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NewsTrust in £1m court battle with four companies over recurring water leaks
A hospital trust has embarked on a legal battle against four construction and engineering companies to recover more than £1m after experiencing years of leaks.
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NewsStaff shortages delay opening of trust’s new psychiatric ward
Staff shortages have forced a trust to push back the opening of a new ward treating patients with some of the most severe mental health needs.
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NewsTrust chief leaves to take deputy role at larger trust
The chief executive of a London trust is leaving to take up a deputy chief executive role at Barts Health Trust.
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NewsMinister: 'We got it wrong on Hep C drug'
A health minister said the NHS needs to be better prepared for the budget impact of new medicines such as the oral drug for Hepatitis C, and admitted “we didn’t get it right”.
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NewsAHSNs beefed up amid overhaul of £750m 'innovation' budgets
Lord O’Shaughnessy says failure to scale up NHS innovation projects has been an “Achilles’ heel” AHSNs to become “overseeing authority” of innovation schemes Deployment of £750m of innovation funding under review Ministers and NHS leaders are planning to beef up the role of academic health science networks and ...
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NewsDaily Insight: Rolling back (medical) regulation
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership
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NewsHSIB to roll out maternity investigations across England by March 2019
The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch will not achieve national coverage of maternity incidents until March next year, it has told HSJ.
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NewsJeremy Hunt to strip General Medical Council of powers
The General Medical Council is to be stripped of its right to appeal tribunal decisions on doctors’ fitness to practise, less than three years after it was granted the power.
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NewsSafety regulators reviewing concerns about Babylon's 'chatbot'
Safety regulators are reviewing concerns raised about Babylon Healthcare’s symptom checker “chatbot” following multiple complaints, HSJ has learned.
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NewsDaily Insight: A big promise on cancer
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership
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HSJ LocalTrust considers centralising elective activity ahead of winter
East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust is considering centralising its elective orthopaedic services to help it better cope with next winter.
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NewsStaff from 13 unions accept NHS pay deal
NHS staff from 13 trade unions have voted to accept the government’s new pay offer.
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NewsRevealed: Social enterprises now dominate GP out of hours sector
Most out of hours GP services are now delivered by social enterprise companies which are being “hobbled” by long term underfunding, according to a representative body.
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HSJ Local
Three trust partnership finds £4m investment for community services
New models of working between three London mental health trusts has delivered new investment in services worth more than £4m, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalThree trusts plan to take control of £80m complex care spending
A partnership of mental health trusts could take over responsibility for £80m of commissioner spending as part of plans to reduce the number of patients in secure rehabilitation wards, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsWinners revealed for HSJ Value Awards 2018
Twenty organisations have been honoured in the 2018 HSJ Value Awards – which recognise and celebrate outstanding improvements in care quality and efficiency made by NHS staff.
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NewsNHS hit by seven-fold increase in bill for certain drugs
NHS commissioners were hit by a seven-fold increase in the bill for certain generic drugs in 2017-18, after some medicines were subject to massive price hikes.
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HSJ LocalTrust gets approval for long-awaited £42m single electronic record system
An acute and community trust has launched a long-awaited £42m overhaul of its electronic patient record systems which will “revolutionise” the way care is delivered by staff to patients.
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NewsExclusive: Hunt pushes for big cancer pledge in new NHS plan
Jeremy Hunt wants an ambitious cancer pledge to be a core plank of the government’s new NHS plan, with senior figures pushing for the service’s £7.5bn cancer budget to be doubled over the longer term, HSJ understands.
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HSJ LocalBreaking: Acute and mental health trusts to merge
An acute hospital trust and mental health and community trust could merge into a single provider.