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  • The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
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    Trust takes step to becoming 'fully digital'

    2017-01-03T14:45:00Z

    The Dudley Group Foundation Trust has selected a new fully integrated IT system as part of its patient administration service in a bid to become a “fully digital” hospital.

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    Chief executive of struggling trust takes NHS Improvement role

    2017-01-03T12:55:00Z

    Northern Lincolnshire and Goole FT chief executive Karen Jackson seconded to NHS Improvement Ms Jackson will advise and support the regulator’s emergency care improvement programme for six months The chief executive of a struggling hospital trust is being seconded to NHS Improvement to advise on improving emergency care.

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    Round-up: 10 stories you may have missed over Christmas

    2017-01-03T09:51:00Z

    Catch up on the key stories you might not have seen over the Christmas and new year break.

  • Dave west expert briefing
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    HSJ's Best of 2016: Expert Briefings

    2016-12-30T07:00:00Z

    Over Christmas and New Year, we are bringing you a round-up of some of HSJ’s highlights from 2016. Today we look at our Expert Briefing newsletters

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    HSJ's Best of 2016: Top stories

    2016-12-23T07:00:00Z

    Heartfelt appeals on whistleblowing and the EU referendum, a massive leak from BMA negotiations and the latest HSJ100 rankings all feature in our most popular articles of the year

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    NHS England gives £75m back to CCGs after tariff row

    2016-12-22T14:43:00Z

    NHS England has agreed to soften the impact of changes to clinical commissioning group budgets next year by agreeing to add £75m back into their allocations, HSJ understands.

  • Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
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    Ex-trust director charged over lying to get jobs

    2016-12-22T11:26:00Z

    The former chair of two NHS trusts has been charged with lying about his qualifications to get appointed to both posts.

  • Signing paper
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    Leading vanguards not ready to take on new GP contract

    2016-12-22T10:42:00Z

    Six “intensive” MCP sites working with NHS England have said they will not be close to signing new GP contract by April Manchester CCGs sign agreement with 91 GP practices to pursue MCP Modality Group to “hold ground” on partially integrated MCP model Whitstable MCP to go for “virtual” ...

  • Lord Carter
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    NHS efficiency league tables delayed

    2016-12-22T07:00:00Z

    Lord Carter has restated intention to publish rankings to highlight trusts with high levels of waste and inefficiency Officials expected the rankings to be published earlier this year Metrics are reliant on the strength of “reference costs” data, for which widespread non-compliance has been found Expert says there is ...

  • GP with patient
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    Exclusive: GPs 'fear' new care models, says royal college chair

    2016-12-22T07:00:00Z

    The new chair of the Royal College of general practitioners has said GPs “fear” new primary and acute care systems and see them “take overs”.

  • Richmond House
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    Daily Insight: New face at the DH

    2016-12-21T17:30:00Z

    HSJ’s round-up of Wednesday’s biggest health stories

  • premature baby
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    CCGs defend response to maternal deaths at 'inadequate' trust

    2016-12-21T16:11:00Z

    A string of serious patient safety incidents at Pennine Acute were revealed in a recent review of maternity services HSJ has obtained a review carried out by CCGs in 2014 that identified “several significant issues” within the trust’s maternity services CCGs have defended their response to the 2014 review ...

  • Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
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    Devo Manc leaders seek 'best deal' for trust turnaround

    2016-12-21T16:07:00Z

    No national funding has been given to the turnaround work at Pennine Acute Hospitals Similar turnaround efforts have received significant financial support from the Department of Health Leaders say “best deal possible” will be reached for 2017-18 Leaders in Greater Manchester have said they need to be “realistic” ...

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    Joint chief appointed to run five CCGs

    2016-12-21T15:02:00Z

    A collective of clinical commissioning groups in south London has appointed Sarah Blow as their new accountable officer.

  • Nurse doctor hospital
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    New guidance on ward staffing levels revealed

    2016-12-21T14:00:00Z

    NHS Improvement has published the first of seven new safe staffing guidance documents The work follows the suspension of NICE’s work in 2015 following the Francis Inquiry Guidance warns trusts against relying only on professional judgement to set staffing levels Decisions about how many nurses work on hospital ...

  • Richmond house
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    New minister joins Department of Health

    2016-12-21T12:17:00Z

    A former Downing Street aide and policy director to David Cameron has been appointed as a minister at the Department of Health.

  • Financial spreadsheets
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    Regulators undecided on how to assess trusts' efficiency

    2016-12-21T12:04:00Z

    Joint consultation does not commit to combing CQC ratings of quality and efficiency, despite previous expectations Use of resources assessment metrics included in the document are for “illustrative purposes” Liquidity, agency spending, cancelled operations and staff turnover “likely” to be included in trust assessment NHS regulators have yet ...

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    NHS England to press ahead with court appeal

    2016-12-21T07:00:00Z

    NHS England has agreed to commission sodium oxybate routinely for children with narcolepsy NHS England will continue with Court of Appeal bid over judicial review decision to prescribe the same drug to a child High Court said the national body’s decision was “thoroughly bad” and ordered to commission 17 ...

  • East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
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    Trust recommended to exit special measures

    2016-12-21T00:01:00Z

    CQC recommended East Kent Hospitals University FT leaves special measures Inspectors say significant improvements made in maternity and emergency care NHS Improvement defers decision till 2017 while it reviews trust’s finances England’s chief inspector of hospitals has recommended that East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust should exit special ...

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    Daily Insight: We're here to help

    2016-12-20T17:30:00Z

    HSJ’s summary of the day’s biggest health stories