of abuse
Jimmy Savile was “a prolific, predatory sex offender” who committed abuse across more than a dozen UK medical sites and could have been prosecuted for offences against at least three victims while he was alive, two separate reports said on Friday.
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Local Healthwatch 'bound and gagged'
Local branches of the new “consumer champion” for health and social care will be left “bound and gagged” by government regulations restricting their campaigning activity, it has been claimed.
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NewsHealth and wellbeing role taken on by ex-council chief
The Department of Health’s work on health and wellbeing boards, the local forums at which council and NHS leaders, discuss health priorities, is to be led by a former chief executive of Wigan council
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Leicestershire 999 calls up 30 per cent
The number of emergency 999 calls in Leicestershire has jumped 30 per cent in the first three weeks of December, according to the East Midlands Ambulance Service.
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Weston now compliant with CQC standards on patient discharge
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has judged Weston Area Health Trust is now compliant with requirements to co-operate with other providers.
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NewsEpsom hospital pulled into A&E reconfiguration programme
Another hospital has been added to the list of those on the south west London and Surrey borders that could lose their accident and emergency and maternity facilities, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNicholson argues he should survive to implement Mid Staffs recommendations
NHS Commissioning Board chief executive Sir David Nicholson believes he should survive any criticism levelled at him by the forthcoming report into care failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.
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NewsArchbishop warns over heart unit
The Archbishop of York has warned the NHS must be allowed to put a culture of care over a culture of competition as he visited a children’s heart unit that is threatened with closure.
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NewsIan Kennedy to review Solihull breast surgery conduct
A leading health expert is to head an independent inquiry into how concerns over breast cancer surgery were handled by trust managers.
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UPDATED: Public health funds rise to £2.66bn
Councils’ budgets for public health will rise to £2.66bn this year and almost £2.8bn in 2014-15, the Department of Health has announced.
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NewsTrusts get chance to push back FT application dates
Trusts are being asked to re-submit their target dates for attaining foundation status amid new evidence that significant numbers will fail to complete the process by the original deadline.