News – Page 1349
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Colchester fails CQC dignity and nutrition test
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was not meeting standards relating to dignity and nutrition during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.
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New Kent hospital on schedule for autumn opening
STRUCURE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust says it is making good progress towards fully opening its new Pembury Hospital in September.
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Darent Valley failing to meet CQC essential standards
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was not meeting standards relating to dignity and nutrition during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.
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Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells invests £2m in bus service
FINANCE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is planning investment of over £2m in bus services over the next five years to enhance public transport to its new hospital in Pembury after it fully opens in September.
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HSJ Local
South Tyneside fails to make grade on dignity
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission found the trust was not meeting essential standards relating to dignity during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.
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NewsFT delays will create near impossible challenge, Monitor warns
Authorising aspirant foundation trusts by 2014 will be an “almost impossible challenge” if the Department of Health decides to “backload” applications, Monitor’s chair has warned.
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NewsCommissioning Board will get funds from public health budget
The NHS Commissioning Board will have access to funding from the public health budget to commission “appropriate” programmes, the government has said.
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NewsSir David made colonel in Territorial Army
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has been made honorary colonel in the 306 Hospital Support Medical Regiment (Volunteers).
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NewsSHA clustering arrangements announced
Clustering arrangements for strategic health authorities will see the country divided into the South, the Midlands, London and the North, it has been announced.
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NewsPHE chief exec to be appointed by April 2012
The government says it expects to have a Public Health England chief executive in post by next April.
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NewsPublic health directors 'expected' to report directly to council chief execs, says DH
The government has confirmed that it “expects” directors of public health to be directly accountable to council chief executives when public health functions transfer to local authorities.
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NewsFour in 10 will get cancer - Macmillian
Rising cancer rates mean that more than four in 10 Britons will be diagnosed with the disease at some point in their lives, according to a study by a leading health charity.
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NewsMaternity services need radical reform - RCOG
Maternity services should be radically reformed so that women receive the best care in the right place, according to a group of leading health experts.
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NewsHSJ scoops Medical Publication of the Year Award
HSJ has been named Medical Publication of the Year at the prestigious Medical Journalists’ Association Summer Awards.
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NewsCommissioning brain drain ‘stripping assets’
HSJ research reveals for the first time the extent of the brain drain caused in the past year by paying off primary care trust managers - half of whom were either clinicians or experts in commissioning and finance.
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NewsMore NHS complaints upheld by ombudsman
Significantly more patient complaints about the NHS were upheld last year by the health service ombudsman, despite there being only a slight increase in complaints received overall.
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HSJ Local
South West Essex urged to take ‘firm line’ on provider quality
PERFORMANCE: NHS South West Essex should “consider alternative providers” if care at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust does not improve, its strategic health authority has warned.
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NewsMental health strategy needs plan, say managers
Mental health managers have demanded the Department of Health reveals how the mental health strategy would be implemented, amid warnings of growing “frustration” and government cuts hitting services.
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Bexley Care Trust ‘stand-off’ over cluster revealed
STRUCTURE: A bitter “stand-off” caused by Bexley Care Trust’s refusal to join the south east London cluster has been revealed in correspondence seen by HSJ.
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NewsHSJ launches improved jobs site for managers
HSJ has this week launched an improved jobs site for managers and health professionals looking to develop their career in the healthcare sector.