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NewsPaul Zollinger-Read to join Bupa
Paul Zollinger-Read, a key figure in the world of commissioning, will leave the NHS after more than 20 years to join Bupa as its group medical director, it was announced today.
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NewsInformation strategy release delayed again
The release of the Department of Health’s information strategy, which was already a year late, has been put back again.
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NewsFurther votes on pension strike action expected
More public sector workers are to vote on whether to accept the government’s controversial pension reforms.
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NewsFree online innovation webinar for HSJ subscribers
HSJ invites subscribers to view and participate in an exclusive webinar “Innovations in Healthcare”, in association with the Healthcare Advisory Forum and sponsored by Oracle.
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NewsLabour targets NHS reforms in local elections
Ed Miliband has targeted the government’s health reforms as he launched Labour’s local elections campaign, with the promise to govern for the whole country, “not just for the wealthy few”.
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Dementia professor to be appointed
WORKFORCE: Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust is to appoint a professor of dementia for the first time.
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New private hospital construction to get underway
STRUCTURE: A new private tertiary care hospital that will be part owned by doctors is to be built in Kent, it has been announced.
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NewsExclusive: mental health FT is first to quit clinical negligence scheme
Lancashire Care Foundation Trust this morning confirmed to HSJ it had given the NHS Litigation Authority notice it was leaving its clinical negligence scheme.
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Plymouth Community Healthcare has C difficile free year
PERFORMANCE: Plymouth Community Healthcare has had no cases clostridium difficile in the past 12 months.
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NewsCompetition panel to advise on CCG conflict of interest regulation
Providers are likely to have to complain to the NHS Commissioning Board before approaching Monitor with concerns about clinical commissioning groups’ conflicts of interest, HSJ has been told.
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NewsProbe into Nottingham University Hospitals dialysis deal
The NHS competition watchdog is investigating the trust’s award of two dialysis contracts, after a bidder accused it of a “blatant attempt to retain the incumbent provider”.
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NewsIndependent advice service for NHS patients launches
A new independent advice service for NHS patients in Scotland begins its work today.
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NewsTrauma network adds five major centres
Five major trauma centres in the South are joining a national network to provide life-saving care to patients.
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PCT backtracks on GP move after lease agreement
COMMERCIAL: NHS Surrey has sent an “urgent communication” that a GP practice is to stay in its current location just days before it was planned to move elsewhere.
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Academic link up for Surrey and Sussex
STRUCTURE: One of Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust’s has gained “associated university” status.
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GP practice closes in Surrey
STRUCTURE: A GP practice has shut after unsuccessful contract negotiations, NHS Surrey has announced.
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Royal Sussex County part of national trauma drive
STRUCTURE: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust is to be part of a national trauma network, the Department of Health has announced.
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Virgin community services deal confirmed
COMMERCIAL: Virgin Care (formerly Assura Medical) has now signed a contract with NHS Surrey to deliver community services across much of the county from 2012 to 2017.
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Cluster turns down majority of individual funding requests
PEFORMANCE: Figures from the cluster showed 42 of 76 cases received between April 26 2011 and February 9 2012 were declined.
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Public health strong focus in North Central London's CQUINs
PERFORMANCE: The north central London cluster selected six local CQUINs for the providers in its patch including, “alcohol reduction” and smoking cessation.