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Hospital admission rise 'due to fragmentation' - report
A significant rise in hospital admissions in recent years is largely due to fragmented health and social care services, according to a think-tank.
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NewsHSJ Briefing: General practice service and policy - summary
Ie look at the growing pressure for general practice to meet rising NHS demand. Policy direction focuses on local commissioning board teams and CCGs working on a slow but steady path of improvement
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NewsExclusive: GP practices' huge income variation revealed
Some GP practices are paid substantially more than others, regardless of the number and type of patients they serve, HSJ analysis reveals.
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NewsMonitor and DH work on bailout formula
Monitor and the Department of Health are working to devise a formula determining when troubled foundation trusts receive financial bailouts.
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NewsRevealed: the cost of standardising practices' core income
Standardising practices’ “core” income would mean a shift in funding worth about a quarter of a billion pounds, HSJ has estimated.
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HSJ Local
Barts Health Trust has 20 year-plus waiters, ahead of DH crackdown
PERFORMANCE: Barts Health Trust has 20 patients who have been waiting more than a year for treatment, a report reveals.
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HSJ Local
Whittington hitting delayed transfers of care target
PERFORMANCE: Whittington Health Trust is hitting its target for keeping delayed transfers of care low, despite problems transferring to Islington care homes.
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HSJ Local
Whittington Health Trust theatre utilisation behind target
PERFORMANCE: Whittington Health Trust is 14 per cent short of its local target of 95 per cent theatre utilisation.
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HSJ Local
Whittington Health Trust increases ward rounds to hit A&E target
PERFORMANCE: A report to the board of Whittington Health Trust said: “Emergency department performance against the four-hour target is causingconcern.”
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HSJ Local
King’s Lynn records five never events
PERFORMANCE: The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn FT has reported five never events to date this year.
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HSJ Local
Whittington finances ahead of plan
FINANCE: Whittington Health Trust is ahead of plan by £295,000 at month six, board papers reveal.
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HSJ Local
Barts Health Trust gets Cyberknife
PERFORMANCE: Barts Health Trust has now started offering services with Cyberknife cancer technology.
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HSJ Local
Luton and Dunstable behind budget
Luton and Dunstable University Hospital FT is £600,000 behind its budget plan submitted to Monitor, according to its mid-year financial report.
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HSJ Local
Barts Health Trust 'national outlier' for infections
PERFORMANCE: Barts Health Trust is a “national outlier” in MRSA infections, a report to the trust’s board said.
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HSJ Local
Barts Health Trust misses A&E target for quarter two
PERFORMANCE: Barts Health Trust has missed the 95 per cent accident and emergency target for quarter two, a report reveals.
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HSJ Local
Fax hitch hits Berkshire cancer performance
PERFORMANCE: A fax server failure has led to a backlog in cancer waits in Berkshire.
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HSJ Local
Emerging pressures spotted in Berkshire ambulance service
PERFORMANCE: The Berkshire primary care trust cluster has reported “emerging pressures” emerging in ambulance services.
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HSJ LocalSurgeons in safety row blame managers
Two Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust surgeons at the centre of a row about safety concerns have blamed the trust’s management for problems and called for an investigation.
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HSJ LocalProvider sparks probe into placement claim
COMMERCIAL: A primary care trust is refusing to fund placements at a privately run facility for patients with learning disabilities because of its proximity to the site of a scandal-hit NHS hospital, it has been claimed.
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NewsExclusive: Nearly £3bn returned to Treasury
The Department of Health has returned nearly £3bn of its funding to the Treasury over the past two years, despite facing its tightest financial settlement for five decades.A Treasury spokesman this week confirmed to HSJ the department had handed back around £1bn of the funding it was allocated for health ...