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NewsNHS reforms 'need patient voice'
The radical healthcare system reforms must be amended to give patients a stronger say over their local services, a group of leading health charities have said.
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NewsPoliticians to hold GMC to account
The Commons health committee plans to expand its role by holding the General Medical Council to account.
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NewsAdviser says he was sacked for therapy views
A government mental health adviser has said he was sacked after raising concerns about the £400m committed by the government to extend talking therapies.
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HSJ Local
Decision on fate of Whipps Cross due in early February
STRUCTURE: Whipps Cross University Hospital will discover on February 8 who the preferred partner for taking it over is.
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HSJ Local
NHS Herefordshire reports "unacceptable" deterioration in stroke performance
PERFORMANCE: The proportion of people treated within 24 hours of a transient ischaemic attack within NHS Herefordshire’s patch is well under target and has dropped to as little as 0 per cent this year.
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HSJ Local
South London Healthcare predicted to hit A&E targets despite consecutive poor months
PERFORMANCE: South London Healthcare Trust is predicting it will meet its four-hour A&E target for 2010-11, despite missing it in November and December last year.
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HSJ Local
Hounslow PCT criticised by local acute provider
PERFORMANCE: West Middlesex University Hospital’s deputy chief executive has criticised the community provider in the borough for not having enough COPD services, leading to a high rate of re-admission.
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HSJ Local
NHS Kingston 2011-12 QIPP plan aims for £9.6m savings
FINANCE: The London commissioners have submitted their Quality, Improvement, Productivity and Prevention proposals as part of the south west sector PCT’s group plan.
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HSJ Local
NHS Direct service "severely compromised" over Christmas period
PERFORMANCE: The national patient helpline fielded 45 per cent more calls than forecast from December 21 to January 3, a performance report said.
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HSJ Local
GPs appointed to clinical cabinet to find more savings at Oxleas Foundation Trust
FINANCE: A primary care trust has appointed two GPs to try and top the £1m of savings negotiated with the mental health trust in 2010-11.
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HSJ Local
South London and Maudsley specialist services face decommissioning under QIPP plan
STRUCTURE: The south east London sector Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention plan said mental health services in Lambeth, one of the sector’s six PCTs, would face “system change within [the] context of circa 20 per cent savings”.
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HSJ Local
NHS Hampshire gather consortia around acute trusts
STRUCTURE: GPs in Hampshire are planning to create consortia primarily focused around acute providers.
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HSJ Local
NHS Lambeth could save £7.2m by eliminating Procedure of Limited Clinical Effectiveness
FINANCE: The inner London borough had the highest spend in its cluster on the procedures and intends to decommission the services as part of its Quality Innovation, Productivity and Prevention programme.
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HSJ Local
King's College Hospital Foundation Trust misses MRSA target for 2010-11
PERFORMANCE: The south London acute trust has overshot its target threshold for the year by more than half.
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HSJ Local
Tough winter period for Colchester University FT
PERFORMANCE: Colchester Hospital University FT has reported it had a “difficult period” with ambulance call outs increasing and contingency beds called into use.
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HSJ Local
Southport & Ormskirk 'on programme' for integrated care
STRUCTURE: Progress towards the transfer of community services to the trust from two primary care trusts is on track, with the main obstacle being lack of agreement on commissioning contracts, latest board papers show.
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HSJ Local
Darlington service change plans approved
STRUCTURE: The “Seizing the Future” reconfiguration programme in County Durham and Darlington has been retrospectively approved as having passed the government’s four tests for such changes.
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HSJ Local
Three new additions to the board at Southampton University Hospital
WORKFORCE: A charity chief executive and a former partner in a consultancy firm are among the new additions to the board at Southampton University Hospital.
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HSJ Local
East Cheshire NHS Trust faces "significant risks" to financial position
FINANCE: The trust was showing a surplus of just £5,000 at the end of December, against a plan to have underspent by £183,000 by that point.
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HSJ Local
Ipswich Hospital plans centre for coronary treatment
STRUCTURE: Ipswich Hospital Trust to open a centre for angioplasty treatment.