News – Page 1301
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West Midlands trauma care review due to complete in February
STRUCTURE: West Midlands Specialised Commissioning is expecting to complete a review of trauma care in the region by February 2012.
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Notts County abandons extended hours aim
PERFORMANCE: NHS Nottinghamshire County has given up on a target to offer all patients access to GP practices with extended hours.
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Drop in GP referrals loses Nottingham Hospitals half a million pounds
FINANCE: A significant drop in GP referrals has led to a 5 per cent drop in new outpatient attendances at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust.
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GPs failing to convey 'urgency' to suspected cancer patients
PERFORMANCE: Suspected breast cancer patients are missing hospital appointments because GPs are failing to inform them how urgently their symptoms need to be treated.
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Reforms linked to staff sickness at Notts County PCT
WORKFORCE: NHS Nottinghamshire County is experiencing an increase in staff sickness levels related to organisational change.
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NewsExclusive: CCG leaders: Gerada is 'misleading' over GP commissioning
Fourteen clinical commissioning groups have accused the Royal College of GPs’ chair of causing “confusion” and “anxiety” by claiming GPs face a conflict between commissioning services and their duty to patients.
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Warwickshire stroke services behind target
PERFORMANCE: Stroke services in Warwickshire are behind target, with George Eliot Hospital and South Warwickshire Foundation Trust both significantly underperforming.
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NewsFormer CMO dealt out photos of dead children on minister's desk like a "pack of cards"
It is too easy for the higher echelons of the NHS to forget about the impacts of their policies on real people while staff on the front line can become “inured to suffering”, the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry has heard.
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NHS North West brings forward health visitor recruitment plans
WORKFORCE: The strategic health authority has increased the number of health visitor training posts it will need to meet the government’s recruitment drive from 603 to 715, after the Department of Health raised questions about its original plan.
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NewsOrgan donor plans condemned by Archbishop
Plans to introduce presumed consent for organ donation could turn “volunteers into conscripts”, the Archbishop of Wales has warned.
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NewsDH still learning "whether we got it right" with CQC
The permanent secretary to the Department of Health has admitted the regulatory system failed patients and relatives at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.
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NewsDH stockpiles 400,000 doses of flu jab
The government has purchased a stockpile of 400,000 flu vaccine doses in order to try and head off any supply problems similar to those encountered last year.
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News£625m synthetic insulin had 'no clinical benefit'
The NHS has spent hundreds of millions of pounds on synthetic insulin unnecessarily over the past decade, according to a report published today.
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Poor prescribing at root of C difficile problems in Tameside and Glossop
PERFORMANCE: An analysis of the Tameside and Glossop area’s high rate of C difficile infection in the first three months of 2011-12 has found that the majority of cases were avoidable, and due to inappropriate prescribing.
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Board report indicates problem with new A&E quality measure
PERFORMANCE: A south London trust has highlighted a problem with one of the A&E activity measures.
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Leicester GPs refuse to carry out health checks
PERFORMANCE: Only 33 out of 50 GP practices have signed up to the NHS Health Checks programme in West Leicester CCG.
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NHS London raises bar for non-FTs with gloomy tariff assumptions
FINANCE: NHS London has ordered non-FTs to plan for a 1.5 per cent deflation in the tariff for the next five years in their applications for FT status.
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University Hospitals Leicester asked for assurance on quality
PERFORMANCE: NHS Leicester City has written to University Hospitals of Leicester Trust after it failed to deliver on agreed improvement plans on a number of patient safety areas.
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HSJ LocalManchester fires starting gun on major reconfiguration
STRUCTURE: Primary care trusts across greater Manchester have agreed to pool resources worth tens of millions of pounds a year to fund a major reconfiguration of the city’s planned and emergency hospital services.
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Costs data submitted by Blackpool Teaching Hospitals ‘incorrect’
FINANCE: The foundation was among the 12 per cent of NHS trusts whose 2009-10 reference cost submissions were materially inaccurate, the Audit Commission reported today.